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Looker

A modern business intelligence, embedded analytics, and data application platform

  • Access, analyze, and act on the up-to-date, trusted version of your data

  • Build data experiences that empower users and reduce reliance on your data teams by up to99% 

  • Improveproductivity, decision-making, and innovation by delivering more insights to more users

  • Accelerate growth, helpboost sale value by 26%, andreduce churn by 7%with embedded analytics

  • Deliver trusted data experiences, at scale, from the cloud of your choice

Benefits

Improve decision-making

Analyze, visualize, and act on insights people can rely on as up-to-date. Make more informed decisions with a modern in-database architecture and powerful semantic layer that provide real-time governed metrics.

​Build data-rich experiences that go beyond BI

Leverage an API-first platform to deliver governed data across your organization through integrated insights, data-driven workflows, and custom applications.  

​Accelerate your business with data-driven workflows

Optimize business processes and increase efficiency with data-driven workflows that can simplify and automate previously repetitive tasks. 

Key features

Looker platform features

LookML: Looker’s modeling language

Looker’s secret sauce isLookML, a powerful SQL-based modeling language. Analysts can use LookML to centrally define and manage business rules and definitions in oneGit, version-controlled data model. LookML uses the information in the model to create efficient SQL queries on behalf of users. The model can remove technical skills as a potential barrier and frees up the data team to focus on innovation.

Embedded analytics

Looker’s platform for embedded analytics makes it possible for data analysts, product managers, and developers to rapidly create custom applications and embed analytics in existing applications, websites, and portals. By embedding analytics, you can give users the insights they need within their workflows, including branded, external-facing data discovery environments for partners and customers. 

Data visualizations, dashboards, and components

Looker’s interactive and dynamicdashboards and components enable real-time data experiences governed by one trusted and unified data model. Users can choose from a library of visualizations or build their own to tell a unique story. They also have the flexibility to set up filters, set alerts to flag changes and irregularities, drill-in and ask more questions of the data, and integrate actionable insights. 

Looker API

TheLooker API can provide a secure, “RESTful” application programming interface for customizing your Looker platform and for calling data. Using the Looker API, you can create custom applications and data-driven workflows, or write scripts that automate tasks such as provisioning new Looker accounts, running queries, scheduling reports, or embedding trusted insights into other systems and applications. 

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Documentation

Resources to learn more about Looker

Google Cloud Basics
Looker Introduction

Discover how to log into Looker, personalize your profile, and use Looker features to add value to your organization with instructional videos and quick start pages.

Google Cloud Basics
Find and organize content: 60-second overview

See how to find reports and dashboards that are available in your organization, how to organize them using folders and boards, and how to delete unused content.

Google Cloud Basics
Send and share content: 60-second overview

Find out how to share, import, and embed data and dashboards with users and applications—on-demand or at scheduled times. And see how to set alerts.

Google Cloud Basics
Exploring data in Looker

Discover how to build queries and run a Quick Start analysis to display results, and see how to refine insights by adding and modifying filters and other options.

Google Cloud Basics
Creating and customizing dashboards

See how to build and modify dashboards. Detailed instructions describe how to add tiles, text, data actions, and filters—and improve dashboard performance.

Google Cloud Basics
Learn these basic concepts before you start development

Make the most of your data, time, and tools by seeing how to use LookML to create and edit projects; SQL Runner to access databases; and Git for version control.

Google Cloud Basics
Create custom experiences by writing code with LookML

Explore basic through advanced LookML features and development strategies, including LookML’s parameters and instructions for using them to create projects.

Google Cloud Basics
Build apps, workflows, and embedded analytics with Looker

Discover how to use Looker’s API and extension framework to create apps and automated workflows, and explore how to embed Looker visualizations in sites and apps.

Google Cloud Basics
Set up and administer the Looker platform

Discover how to install a hosted or self-managed instance of Looker, how to connect a database, and how to use other Looker features that help administrators.

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Use cases

Empower business users, data analysts, and developers to innovate with data

Use case
Improve decisions and efficiency with modern BI

Realize greater value from data by using it to power decisions, increase efficiency, and deliver better customer experiences withmodern business intelligence. Empower non-technical staff with self-service, real-time insights while maintaining access controls. Break free from siloed analytics and instead give your users comprehensive insights into governed data via dashboards andvisualizations that align with yourBI modernization strategy.

Looker’s modern architecture
Use case
Build data products with embedded analytics

Deliver modern data experiences faster and generate new revenue streams byembedding analytics into apps and sites. Give users the information they need, when and where they need it. Accelerate time to value by having teams use existing data warehouses, data pipelines, Looker analytics, and one data model rather than building them from scratch. Streamline collaboration and save time with Git version-control. 

Looker embedded analytics visualization
Use case
Improve agility with a multicloud strategy

Increase agility and maximize ROI by running your apps and workloads on your choice of clouds and databases. With Looker, you can create insights and automate processes with data regardless of where it is. Power data experiences from Google Cloudand/or on-premises systems—and with data stored in BigQuery andother databases. Develop a flexible multicloud strategy by measuring cloud usage and costs. 

Use case
Quickly build apps and innovative data experiences

Drive growth and create new revenue streams with your governed data by accelerating time to market ofdata-centric apps. Stay focused on building great user experiences withLooker APIs and SDKs,Blocks,Actions, andextensions that streamline or even take care of tedious tasks. Enlist Looker to manage authentication and hosting. Monetize your data where it resides. Embed your Looker visualizations and dashboards into products and workflows.

Use case
Accelerate use cases with pre-built data templates

Looker Blocks help teams quickly get up and running with Looker dashboards and data explorations. Looker has worked with experts from customers, partners, and Google to build Blocks that accelerate time to value across different data sources, use cases, and analytical needs. There are a wide range of Looker Blocks for Google Analytics 360 and Salesforce, to public weather and census data, to Contact Center AI and cross-cloud billing. 

Use case
Simplify workflows with integrated insights

Minimize manual steps and automate operational workflows with ready-to-use integrations inLooker Actions or build your own custom Actions. Enable users to act on data right from Looker without switching between applications so that they get quick and actionable value from the data when and where they need it. Work smarter by sending your governed data to other systems to trigger workflows and automate tasks via Looker integrations and insights.

Use case
Amplify the value of Google with Looker

Drive efficiency and growth. Augment Google’s horizontal and industry solutions withLooker Blocks andActions. Increase insights with out-of-the-box dashboards and data exploration environments that integrate with services such asGoogle Analytics 360,Cloud Billing,Contact Center AI, andChronicle Security. Leverage your first-party data to target ad spend withActions for AdsviaCustomer Match andGoogle Analytics viaData Import.

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Learn more about Looker Blocks and other Looker features

Looker Blocks and ActionsLooker Blocks andActions are prebuilt pieces of code that can accelerate the development of analytics, insights, workflows, and apps. Looker Blocks include optimized SQL patterns, data source connections, pre-modeled external data, customized analytics, interactive visualizations, and embedding capabilities. Actions can add capabilities from third-party tools—such as Slack and Marketo—to Looker.
Looker extension frameworkLooker extension framework is a fully hosted development platform that enables developers to build a data-powered application, workflow, or tool right in Looker, that can eliminate the need to spin up and host infrastructure. The extension framework can save developers time by taking care of some steps in building web applications including authentication, access control, and API access.
Looker alertsLooker alerts are configurable actions that can automatically check specific data at specific time frequencies. If the data meets the conditions that the administrator or authorized user specifies—including a specific value, percent of change, or time value—Looker can automatically send an alert via email or Slack notification to named individuals.  
Looker securityLooker security provides authentication, access controls, and data governance capabilities that can help with GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance. AES 256-bit encryption helps secure database connection credentials and cached data stored at rest. TLS 1.2 can encrypt network traffic between users’ browsers and Looker. Administrators can control data access to databases, rows and/or columns.
Looker componentsComponentsare pieces of Looker user interface code that developers can use to create intuitive applications and extensions.Filter components enable developers to include Looker filter controls—such as sliders, tag lists, and radio buttons—in applications and embedded dashboards. Components can decrease application maintenance and overhead, simplify development, and enhance data experiences.
Looker mobile appLooker’s nativemobile app for iOS and Android can give content consumers on-the-go access to their data in any one of 22 possible languages. Share your content with others and transition between your desktop and mobile device when viewing emails and chats. Log in options include QR code access and biometric authentication to help with security. 
Persistent derived tables (PDTs) and incremental PDTsStandardPDTsare tables that Looker writes to the scratch schema of a database that can intelligently query the smallest possible dataset. Doing so can reduce database load and speeds query performance.Incremental PDTs are useful for large data sets. They allow data teams to append fresh data to the PDT without triggering a table rebuild. PDTs are foundational for Looker’saggregate awareness. 
Looker multicloud supportLooker multicloud support facilitates data experiences. Run Looker natively on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), andGoogle Cloud Platform. Connect Looker to data in your cloud(s) including on-premises systems, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. Additionally, Looker supports more than 60 distinct database dialects and over 60SQL dialects.

Pricing

Pricing that can fit your business

With the Looker platform you can get more than just a BI tool. You can gain Looker analytics, a modern data stack, integrations, features for app development, comprehensive professional services, and world-class support.

We have a variety of plans that are designed to meet your unique business needs.

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