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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Oracle Analytics

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AOracle Analytics is a solution used to visually explore data to create and share compelling stories. Oracle Analytics Cloud is a cloud native service, and Oracle Analytics Server is the on-premise option.N/A
    Pricing
    LookerOracle Analytics
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LookerOracle Analytics
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.Must contact sales team for pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    LookerOracle Analytics
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Looker
    • Looker offers significantly better reporting options than most other BI tools in a similar price range.
    • In terms of performance, Looker can handle much greater amounts of data than similar BI tools.
    • Although Looker primary works with LookML, you can do everything on LookML that …
    Incentivized
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Analytics
    While Oracle BI Foundation Suite (esp. OBIEE 11g) outperforms most other business intelligence tools available on the market (Looker, Cognos, etc), it falls behind on a few fronts. One of the primary features where OBIEE falls behind is the reporting and visualization tools. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Oracle Analytics
    Business Objects was considered in places where the organization is using an SAP-based transactional system. Looker again becomes the advantage where you are going to build a totally new customized data warehouse model since it allows you to better reduce some extent of the ETL …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    60 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    61 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    48 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    LookerOracle Analytics
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Looker and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Looker
    8.5
    116 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Oracle Analytics
    8.4
    37 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.195 Ratings8.933 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.0115 Ratings9.236 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.499 Ratings7.137 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Looker and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Looker
    8.6
    116 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Oracle Analytics
    8.2
    37 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.2112 Ratings8.436 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.9114 Ratings8.137 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.947 Ratings7.123 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.2116 Ratings9.236 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Looker and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Looker
    8.9
    112 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Oracle Analytics
    9.1
    37 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Publish to Web8.494 Ratings8.731 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.1100 Ratings9.237 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.775 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.297 Ratings9.835 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.717 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Looker and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Looker
    7.0
    113 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Oracle Analytics
    8.5
    36 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.2109 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.297 Ratings8.531 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics4.66 Ratings8.126 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Looker and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Looker
    8.4
    112 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Oracle Analytics
    8.8
    37 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.7106 Ratings9.237 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.393 Ratings8.237 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.2106 Ratings8.536 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.345 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.320 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Looker and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Looker
    6.3
    84 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Oracle Analytics
    7.3
    29 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.781 Ratings6.729 Ratings
    Mobile Application5.01 Ratings7.325 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.675 Ratings7.527 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Looker and Oracle Analytics
    Feature
    Looker
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Analytics
    7.7
    17 Ratings
    1% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.914 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings6.713 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings9.715 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.114 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.913 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    LookerOracle Analytics
    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
    LookerOracle Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (117 ratings)
    9.2
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (51 ratings)
    9.2
    (38 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.3
    (51 ratings)
    8.1
    (38 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LookerOracle Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Oracle
    Oracle Data Visualization is very effective if used in an enterprise context with huge volumes of data coming from different systems. It supports dashboard and reporting capabilities and is easy to scale. It also allows you to leverage machine learning capabilities to extract hidden data trends. Visualization capabilities are powerful but not so various if compared to other solutions on the market. If you want to present a dashboard to an executive audience and you want to make your dashboards beautiful you must adapt them through PowerPoint.
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    Pros
    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.
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    Oracle
    • Available without of the box connectors for Salesforce and oracle Saas Cloud. This is a huge plus for our business since we don't need another middleware solution just for this sake.
    • We are able to connect to our on-prem SQL Server database where we have our RMA database and other applications seamlessly without writing custom APIs.
    • OAC writes directly into ADW which is another advantage for loading Excel files into ADW after dataflow transformations.
    • OAC allows replication of the database from fusion ERP and lets us create subject areas using the data modeler.
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    Cons
    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.
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    Oracle
    • More AI but with human back up.
    • Less mumbo jumbo so even IT guys/gals can more easily work.
    • More statistics (math) and orientation for those not familiar with it.
    • More live as well as virtual (live) show casing of real situations in business.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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).
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    Scalability and rich integration capabilities. In the future, if we go with Hyperion for the Financial Consolidation and planning purposes -BI integration with Hyperion is going to be much simpler as it has native interface connectivity and even integration capabilities with well known CRM products (Siebel) and ERP Products (Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, SAP) is going to be easy and straight forward.
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    Usability
    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.
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    Oracle
    Great, if you are limited to using it along with other Oracle products; sadly, not if you are integrating with other products, which can be a challenge. It is a great product with tons of functionality and great integration with other in-house platforms. Great visuals and customization for data and analytics to provide decision-making data and analysis.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No objections
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    Oracle
    No problems, it's that simple.
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    Performance
    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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    Oracle
    Other than anomalies or expected quirks, there were never any earth-shattering delays.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Oracle
    Oracle Analytics Support team is very proactive and I have never had a situation where I had to wait for more than a day or two to get my issues resolved. This is a very big help for us and we appreciate Oracle and its team for guaranteeing that experience.
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    In-Person Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Oracle University offers very in-depth training.
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    Online Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    It was a private training site.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    Very satisfied, easy to implement
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    Oracle
    A properly implemented Endeca solution performs extremely well on the largest of datasets and it positions your organization to immediately achieve your ROI.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    Oracle
    Oracle Analytics Cloud, is one of the most agile and secure data analysis platforms that according to the budget and the amount of use, you can use the resources you need under the cloud. The Oracle brand is also very well known in this field and can meet all the needs of an organization or industry in any sector.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Google
    Perfect price to performance
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    We have seen the results of this in our initial research and are not surprised that Oracle does this like it does soo many other things in this area, so well.
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    Return on Investment
    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.
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    Oracle
    • We've used OBIEE (or it's previous named product) for over 13 years and it's still the most used tool for BI by the business.
    • We moved our largest business system off of Business Object into OBI so we could gain improved performance, reliability, and easier management of metadata.
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    ScreenShots

    Looker Screenshots

    Screenshot of a Looker dashboard with a geo chart.