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Looker brings the data and business teams together by making it easy for everyone to explore and understand the data that drives business.
Organizations of all types have relied on proven IBM SPSS Statistics technology to increase revenue, outmaneuver competitors, conduct research, and data driven decision-making.
I love the ability to visualize all of the data in one space. Dashboard creation is easy and so useful.
Can get a bit confusing and confining with more complex queries/analysis. Machine written sql can be annoying.
We use ours with Redshift and Aurora and they take most advantage of both systems. Their super awesome customer support - always available chat who are really good at what they are doing.
To be fair, if you have a terrible underlying data warehouse, then all Looker will do is expose that.
It’s a good option if you want to do dashboards connected to google sheets. Also a good alternative to PowerBi.
Unfortunately, their documentation could use some improving as often I find myself confused and unsure what to do with their docs.
Looker has been a great and useful tool for out business. Where we've found challenges is in the specific data dictionary and set-up, which internally was not well prepared prior to implementation.
I dislike how long it can take certain reports in Looker to load.
All in all IBM SPSS Statistics is a super solid and reliable solution for your statistical analysis needs and is still my number one choice.
It is unreasonable to blame a program for my own limitations.
I like that you can simply click through the options in order to complete the analysis. The syntax feature is also great because you can save your work and re-use the same syntax again and again.
Horrible graphics you need to export data to work on Excel. High price and need to buy separate modules not included.
I like the visualizations. It wonderful that you can edit graphs and charts to suit your preferences, without any chances to the actual data.
The output window looks about the same as it did 10 years ago and is getting obsolete.
Fantastic experience while using SPSS and would love to continue as no other better alternative is available.
SPSS is a bit costly compared to similar software.
Michael A.: I'm Michael. I am a market researcher and a digital transformation specialist. I work at a company size that's over 5,000 people, and I am a five out of five with IBM SPSS. I use IBM on a day-to-weekly basis for a lot of analyses, especially survey analyses, market research data. What I like most about SPSS is ease of use, its user-friendliness. It's a resemblance of Excel in functionality, except you have a lot more power and capabilities with it, and it's this familiar interface and expansiveness of value delivery that makes it a solid choice for users without as much technical specificities to deliver big insights and value. I like pretty much everything about it. It continuously improves and I'm not sure what's on the road map for it in terms of the bigger IBM picture, so I can't really say what I don't like. I'm sure they continuously roll out better things as time goes on.
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