Looker Data Sciences, a business intelligence startup founded by an early lead engineer from Netscape and LiveOps, is today emerging from stealth mode and announcing $2 million in funding from First ...

Looker says it had been waiting for these engines to get fast enough to support its BI platform. And now they are. Last May, Apache Hive 1.2 was released. It included support for SQL Union (Union ...

Google's new product changes add another valuable business intelligence integration in the marketplace. The best business solutions are like Jenga pieces — you need the right pieces to hold the stack ...

Looker, provider of a BI platform, has added support for Presto and Spark SQL as well as updates to its support for Impala and Hive. Looker allows enterprises to describe, define and analyze the data ...

Alphabet has announced Google LLC will acquire Looker for $2.6 billion in an all-cash transaction. Looker is a young business intelligence (BI) company and will join the Google Cloud product line.

There’s been an explosion of business intelligence (BI) tools in recent years, or tools that analyze and convert raw data into info for use in decision making. Investments in them are on the rise, but ...

On June 6, Alphabet (Google's parent) announced that it plans to pay $2.6 billion in cash for data analytics tool maker Looker. I've interviewed Looker CEO Frank Bien three times in the last couple of ...

Remember when SQL developers felt threatened by Big Data? Relational database management systems were old-school relics that couldn't cope with the vast amounts of unstructured, disparate data. NoSQL ...

From its JOIN user conference in San Francisco today, self-service and embedded BI upstart Looker announced version 7 of its product and platform, the first major release since Google announced it ...

Looker, the business intelligence platform that is powering data-driven companies, announced support for Presto and Spark SQL as well as updates to its support for Impala and Hive. Looker allows ...