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Platform

Looker

Definitions live in code rather than inside individual reports, which is the single strongest reason to choose it.

Definitions in version control are the difference between governance and good intentions.

What we do with Looker

Modelling in LookML

Organised by business area, reviewed like any other code, with visibility of what a change will affect before it happens.

Who owns which definition

Your business teams own what a term means. A central team owns how it is recorded and changed. Getting that backwards is the classic failure.

Access rules in one place

Defined in the model rather than per dashboard, so a new report cannot accidentally show someone data they should not see.

Answers inside other tools

Where the information belongs in the system people already work in, rather than in a separate place they have to remember to visit.

Performance

Pre-calculated summaries where the way your teams query justifies them.

Works with

Snowflake, BigQuery and Redshift

Reads your warehouse directly. It does not store a second copy of your data.

What clients use it for

Interactive dashboards

Built for decisions people make repeatedly, not for browsing.

Self-service, safely

People answer their own questions against definitions that have already been agreed.

Training and enablement

Hands-on sessions so your team can extend the model rather than queue for changes.

Where it fits

We are not a reseller and we take no vendor commissions, so there is nothing riding on which platform you choose. What we care about is whether the setup can be operated by your team after we leave.

Recommended where it genuinely solves a problem you have, not as a default
Implemented as code in your repository, under your accounts
Handed over with runbooks for the failure modes we actually hit

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We will tell you if this is the wrong tool

We take no commission from any platform on this site, so there is nothing riding on which one you end up choosing.

The rest of the stack we work in

Common questions

Is LookML worth learning?

If you want one agreed definition per number, yes. That single property is what makes reliable reporting and, later, AI tools possible. Without it you are relying on people remembering.

Can Looker sit on top of what we have?

Yes, and that is the normal setup. It does not store your data, it reads it.

Ready to turn complexity into your next advantage?

Tell us what you are running today and what is not working. That is a more useful starting point than a platform comparison.

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