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Looker

Looker

Founded by Lloyd Tabb in 2012

Build interactive data dashboards and explore business metrics from your data warehouse

Pricing model

Free

Rating

★ Positive

Time to value

Immediate

You can use Looker to connect directly to your cloud data warehouse, define standardized business metrics with LookML, and build real-time interactive dashboards. It lets business users ask questions using natural language to explore metrics and generate reports without writing complex SQL queries. You can also embed governed reports and interactive visualizations directly into internal workflows or customer-facing applications. Teams can collaborate on unified financial, marketing, and operational data while maintaining consistent definitions, granular access controls, and accurate enterprise reporting across their organization.

What Looker does

Write LookML data models to define business dimensions and metricsCreate interactive charts, graphs, and executive dashboardsAsk natural language questions to generate data visualizationsEmbed analytics widgets into customer web applications using iframes or SDKsConfigure automated data alerts and recurring dashboard delivery schedulesConnect and query relational data stored in BigQuery, Snowflake, or RedshiftCentralized metric definitions modeled via LookMLConversational natural language interface to query and explore dataDirect queries against live cloud data warehouses without data extractionEmbedded interactive dashboards inside web apps and portalsAutomated scheduled reports and alerts delivered via email or webhooksGranular row-level and column-level user access controlsNative integration with Google Cloud and BigQuery

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free

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Colleen McCracken

Colleen McCracken

Startup Founder @ Stealth

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Dylan Firn

GTM Lead @ Bookboost AB

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Eleonore Hajek

Eleonore Hajek

Product Manager @ Credit Karma

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