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I’m surprised (and glad) they didn’t integrate it into Google Maps and shut down Waze.
Lots of it is integrated into Maps: a good portion of the traffic/accident alerts have a "reported by Waze" line at the bottom. I wouldn't be surprised if they start sunsetting Waze once they're fully integrated and finished experimenting on it.
I'm a huge fan of Looker, but I'm not sure how I feel about this news. The best parts of Looker: - It connects directly to your existing data warehouse. Most BI tools suck in your data into their datastore; Looker queries your database directly. If you wanted Looker to cache results for performance reasons, you could set up a dedicated schema in Redshift for example and only give write privileges to that one schema.…
As a looker customer seeing this news makes me very uneasy. We have invested a ton in their platform by building three of our core products on their embedded version. The thought that our future relies now more in Google's product decisions is scary.
That said Azure has embedded PowerBI[1], AWS has embedded Quicksight[2], and Tableau even offers an embedded analytics service[3]. So you're far more likely to see it being rolled into GCP than being killed off outright. And all of their competitors offer the same flavor of "deeply integrated with our ecosystem but also connects to just about data store". So they'd actually lose feature parity with all of their main competitors if they butchered the embedded version.
[1] https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi-embedded/
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you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.
Two intellectually low quality points that get made for almost every google related news item - 1. “When will Google deprecate this feature/product/service?” 2. “None of Google’s acquisitions have done well”.
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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.
> Basically Tableau You mean Mode/Periscope/Superset/Metabase. I don't see anything that put's Kato near Tableau's offerings like Server, Prep etc.
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you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.
YouTube, Android, Applied Semantics, DoubleClick, 510 Systems... you haven’t been looking very hard.
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you should feel pretty good. i’ve yet to see a product acquired by google that did well after.
YouTube has certainly faired well (even if it is not yet profitable).
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> Basically Tableau You mean Mode/Periscope/Superset/Metabase. I don't see anything that put's Kato near Tableau's offerings like Server, Prep etc.
Yes we probably lie close to Superset and Mode than we do to Tableau but I believe the data transformations, access level (sharing) and deep integration put us apart from those. Tableau's quite bit more mature than we are but we already support self hosted service, OAuth based auth integration, sophisticated user access level based sharing for all resources (reports, connections, users, dashboards, visualizations, pr…
I couldn't find anything about these features on my first pass, though I do now see the "Cleanup" bit on the "Data Visualization" page. I would have really liked to see more about features/tools/strengths and less nebulous marketing promises.
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The team just posted a blog post about this live open call https://meltano.com/blog/2019/06/06/live-join-us-to-discuss-...
The call just wrapped so folks could grab lunch, but anyone who is interested can see next steps for the project in collaboration with @buremba and the Rakam team here https://meltano.com/blog/2019/06/06/rakam-is-collaborating-w... We have launched a new open source project to work on the spec and collaborators are welcome