Start Faster, Stay Flexible
Mode vs Looker
Today’s marketplace requires truly modern business intelligence tools that don’t sacrifice speed, flexibility, power, or results for any team or business contributor.
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Minutes > Weeks
Not only does Looker take weeks or more to implement, you’ll come to insights slower due to overbearing governance and the dedicated time it takes a single person to learn their proprietary language, LookML.
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| Fast, easy set up |
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| Instant ad hoc analysis |
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| Deep, robust visualizations |
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| Explorable dashboards |
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| Award-winning support |
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| Strict governance |
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| Code-first and code-free analysis |
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| Data for everyone |
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With Mode, you’ll never have to sacrifice time to value as you’ll connect directly to your warehouse and start running fast in minutes. With advanced analytics and modern BI combined into one platform, analysts can seamlessly switch between a cloud-based SQL Editor and connected Python & R notebooks to easily iterate and reach insights faster without the time-intensive tax of constantly switching tools.
Flexible > Rigid
Looker’s UI and data governance are too rigid
They don’t provide both data experts and business users the ability to query all of their data: business users can only answer the questions the analysts have pre-decided they should be able to answer. If business users always have to rely on pre-built code for visualizations, what insights will always be lost?
Mode’s human-first approach balances flexibility and control
Mode’s flexible and intuitive UI allows for both ad hoc analysis and the changing business needs. Anyone can answer strategic questions without hitting a modeling layer or wasting time in proprietary language. While Looker does have a SQL Editor, it is grossly underpowered to be effective for analysts.
Support > Search
Mode’s award-winning customer support team is always available to help anyone solve problems and find success with their Mode implementation. While Looker currently offers no customer support, Mode remains committed to developing and executing against a product roadmap driven by customer needs.
It is remarkably quick to get started and to iterate on reports. Learning materials, playbooks and documentation are very thorough. Customer support is incredibly helpful and responsive.
Mode’s Customer Support has earned the Globee Gold Award for Best Use of Technology in Customer Service, Gold Stevie® Award for Sales and Customer Service in the category of “Front-line Customer Service Professional of the Year,” a Silver Best in Biz Award for Best New Enterprise Product of 2020, and a Gold Award for “Best Business Intelligence Analytics Solution” by NPG’s IT World Awards.
Google is no longer investing in Looker and will continue to downgrade the product as Looker eliminated the entire US-based support team in March 2022.
Why Customers Love Mode
Mode enabled us to quickly run queries or models in Python or R, and immediately visualize the results. This helps us quickly identify patterns and outliers as we go.
