We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Looker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx, RapidMiner, SAP and others in Predictive Analytics."The modeling features are very good."
"Geo features have made spatial mapping large retail universes possible."
"I think the most valuable feature for Alteryx in a health facility is that it permits cleaning, organizing, and merging of databases such as Excel and Access."
"Alteryx has helped us spend more time identifying results instead of performing analysis manually. It has helped us in our loading process, including scrubbing data and identifying data elements that need to be corrected. It enables us to understand our data sets a lot better."
"My primary focus is creating numerous data pulls, and Alteryx Server handles the automation well."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is its stand-alone version that we do not have to download dependencies for loads. Additionally, the scan is useful for beginners."
"The GUI is simple and it integrates with Python."
"I like the fact that you can easily blend data from different platforms."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"Looker allows you to generate the most optimal SQL queries in a DC through UI actions. We had signed a contract with Google Cloud to use BigQuery. That was the primary reason we adopted Looker. It works better with BigQuery than any other BI platform. We also like how this tool was developed. It was designed with an eye toward microservices architecture."
"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"With Looker, I have experienced benefits in terms of usability and shareability."
"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."
"We can centralize all our data models."
"There are a few hiccups with specific data sets and languages or formats that the data comes in. That may be a minor problem, but we can work through it. We had some issues looking at XML format in added data, but it wasn't significant."
"The interface could be improved."
"The data integration component could most likely be improved to increase enterprise scalability."
"The formula we currently use in Alteryx can be automated."
"We are hoping that the NLP features will also support Chinese characters."
"It would be great if Alteryx could take third party tools and incorporate them."
"They should make the solution user-friendly for nontechnical people by giving specific names to the options."
"The screen when you are looking into your workflows and your ETL processes needs to be improved. You cannot manage it very well."
"The visualization capability of the product is limited."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"Stability needs improvement."
"The product does not have documented material."
"Looker doesn't connect to Excel, which is a huge disappointment because a lot of data is presented in Excel. Also, it can't consume data directly from REST APIs, which is necessary. Looker needs to expand its horizons when it comes to data sources. The inability to connect to different data sources is hampering our use cases. Currently, it only has an ODBC connection that connects to a database. It needs to connect to other data sources, such as Excel, APIs, and different platforms."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"The main area of concern in Looker is probably related to blending the data from the different sources, including the data present internally in the company and on the cloud."
"The integration with different databases must be improved."
Alteryx is ranked 1st in Predictive Analytics with 74 reviews while Looker is ranked 5th in Embedded BI with 19 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Looker is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Looker writes "The APIs are exposed at every level, so it's highly modular". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Databricks, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Looker is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Databricks and Zoho Analytics.
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