We performed a comparison between Looker and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Embedded BI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"Looker allows you to generate the most optimal SQL queries in a DC through UI actions. We had signed a contract with Google Cloud to use BigQuery. That was the primary reason we adopted Looker. It works better with BigQuery than any other BI platform. We also like how this tool was developed. It was designed with an eye toward microservices architecture."
"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."
"We can centralize all our data models."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"The product is easy to use."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."
"The mobile for MicroStrategy is the best of all the BI platforms. As a separate product for the mobile device, MicroStrategy is the entire BI platform. It is an enterprise solution, a separate unit, etc."
"The drill-down functionality is also very good."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"Having the analytics capabilities on a single platform."
"Building apps is easy. You just drag in your data, and then you drag in all the elements that you want on your app. It's drag and drop design, and then you can customize your visuals. They make it all easy with plug and play widgets."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"We are using it for operations analysis and sales data analysis."
"The visualization capability of the product is limited."
"Looker doesn't connect to Excel, which is a huge disappointment because a lot of data is presented in Excel. Also, it can't consume data directly from REST APIs, which is necessary. Looker needs to expand its horizons when it comes to data sources. The inability to connect to different data sources is hampering our use cases. Currently, it only has an ODBC connection that connects to a database. It needs to connect to other data sources, such as Excel, APIs, and different platforms."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"Stability needs improvement."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"The integration with different databases must be improved."
"The product does not have documented material."
"The main area of concern in Looker is probably related to blending the data from the different sources, including the data present internally in the company and on the cloud."
"Native VI on mobile apps and better android support are lacking."
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"Preparation, data loading and data management application is challenging with MicroStrategy. It lacks cube-based analytics as it is outdated, meaning there is no memory or fast processing analytics or MMA deployment."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"I would like to see more integration."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"The analytic speed would probably be what I would look for in terms of improvement because we have super huge data, and if I do not build views on top of data, then reports render really slowly."
Looker is ranked 5th in Embedded BI with 19 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 4th in Embedded BI with 155 reviews. Looker is rated 8.0, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Looker writes "The APIs are exposed at every level, so it's highly modular". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Looker is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Databricks and Alteryx, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and SAP Analytics Cloud. See our Looker vs. MicroStrategy report.
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