Item: Looker
Rating: 9
Author: Prateek Agarwal

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We can work on our data using this tool. Our use case is that we are working on a large analytics project where we have to integrate data from wide sources into the system and transform the data activities accordingly. Our different divisions used the tool (marketing, consulting, sales, etc). Looker is somehow most efficient for low velocity and volume data. Users may face issues while working on large data. It can be assumed to be a day-to-day data analytics solution for your organization that helps manage your data in a more organized way.

Pros and Cons

The UI is simple and easy to understand.
Online training materials is sufficient to work on the solution.
Helps in keeping the data organized.
Able to analyze data and visualize it.
Easy to integrate with data sources.

Addition of advanced level of visualization
Must be scalable when you have a large amount of data.
Data uploading time could be better.
Wide options for data integration should be added.

Return on Investment

Easy to understand (ROI).
Easy to deploy and integration is not complex (ROI).
Data analytics and visualizations are quite good (ROI).
Excellent customer support and services (ROI).

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Sense and MicroStrategy Analytics

Key Insights

Do you think Looker delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Looker's feature set?

Yes

Did Looker live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Looker go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Looker again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Qlik Sense, Microsoft Power BI, MicroStrategy Analytics

Usability

I would recommend this solution to the prospective buyers if they want their data to explore in a more advanced way. Looker helps to visualize data more efficiently where the legacy systems don't do. Looker is good on features set and overall product design and usability are good. The UI is so simple that any non-technical person with the first day of initial training can work on it. You will definitely found Looker a great choice.

Support Rating

Although Looker is great in terms of features and overall usability. But there are some features which make need improvements such as the introduction of a new and advanced level of visualization as well as making it more efficient when the user has a large amount of data to integrate and transform for further visualizations. Also, scalability could be a challenge since it is a cloud-based solution. Overall a good solution to go with.

Likelihood to Recommend

Looker is a good tool for data analytics and visualizations. It can be integrated with other data sources easily. It is a cloud-based solution in which you can easily transform your data and visualize it according to the organization requirements.
It helps us to enable the target users to give more information about the data, if they are using other legacy system, then they will found that how easy is to analyze data using Looker.
Overall a good and reliable solution.

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