Looker - Overzicht
Wat is Looker?
De intuïtieve benadering voor gegevensverkenning van Looker maakt de verspreiding van een op nieuwsgierigheid gebaseerde cultuur zowel efficiënt als effectief. Een intuïtieve, webgebaseerde interface stelt zakelijke gebruikers in staat om het talent van je team voor gegevensanalyse aan te boren. Ze kunnen op elk gewenst moment rapporten ontwerpen en delen, zodat andere functionele groepen kunnen profiteren van de vragen die ze stellen en de kennis die ze hebben gecreëerd. En aangezien de hele Looker-ervaring zulke bevredigende resultaten oplevert, zullen ze de gegevens gaan gebruiken als basis voor hun zakelijke beslissingen en activiteiten.
De kern van de gegevensacquisitie via Looker is een nieuwe manier om deze webgebaseerde ervaringen te creëren. Met behulp van LookML, een flexibele, eenvoudig aan te leren taal, kunnen je gegevensanalisten mini-toepassingen creëren die kracht en efficiëntie toevoegen aan de verkenning van gegevens. De LookML-syntaxis vereenvoudigt de ontwikkeling van robuuste modellen voor elke organisatie en versterkt de mogelijkheden van SQL. Het is niet nodig om tijd en middelen in te zetten voor het coderen van zoekopdrachten op ad-hocbasis of voor het opzetten van complexe softwareplatforms voor business intelligence (BI). Deze op taal gebaseerde aanpak resulteert in een snellere uitvoering van zoekopdrachten en optimaliseert tegelijkertijd de prestaties.
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The perfect solution for our stage business
I could not be happier with Looker. My one hesitation in recommending it is that other tools seemed to be able to provide 80% of the value at 20% of the cost, but I've only demoed those tools and not actually used them so I'm not sure if they could actually deliver.
Looker Review
Controlled Analytics Exploration
Like I said, it's a great tool for analysts that don't need a lot of flexibility or maybe just aren't used to working with a lot of data. To get the full value out of this software, you'll need a core group of experienced Data Analysts that can learn fast (to learn Lookers Table Calculation code which is similar to SQL) who can build a bunch of dashboards and views. You really don't want people who aren't savvy with data doing a lot of the creating because measures are always aggregated based on the dimensions you pull into each table...if a user forgets to add a specific dimension then measures could show the wrong value. This could be offset by having really good developers who architect the data in a way that doesn't allow this to happen.
Looker allows everyone in your company, even the less tech-savvy, to make data-driven...
We get to force-multiply our impact by making it easy for users in all departments to make data-driven decisions and help allow that to drive their day-to-day.
Data Models, Security, and Amazing Customer Support
Looker is quickly becoming our go-to for reporting and dashboarding for anything requiring more than one data source (and some that are based on just one). Paired with a kick-ass centralized data warehouse (we use Snowflake), Looker lets us roll things out very quickly (provided our data infrastructure is in good shape). It did take a while to get going with Looker because it lays on top of the existing data infrastructure. Now that we have quite a bit of strong infrastructure in place in our centralized data warehouse, we are able to produce data products in Looker quite quickly.
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The perfect solution for our stage business
Pluspunten
Looker is incredibly easy to use for a casual user, which most of our users are. As soon as your email is activated, you have access to the product and new users need very little direction to start getting value out of it.
Minpunten
Relative to other BI tools, the advanced charting functionality is somewhat limited, but frankly that's not the main reason we bought Looker. Data scientists can use another tool of their choice, we have Looker for people who aren't data scientists.
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Pluspunten
Easy to create dashboards without engineers needing to write code.
Minpunten
Still not very good yet for a multi-tenant embedded environment. Needs a lot of work to set up and the API is slow.
Controlled Analytics Exploration
Like I said, it's a great tool for analysts that don't need a lot of flexibility or maybe just aren't used to working with a lot of data. To get the full value out of this software, you'll need a core group of experienced Data Analysts that can learn fast (to learn Lookers Table Calculation code which is similar to SQL) who can build a bunch of dashboards and views. You really don't want people who aren't savvy with data doing a lot of the creating because measures are always aggregated based on the dimensions you pull into each table...if a user forgets to add a specific dimension then measures could show the wrong value. This could be offset by having really good developers who architect the data in a way that doesn't allow this to happen.
Pluspunten
It's a great data exploration tool for users who normally would get anxious when given a large dataset in something like Excel. It's generally simple to use and there can be unlimited Viewers (users at the lowest permissions level) through the enterprise product. Data Visualization is essentially done for you and Exploers (users at the second level of permissions) can build new visualizations & turn them into interactive dashboards.
On the Looker platform, Explorers can locate a view (called an Explore) and then are given a list of dimensions and measures they can pull into a table. Users can create new dimensions using calculated fields and then save their views so any users with Viewer permissions (and up) can see what was put together.
Minpunten
With simplicity comes lack of flexibility. More skilled data analysts will want more flexibility than Looker can provide but at the same time you need to have highly skilled Data Analysts to be the Developers (high level of permissions) to set up the data so that less skilled analysts (the users who benefit from Looker most) who are Explorers don't build views that grossly misrepresent the data.
My biggest pet peeve with this software as an Explorer is that you cannot make calculations on the base data...only the data that you pull into your table (called table calculations). That is a major feature that Tableau has that Looker does not have at the Explorer permission level. Of course developers can use LookML (Lookers data language) to create a new column...but a Developer license is more expensive and creating the fields take time and it's something you constantly will need.
Looker allows everyone in your company, even the less tech-savvy, to make data-driven decisions.
We get to force-multiply our impact by making it easy for users in all departments to make data-driven decisions and help allow that to drive their day-to-day.
Pluspunten
I love the customization of Looker, and that you can put large amounts of data into the hands of anyone -- in a way that makes sense [to them]!
While their product is great, it speaks volumes to the team. It's an amazing group of people that continue to receive feedback from their customers and iterate time and time again on their product. They truly care about data and their customers, and they want to empower them the best they can.
Minpunten
When modeling views, I wish you could define better filters for measures but it's limited. There are workarounds, meaning modeling out several additional dimensions to arrive at the measure you need to pull regularly, but it'd be much more efficient to allow for measures to be more nuanced.
Large dashboards (with 25+ tiles) can take awhile to load, which is understandable. Once their "merge results" feature is fully rolled out and we're able to save them as new tiles or looks, it should help resolve the need for so many tiles.
Neither of these two things are a big deal, and I wouldn't let this deter you from considering this software.
Data Models, Security, and Amazing Customer Support
Looker is quickly becoming our go-to for reporting and dashboarding for anything requiring more than one data source (and some that are based on just one). Paired with a kick-ass centralized data warehouse (we use Snowflake), Looker lets us roll things out very quickly (provided our data infrastructure is in good shape). It did take a while to get going with Looker because it lays on top of the existing data infrastructure. Now that we have quite a bit of strong infrastructure in place in our centralized data warehouse, we are able to produce data products in Looker quite quickly.
Pluspunten
Provisioning security allows us to control the user experience (and only show users things they would actually care about). This makes a dashboard or data product rollout far smoother. Additionally, the customer support (especially through the chat interface) is absolutely fantastic. Because Looker creates a custom URL for each explore you're working on, you can share with Customer Support your exact problem and work together to find a solution.
Minpunten
Looker Sales told us beforehand that it "writes the most performant SQL possible." I have not found this to be the case, as it often casts and does a few other things (I suspect to make it runnable no matter how you've set up your data). There are some limitations on the visualizations, etc., but Looker Customer Service has been super responsive when those come up.
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Hieronder zie je enkele veelgestelde vragen over Looker.
V. Welke prijsmodellen heeft Looker te bieden?
Looker kent de volgende prijsmodellen:
Prijsmodel: Abonnement
Gratis proef: Niet beschikbaar
V. Wat zijn de voornaamste functies van Looker?
We hebben geen informatie over functies van Looker
V. Wat zijn de typische gebruikers van Looker?
Looker heeft de volgende typische klanten:
Klein bedrijf, Grote ondernemingen, Non-profit, Middelgroot bedrijf
V. Welke talen worden door Looker ondersteund?
Looker ondersteunt de volgende talen:
Engels
V. Welke prijsmodellen heeft Looker te bieden?
Looker kent de volgende prijsmodellen:
Abonnement
V. Biedt Looker ondersteuning voor mobiele apparaten?
We hebben geen informatie over apparaten die door Looker worden ondersteund
V. Met welke andere apps kan Looker worden geïntegreerd?
Looker kan worden geïntegreerd met de volgende toepassingen:
Alooma, Dropbox Business, Improvado, Kustomer, LoginRadius, Panoply, Rippling, Workable, Workpuls, Xplenty
V. Welke mate van ondersteuning heeft Looker te bieden?
Looker biedt de volgende ondersteuningsopties:
Kennisbank, Online ondersteuning, Veelgestelde vragen, Forum, Video-instructies
I could not be happier with Looker. My one hesitation in recommending it is that other tools seemed to be able to provide 80% of the value at 20% of the cost, but I've only demoed those tools and not actually used them so I'm not sure if they could actually deliver.