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Looker Transforms the Modern Data Platform with Looker 5

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by Angela Guess

A recent press release states, “Today at JOIN, Looker’s annual conference for data pros, the company announced Looker 5 – its next generation data platform. Looker 5 delivers dozens of innovations, upgrades and game-changing features that transform the way users experience and interact with their data, including: simplifying daily workflows by letting anyone interact with Zendesk, Salesforce, Google Adwords and more with the Action Hub; empowering departments with purpose-built Applications by Looker; and dramatically improving the user experience with new Viz Blocks for nearly limitless visualizations and Data Blocks to add valuable public data to any analysis. Finally, Looker’s flagship business intelligence tool gains powerful features like Data Merge to easily combine data from different databases, 57 new statistical functions, a new SQL runner with visualizations, and many more.”

The release goes on, “Looker 5 makes the power of the platform markedly more accessible. Looker’s most tech-enabled developers are already building amazing tools and applications on the platform, but not every organization has deep development resources. Looker 5 smooths that path so that everyone can benefit from new Looker Blocks, tools and applications to get exactly what they need.”

Those tools include: “Action Hub – With the Action Hub, taking action on insights directly from within Looker is just a click away, making workflows more efficient. Integrations in the Hub allow users to quickly and securely take all kinds of actions like changing the status on Zendesk support tickets, shipping reports and dashboards to Google Drive or Box, or pausing an underperforming Adwords campaign. The Action Hub will launch with direct built-in connections to these services as well as hundreds more through middleware tools like Zapier and Segment.”

Read more at Business Wire.

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