Pretty good BI tool with amazing resource efficiency
February 11, 2025

Pretty good BI tool with amazing resource efficiency

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Looker

Dashboards and Analytics, we use it as complete BI tool sharing dashboards with internal and external stakeholders along with analytics usage of the team. Its also easier to deep dive into different metrices and KPIs from this due to its explores functionality. Looker enables us to create customizable dashboards that provide actionable insights to stakeholders, including management, operations teams, and customers

Pros

  • Data Integration and Consolidation
  • Reporting with scheduled report from looks
  • Data Analysis
  • SQL Runner for running small SQL queries

Cons

  • More functionality in terms of available charts
  • Easier user management for admin accounts
  • Significantly reduced time to get on final results for our customers
  • Efficient data modeling for faster results
  • Made analytics and insights team more efficient
  • Limited in available charts and customization options
Better in terms of data configuration with slight harder learning curve, available help material is not that much and we usually have to connect with Looker Help with chat for our data and analysis questions. While Looker offers a wide range of visualization options, there were instances where highly customized visualizations were needed and it fell short on mutiple fronts compared to Tableau. But overall very easy to share the final output compared to other 2.

Do you think Looker delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

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

Fast enough with large datasets, works really well with multiple data sources especially for an organization like us with multiple data sources. It also allows to create interactive, user-friendly dashboards that allow stakeholders to explore data in real-time but leaves something be desired for when it comes to available BI options as charts are limited with not much flexibility in terms of creating dimension and measures.

Looker Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.3
Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
5
9.0
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
7
Report sharing and collaboration
10
9.3
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
8.8
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Report-Level Access Control
10
6.5
Responsive Design for Web Access
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

Using Looker

40 - Sales, Customer Success, Product, Analytics, Product Support, Delivery
6 - Admin Users, Seasoned developers with good experience
  • Analytics
  • Reports
  • Data Modeling
  • Scheduled Reports
  • Meetings Presentations
  • Training
  • Embeded Product Offerings

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