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Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by [deleted] »

sv123 wrote: post #81
tmountain wrote: post #35

I'm curious what this means for folks that opted to use Looker for their embedded analytics and if that's something Google is interested in supporting over the long-term? I'm also wondering how this affects pricing over the long-term and whether this becomes a replacement for Data Studio / commoditized analytics platform to make GCP more compelling? Would it be in Google's interest to offer this for free (or at least…

Very worried on the embedded side, we spent a full year migrating off of sisense embedded onto Looker embedded and literally launched two days ago. Embedded on any BI platform already seems like a red-headed stepchild with a little love, but not too much, being put into it in fits and starts. It could be so useful to so many companies, but the platform costs puts it outside most of their reach, so it ends up just han…

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Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by ksalay »

buremba wrote: post #89
victor106 wrote: post #29

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> at least currently has a high enough price tag attached to it They don’t have a price on their website. Can anyone here provide what price points a medium-large company is looking(no pun intended) at?

The pricing starts from $3k for 20 users if you subscribe to one of their annual plans.

Tableau is $70/month per user

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by nacs »

gordon_freeman wrote: post #69
anbop wrote: post #60

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YouTube, Android, Applied Semantics, DoubleClick, 510 Systems... you haven’t been looking very hard.

And Waze too. I love that app's singular focus in improving the driving experience and nothing else as a Maps product.

> singular focus in improving the driving experience

Except for the super distracting Ads that cover half the screen while you're using it every time your car comes to a stop, the sponsored landmark-Ads that put a huge marker over every Dunkin Donuts location while driving, etc.

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by sytse »

Achshar wrote: post #24

Me and My team have been working on a Looker alternative for a couple of years. Hope this is the right time to give a pitch. We as a company love to assist our clients with a free consultation in understanding their data better. This will take you to the direct demo: https://demo.katoai.co/login?email=demo@katoai.co&password=k... I can talk a lot about it if anyone is interested.

Interesting, the Meltano people would love to discuss on collaborating on an open alternative to LookML, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20115400

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by nacs »

snazz wrote: post #82
gordon_freeman wrote: post #69

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And Waze too. I love that app's singular focus in improving the driving experience and nothing else as a Maps product.

I’m surprised (and glad) they didn’t integrate it into Google Maps and shut down Waze.

I'm pretty sure its because it allows them to experiment with delivering advertisements that they wouldn't be able to shove into GMaps without protest (Waze has ads that cover half the screen with a banner ad every time your car slows down/stops for example).

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by quirmian »

specialp wrote: post #78
anbop wrote: post #60

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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…

> Dropping their original paying customers

When a Cloud company acquired a product/service for integration into their platform, I would hope that that includes transitioning to a Cloud friendly consumption based model. If that means including a free tier, or paying peanuts for low usage, that’s a good thing!

Finally, Google’s (GCP’s really) enterprise SaaS (mostly) acquisitions that I can think of are - StackDriver, Firebase, Apigee, Velostrata, Alooma and Cask. The venerable ones like StackDriver and Firebase are IMHO well integrated into the platform. The others are too relatively new? Curious which ones you had in mind that dropped enterprise customers?

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by guyzero »

shakna wrote: post #57
derefr wrote: post #41

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I really, really doubt it; Google has never killed a product that it created or acquired to serve as a complement to enterprise Ads/Analytics usage. Google kills plenty of its consumer products if they don’t catch on in a big way (Reader, Google+); and it certainly “transitions” developer -targeted product/service startups into plain features (Firebase, WordLens, etc.) But this is neither—it’s BI software, for enterp…

> 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.

Works with Nest had issues.

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by sytse »

dmor wrote: post #88
buremba wrote: post #83

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Do you have the Meltano models in a repository? It looks similar to LookML so the use-case is similar. I would love to hear more and see some of your example Meltano models, could you please send an email to emre [at] rakam.io?

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-...

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by sjg007 »

mc32 wrote: post #85
outside1234 wrote: post #53

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It is too obviously a great strategy to put in rail between San Jose Diridon, Los Gatos, and Santa Cruz, so let's build rail in the middle of nowhere instead. There is even an abandoned tunnel under the mountain that did this in the early 1900s!

Thanks for reminding me of that. I thought there had been but wasn't sure if it went all along HWY 17. Apparently there was one running till the 40s.[1] But the highway killed it (not mudslides as is often attributed). There were a total of 8 tunnels most of them condemned and dynamited. But apparently the right of way exists and could be rebuilt! So there is hope if people and businesses push hard enough for it. Com…

Maybe a hyper loop..

Re: Google to Acquire Looker

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Post by gordon_freeman »

snazz wrote: post #82
gordon_freeman wrote: post #69

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And Waze too. I love that app's singular focus in improving the driving experience and nothing else as a Maps product.

I’m surprised (and glad) they didn’t integrate it into Google Maps and shut down Waze.

Even I am surprised too but I guess since Google started working on self-driving cars and then after seeing the advent of ride-hailing apps, they may have thought to keep Waze so one day Google can convert it into a ride-hailing + navigation app. Maybe that's the plan who knows!
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