We performed a comparison between Looker and SAP Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tableau, Qlik, MicroStrategy and others in Embedded BI."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 product is easy to use."
"We can centralize all our data models."
"It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"With Looker, I have experienced benefits in terms of usability and shareability."
"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"Real-time data makes for a single version of the truth."
"Offers both business intelligence as well as inbuilt AI and machine learning capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Analytics Cloud is its integration with SAP."
"The most valuable features are on the application side, where you can design applications into your analytics on the platform."
"The most valuable features are the visualization and user-friendliness."
"One of the most outstanding features is being able to use the dashboard with a touch screen."
"The stories have really been helpful in looking at specific scenarios and analyzing trends over periods of time."
"Its user-friendliness is valuable. It is a product for end-users and not for IT, which is an advantage."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"The integration with different databases must be improved."
"Stability needs improvement."
"The visualization capability of the product is limited."
"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 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's lacking a bit in maturity and we find we can't run our business off it until it's improved."
"What should be improved in SAP Analytics Cloud is the speed of importing information and data, e.g. from SAP S/4HANA. Gathering the data from the main database takes a bit of time."
"The security, authorization, and live connection to the back-office system features can be improved. A business analyst colleague who creates complex financial management reports has mentioned that he wants to see more fact and visualization features. It would be helpful to have more visualization features to be able to prepare more stories or reports for executives. For example, Tableau has some visualization features that are not present in this solution."
"I think it would be easier if there was another module created to retrieve only data."
"They need more support for more languages, Python for example."
"Its integration or connectivity with non-SAP systems, big data, and social media, such as YouTube, LinkedIn, et cetera, can be improved. This is where SAP has limited features as compared to other solutions."
"One area for improvement in SAP Analytics Cloud is incorporating Python into the coding. That functionality is available, but it's not as efficient, and it's a bit difficult sometimes to do it, so that could be improved."
"Sometimes there are speed issues with big deletion data."
Looker is ranked 5th in Embedded BI with 19 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 4th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 57 reviews. Looker is rated 8.0, while SAP Analytics Cloud is rated 8.0. 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 SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". Looker is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Databricks and Qlik Sense, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Anaplan.
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