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YouTube, Android, Applied Semantics, DoubleClick, 510 Systems... you haven’t been looking very hard.
Yes mostly related to advertising in some way which is their core business (besides 510). I think OP wasn't remarking about the financial success of the company as a part of Google, but the absorbing by Google of former SAAS companies and finally dropping their original paying customers. We are a Looker customer and are concerned. It seems Google is one of the only companies that can buy a SAAS enterprise product tha…
And despite Google’s other product demises in the consumer space, GCP has had a decent track record thus far.
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Oh, I can tell you what is going to happen. It is going to be killed in about 2-3 years.
Just like Stackdriver (acquired in 2014)? Seriously, it seems like Looker is filling a specific hole in the Google Cloud offering.
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What is the target market? Can small business use this? Looks pretty cool!
The target market is anyone who has any kind of data. CSV, mysql, etc. Basically Tableau but much cheaper and customisable. We already have a few small business using Kato. They seem to enjoy that.
You mean Mode/Periscope/Superset/Metabase. I don't see anything that put's Kato near Tableau's offerings like Server, Prep etc.
Hey all, as a potential competitor of Looker, I'm not sure how I should feel about this news. :) Here are some of the facts: 1. When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Even though Alooma is a data pipeline tool which makes it similar to Looker's case, the deal was $150M (compared to $2.6B) so I'm not sure the comparison ma…
I work very closely with the Google Cloud team as a technology partner. With the recent hire of Thomas Kurian he has to make a big splash at Google while good will is forthcoming and I expect he will continue to authorize significant acquisitions to help build out their cloud to compete with Azure/AWS. The next piece of the puzzle will be an integration platform to help bring it all together.
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Yes, you can see the full list of model repos for Meltano here: https://gitlab.com/meltano?utf8=%E2%9C%93&filter=model- Would love to collaborate, do you want to join our Zoom call https://gitlab.zoom.us/j/542273985 ? (Anyone else who wants to join in is welcome, the link is open)
The team just posted a blog post about this live open call https://meltano.com/blog/2019/06/06/live-join-us-to-discuss-...
We have launched a new open source project to work on the spec and collaborators are welcome
Hey all, as a potential competitor of Looker, I'm not sure how I should feel about this news. :) Here are some of the facts: 1. When Google acquired Alooma, they slowed down the development and dropped the support for other destinations such as Redshift and Hive. Even though Alooma is a data pipeline tool which makes it similar to Looker's case, the deal was $150M (compared to $2.6B) so I'm not sure the comparison ma…
you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.
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> and it certainly “transitions” developer-targeted product/service startups into plain features (Firebase, WordLens, etc. They recently killed "Works with Nest" in favour of an Assistant-backed API that doesn't currently implement what Google acknowledges to be the most popular features of "Works with Nest". Google are more than willing to kill developer-oriented as consumer-oriented.
Nest is a consumer brand that sells consumer products.
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The pricing starts from $3k for 20 users if you subscribe to one of their annual plans.
Tableau is $70/month per user
Having architected and implemented BI infrastructures using all three, their pricing models all tend to converge to the same ballpark once you get to a standard, fully loaded and integrated installation. But they all have different levers for their pricing sheets, so unique usage models can sometimes take advantage of that to get a substantially better deal. Licensing models that are amenable to minimal/opportunistic usage exist for Tableau and PowerBI, but Looker very deliberately prices out that usage model.