Looker vs Toucan

• Real-Time Data: Keep up to date on the most recent numbers through real-time updates to dashboards and other visualizations.
• Local Database: Uses an organization’s proprietary database to collect data — no need to rely on parallel data pipelines or data extracts.
• Self-Service BI: Explore data through the self-serve function and then refine the automatically generated visualizations. Create custom dashboards to reflect specific KPIs based on the business’ specific needs.
• Virtual Schema: Create live connections to over 35 SQL databases through a code-based virtual query-time schema. Keeps data visualizations secure and up-to-date.
• Embedded Analytics: Embeddable through SSO, it can deploy into third-party solutions like a CRM or ERP as an embedded iframe or through Javascript. Empowers other software solutions with BI capabilities including reliable data, self-service analytics, actionable insights and intuitive dashboards.

Platform

• Centralize Business Data: Helps teams get on the same page by creating a single source of truth. Connects to the cloud, on-premise databases, spreadsheets and more to collect all of an organization’s data into one centralized hub.
• Speed Up Queries: Optimize data processing by minimizing queries through cache engines and custom indexes that accelerate webpage performance.
• Automated Reporting: Takes the heavy-duty work of development, design and maintenance out of data analytics with automatically updated data and scheduled reports. 
• Ease of Use: Explore and understand business insights through an intuitive UI – without requiring training, tutorials or coding experience. Caters to people who may not have the technical knowledge or programming skills to handle a more complicated BI tool.
• Accelerate Adoption: Educates and guides teams on how to create compelling data stories. Encourage autonomous, skilled data analysis with self-learning tools such as a glossary and contextual tips that help in data comprehension.
• Improve Data Literacy: Makes information accessible by displaying it visually, enabling transparency across departments and empowering all stakeholders to take BI into their own hands.
• Made for Collaboration: Interact with other teams and share power in decision-making through workspaces. Improve communication between departments and help them align with each other by annotating, discussing, exporting and sharing dashboards. 
• Never Say “So What?”: Support decision-making through data-driven strategies with built-in calls to action and adaptable recommendations. 
• Fast Implementation: Save more time and resources for analysis and data storytelling by accessing on any device through the web – nothing to install.
• Security: Protect data through no-code row-level security, custom user filters and granular permissions management for apps, dashboards, stories and datasets. The solution is hosted in a private cloud with SSL Grade A+ security certification and an infrastructure compliant with all RSSI expectations and RGPD standards. 

Embedded Analytics

• Build Once, Deploy Anywhere: Design one app for all devices and deploy anywhere to anyone in minutes, whether on the standard platform or as an embedded analytics product.
• Preserve Brand Identity: Maintain business branding through full customization and white labeling options, while offering the power of data storytelling and analytics to clients. 
• Multi-Tenancy: Handle who can see what by managing access to each embedding with granular control.
• Focus On What Matters: Saves the company time and money by helping teams focus dedicated efforts on products, alleviating the burden of developing analytics from scratch.
• Empower Non-Technical Teams: Build and deploy apps with a guided framework, even without coding experience.
• No On-Boarding Necessary: Boost adoption and customer retention through a client experience that feels familiar, with access to actionable insights from day one.
• Accelerate Time to Value: Empowers businesses to roll out robust solutions to clients in just two weeks.