LOOKER

v What is Looker?

Looker is a product that helps you explore, share, and visualize your company's data so that you can make better business decisions.

It is a one-stop solution for all the analytical needs of your organization. It supports Modern BI & Analytics by creating dynamic dashboards for more in-depth analysis and giving teams access to reliable & accurate data that helps in making well-informed decisions.

The Data-Driven Workflows in Looker will save you a lot of time & money by putting your data to work on your business by allowing you to take risk averse decisions backed by real facts about your business.

With Looker, users can connect to various data sources, including databases, data warehouses, and cloud-based services, to aggregate and centralize their data.

Looker's drag-and-drop interface allows users to quickly build and customize visualizations without writing any code.

v Why is Looker used?

Organizations use Looker to create dashboards and reports that allow them to transform data into easy-to-understand graphs and charts, so they can gain actionable insights and make informed, data-driven decisions.

We can create various types of reports & dashboards in Looker. Reports in Looker are called Looks. For example, if you create a Product Look, then that Look will contain all the details about various Products in your warehouse (something like a table showing Product Name, Product Number, Available Stock, Per Unit Cost etc.).

v Features of Looker

· Data filtering

· Drill to row-level details

· Data downloading and exporting capability

· Dashboard or Look creation

· Elite System Activity logs

· Custom themes

Important Notes:
Looker is a cloud-based platform. Look at everything that is in your browser, you don’t have to download anything. It’s all in cloud and all in browser.