We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Looker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Alteryx, SAP, RapidMiner and others in Predictive Analytics."It helps clean messy data and provides spatial analysis."
"You get more support with Alteryx, and it's good for non-sophisticated users who can benefit from the support included in the price."
"Alteryx has made us more agile and increased the speed and effectiveness of decision making."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is user-friendliness."
"All of the data science features in terms of unioning and joining data together are valuable."
"The feature that I have found most valuable for Alteryx is its geo-referencing feature, it is very good. I use it a lot, especially for supply chain."
"The design portion of this tool is easy to use without code, which his something that something we can appreciate."
"I like that I can merge data from different sources into one place."
"It is a pretty stable solution because it is a cloud-based product."
"With Looker, I have experienced benefits in terms of usability and shareability."
"We can centralize all our data models."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"The stability of Looker has been good since I have been using it. However, it depends on what components are being used."
"The product is easy to use."
"The principal problem is the pricing. They're expensive products."
"The event handling, such that the file system watcher, is in need of improvement."
"There have been some issues with licensing, particularly with the increased prices. This has led some companies, including ours, to consider reducing the number of licenses or potentially discontinuing their use of Alteryx."
"The solution could work on the BI side of the tool to make it a bit better."
"The solution can be quite complex in some aspects."
"The only weakness I would say is on the visualization side of having that dynamic incapability."
"Alteryx could be improved in the area of analytics and central governance."
"A feature which allows the user to be able to click on an output (in a file browser) and see the creation of the module would be fantastic."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"Stability needs improvement."
"The visualization capability of the product is limited."
"The integration with different databases must be improved."
"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."
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, Dataiku, Databricks, RapidMiner and Tableau, whereas Looker is most compared with Amazon QuickSight, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Databricks and Zoho Analytics.
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