Looker - Présentation
Description du logiciel Looker
L'approche intuitive de l'exploration des données de Looker rend la diffusion d'une culture axée sur la curiosité à la fois efficace et efficiente. Une interface web intuitive permet aux utilisateurs d'exploiter le génie de leurs équipes d'analyse de données. Ils ont la possibilité de créer et de partager des rapports à la volée, afin que d'autres groupes fonctionnels puissent bénéficier des questions qu'ils posent et des connaissances qu'ils ont créées. Et puisque toute l'expérience de Looker donne des résultats aussi satisfaisants, ils commencent à se tourner vers les données pour guider leurs décisions et stimuler leurs activités.
Au cœur de la recherche de données (data discovery) de Looker, il existe une nouvelle façon de créer ces expériences web. En utilisant un langage flexible et facile à apprendre appelé LookML, vos analystes de données ont la possibilité de créer des mini-applications qui ajoutent de la puissance et de l'efficacité à l'exploration de données. La syntaxe LookML simplifie le développement de modèles solides pour toute entreprise, tout en améliorant les capacités du SQL. Il n'est pas nécessaire de consacrer du temps et des ressources au codage des requêtes de façon ad hoc ou à la mise en place de plateformes logicielles de Business Intelligence (BI) complexes. Cette approche basée sur le langage permet une exécution plus rapide des requêtes, optimisant ainsi les performances.
Looker - Présentation
Prix
Looker - Fonctionnalités
Médias
Looker - Avis
Looker - Avis
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.
Comparatif avec les logiciels similaires : note globale
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The perfect solution for our stage business
Avantages
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.
Inconvénients
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.
Looker Review
Avantages
Easy to create dashboards without engineers needing to write code.
Inconvénients
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.
Avantages
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.
Inconvénients
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.
Avantages
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.
Inconvénients
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.
Avantages
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.
Inconvénients
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.
Comparatif avec les logiciels similaires : recommandation utilisateur
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Looker - Prix
Looker - Prix
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Looker - Fonctionnalités
Looker - Fonctionnalités
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Looker - FAQ
Looker - FAQ
Voici quelques-unes des questions fréquentes sur Looker.
Q. Quels sont les types de licence disponibles pour Looker ?
Types de licences disponibles pour Looker :
Type de licence: Abonnement
Essai gratuit: Non disponible
Q. Quelles sont les principales fonctionnalités du logiciel Looker ?
Nous n'avons pas d'informations sur les fonctionnalités de Looker.
Q. Qui utilise Looker ?
Utilisateurs habituels du logiciel Looker :
PME, Grandes entreprises, À but non lucratif, Entreprises de taille moyenne
Q. Dans quelles langues Looker est-il disponible ?
Langues dans lesquelles Looker est disponible :
anglais
Q. Quels sont les types de licence disponibles pour Looker ?
Types de licences disponibles pour Looker:
Abonnement
Q. Looker prend-il en charge les appareils mobiles ?
Nous n'avons pas d'informations sur les appareils pris en charge par Looker.
Q. Avec quelles applications Looker peut-il s'intégrer ?
Applications s'intégrant à Looker :
Alooma, Dropbox Business, Improvado, Kustomer, LoginRadius, Panoply, Rippling, Workable, Workpuls, Xplenty
Q. Quelles sont les ressources d'aide disponibles pour Looker ?
Ressources d'aide disponibles pour Looker :
Base de connaissances, Support en ligne, FAQ, Forum, Tutoriels vidéo
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.