Looker Product Family Documentation
The Looker family of products delivers the information you need to make
data-driven decisions and gain insights from self-service analytics,
embedded applications, and modern business intelligence environments.
Looker
WHAT
Looker is a business intelligence platform. It provides a data exploration
and dashboarding interface for users, an IDE for data modelers, and rich embedding
and API features for developers.
WHERE
Looker may be managed for you in Google Cloud, hosted by you in another
cloud service, or hosted on your own servers. In each case data always remains in-database
and is not copied to the Looker instance.
WHO
Looker is the right choice for customers who need the following:
- Governance for key metric definitions
- Robust data access permissions
- Sharing, scheduling, and alerting
- Operational analytics
- Integration of analytics in existing tools and workflows
- Custom applications
PRODUCT VARIATIONS
Looker (Google Cloud core)
Looker (Google Cloud core) offers all the same features as the original Looker,
but has deeper Google Cloud integration, including the ability to provision and administer
instances from the Google Cloud console.
Looker Studio
WHAT
Looker Studio is a no-cost tool that turns your data into fully customizable
reports. It provides an easy-to-use drag-and-drop editor.
WHERE
Looker Studio is a Google Cloud service that is available at
lookerstudio.google.com to anyone with a
Google account.
WHO
Looker Studio is the right choice for customers who need the following:
- Self-service analytics and visualizations
- Interactive dashboards to more than 1,000 data sources
- Report embedding for the web
- One-off visualizations or reports
- Single data source or pre-aggregated datasets
PRODUCT VARIATIONS
Looker Studio Pro
A Looker Studio Pro subscription gives Looker Studio users all the features of the
no-cost version of Looker Studio, plus enhanced enterprise capabilities and access to
technical help and support.