Looker Reviews

Aron Clymer

Head of Data & Analytics at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 26 2017

What is most valuable?

LookML semantic middle layer: Gives me the ability to centralize and normalize all of the data for end users. This includes everything from... more»

How has it helped my organization?

No more backlog of simple data pull requests from most employees. Over 100 people are answering their own questions. Even PR loves being able to... more»

What needs improvement?

Their needs to be much more control of visualizations to become more on par with Tableau. We have to jump through a lot of hoops to do simple... more»

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We previously used Omniture which was effective for click-stream analysis but limited in exposing other types of data, like product state data... more»

What other advice do I have?

Looker can do anything SQL can do. If you are a SQL shop, you want to centralize data definitions, and you want programmable flexibility, then... more»

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BusinessAnalyst097

Business Analyst at a software R&D company with 51-200 employees

Nov 23 2016

What is most valuable?

Looker is very flexible for BI. Business users can create graphs, reports, etc. using Looker's Explore functionality.... more»

How has it helped my organization?

Looker Transforms SQL with it’s LookML syntax. Looker provides end-users with visualization tools, Saved as individual... more»

What needs improvement?

Features related to visualization should continue to be improved. While these are strong as they are now, there's... more»

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Review how you intend to use Looker. Is it purely internal? Will you have external clients viewing Looker reports? For... more»

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

This was our first BI product.

What other advice do I have?

You should know what it's good for. It's great for enabling business insights via its data visualization tools.... more»

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Paul Price

CEO at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 23 2016

What is most valuable?

For my company, the ability to embed professional dashboards directly into our multi-tenant SaaS was our top priority.... more»

How has it helped my organization?

In the past, adding a new dashboard to our product was a multi-week development effort. Now our nontechnical product... more»

What needs improvement?

User and group management in conjunction with dashboard organization used to be our only struggle, but Looker recently... more»

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Make sure you shop around and understand the real costs of the competition. Looker does not host your data, so be sure... more»

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We used to have an on-premise hosted solution. We switched because the embed functionality was lacking, user-based... more»

What other advice do I have?

When implementing the product, make sure you already understand your data and your use cases very well. Involve a data... more»

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BizOpsAssc546

Business Operations Associate at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Oct 31 2016

What is most valuable?

The LookML model provides a single source of truth, which allows us to democratize the data analysis process in our... more»

How has it helped my organization?

Looker greatly reduced the strain on the few SQL-proficient people in our organization. People who were previously... more»

What needs improvement?

There are a few areas of the product where there hasn't been enough time spent making the interface user-friendly.... more»

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing model makes sense, but can be very expensive, potentially prohibitively so for smaller companies.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We previously just ran our analytics out of Google Sheets with charts based on queries of our database each week. We... more»

What other advice do I have?

Looker is an extremely valuable product that can really transform your company's ability to use data to answer... more»

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