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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Endeca (discontinued)

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AEndeca was a business intelligence platform for analyzing unstructured data, acquired by Oracle and since discontinued.N/A

    Looker

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALooker is a BI application with an analytics-oriented application server that sits on top of relational data stores. It includes an end-user interface for exploring data, a reusable development paradigm for data discovery, and an API for supporting data in other systems.N/A
    Pricing
    Endeca (discontinued)Looker
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Endeca (discontinued)Looker
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Endeca (discontinued)Looker
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Would buy again
    60 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    61 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    48 Answers
    Features
    Endeca (discontinued)Looker
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Endeca (discontinued) and Looker
    Feature
    Endeca (discontinued)
    5.5
    2 Ratings
    39% below category average
    Looker
    8.5
    116 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Customizable dashboards5.02 Ratings9.0115 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.01 Ratings8.499 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.095 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Endeca (discontinued) and Looker
    Feature
    Endeca (discontinued)
    5.7
    3 Ratings
    34% below category average
    Looker
    8.5
    116 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.02 Ratings8.2112 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.01 Ratings7.8114 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages2.01 Ratings8.847 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration6.02 Ratings9.2116 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Endeca (discontinued) and Looker
    Feature
    Endeca (discontinued)
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Looker
    8.8
    112 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Publish to Web6.01 Ratings8.494 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.01 Ratings9.1100 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.01 Ratings8.775 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.01 Ratings9.297 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Endeca (discontinued) and Looker
    Feature
    Endeca (discontinued)
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Looker
    7.0
    113 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.01 Ratings8.2109 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.01 Ratings8.297 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.01 Ratings4.66 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Endeca (discontinued) and Looker
    Feature
    Endeca (discontinued)
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Looker
    8.3
    112 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.02 Ratings8.7106 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.02 Ratings8.293 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.02 Ratings8.2106 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.245 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Endeca (discontinued) and Looker
    Feature
    Endeca (discontinued)
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Looker
    6.3
    84 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.21 Ratings7.681 Ratings
    Mobile Application8.21 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.21 Ratings7.575 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Endeca (discontinued) and Looker
    Feature
    Endeca (discontinued)
    5.8
    2 Ratings
    29% below category average
    Looker
    -
    Ratings
    REST API8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Endeca (discontinued)Looker
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Endeca (discontinued)Looker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.7
    (117 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.4
    (12 ratings)
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (51 ratings)
    Data Sources
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (51 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Endeca (discontinued)Looker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Best fit for this product: - Advanced or Sophisticated Enterprise Search platform: If you spend effort on your search capabilities, Endeca is the tool. - If you are looking for capabilities to search and navigate similar to a relational-database system, then Endeca is not the best fit. - If you are spending effort to drive customer experience, especially around customer interaction with your web application, Endeca can help with that in a multichannel environment.
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    Google
    Looker is ideal if you are heavily invested in Google Services, particularly marketing related services, and you with to quickly create reporting dashboards for that data. It gets more difficult when you try to tie in data from other services, and I would not use this were I already using BI package - it is not anywhere near as well supported or as widely known as some of its major competitors, but what it does do, it does do well.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Provides exact, correct counts of items in its dimensions.
    • Allows for flexible, out-of-the-box boosting of content (based on combo of any/all of: user profile, date, dimension being browsed and search keyword).
    • It has a reasonably good admin interface for the administration of boosting/promotion rules for the business user.
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    Google
    • Show visited pages - sessions, pageviews - which programs are viewed the most.
    • Displays session source/medium views to see where users are coming from.
    • It shows the video titles, URLs, and event counts so we can monitor the performance of our videos.
    • It gives a graphic face to the numbers, such as using bar charts, pie graphs, and other charts to show user trends or which channels are driving engagement.
    • Our clients like to see the top pages visited for a month.
    • I like the drop-and-drag approach, and building charts is a little easier than it was before.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Endeca's page builder is not fit to be an enterprise product - it is just BAD!
    • It is not easy for a non-user to understand Endeca quickly
    • Multi-index search (or any complex search implementation) is not easy to setup in Endeca
    Incentivized
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    Google
    • I wish I could get more granular in the Google ad data, such as down to the campaign type, instead of having to see only all campaigns.
    • The setup can be time-consuming if you're not using the product regularly.
    • Editing the dashboard requires a few logins; I wish it was more seamless.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    If the solution is implemented well and the business understands the purpose of the Endeca stack, it offers a great way for a business to explore and benefit from its existing data. From my experience, the Endeca solution has exposed data patterns to a business that were not thought about or explored before because of the lack of available tools to properly expose these patterns
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    Google
    I give it this rating because it deems as effective, I am able to complete majority of my tasks using this app. It is very helpful when analyzing the data provided and shown in the app and it's just overall a great app for Operational use, despite the small hiccups it has (live data).
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    The system itself is very usable, and with proper training is very sensible in its organization and method of operation. There are some downsides in initial setup in the way things are imported (or not in some cases) in setting up properties and dimensions. Overall however it's amazingly flexible in terms of the content it can index and make available for search.
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    Google
    Looker is relatively easy to use, even as it is set up. The customers for the front-end only have issues with the initial setup for looker ml creations. Other "looks" are relatively easy to set up, depending on the ETL and the data which is coming into Looker on a regular basis.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
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    Google
    No objections
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
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    Google
    Somehow resources heavy, both on server and client. I recommned at least 50Mbs data rate and high performance desktop comouter to be abke to run comolex tasks and configure larger amount of data. On the other hand, the client does not need to worry when viewing, the performance is usually ok
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Support has been very good, and the trainers for the various Endeca courses have all been very willing to help long after the classes have been completed, so in the instances where we're waiting on support from Oracle, it's often that the members of their training arm can help us out as well.
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    Google
    Never had to work with support for issues. Any questions we had, they would respond promptly and clearly. The one-time setup was easy, by reading documentation. If the feature is not supported, they will add a feature request. In this case, LDAP support was requested over OKTA. They are looking into it.
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
    The training is actually really good, and absolutely necessary - although this is software that has great documentation, the documentation itself is so vast, that it would be difficult to learn haphazardly, not to mention being incredibly time consuming to do so. Online training probably would have been fine except for the fact that having someone look over your shoulder to see where you're going wrong is helpful. This also allowed our team to sit in a single room and converse about functionality, etc. that would have been difficult to facilitate via an online class.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    We did some online Q&A with the Oracle team, but I would definitely recommend doing an in person class if you have a large team that will be attending - there's definitely no replacements for a large class of technically oriented staff members who can drive conversation about specific topics that might surface.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    There were some features we were hoping to get implemented in this particular release of Endeca, but were unable to facilitate those requirements due mostly to timeline. Having seen several other implementations, we will definitely have future iterations to add functionality and improve upon our implementation of Endeca. For the time being, we are satisfied with our implementation as it turned out.
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    Google
    Very satisfied, easy to implement
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Oracle Endeca was the best option that we evaluated by far. It gave us the most flexibility and ability to meet our objectives and had features that were not offered by the competing products we evaluated, but which we very much wanted, and this was why we decided to go with Oracle Endeca versus another platform
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    Google
    Looker Studio, you can easily report on data from various sources without programming. Looker Studio is available at no charge for creators and report viewers. Enterprise customers who upgrade to Looker Studio Pro will receive support and expanded administrative features, including team content management. So it's good.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Perfect price to performance
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • It is a searching tool, and hard to estimate its impact on conversion.
    • It does its job regarding better searching; In terms of efficiency, it's hard to say: it has big learning curve. It requires a dedicated Endeca developer to work on it.
    • Compared to Solr, it is way too complicated.
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    Google
    • Looker has a poignant impact on our business's ROI objectives. As an advertising exchange we have specific goals for daily requests and fill, and having premade Looks to monitor this is an integral piece of our operational capability
    • To facilitate an efficient monthly billing cycle in our organization, Looker is essential to track estimated revenue and impression delivery by publisher. Without the Looks we have set up, we would spend considerably more time and effort segmenting revenue by vertical.
    • Looker's unique value proposition is making analytical tools more digestible to people without conventional analytical experience. Other competing tools like Tableau require considerably more training and context to successfully use, and the ability to easily plot different visualizations is one of its greatest selling points.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Looker Screenshots

    Screenshot of a Looker dashboard with a geo chart.