Looker Reviews & Product Details

user friendly and easy to understand info that is presented to you. I really like the display as well as the way that you can search for related data-sets. That paired with fairly solid real time reporting makes it one of my favorite apps to use all time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

lags occasionally but is overall a very good tool. When inundated with data sets that are too large it does take quite a while to process all of it. Despite closing several other screens it just requires a higher level of processing power or server power on you alls end or something. not absolutely sure but you definitely have an are of opportunity there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With Looker we can improve our decision making by having our data presented as tables, square shapes, indicators, among other tools. This helps us identify our strengths and weaknesses, as well as take advantage of employment opportunities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Looker has not implemented a campaign tracking tool, which we believe is really necessary for the marketing area since it is essential for us to know what the public is looking for in terms of consumption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The direct connection to our DB and its "easy to configure" reports and dashboards.

Connection to Git.

Code validators. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the product needs to have more design flexibility in the dashboard part.

I would like to have more control on the drill functionalities - especially the "sort" parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is incredibly easy to use. Comparatively it is more intuitive than Power BI and Tableau. I am excited to see live chat feature in it. Another amazing thing about it is that anyone can use it without having prior data analysis experience. I love its possibility for reusing the codes that further helps us in making modifications of our own choices. This is the most powerful, effective and customizable BI tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no major dislikes for looker because it is a suitable platform with our company. Sometimes it take too much time in loading and provide results incomplete result then I have to refresh the tool. Moreover I have nothing to dislike about this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With the report, you can set it to save and then automatically email it to you. This is a great way to not have to recreate things all the time. A good place to integrate all the data and have the sources communicate with each other. It is very easy to build a dashboard and gives you the opportunity to create and judge the data you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The report takes some time to prepare initially, and the report is not very intuitive. The initial configuration takes a lot of time and the startup process is long. You must have an internal team dedicated to the configuration and involve the rest of the staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is great for connecting to our company's database and intelligently ordering the projects to be carried out and exploring data sharing. From a time-saving point of view, Looker is a fast program to create customized panels. The program is very intuitive and allows you to complete tasks faster. The customer service is also excellent showing great knowledge to help solve problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has not been very useful to be able to make a qualitative analysis based on the company's performance. It may be uncomfortable to use for those users who have not had experience with data analysis. The cost of the program can be high for some companies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is an incredible software that is in charge of analytics and data extraction, to specifically focus on offering information for reports for commercial environments, and thus perform superior intelligence in these areas, including the visualization of these news media that are of exclusive importance, to recreate the increase in the effectiveness of productivity in these labor fields, related to sales, mentioning that his wonderful efforts for the prudent organization, allows him to acquire surprising aspects, raising his progress in work success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although it is a software that contains quite complete functionalities programmed, it does not use a good appearance in the graphics designed for its user interface, and the appearance of its pages internally, highlighting that the Look that can be affirmed and provided to the reports of the analyzed data, they cannot be exported to PDF formats, which is a rather uncomfortable problem, because in this way, we can recreate and edit these documents again, without much labor process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With Looker you can extract data from any system in a massive way, which allows to obtain more knowledge about all kinds of relevant topics, mentioning that each user can access their clients, deepen the reports and comply with fully balanced adjacent information, being a operation of its executive panels, very extraordinary in every way, highlighting that it is one of the most frequently used due to its splendid management of novelties, both old and new, they are great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sometimes it does not show the data in custom formats, which can be a challenging problem, especially for companies that maintain a splendid information management, with prudent, actionable statistics, that is, shorter and more forceful, that cannot be adapted to our environment. never more. quirky and compelling, highlighting that it is not intended for stable, personal, and fluid use by users using this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

+ Data Model Layer via LookML which ensure consistency of data, scalability of data governance and data definition, and arguably best self service analytics

I believe Looker is one of the few Data visualization layer on BI stack that have a proper data model layer. The only other BI tools that have something comparable would be holistics.

-consistency

By having LookML as its data model layer all dashboards will have consistent result since its referring to the same data model layer that is managed collaboratively.

-scalability of data governance

managing user access to certain datasets or even fields is scalable as you manage it via lookML. even if you have 1000 dashboards, all 1000 dashboards user access level is controlled centrally in lookML. Prior to using looker I use other highly popular BI tools which almost any startup I know use, once you have so many dashboards, managing its user access becomes a nightmare. In looker, this problem is solved beautifully

-scalability of data definition

if there is a need to change the formula behind certain field, it need to be done once in the lookML layer and it will be applied to all the dashboard that use the data model. making the change of data definition much more manageable compared to other tools

-best self service analytics

with other tools, I will be more hesitant to let business users to directly have the power to generate their own report/dashboard since they may then includes their own data from excel/csv files which then may compromise the data accuracy / consistency.

with looker, self service analytics will be attainable without the need to compromise on data accuracy and consistency

+ Collaboration

Analyst can maintain data model layer together in the lookML, rather than working SILO managing data sources for each of their dashboards.

+ Reproducability

Analyst can check the SQL query behind each chart, therefore enabling them to regenerate it in other platform if needed

+Data Action

other tools perhaps only provide capability to schedule report / alert if certain metric meet certain condition.

in looker you can have data action towards salesforce, zapier and others. therefore you may directly act based on your data to looker to communicate with end user. using zapier you can also connect it to JIRA/wrike/trello to create a ticket that user need to close if certain condition is met, therefore any problem seen in the data will be trackable in project management tools whether the case has been solved or not

+Live chat support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Learning Curve

you need to learn lookML. additional step to be learned compared to other tools.

- Creating Custom Dashboard require Javascript knowledge

- Community isn't as active as others

- LookML might not be straightforward for some cases (e.g sorting pivot column based on values, possible but requiring complicated lookML setup)

- you better have analytics engineering department to manage the lookML layer, or at least have someone to oversee and QC the lookML code deployed by analyst if analyst have access to manage lookML layer directly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is the best ever tool. It is very useful for me and my team a lot. It is helping us in taking more solid decisions and gives better understanding about them. It is effectively used for external and internal reporting. It is helping us a lot in saving our precious time. This is indeed the excellent source for our sales team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it gets frozen. Sometimes loading takes long time that irritates me. While pulling reports, the data set is found to be limited up to 500 rows due to which we have to face problems in bigger data set. Another thing that irritates me are the glitches that occur in visualization table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Looker is a fantastic product because it is so easy to get provide the data to visual analytics in minutes with this product. It has absolutely changed the way that we run our business and it given us insight to our data that we have never had before. Looker has the great ability to connect to pretty much any data source and it has the ability to publish to the cloud server for sharing our work that is fantastic. Looker is very easy to navigate and it is basically use drag and drop functionalities that which is easy to perform operations with the help of drag and drop functionalities and also user can easily create visualization in a minutes. Looker is smooth to work and it has eased our organization to become more data driven. It helps us in the complete analytics journey right from data preparation to analysis to intelligent insights that it helps us in making data driven decisions because it is very easy to manage our business data and it can recognize opportunities better and quicker through this implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is the biggest issue with looker platform is that it is very expensive product to scale across a large organization as compared to other implement because it takes a bit long time to open the software and then connecting to the data is slow so it does not have the function for perfect visualizations. The other compliment around this implement is that it can lead to data security issues and compliance issues for some organization. Also, one must be well acquaint to the tool to use and needs training before running operation on it and it is requires a paid version to make edit the free version to view files. It is difficult to develop some extra complex reports if when we want to combine two various information resources in one view but it can need some innovative skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Analysts can define Explore menus to guide team analyses and control business logic. Using the same view across different Explores prevents duplication of logic. Looker empowers team members to use SQL without really realizing it. It gives team members the opportunity to become more acquainted with our company's data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's a bit of a discovery issue on Looker. For new users, it's difficult to know where to start or what to click on without asking someone on the Analytics team or receiving training from the Analytics team. The Explore concept works well from an analyst's perspective, however it can be intimidating to navigate if you're not on the analytics team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool itself is very easy to use. I have previously worked with Tableau and Power BI but find Looker to be more intuitive. New features are always coming out and I'm excited to see what's included in each release. The help articles, community and live chat support are also fantastic. Overall I would highly recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think other BI tools have better visualisation and drill down functionality, but the speed at which Looker releases new features more than makes up for this. It would also be helpful to have more support on documentation and training for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is easy to use for a person who does not have prior knowledge of data analysis as it does not require advanced skills.

Also the possibility to have shared folders, access the data your company provides in an easy manner is great.

Another thing I find very useful (and a very important one) wold be having data and visualization at the same time, this saves time of doing it from the scratch.

Main upside is once again easy steps, easy to learn, easy to present and share Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The way it gets frozen so often. not sure is it because many users are connected at the same time or it has another reason but sometimes it takes too long to load.

another issue is that it can easily get messy if not used correctly as many people are using different values which can give different results in different dashboards. having more info about similar values when creating them to help us track, would be helpful.

It is important to know how to find exactly what you are looking for - as you may know it but the formulation used in a company is different, this was a trouble for me especially at the beginning, but starting everything from already existed looks helps a bit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Looker give you the possibility to create whatever you want based on the data you have, it doesn't matter if you're a developer ou explorer.

The possibility to reuse code is amazing and make changes an easy and quick process.

Another great feature is the Git-based-code, it helps when it comes to grouping creation. I can start a project and invite colleagues to help or even see what I'm doing without changing the data we have under production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some "bugs" that lead people to misunderstanding. Example: Bar charts can't hide null value. But you can plot a line chart, change series to bar and then hide null values.

Also, it's still hard to move more than 1 title/look. When you start moving one of them, all of the others change position and you can be confused on each one's real place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Balance between advanced users (thanks to the integrated LookML language) and easy to use interface for non-technical people. Setting the right role for each user everyone can have the right amount of complexity when working with Looker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to add complexity to your project when several people is working on it at the same time. This can (and should) be controlled with the proper use of roles and groups and educating the users in best practices and format rules.

Also, the role-group configuration needs to be clear to facilitate adding new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Looker helps me automate WoW business results rather than having to download sheets and analysing them in Excel manually. The visualisations and comparison to previous periods of time make me understand the situation we're in much better and thanks to that I am able to plan our next steps accordingly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes it takes a little longer for complex dashboards to load but that is OK provided how much time it saves me at the end. I understand there is a lot of data having to be loaded since we operate globally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to create visualizations and helps Business people to deep dive data without coding a SQL line. Also, metadata documentation and git forks are awesome to multiple people to contribute and develop the same project simultaneously. It's nice to say that they have a great support team that are ready to help on simple questions or complex debugging issues as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dashboards visualization and customization options are poor. Is it possible to customize something but requires advanced javascript / html knowledge. The community gives for a lot of feature proposal and it takes a long time to get improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With Looker you can do Data Analysis for different kind of data and visualize it.

Looker can connect to multiple databases and its Merge feature is great to join different databases.

I have worked on many BI tools like Tableau, Mode but Looker is best and let users customize the code via Lookml. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would say since Google acquired Looker in recent past, so would love to see Looker as part of GCP suite.

Also, if possible Looker can add support to Analyze data from google sheet or excel sheets.

Looker should be added to the GCP BigQuery UI, so we can query data in BQ and visualize it with single click and have a better experience in Looker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.