| | | | | | December 2025 - Product Update |  | | | | Product News and Updates | | | New in Looker: self-service Explores, tabbed dashboards, and custom themes To help bridge the gap between managed reporting and rapid data exploration, we are introducing several new features in Looker, to expand users' self-service capabilities. These updates allow individuals to analyze local data alongside governed models, organize complex dashboards more effectively, and align the look and feel of their analytics with corporate branding, all within the Looker platform. | Looker and Looker Conversational Analytics extensions now available in the Gemini CLI With the release of Looker and Looker Conversational Analytics extensions, available now, you can interact with your Looker data and dashboards from the Gemini command line, streamlining your workflows and making data more accessible. | Looker–Tableau BI Connector now available on Tableau Exchange You can use a Looker Explore as a data source in Tableau Cloud, and the Looker–Tableau BI Connector is now available on Tableau Exchange. This means that for Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server, you no longer need to manually download and install the Tableau connector (TACO) file. | Expanded report delivery scheduling and Slack integrations with Looker Studio Pro Looker Studio Pro users can now send Looker Studio reports to Slack channels and Slack users on your Slack workspaces. Looker Studio Pro users can also schedule hourly report delivery and alerts. | | See the latest updates from our Help Center for Looker or for Looker Studio. | | | | Tips and Tricks | | | Unlocking trustworthy AI: A semantic layer guide for the AI era The rise of Generative AI presents an opportunity for businesses to unlock insights from their data at unprecedented speed. However, that opportunity is met with a critical challenge: though immensely powerful, AI models lack business context. | Looker and AlloyDB Deliver Trusted, High-Performance Data Experiences for the AI Era Even as data and AI play an increasing role in every business, today's enterprises are often slowed by gaps between the real-time transactional information found in their operational data and strategic analysis of that data, due to three major factors: data latency, architectural complexity, and inconsistent metrics. | How to connect Looker to Gemini Enterprise in minutes, with MCP Toolbox and ADK It is increasingly important to unify business measures and dimensions, ensure consistency company-wide. If you want trustworthy AI, what you need is a semantic layer that acts as the single source of truth for business metrics. But how do you make that data accessible and actionable for your end users. | Solving Multi-Tenancy: How to Reuse Looker Dashboards for Different Data Sources If you need to use the same Looker dashboard or a set of Looker definitions with different databases, this guide is for you. Learn how to use Looker's "import" feature, creating dashboards and models once and using them in many different ways in a single instance. | | | | Data Cloud Spotlight | | | Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Google services Google's existing API infrastructure is now enhanced to support MCP, providing a unified layer across all Google and Google Cloud services. Developers can now simply point their AI agents or standard MCP clients like Gemini CLI to a globally-consistent and enterprise-ready endpoint for Google and Google Cloud services. | Connect your enterprise data to Google's new Antigravity IDE Last month, Google announced Antigravity, an AI-first integrated development environment (IDE). And now, you can give the AI agents you build in Antigravity direct, secure access to the trusted data infrastructure that powers your organization, turning abstract reasoning into concrete, data-aware action. | On Demand: Looker's Product Roadmap for Trusted AI If you missed our December webinar which explored advancements in Looker, showing how we're transforming data-driven decision-making with powerful AI integrations, reimagining BI for the agentic era, good news, we recorded it for you. | | | | | | | 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. | | |
