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    Overview
    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

    Cyfe

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ACyfe is all-in-one dashboard software for analyzing data from online services like Google Analytics, Salesforce, AdSense, MailChimp, Amazon, Facebook, etc, from Traject.

    $29

    per month

    Pricing
    LookerCyfe
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $29
    per month
    Standard
    $39
    per month
    Pro
    $65
    per month
    Premier
    $119
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LookerCyfe
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    LookerCyfe
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Traject
    Chose Cyfe
    Cyfe more than holds its own vs the competition. The capabilities are strong - especially for the price.
    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
    LookerCyfe
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Looker and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Looker
    8.5
    116 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    6.9
    27 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports8.195 Ratings6.817 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.0115 Ratings5.027 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.499 Ratings9.120 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Looker and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Looker
    8.5
    116 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    8.5
    25 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Drill-down analysis8.2112 Ratings8.715 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.9114 Ratings8.120 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.947 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.2116 Ratings7.025 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Looker and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Looker
    8.9
    112 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    9.2
    22 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Publish to Web8.494 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.1100 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.775 Ratings6.89 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.297 Ratings10.016 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Looker and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Looker
    7.0
    113 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    8.9
    18 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.2109 Ratings8.017 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.297 Ratings8.614 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics4.66 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Looker and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Looker
    8.3
    112 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    8.6
    21 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.7106 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.293 Ratings6.314 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.2106 Ratings8.416 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.245 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Looker and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Looker
    6.3
    84 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    9.3
    19 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.681 Ratings9.418 Ratings
    Mobile Application5.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.575 Ratings7.713 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Looker and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Looker
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    8% above category average
    REST API00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings5.94 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.83 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    LookerCyfe
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (117 ratings)
    8.0
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (51 ratings)
    9.1
    (27 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.3
    (51 ratings)
    8.3
    (27 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 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
    LookerCyfe
    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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    Traject
    Cyfe might be for you if you are looking for a cost-effective way to display all of your marketing metrics in one place. If you are looking for a detailed, fine-tuned, niche, or extremely specific metrics, this might not be the best solution. Cyfe is good for a general health check-up of marketing, but not a finely tuned examination.
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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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    Traject
    • Has preset metric groups that pull similar stats together in one "bucket" saving you the time of setting up each stat-line one by one
    • Allows you to easily adjust the timeframe for what stats you want to see, so you can find YOY stats or just last month's stats rather quickly
    • Colored visualizations of stats make it easy to notice when campaigns are taking off
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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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    Traject
    • I'd love to see additional functionality to customize colors. The light/dark option is very nice, but a little more flexibility in the colors would go a long way, especially if it was possible at the dashboard level rather than just the account level. Along the same lines, being able to customize the charts a little more, for example being able to show an x-axis on single data type graphs, could make them easier to read in some cases.
    • Being able to choose to report on converted clicks or conversions in AdWords would be helpful.
    • Needs the ability to show the date range on the shared URL dashboards. Would be even better if the date range was adjustable on that view, too.
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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).
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    Traject
    It has become a part of our internal tools so unless a competitor comes out with similar functionality as a similar price point it is unlikely that we would not renew. One area that would cause us not to renew would be if a competing service came out with more third-party integrations that match our needs. Price at this point is no longer an issue as it would allow us to automate a somewhat manual process that we have now connecting Cyfe widgets to Google Sheets.
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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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    Traject
    I gave it a rating of 7 because it does a good job at what it does, but there are missing that are missing which I would have benefited from. For instance, if I was able to drill down more on the specific metrics I was able to see, that would have been helpful.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No objections
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    Traject
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Traject
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Traject
    Because I had a very minor question and I was able to speak directly to the founder through LinkedIn and through email. I know that as they grow this may not always be an option but the fact that he made himself available to answer my questions said a lot about his passion for the product.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    Very satisfied, easy to implement
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    Traject
    Cyfe is a 15 minutes implementation, then some time to get your data sources created. This is an easy one person job that will not result in down time or unnecessary wasted man hours.
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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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    Traject
    The Salesforce dashboard is comparably flexible and intuitive, but designed more to its internal CRM focus. SumAll shares the social media dashboard capabilities, but lacks all others. Its interesting feature is side-by-side graph analysis for cross-channel performance. Cyfe might borrow from SumAll's default weekly email summary of performance from the dashboard, but implementation could be too complex. Nuvi dashboard is exclusively for social media marketing, but lacks Cyfe's flexibility for third party integration and window customization settings.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Google
    Perfect price to performance
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    Traject
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Traject
    • Cyfe allows us to provide real time data to our clients
    • Cyfe allows us to provide detailed analytics to our clients showing actual results
    • Cyfe reduced our need to provide monthly "reports" to our marketing clients
    • Cyfe allows us to have better situational awareness and know what is going on throughout our multiple organizations
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    ScreenShots

    Looker Screenshots

    Screenshot of a Looker dashboard with a geo chart.