With Looker's Lego-style analytics, companies 'snap' together the components they need
Making analytics simpler has been an ongoing trend in the world of enterprise software, and on Tuesday data platform provider Looker unveiled a new, modular approach that could go a long way toward that goal.
The company's new Looker Blocks are essentially reusable and customizable apps that each represent a different component of business logic that a user might be interested in: churn prediction or lifetime value metrics, for example. Those "blocks," in turn, can be put together and customized as needed to help answer the user's analytics questions.
For example, "snapped" together in the right combinations, Looker Blocks can be used to analyze the sales funnel, monitor customer behavior, conduct sophisticated Web analytics or gauge the effectiveness of an online storefront, Looker says.
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