We performed a comparison between Birst and Looker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tableau, Qlik, MicroStrategy and others in Embedded BI."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"We can centralize all our data models."
"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."
"With Looker, I have experienced benefits in terms of usability and shareability."
"It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"The product is easy to use."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"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."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"The integration with different databases must be improved."
"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 product does not have documented material."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"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 visualization capability of the product is limited."
"Stability needs improvement."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
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Birst is ranked 14th in Embedded BI while Looker is ranked 5th in Embedded BI with 19 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while Looker is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Looker writes "The APIs are exposed at every level, so it's highly modular". Birst is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, ThoughtSpot and Alteryx, whereas Looker is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Databricks and Qlik Sense.
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