Lots of stuff... for free!
September 26, 2024

Lots of stuff... for free!

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

Overall Satisfaction with Looker Studio

In our company we use Looker Studio to analyze and understand internal KPIs, mostly to verify the profitability of contracts (man hours invested vs value of the contract) by importing time logs from Jira and financial data from our ERP. With the same data we are also able to allocate resources on various projects to normalize the workloads and optimize costs.

Pros

  • Data integration with various sources
  • Dashboards are easy to make
  • Google Workspace integration

Cons

  • Complex data modeling is best done at the source
  • The best performance is obtained with BigQuery. Avoid large datasets from other sources
  • Some features are locked in the "Pro" version, but you can work around some of them
  • It's easy to use, so your IT needs only to provide the data, while dashboards can be created by the relevant people
  • Has BigQuery behind, so little effort required for ETL transformations
  • The output, if done correctly, are great
Everything is basically WYSIWYG, so anyone can create a basic report with little to no previous IT experience. IT comes in place when you need to provide the underlying data (and it's best if done properly because it's then easier to create everything above)
We selected Looker Studio because we are Google Workspace users, and Looker Studio is natively integrated with it.

Do you think Looker Studio delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Looker Studio's feature set?

Yes

Did Looker Studio live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Looker Studio go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Looker Studio again?

Yes

First of all, Looker Studio is free. That being said, for its price (which is zero) has a ton of functionalities which can be used when you have to analyze/report big chucks of data for basically any purpose.
If you don't need enterprise level features like advanced data permissions or team collaborations, or you are not reselling dashboards or reports to a third party, Looker Studio is perfect.

Looker Studio Feature Ratings

8.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
6
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
6
9.7
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
Pixel Perfect reports
9
10.0
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
9.8
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
10
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
9

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