Google Cloud Looker
Google Cloud Looker is a modern business intelligence and data analytics platform that helps users explore, analyze, and share data insights. It distinguishes itself through its unique data modeling language, LookML, which creates a consistent semantic layer directly on top of cloud data…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2012
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Google Cloud Looker was created to address the challenges of traditional business intelligence tools, which often struggled with large, complex, and rapidly changing datasets in modern cloud data warehouses. It aimed to provide a governed, real-time analytics platform that empowered both technical and non-technical users to access, explore, and trust data directly from their data sources without the need for data extracts or specialized cubes.
- Platforms
- Web browser (user interface), Connects to various cloud data warehouses and SQL databases, Cloud (SaaS offering, runs on Google Cloud infrastructure)
Related technologies
Notable users
- King
- JetBlue
- BuzzFeed
- IBM
- Salesforce
- Etsy