| | | | | | February 2025 - Product Update |  | | | | Join us at Google Cloud Next 2025 in Las Vegas |  | | Google Cloud Next is coming this April 9-11 in Las Vegas, and will be the flashpoint for what's next in Looker, setting the stage for how you and your peers can take advantage of the future of AI and BI. Join us and further your journey. Connect with industry luminaries and network with peers from around the world. Google Cloud Next is where leading minds come together to share what they're creating, so be sure you're there. | | | | | | | Product News and Updates | | Spectacles.dev joins Google Cloud to Enhance Looker's Developer Experience Spectacles.dev, an emerging technology company, has joined Google Cloud to enhance the Looker developer experience, empowering developers with continuous integration, enabling them to build, test, and deploy LookML models faster and more efficiently than ever before. | | ESG Research: Analyzing the Economic Benefits of AI-enhanced Looker Enterprise Data Platform Enterprise Strategy Group found, through conversations with Looker customers and their own research, that the Looker platform drove greater than 20% lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in comparison to legacy business intelligence tools, through faster time to insights, improved business capabilities and driving infrastructure modernization and security. | | You can now sort by multiple columns in Looker Studio Looker Studio viewers can now sort table charts by multiple columns by clicking multiple column headers while holding the Shift key. | | Modern charts in Looker Studio are now in preview The new Modern charts preview offers new chart styling, new default chart configuration options, and new chart settings that give report creators greater control over how data is curated and presented to users. | | "Pivot sort by any" now available in Looker Studio Pivot tables let you narrow down a large data set or analyze relationships between data points, helping you reorganize your dimensions and metrics to quickly summarize your data and see relationships that might otherwise be hard to spot. Users can now sort a pivot table by any metric or calculated field in a data source. | | | See the latest updates from our Help Center for Looker Studio here, and for Looker here. | | | | | Data Cloud Spotlight | | Conversations in Collaboration: Peter Bailis with Google Cloud on Using AI Agents for Business Intelligence and Analytics Via a conversational interface, AI agents can be used to give more users more access to different types of underlying business data of different types. In this conversation with No Jitter, Google Cloud VP of Engineering Peter Bailis discusses Google Cloud's "conversational agent" approach to making business intelligence and analytics more accessible to end users via AI agents. | | SiliconAngle: Google bids for multimodal AI leadership "With some forecasts calling for the multimodal artificial intelligence market to grow more than 35% annually over the next few years, Google LLC is betting it can grab a pole position. The company's cloud computing unit recently asserted that multimodal AI, which combines text, images, video, audio and other unstructured data with generative AI processing, will be one of the top five AI trends of 2025." | | | | | | | | Thanks for reading our monthly update. | | | Happy Reporting, The Looker Team | | | | | | © 2025 Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 | | This email was sent to pulipuli.chen@gmail.com because you indicated that you want to receive announcements about the latest changes, enhancements, and new features from the Looker Studio team. If you do not wish to receive such emails in the future, please unsubscribe here. | | |
