What is Looker?

Looker is a platform for data that streamlines the data supply chain to create actionable information. It allows any organization to extract value from their data at web-scale, delivers powerful purpose built applications to address the needs of specific teams, and provides a flexible, embedded analytics framework with Powered by Looker.

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Awards & Recognition

Looker won the following awards in the Sales Analytics category

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Looker Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
Download the entire Product Scorecard to access more information on Looker.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

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95 Plan to Renew

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79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Looker?

1% Negative
5% Neutral
94% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Transparent
  • Respectful
  • Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Dashboard

87

Collaboration

83

Data Ingestion and Interoperability

82

Scenario Analysis

81

Predictive Sales Forecasting

80

Pipeline Planning

80

Visual Pipeline Monitoring

80

Predictive Time-Series Reporting & Analytics

80

Intelligent Alerts and Notifications

79

Territory Analytics and Management

77

Artificial Intelligence-Based Insights

74

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Business Value Created

84

Ease of Data Integration

83

Vendor Support

82

Breadth of Features

81

Usability and Intuitiveness

79

Quality of Features

79

Ease of Customization

78

Ease of IT Administration

78

Ease of Implementation

76

Availability and Quality of Training

76

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

74

Looker Reviews

Jansen T.

  • Role: Student Academic
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Anshul D.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Retail
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2025

An Alternative to Excel Power Query

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Looker from other similar products?

Its Cloud Based and Interactive and Online access Can be Given

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its Data Charts

What do you dislike most about this product?

Its a little Slow

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I definitely recommend looker studio

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Fair

Mantesh C.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2025

Trusted dashboards that scale with your business

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Looker from other similar products?

As per my experience, the Looker modeling layer and centralized governance keep metrics consistent across teams, with solid API integration and embedding for productized analytics. The visualization is easy to understand for every user.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I used this tool a lot of time in my day-to-day activity, but my favorite part is Clean, fast dashboards backed by a semantic model—stakeholders trust the numbers, and I can schedule and share effortlessly.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Steep learning curve for Looker and sometimes rigid permissions; pricing scales quickly for lots of viewer seats.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Run a real POC with your production data, define 5–10 core metrics in LookML, test row-level permissions, and validate total cost (including viewer growth).

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Effective Service
  • Inspires Innovation

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