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I'm not sure the analysis front-end is really where the money is at. There are lots of industries that have trouble getting their data to a place where it can be analyzed at all. I know some very successful companies here in flyover country that picked a sector where this is a problem and made a business of fixing it.
My company shares a lot of customers with Looker, and from my point of view there’s a couple reasons why they’re so successful. First, Looker has two layers. The dashboard layer gives you tables, charts and filters. The explore layer allows you to go in and build your own pivot tables off the same underlying models. No other BI tool has built an explore layer that’s as successful in practice as Looker’s. Second, the…
Looker's visualizations, however, are very weak when compared to the competition. It's been their weakness for years now, and they've really failed to address it.
One aspect of Looker that I've also generally enjoyed is their on-boarding and support processes. They do a superb job at this and I feel like they should be a model for startups selling into B2B.
Not really a threat. this article is mostly about Looker, which is a very different product with a significantly higher entry level price tag. Tableau on the other hand is part of the curriculum in many information science programs in colleges, and is significantly embedded in the enterprise sector. it will take significant stagnation on Tableua's part or a black swan type of event to dislodge them any time soon.
We're going through the process of getting a BI solution. There are many players and Tableau doesn't fair well against them. I can see them holding on to existing customers because switching is hard, but they absolutely have a lot of competition for new sales.
PowerBI feels so Microsoftish, I'm really on the market for something else
However Tableau has absolutely screwed up their evolution into a cloud-based service. The current single-user desktop software with client/server design is painful and archaic, and the Tableau cloud is just a hosted server run on undersized hardware. They are losing a lot of business renewals because of this, even if the consultancy and enterprise deals will keep going for awhile.
Looker raises 103 million in a series E to compete in enterprise BI.
Growing a startup '70%' is very different to running a publicly listed global company '...Looker is trying to become cash flow positive -- and its revenues are growing faster than its headcount. "We have visibility to cash flow break even over the next couple of years. We plateaued in spending. We now have 600 employees and expect to add 200 in 2019. We are seeing our cash burn rate decline," he explained.'
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We're going through the process of getting a BI solution. There are many players and Tableau doesn't fair well against them. I can see them holding on to existing customers because switching is hard, but they absolutely have a lot of competition for new sales.
Would you share the ones you found worthwhile? Our business wants PowerBI, but the sys admin side sounds like a pain : it seems we need: 1) a consultant to setup the visualisations 2) either a vm running windows server or create a db on azure to update manually because powerbi doesn't allow aws databases 3) the api automation capabilities are unclear says the expert (eg: create a new dashboard for a new customer ? Up…
This is another "Forbes Contributor" post. This means that it's just a blog post, though, admittedly, Cohan is a smart guy. Does anyone else think Forbes should do more to separate volunteer content from editorially directed and reviewed journalistic content? Or is this just a moot point since folks don't trust "Forbes" as a brand? It feels like, to me, someone saying "I went to Stanford" in a conversation because th…
Forbes is cashing in their brand name, built over a long period of time, for quick wins. It's sad that they don't value their legacy.
Better (less clickbaity) headline: Looker raises 103 million in a series E to compete in enterprise BI.
Like what does that actually mean? For all we know they went from $100k to $170k in revenue while raising $100 million dollars. It could either be very impressive or just lame click bait to inflate a company they invested way too much money in.