We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Looker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx, SAP, RapidMiner and others in Predictive Analytics."The Alteryx designer has been the most useful feature in the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its unlimited handling capabilities."
"One-stop shop for data preparation, blending, prediction, and optimization in a single workflow."
"There are a lot of good customization capabilities."
"Automation is the most valuable aspect for us. The ability to wrap business logic around the data is very helpful."
"The most valuable feature is user-friendliness, as Alteryx can be used by those without any coding experience or experienced data scientists as it has the functionality to embed R and Python scripts."
"Alteryx speeds up the time to obtain business answers/insights on data."
"The solution has been stable."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"The product is easy to use."
"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."
"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."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"The only weakness I would say is on the visualization side of having that dynamic incapability."
"The solution can be quite complex in some aspects."
"There are no ready models to use in analytics."
"In the database, it should be more functional and connect to more big data, especially using IPI."
"The solution could work on the BI side of the tool to make it a bit better."
"It's a technical product and those that don't have proper training will have to deal with a steep learning curve."
"It would be great to create the final users' visualization within Alteryx."
"I honestly can't think of anything that needs to be improved."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"Stability needs improvement."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"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 product does not have documented material."
"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."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while Looker is ranked 5th in Embedded BI with 19 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Looker is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Looker writes "The APIs are exposed at every level, so it's highly modular". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku, Databricks, RapidMiner and Tableau, whereas Looker is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Databricks and Zoho Analytics.
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