We performed a comparison between Looker and Salesforce Einstein Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tableau, Qlik, MicroStrategy and others in Embedded BI."From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"The product is easy to use."
"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."
"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."
"It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"We can centralize all our data models."
"The most valuable features of Salesforce Einstein Analytics are the flexibility around the deployment, overall capabilities, user-friendliness, and interactiveness with the tools that came built with it."
"We have found the scalability to be very good."
"It is a comprehensive solution. It has everything in it. I can easily find what I need."
"he most valuable feature of the solution is its ease of use."
"The tool is valuable. It's one of the greatest programs I'm currently working with, and I believe it will continue to be crucial in the next four to five years. It's the future of our operations. Integrating other systems and conducting campaigns is easy. The solution relies heavily on AI."
"Tableau CRM is a very capable solution. It is easy to use, user-friendly, and integrates well."
"The most valuable feature of Salesforce Einstein Analytics is the reporting tools."
"Transparency is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"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."
"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."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"The product does not have documented material."
"The integration with different databases must be improved."
"Stability needs improvement."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"There are some offerings like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud that have very useful online learning options. There need to be more avenues for self-learning with this particular solution. That would be useful."
"Einstein Analytics could incorporate something like SFIA 8 to help users understand the underlying skill sets."
"The tool needs to simplify its features."
"If I could improve Tableau CRM I would make it as powerful as Tableau. Tableau CRM is more integrated and it's on the web, but it has less functionality. It is lacking functionality at this time."
"I would advise others not to customize because they rolled out the newer versions, which are every six months. There had to be some significant testing and verification that happened. It is important to have a strong third-party provider that is very experienced. We used Deloitte, but we evaluated Accenture, KPMG, and IBM, but we decided on Deloitte and that was a good decision for us. Having a partner who has a center of excellence or experts that could give you a lot of the tips that they've learned could jumpstart your deployment and stick to the standards."
"If a user leaves your organization, you shouldn't lose the visibility of all of the records."
"The product is expensive."
"The product is natively integrated into the Salesforce ecosystem. You also need a CRM license. It should be more flexible with other platforms."
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Looker is ranked 5th in Embedded BI with 19 reviews while Salesforce Einstein Analytics is ranked 11th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 18 reviews. Looker is rated 8.0, while Salesforce Einstein Analytics 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 Salesforce Einstein Analytics writes "Helpful consistent measurements, high availability, and scales well". Looker is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Databricks and Qlik Sense, whereas Salesforce Einstein Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAS Visual Analytics.
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