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Turbo Systems, a three-year old, no-code mobile app startup, announced it has brought on industry veteran Jen Grant to be CEO. Grant, who was previously vice president of marketing at Box and chief marketing officer at Elastic and Looker,  brings more than 15 years of tech company experience to the young startup. She says that when Looker got acquired by Google last June for $2.6 billion, she began looking for her next opportunity. She had done a stint with Google as a product manager earlier in her career and was…

Veteran technology industry executive to strengthen operations and accelerate growth strategy Turbo Systems, the no-code platform that makes it easy for anyone to build a mobile app for their business, announced it has appointed Jen Grant as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Grant joins Turbo Systems at a pivotal time as the company undergoes an ambitious expansion to serve the needs of organizations that must rapidly develop custom mobile apps to serve their ever more distributed teams. With a successful record of…

"Data ethics is doing the right thing with data, considering the human impact from all sides, and making decisions based on your brand values." Hi Barbara. Tell us about your journey into data protection and how you started at Looker. My journey into data security and privacy began more than two decades ago, where I previously served as Chief Privacy Officer for Intuit, Inc. and the Hewlett-Packard Company. In fact, I was Hewlett-Packard’s first-ever CPO, where I led a global team that drove global privacy policy and…

Alight’s new Paid Media marketing dashboard brings together data from display ads, paid search, paid social and other digital channels in one place Alight Analytics, the leader in marketing analytics, has just released its first-ever marketing dashboard template for Looker’s data analysis and visualization platform. Alight’s new Paid Media marketing dashboard brings together data from display ads, paid search, paid social and other digital channels in one place. It’s an easy way for users to monitor total marketing…

Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, announced that it has been recognized as the ‘Best Global Systems Integrator’ by leading data platform company, Looker, during the 2019 Looker Partner Summit. Marketing Technology News: Nifty Games Teams Up With The NBA And NBPA To Bring Head-To-Head Basketball Action To Mobile Devices Wipro received the award for its significant investment towards building the comprehensive Looker services practice in 2019. The…

You have a long track-record of successfully working in and managing diverse Product development teams. How did you arrive at Looker and what attracted you to the BI ecosystem? A database class during my sophomore year in college inspired me to pursue a career in Data and Analytics. The idea that information can be organized and used to make rational, fact-based decisions has always appealed to me personally. I’ve been in this industry for 20+ years so long enough to know when a company is moving in the right direction.…

Customers Give Looker’s Data Platform a 100% Recommendation Score Looker, a leading data platform company, announced that it received top-rankings and a perfect customer recommendation score in its second appearance in The BI Survey 19 from the Business Application Research Centre (BARC). Looker received top-rankings and a perfect customer recommendation score in The BI Survey 19 from the Business Application Research Centre The report provides feedback from over 3,000 respondents across 95 countries using 36 BI…

Together, Exasol and Looker Integrate to Power Data Democratization With Unrivaled Performance Exasol, the analytics database, announced that it has joined the Looker Partner Network ecosystem. The arrangement enables customers to transform their business by providing a single source of truth for accessing and gaining insights into data. As a member of the Looker Partner Network ecosystem, Exasol plays a critical role in the program’s mission to empower individuals and companies by offering data analytics and business…

PathFactory announces enhanced reporting capabilities powered by Looker that will uncover unparalleled insight into marketing effectiveness and equip marketers with actionable data points PathFactory, the award-winning Content Insight & Activation platform, today announced a collaboration with Looker, the modern data platform, that will reinforce PathFactory’s stronghold as leaders in the content engagement space. The integration of Looker within Path Analytics, PathFactory’s best-in-class analytics suite, will equip…

"Increasing the level of autonomy and creativity means that our team members are more likely to have a great day." Tell us about your role and journey into Technology. What inspired you to start Savings United? I wanted to set up my own business for as long as I can remember. However, I was inspired to start Savings United following a summer entrepreneurship program at Hanse Ventures, an incubator company for start-ups in Hamburg. The program was excellent. It gave my cohort and me the opportunity to develop new business…

The Company is Named a ‘Strong Performer’ By Leading Independent Research Firm Looker, a leading data platform company, announced it has again been identified as a ‘Strong Performer’ in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise BI (Business Intelligence) Platforms (Vendor Managed), Q3 2019 report. It gave Looker the highest scores possible across the following categories: Big Data, System of Insights, Product Vision, Deployment Options, Delivery Model, Execution Roadmap and Past Performance. According to the report, “reference…

Experiencing 70,000 Percent Growth Over a Three-Year Period, PopSockets Uses Looker and Snowflake to Operate Efficiently and Ensure Quality of Inventory Globally Looker, a leading data platform company, announced that PopSockets, maker of expandable phone grips, relies on the Looker data platform to establish and maintain a data-driven culture during its tremendous growth. By making data-driven decisions a priority, PopSockets ensures maximum efficiencies within the company, and protects the quality of its product for…

Joint solution to increase query performance up to 70x for data teams to analyze, and visualize data faster than ever before Venture-backed startup Formulus Black announced it has partnered with Looker, a leading data platform company, for a joint solution to increase query performance up to 70x without complicated database migrations or changes. Formulus Black’s Forsa software, combined with Looker, allow users to analyze and visualize data at memory channel speeds. The efficiency of data teams depends on how fast…

Upon the close of the acquisition, Looker will join Google Cloud MarTech is getting its major Big Data push. MarTech 150 RADAR Company -- Data Analytics and Visualization platform Looker is settling to become a Google-owned company following a $2.6 billion acquisition deal. Previously, Looker and Google have partnered in providing Cloud Computing services to the Marketing, Sales and Business Intelligence customers. Currently, Looker customers leverage the Company's multi-Cloud functionality to integrate with SaaS…

The Tour London, Looker ’s annual global roadshow, the company announced a significant addition to its cloud-based, modern data platform product offering with a new application, Looker for Sales Analytics, designed to deliver comprehensive insights to sales organizations to drive revenue. This expands its suite of purpose-built applications to address the analytical needs of sales teams alongside its current offering of Looker for Digital Marketing and Looker for Web Analytics applications. In addition to this new…

This primer identifies the Sales Analytics tools for 2019 based on research and recommendations from the industry Is Sales Analytics a sideshow for you when it comes to effectively managing your CRM and ABM data? Every data has a story to tell. With sales data, you could build a story that leads you to achieve your revenue targets and churn ROI from your existing sales technology stacks, which should include CRM, Sales Intelligence, ABM and Sales Enablement tools. Very few teams within a data-driven organization…

Ranked by Users in Both the Top 50 Products for Mid-Market and Top 50 Fastest Growing Products Looker, a leading data platform company, announced it has been recognized in two categories in the 2019 Best Software Awards from the G2 Crowd, the largest business commerce platform. Looker was identified in both the Top 50 Products for Mid-Market, and the Top 50 Fastest Growing Products. @lookerdata recognized in 2019 Best Software Awards from the @g2crowd The equivalent of The People’s Choice Awards for tech companies, G2…

Funding to Support Product Innovation, Operations and the Growing Demand for the Looker Data Platform Looker announced it has closed a Series E financing round of $103 million led by Premji Invest, with new investment from Cross Creek Advisors and participation from Looker’s current investors. Looker has raised a total of $280.5 million since 2013. Looker provides the new Platform for Data -- streamlining the data supply chain to put real, actionable information into the hands of all employees, when they need it.…

Strengthens Enterprise Capabilities, Introduces Purpose-Built Applications, Updates Developer Tools and Readies Localization for Additional Markets to Drive Global Expansion Looker’s annual conference for data professionals, the company announced the latest major release to the Looker platform – Looker 6. Built for the modern enterprise, Looker 6 is designed to be a unified and extensible platform for data that flexes and scales to the ever-changing needs of business. Looker unveils Looker 6 - the modern platform for…

Looker, a leading data platform company, announced that Nick Caldwell, formerly VP of Engineering at Reddit, has joined the company as its Chief Product Officer to lead the company’s Engineering and Product Management and Design teams. Nick brings over 15 years of engineering and product management experience to Looker. In two years as VP of Engineering at Reddit he grew the engineering team from 35 to 170 and led the major initiative to redesign and re-architect the 13-year-old site. Prior to Reddit, Nick worked at…