Google completes Looker acquisition
Frank Bien,
CEO at Looker
Today, Google Cloud announced the completion of its acquisition of Looker -- a historic day that begins an exciting journey for Looker, our employees, customers and partners.
We are extremely proud to join Google Cloud following a successful four-year partnership where we got to deeply understand the cultural similarities and technology synergies between the two companies. Joining Google Cloud provides us better reach, strengthens our resources, and brings together some of the best minds in both analytics and cloud infrastructure to build an exciting path forward for our customers and partners. The mission that we undertook seven years ago as Looker takes a significant step forward beginning today.
I want to reinforce our longstanding commitment to multi-cloud and serving our customers and partners with the best support and resources available. Looker customers will continue to have the freedom to choose from any cloud data management system like Amazon Redshift, Azure SQL, Snowflake, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata and more. Looker partners can expect to continue to work with us as they have before. Finally, we expect that our award-winning support team will not only continue delivering an exceptional chat support experience, but will also be bolstered by the additional resources and global presence of the Google Cloud team.
Over the coming months we will share more details about our product integration plans and roadmap. I would like to thank all of our 2,000+ customers and over 160 global partners for their support over the years and look forward to sharing the exciting work we have ahead.
Thomas Kurian
CEO, Google Cloud
I’m pleased to announce that Google has completed its acquisition of Looker. Together, we're excited to offer customers a comprehensive analytics solution that integrates and visualizes insights at every layer of their business.
Today, hundreds of joint customers already rely on Google Cloud and Looker to make smarter business decisions. And by joining together, we believe we will be uniquely positioned to address the data analytics and business intelligence demands of even more enterprises globally, across all industries. Looker will strengthen Google Cloud’s analytics and data warehouse capabilities, including BigQuery, enabling our customers to address some of their toughest business challenges, faster—all while maintaining complete control of their data.
Google Cloud and Looker share a common philosophy around delivering open solutions and supporting customers wherever they are—be it on Google Cloud, in other public clouds, or on premises. As more organizations adopt a multi-cloud strategy, Looker customers and partners can expect continued support of all cloud data management systems like Amazon Redshift, Azure SQL, Snowflake, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and Teradata.
We’re thrilled to officially welcome the Looker team to Google Cloud. For more on what this means for Looker and its community of customers and partners, please read the blog from Looker CEO, Frank Bien.
Comments on the news:
“Companies across the globe are migrating to the cloud and adopting a multi-cloud strategy. For leading technology providers, it’s critical that we put customers first to help them achieve their digital transformation goals,” says Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake. “The combination of Google Cloud and Looker and their commitment to multi-cloud support will help deliver more value to customers faster. We look forward to our continued partnership with both companies.”
“There is no slowing in the data analytics and business intelligence market, in fact, it’s only growing as more and more data is created and enterprises across all industries look to use data to be better informed, make smarter decisions and digitally transform their organizations,” said Howard Dresner, Chief Research Officer, Dresner Advisory Services. “Our research derived directly from customer feedback shows Google Cloud as a Leader in Analytical Data Infrastructure, and Looker as a Leader in enterprise business intelligence. We see synergy and nominal overlap between their solutions, and believe this acquisition should strengthen their ability to serve enterprise customers together.