We performed a comparison between Looker and Oracle OBIEE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tableau, Qlik, MicroStrategy and others in Embedded BI."With Looker, I have experienced benefits in terms of usability and shareability."
"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."
"We can centralize all our data models."
"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."
"It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."
"The product is easy to use."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"It's easy to create fully-functional Dashboards."
"It provides excellent stability."
"Ability to create our own reports."
"We have scheduled reports delivered automatically to our business users using enterprise features."
"It has a lot workaround in order to do the report. data blending, and getting information from big data sources."
"Oracle OBIEE is a scary and stable product since it is a strong and well-created tool... In short, the solution is stable since it works properly every day."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is the security of the solution."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"Stability needs improvement."
"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."
"The product does not have documented material."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"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."
"The integration with different databases must be improved."
"The visualization capability of the product is limited."
"n the beginning it had it's stability issues, but it became stable."
"The pricing model could be improved. Right now, it's quite confusing. Many customers have this feeling that it's a super-expensive option."
"Customer service/technical support gets five out of 10. Sometimes good, sometimes bad."
"There are times we have slowness when processing the reports with Oracle OBIEE. Improving the performance would be beneficial."
"The functionality to customize and modify reports has been removed, and it would be beneficial to reinstall it, as it allows greater customization and flexibility in creating reports."
"Oracle OBIEE can improve the ease of use. It is a lot to learn and it could be made easier."
"The performance could improve and in a future release, they could provide more virtualization options."
"The complexity of this product means that you need to have a technical team to develop the reports, although this is also true for products like Microsoft BI and Zoho."
Looker is ranked 5th in Embedded BI with 19 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 154 reviews. Looker is rated 8.0, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". Looker is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Databricks and Domo, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Tableau and Amazon QuickSight.
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