About Looker
Looker’s intuitive approach to data exploration makes the spread of a curiosity-driven culture both efficient and effective. An intuitive, web-based interface enables business users to tap into the genius of your data analytics team. They can build and share reports on the fly, so other functional groups can benefit from the questions they’re asking and the knowledge they’ve created. And since the whole Looker experience delivers such satisfying results, they start looking to the data to drive their business decisions and activities.
At the heart of Looker data discovery is a new way to create these web-based experiences. Using a flexible easy-to-learn language called LookML, your data analysts can create mini-applications that add power and efficiencies to data exploration. The LookML syntax simplifies the development of robust models for any organization, while enhancing the capabilities of SQL. There’s no need to expend time and resources coding queries on an ad hoc basis or setting up complex business intelligence (BI) software platforms. This language-based approach results in faster query execution, optimizing performance along the way.
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Key benefits of Looker
With Looker, it's not necessary to ETL or cube data. Because we operate 100% in-database, data is transformed at query time, so drill-paths are unlimited and infinite, leading to true data discovery.
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Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Supported Languages
English
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Total features of Looker: 108
- AB Testing
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Ad hoc Analysis
- Ad hoc Query
- Ad hoc Reporting
- Alerts / Escalation
- Alerts/Notifications
- Analytics/ROI Tracking
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- Charting
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- Cross Channel Attribution
- Customer Journey Mapping
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- Data Cleansing
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- Data Dictionary Management
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- Data Synchronization
- Data Transformation
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- Drag & Drop
- Embeddable Maps
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- Forecasting
- Functions/Calculations
- Goal Setting / Tracking
- High Volume Processing
- Integration into Third Party Applications
- Interactive Reports
- KPI Monitoring
- Key Performance Indicators
- Keyword Tracking
- Marketing Reports
- Match & Merge
- Media Analytics
- Mixed Methods Research
- Mobile Access
- Mobile Reporting
- Multi-Touch Attribution
- Multi-User Collaboration
- Multiple Data Sources
- Multivariate Analysis
- No-Code
- Performance Metrics
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- Profitability Analysis
- Public Dashboards
- Quantitative Analysis
- Radial Mapping
- Real Time Analytics
- Real Time Data
- Real-time Updates
- Referral Tracking
- Regression Analysis
- Reporting/Analytics
- Role-Based Permissions
- SSL Security
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- Sales Trend Analysis
- Scheduled / Automated Reports
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- Territorial Mapping
- Time Series
- Time on Site Tracking
- Trend / Problem Indicators
- Trend Analysis
- User Interaction Tracking
- User Research Analysis
- Visual Analytics
- Visual Discovery
- Visual Workflow Management
- Website Analytics
- Widgets
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- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
The perfect solution for our stage business
Reviewed on 2020-02-06
I could not be happier with Looker. My one hesitation in recommending it is that other tools seemed...
I could not be happier with Looker. My one hesitation in recommending it is that other tools seemed to be able to provide 80% of the value at 20% of the cost, but I've only demoed those tools and not actually used them so I'm not sure if they could actually deliver.
Pros
Looker is incredibly easy to use for a casual user, which most of our users are. As soon as your email is activated, you have access to the product and new users need very little direction to start getting value out of it.
Cons
Relative to other BI tools, the advanced charting functionality is somewhat limited, but frankly that's not the main reason we bought Looker. Data scientists can use another tool of their choice, we have Looker for people who aren't data scientists.
Alternatives Considered
ChartioReasons for Choosing Looker
Tableau is an antiquated architecture (permanent license desktop app) and was going to be prohibitively expensive to roll out to the whole company. Having used it, I also had concerns about adoption since there's more of a learning curve.Switched From
TableauReasons for Switching to Looker
LookML gave Looker an advantage because it allowed us to pre-define a framework for our users to need. We didn't feel Chartio did this quite as well. Looker is also better funded and I felt more confident that they would continue to add features and fill in gaps in the product in the future.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2019-06-13
Pros
Easy to create dashboards without engineers needing to write code.
Cons
Still not very good yet for a multi-tenant embedded environment. Needs a lot of work to set up and the API is slow.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2021-11-05
Pros
It's great at getting an overall view of where my team stands budget wise and being able to break it down as much as needed. I love that I'm able to see performance statistics in real time.
Cons
Looker takes some time to figure out how to navigate and building out the reports can be a bit confusing and time consuming.
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Controlled Analytics Exploration
Reviewed on 2018-05-17
Like I said, it's a great tool for analysts that don't need a lot of flexibility or maybe just...
Like I said, it's a great tool for analysts that don't need a lot of flexibility or maybe just aren't used to working with a lot of data. To get the full value out of this software, you'll need a core group of experienced Data Analysts that can learn fast (to learn Lookers Table Calculation code which is similar to SQL) who can build a bunch of dashboards and views. You really don't want people who aren't savvy with data doing a lot of the creating because measures are always aggregated based on the dimensions you pull into each table...if a user forgets to add a specific dimension then measures could show the wrong value. This could be offset by having really good developers who architect the data in a way that doesn't allow this to happen.
Pros
It's a great data exploration tool for users who normally would get anxious when given a large dataset in something like Excel. It's generally simple to use and there can be unlimited Viewers (users at the lowest permissions level) through the enterprise product. Data Visualization is essentially done for you and Exploers (users at the second level of permissions) can build new visualizations & turn them into interactive dashboards.
On the Looker platform, Explorers can locate a view (called an Explore) and then are given a list of dimensions and measures they can pull into a table. Users can create new dimensions using calculated fields and then save their views so any users with Viewer permissions (and up) can see what was put together.
Cons
With simplicity comes lack of flexibility. More skilled data analysts will want more flexibility than Looker can provide but at the same time you need to have highly skilled Data Analysts to be the Developers (high level of permissions) to set up the data so that less skilled analysts (the users who benefit from Looker most) who are Explorers don't build views that grossly misrepresent the data.
My biggest pet peeve with this software as an Explorer is that you cannot make calculations on the base data...only the data that you pull into your table (called table calculations). That is a major feature that Tableau has that Looker does not have at the Explorer permission level. Of course developers can use LookML (Lookers data language) to create a new column...but a Developer license is more expensive and creating the fields take time and it's something you constantly will need.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
The best BI Platform on the planet.
Reviewed on 2021-07-29
Looker is a robust platform that will greatly help any business to grow.
Looker is a robust platform that will greatly help any business to grow.
Pros
Looker is a powerful and reliable platform for analytical work. Surprisingly, I also found it easy to use and it helped me achieve my goals.
Cons
The design of the platform could be improved, but saying that, it's not too bad. I would also like better documentation and tutorials.
Looker FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Looker.Q. What type of pricing plans does Looker offer?
Looker offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from:
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Contact Looker for pricing information.
Q. Who are the typical users of Looker?
Looker has the following typical customers:
2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001+
Q. What languages does Looker support?
Looker supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Looker support mobile devices?
Looker supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Looker integrate with?
Looker integrates with the following applications:
Facebook for Business, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Workspace, HubSpot CRM, HubSpot Marketing Hub, LinkedIn for Business, Mailchimp, Marketo Engage, Microsoft Excel, Optimizely, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Quickbooks Online, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Slack, Stripe, Twitter, Xero, Xplenty Data Integration Service, Zendesk
Q. What level of support does Looker offer?
Looker offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Chat
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