Looker Analytics PaaS Platform
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A Looker Analytics PaaS Platform is a query-centric PaaS BI platform.
- Context:
- It can (likely) make use of LookerML Language (DQL and DDL).
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- Example(s):
- Looker BI (2014), managed by Looker Data Sciences, Inc..
- Looker BI (2016).
- Looker BI (2019), when Google acquired them.
- Looker BI (2022), with Looker Studio.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: SQL DQL, SQL DML, Organizational Dashboard, LookML Project, Looker Look.
References
2022
- https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/11/google-unifies-its-bi-services-under-the-looker-brand/
- QUOTE: ... Google Data Studio will now become Looker Studio. ... will allow users to go beyond traditional dashboards — the kind Google Data Studio specializes in — and allow businesses to bring this data into more of their workflows and applications to make data-driven decisions. ... Going forward, Looker Studio will support data models from Looker, a feature that is now in preview. This, the company notes, will allow Looker Studio users to work with trusted data via the Looker modeling layer, combining ad hoc data sources with trusted data from Looker. ...
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker_(company)#History Retrieved:2022-7-11.
- … Looker makes use of a simple modeling language called LookML that lets data teams define the relationships in their database so business users can explore, save, and download data without needing to know SQL.
The product was the first commercially available business intelligence platform built for and aimed at scalable or massively parallel relational database management systems like Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, HP Vertica, Netezza, and Teradata. ...
- … Looker makes use of a simple modeling language called LookML that lets data teams define the relationships in their database so business users can explore, save, and download data without needing to know SQL.
2014
- http://www.looker.com/news/press-release/introducing-looker-sql-analytics-discovery-driven-companies
- Today, the team here at Looker Data Sciences is proud to officially launch our new query-based Business Intelligence software platform, Looker, to the world. Looker is a Business Intelligence platform that is active, agile, and collaborative - built to extend data discovery functionality to everyone in the organization to make decisions based on real-time facts. … Looker's web-based data discovery platform powers the work of data analysts while fueling (and fulfilling) the business user's curiosity creating a discovery-driven culture throughout the customer's organization. Looker was purpose-built to interact with the next generation of analytic databases, like Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS, HP Vertica, Greenplum, Teradata Aster, and others.