Looker (Google Cloud)

Looker is an enterprise platform for business intelligence (BI), data applications, and embedded analytics. It is designed for organizations that need to explore and share insights in real time. The platform offers a conversational analytics feature, powered by Gemini, which allows business users to move from natural-language questions to automated decisions without requiring a technical analyst. This includes specialized Dashboard Agents that provide AI-powered summaries and deep-dives within BI canvases, grounded in a single source of truth. Looker also includes a universal semantic layer, defined in LookML, which translates complex SQL into business language and serves as a single source of truth for metrics. This semantic layer functions as infrastructure for both human analysts and large language models (LLMs), helping to eliminate agent hallucination. The platform is described as an agentic BI platform that combines foundational AI, a cloud-first infrastructure, industry-leading APIs, and a flexible semantic layer. Its key capabilities include self-service BI, a governed intelligence experience, and the ability to trigger downstream business actions from conversational interactions.