Deep dive into Looker
February 20, 2024
Deep dive into Looker
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Looker
Looker is an amazing tool - we use Looker for creating Default/standard reports for our monthly reporting, weekly reports.
The business problems Looker helps to address
- Users with no experience of SQL or in particular, any coding or knowledge of machine language, extract data from different tables and retrieve the data needed by the user
- Creating and extracting data from customer/adhoch reports is super simple and user-friendly
The business problems Looker helps to address
- Users with no experience of SQL or in particular, any coding or knowledge of machine language, extract data from different tables and retrieve the data needed by the user
- Creating and extracting data from customer/adhoch reports is super simple and user-friendly
- The explore view of Looker saves the day - Creating adhoch reports is super simple
- Slicing, dicing and filtering data based on multiple parameters is super easy rather than writing complex SQL queries
- Adding fields, removing fields, changing layouts, minor alterations and joining tables to get the desired data is easier than ever
- People can save their own views for the next time - same base data can have N number of views based on users and fields
- Looker is less graphical or pictorial which makes it less attractive
- Consumes a lot of memory when there are multiple rows and columns, impacts performance too
- At times when we download huge chunks of raw data from Looker dashbords, the time taken to prepare the file is enormous - The user fails to understand if Looker has frozen or if the data is getting prepared in the background for downloading. In turn, user ends up triggering multiple downloads
- Looker has a good ROI - We started moving our reporting and dashboards from PowerBI to Looker given the easy of use
- Easy to drill and have a deep dive of data scattered across tables
- The only challenge is more than 5000 records cannot be displayed on the UI/dashboard
The easy which with data and reports can be customized in Looker for adhoch or individual needs is amazing - Very easy to filter and save views.
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?
Yes
Did implementation of Looker go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Looker again?
Yes