Solved: Looker vs. Looker Studio - Page 2

keith_dowd · 05-11-2023 04:24 PM

Hi Looker family! I’ve been reading up on Looker Studio and am trying to understand how this product fits with the Looker product. Are these platforms competitors or are they meant to be used in tandem with each other? Does anyone have any use cases they would be willing to share where they’ve either integrated the use of Looker and Looker Studio or chosen one over the other to solve a problem? Thanks in advance for your insights.

Dawid

They’re not competitors. Looker Studio is a simpler “window” to other Google products and other tools via connectors (Google Analytics etc.) and it can also use Looker Models instead of connecting directly to the data warehouse. Looker is a fully-fledged platform where you can manage content (Looks, Dashboards, Merge Queries, Boards).

From what I understood over the years, Data Studio was supposed to compete with Power BI, Tableau, and Looker but the market was already happy with all the choices. Then Google decided to buy Looker instead of investing heavily in building something new but Data Studio was already used so let’s say it’s a simpler version of Looker.

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