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Looker Unveils An Amped Up Looker 5 at JOIN 2017
When Looker opens its annual user conference JOIN 2017 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco today, 700 business intelligence (BI) enthusiasts will be in attendance to see what the latest version of the data platform, Looker 5, contains.
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Forrester Raises the Bar for Enterprise BI Platforms With Latest Wave
Take most of what you've read about ranking enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms and set it aside. Forrester Research introduced new criteria to select its leaders for its latest Enterprise BI Platforms With Majority On-Premises Deployments Wave.
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Looker 4.0 Pushes BI Out Programmatically
Looker continues to advance its vision of business intelligence everywhere, at any time.
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Looker's Modular Approach to BI Hits Specific Job Titles
Looker Data Apps have been developed for specific roles such as sales manager or customer retention specialist.
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Slackbot Army: Productive, Weird - and Getting Smarter
Developers such as Looker are rushing to build bots for the Slack platform.
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Looker's New Layer Supports All Hadoop SQL Dialects
Looker says it had been waiting for these engines to get fast enough to support its BI platform. And now they are.
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Looker Closes $48M Round
When Kleiner Perkins was conducting its due diligence for the deal it came across an employee at one of Looker's clients that threatened to quit if Looker was discontinued.
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Looker Takes Building Block Approach to Business Logic
Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Looker has taken its unique modular approach to business analytics and pushed the envelope a little further with the introduction of Looker Blocks this week.
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Look! The Mini Googles are Coming
Fresh off of its $30 million in Series B funding, Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Looker has launched a new business intelligence platform that it claims will lead to the launch — or at least transformation — of companies into data-driven entities. Call them mini Googles.
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Your Data Is a Mess: Investors Pile Funds into BI
Investors have been piling money into business intelligence (BI) startups in recent weeks, suggesting their next-generation approach to BI is gaining momentum. Most recently, San Francisco-based Birst raised another $65 million in funding. In addition, Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Looker raised $30 million in Series B funding.
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Big Data Bits: Making Sense Edition
For all we write about Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL databases and the geeky IT-facing side of big data, what really matters is how it brings value to knowledge workers.
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Data Insights Generate Big Wins for Kids via Donors Choose and Looker
There are first graders who haven’t read "A Cat in the Hat" because their classroom doesn’t have a copy of the book. And there are fourth graders who are supposed to be learning about science, but their teacher is unable to access microscopes, lab notebooks or even geodes.
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