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Google buys Looker for $2.6 billion, aims to extend its analytics reach, support multiple clouds

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Google announced this morning its intent to acquire business intelligence platform Looker for $2.6 billion in an all-cash deal. Google plans to add this to the services portfolio of the Google Cloud platform, providing the last mile link into BigQuery.

Here’s how Looker fits into Google Cloud’s analytics stack.

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Looker spans the gap in two areas of data warehousing and BI: Providing a layer for exploring and transforming data and providing the dashboarding that is the last mile to the end user. While it addresses both areas, Looker does not necessarily replace ETL tools such as Informatica, or visualization tools such as Tableau. Instead, its approach, based on modeling, is designed to address the challenge of providing access to a single source of the truth.

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