Cloud Data Fusion (CDF) provides enormous opportunity to help cultivate new data pipelines and integrations.  With over 200 plugins, Data Fusion gives you the tools to wrangle, coalesce and integrate with many data providers like Salesforce, Amazon S3, BigQuery, Azure, Kafka Streams and more.  Deploying scalable, resilient data pipelines based upon open source CDAP gives […]

We launched GKE Autopilot back in February and since then, we’ve been hard at work adding functionality to deliver a fully featured, fully managed Kubernetes platform. Today, we’re excited to introduce Spot Pods.  (Not familiar with GKE Autopilot yet? Check out the Autopilot breakout session at Google Cloud Next ‘21, which gives a rundown of […]

Welcome to JOIN 2021! We’re so excited to kick off Looker’s annual user conference. It’s an event we look forward to each year as it’s a terrific opportunity to connect with the Looker community,  interact with our partners and customers, showcase our product capabilities, and share our product vision and strategy for the year ahead.  […]

These days, it’s no secret that traditional business intelligence (BI) is evolving. With the rise of embedded analytics, enterprises everywhere are beginning to seek out opportunities to augment their day-to-day workflows with real-time insights. These data-augmented workflows are what Looker calls “data experiences”.  Some of these experiences are easy to identify and implement: maybe it’s […]

For many businesses, business intelligence (BI) consists of data visualizations and dashboards.  The problem is that dashboards are not the answer to every data need. Many users today are looking for rich data-experiences that are immediately accessible and seamlessly part of their day to day work. Surfacing insights in collaboration apps like Google Chat and […]

Data science can be applied to business problems to improve practices and help to strengthen customer satisfaction. In this blog, we address how the addition of Looker extends the value of your Google Cloud investments to help you understand your customer journey, unlock value from first-party data, and optimize existing cloud infrastructure.     Data is […]

As digital transformation accelerates, the data available to organizations about their products, customers, and markets is growing exponentially.  Turning this data into insights will be critical to innovating and growing.  Furthermore, the capacity to make data-driven decisions must be pervasive in organizations, accessible to a broad range of employees, and simple enough to apply to […]