Google unifies its BI providers below the Looker model • TechCrunch

At its Cloud Subsequent convention, Google Cloud immediately introduced that it’s unifying all of its enterprise intelligence merchandise below the Looker model. Google’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Looker closed again in 2020, marking the primary main acquisition for Google Cloud below the management of Thomas Kurian. As a part of this transfer, Google Knowledge Studio will now change into Looker Studio.

“Looker is the title you’ll hear us use when speaking about all of our Google Cloud enterprise intelligence product, as we convey collectively Looker, Knowledge Studio, and core Google applied sciences like synthetic intelligence (AI) and machine studying (ML),” Kate Wright, Google’s senior director for BI product administration, writes in immediately’s announcement. This mix, Google argues, will permit customers to transcend conventional dashboards — the type Google Knowledge Studio focuses on — and permit companies to convey this knowledge into extra of their workflows and functions to make data-driven selections.

Going ahead, Looker Studio will help knowledge fashions from Looker, a function that’s now in preview. This, the corporate notes, will permit Looker Studio customers to work with trusted knowledge through the Looker modeling layer, combining advert hoc knowledge sources with trusted knowledge from Looker.

For extra superior customers, Google can also be launching Looker Studio Professional immediately, which provides enterprise administration options, staff collaboration instruments and SLAs to the usual Google Knowledge Studio/Looker Studio combine.

However there’s extra. Google can also be launching Looker (Google Cloud core) in preview immediately (sure, that’s the title). It’s a brand new model of Looker that’s “deeply built-in with core cloud infrastructure providers, resembling key safety and administration providers,” the corporate explains (and that clarification additionally explains the title).

Along with this, the corporate can also be launching a preview of a Looker integration with Google Sheets, and it plans to help “visualization instruments” like Tableau and Microsoft’s Energy BI quickly, too (although these corporations might object to their providers being described as “solely” being visualization instruments).