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."It is efficient in optimizing our ability to get information."
"You get more support with Alteryx, and it's good for non-sophisticated users who can benefit from the support included in the price."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The philosophy of the citizen data scientist is the key piece, which means the no-code analytics capability. This is the feature that attracted us the most."
"Data processing is most valuable. It is one of the fastest data blockers out there in the market, which is a fascinating thing about Alteryx."
"Alteryx has a good UI. We use it frequently in our projects. The tool comes with drag-and-drop features and is easy to understand for business needs. One situation where Alteryx's advanced analytics capabilities were particularly beneficial for us was during a forecasting project. Unlike Python, which requires coding, Alteryx simplifies the process significantly. With Alteryx, users can adjust parameters within the user interface without writing any code."
"The filtering is fast, and it provides a search tool that is great."
"It's quite effortless to navigate through various applications and review their updated data in real-time."
"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."
"The product is easy to use."
"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."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. I didn't face any issues with stability."
"With Looker, I have experienced benefits in terms of usability and shareability."
"From a developer's perspective, the way the functionality's being handled is great."
"More statistics tools: We can use to compare SPSS statistics with some automated advisory."
"I'd like to see more artificial intelligence business tools or features in Alteryx."
"I mostly used it for flat files, but I have many colleagues who reported that to tune a query, in case they want to directly connect to the database, there is no option to optimize the performance of the query, as we have in Informatica."
"Lacks an open source edition which would be helpful."
"Sometimes, there are performance constraints. Especially when a large file has to be ingested, the system slows down a bit. Its performance is the only thing that can be improved."
"The solution could improve in the visualization."
"The learning curve is long, and there is lack of e-learning; the tool is not user-friendly to a non-technical user."
"Alteryx's predictive data models are pretty average and can be improved."
"The visualization capability of the product is limited."
"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."
"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."
"The integration with different databases must be improved."
"Stability needs improvement."
"Integrations with other BI tools could be better."
"It needs to be more user-friendly."
"The product does not have documented material."
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, 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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