We performed a comparison between Looker and Tableau 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."With Looker, I have experienced benefits in terms of usability and shareability."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."
"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."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"The product is easy to use."
"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."
"It's a very good, flexible product, and it's easy to learn."
"There are already connectors to almost every single major database and service that you can possibly think of."
"It is very good for data visualization. It has very powerful visualizations and is easy to use."
"Our customers love the visual capabilities on top of it and the ability to explain and get the required data. There is no other product like Tableau in the business intelligence and analytics space."
"I like the solution's web version, more so than Power BI's web version. It just makes it easier to drag and drop things and to blend data on the backend. It simplifies the process."
"This solution has transformed us from an Excel reporting environment to one of visual exploration."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is user-friendly and intuitive."
"The most valuable part of the solution is the general dashboard features."
"Stability needs improvement."
"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."
"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 integration with different databases must be improved."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"The visualization capability of the product is limited."
"The product does not have documented material."
"With Tableau, there is a gap in its ability to handle very large-scale data."
"I would like them to include the Italian language, as I can see there are other foreign language in the product."
"The solution does have scalability issues."
"The customization requires a lot of effort and should be simplified. The performance could be better."
"It needs a little bit more advanced modeling. I would like to see functionality like Cognos has in the Framework Manager."
"Creating empty extracts is not easy."
"From the developer perspective, the data connection handling the target data set is what most needs to be improved."
"The Hyper Extract functionality is not as strong as that provided by Microsoft SQL."
Looker is ranked 5th in Embedded BI with 19 reviews while Tableau is ranked 1st in Embedded BI with 293 reviews. Looker is rated 8.0, while Tableau is rated 8.4. 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 Tableau writes "Provides fast data access with in-memory extracts, makes it easy to create visualizations, and saves time". Looker is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Google Data Studio, Databricks, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense, whereas Tableau is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Amazon QuickSight, Domo, SAS Visual Analytics and Apache Superset. See our Looker vs. Tableau report.
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