Looker
June 7, 2019 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Cloud ||
If you follow what’s going on in the world of technology that implements a modern data supply chain, then Google’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker, announced on June 6, was big news. From most reporting on this acquisition you get the impression that Google bought Looker to help its cloud offerings. But details on how […]
Tags: Google, Looker
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December 11, 2018 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Podcasts, Q&As ||
On a CTO Club list that I’m on, a question came up. “What are you using for BI?” About ten or fifteen people said, “I’m using Looker with Redshift” or “I’m using Looker with Snowflake.” Looker has become popular in the cloud data warehouse space. I’ve been following Looker for a long time now, and […]
Tags: BI, Dremio, Looker
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November 27, 2018 || by Dan Woods || Blogs & Articles, Podcasts ||
On this episode of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Looker’s CEO Frank Bien and Chief Product Officer Nick Caldwell about how the company’s LookML language allows users to build deep and wide data models using all existing data. Many of the new paradigms for accessing data are also now being connected to […]
Tags: Analytics, BI, data, Looker
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