Looker vs Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

Overview

Looker

Stacks632

Followers656

Votes9

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

Stacks44

Followers30

Votes0

Looker vs Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services: What are the differences?

What is Looker? Pioneering the next generation of BI, data discovery & data analytics. We've built a unique data modeling language, connections to today's fastest analytical databases, and a service that you can deploy on any infrastructure, and explore on any device. Plus, we'll help you every step of the way.

What is Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services? A set of on-premises tools and services that create, deploy, and manage mobile and paginated reports. It provides a set of on-premises tools and services that create, deploy, and manage mobile and paginated reports. It delivers the right information to the right users.

Looker and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services can be primarily classified as "Business Intelligence" tools.

Some of the features offered by Looker are:

Zero-lag access to data
No limits
Personalized setup and support

On the other hand, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services provides the following key features:

"Traditional" paginated reports
New mobile reports
A modern web portal

According to the StackShare community, Looker has a broader approval, being mentioned in 107 company stacks & 144 developers stacks; compared to Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

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Advice on Looker, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services

Vojtech

Head of Data at Mews

Nov 24, 2019

Decided

Power BI is really easy to start with. If you have just several Excel sheets or CSV files, or you build your first automated pipeline, it is actually quite intuitive to build your first reports.

And as we have kept growing, all the additional features and tools were just there within the Azure platform and/or Office 365.

Since we started building Mews, we have already passed several milestones in becoming start up, later also a scale up company and now getting ready to grow even further, and during all these phases Power BI was just the right tool for us.

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Wei

CTO at Flux Work

Jan 8, 2020

Decided

Very easy-to-use UI. Good way to make data available inside the company for analysis.

Has some built-in visualizations and can be easily integrated with other JS visualization libraries such as D3.

Can be embedded into product to provide reporting functions.

Support team are helpful.

The only complain I have is lack of API support. Hard to track changes as codes and automate report deployment.

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Detailed Comparison

Looker	Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
We've built a unique data modeling language, connections to today's fastest analytical databases, and a service that you can deploy on any infrastructure, and explore on any device. Plus, we'll help you every step of the way.	It provides a set of on-premises tools and services that create, deploy, and manage mobile and paginated reports. It delivers the right information to the right users.
Zero-lag access to data;No limits;Personalized setup and support;No uploading, warehousing, or indexing;Deploy anywhere;Works in any browser, anywhere;Personalized access points	"Traditional" paginated reports; New mobile reports; A modern web portal
Statistics
Stacks 632	Stacks 44
Followers 656	Followers 30
Votes 9	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 4 Real time in app customer chat support 4 GitHub integration 1 Reduces the barrier of entry to utilizing data Cons 3 Price	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	Microsoft SQL Server

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