Google Looker

Google Looker is a modern enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) and data analytics platform that helps organizations explore, analyze, and understand their data. Acquired by Google in 2020, it provides a web-based interface for data discovery and leverages its unique LookML modeling language to…

Key facts

First appeared: 2012
Category: technology
Problem solved: Looker was created to solve the problem of traditional business intelligence tools being slow, rigid, and reliant on pre-generated reports or complex data extracts, which limited user self-service and often led to inconsistent data definitions. It aimed to provide a modern, web-based platform that allowed users to explore live, granular data with a governed semantic layer (LookML) and democratize data access across an organization.
Platforms: Cloud (SaaS), Google Cloud Platform

Related technologies

Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft SQL Server
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Redshift
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
Databricks

Notable users

Lyft
Amazon
IBM
The Guardian
BuzzFeed
Cisco
Salesforce
Spotify