Fantastic, Easy Reports!
September 22, 2024

Fantastic, Easy Reports!

Alicia Barevich, bCRE, bCEE | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Looker

We use Looker to create prettier charts and at-a-glance visualizations/reports and cross-reference more data than our database can. It's helpful to allow non-data people to have better insight into data through reports rather than spreadsheets. Making reports is also easy; so many "data people" across the school have made them, not just those of us in IT.

Pros

  • Easy to create visualizations.
  • Easy to link to Google Sheets data.
  • Reasonably strong reporting calculations and visualizations.

Cons

  • Reports break easily if changes are made to the data sheet.
  • It may not be able to connect directly to your system of record; you need to use Google Sheets/BigQuery/etc as an intermediary.
  • It's fantastic since virtually no training is needed to create a basic report. Just jump in and make your report!
  • It is far better to share data with "non-data people" or at a glance than with spreadsheets.
Looker isn't *quite* as powerful, but the learning curve is so drastically easier that it pretty much lets us do everything we want.

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

If you need basic reporting to share data, with the ability to click into detail or filter, this is your best bet. It's easy to use and update the data. Just be careful that sheets are appropriately shared and not updated inadvertently; fixing the report after that point can be difficult.

Looker Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
10.0
Customizable dashboards
10
10.0
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
10
10.0
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Report Versioning
Not Rated
10.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
10.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

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