Looker
Looker is a cloud-based business intelligence (BI) and data analytics platform that helps organizations explore, analyze, and share real-time data. It uniquely employs a proprietary modeling language called LookML to define data and metrics, ensuring consistency and allowing non-technical users…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2012
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Looker was created to address the challenges of traditional business intelligence tools that were often slow, required significant IT involvement for even simple queries, and struggled with data consistency across different reports and users. It aimed to provide a self-service analytics platform that could leverage the power of modern cloud data warehouses, offering real-time data access and a governed, consistent view of data through its LookML data modeling layer.
- Platforms
- Supports various SQL-compatible data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Azure Synapse, Vertica), Cloud-based SaaS (primarily Google Cloud)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Amazon
- Sony
- The Economist
- Netflix
- Warby Parker
- Shopify
- IBM
- BuzzFeed
- New Relic
- Peloton