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Looker data connector

Centralize access to data for analytics, reporting, data management, and application integration with CData Virtuality.


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About Looker

Looker is a top Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics software known for its intuitive front-end that allows companies to visualize data, create dashboards, and gain valuable insights for informed decision-making. With Looker, businesses can easily harness the power of data to drive smart and data-driven strategies.

Enhance Looker data connectivity

The only bi-modal integration stack to connect replicated and live data, providing real-time data access across enterprise apps and hybrid infrastructures. CData Virtuality enables users to easily integrate Looker with data from any application, database or data warehouse used across your entire organization.

Use cases:
BI & Analytics Data Integration Data Management

Connected analytics & reporting

With CData Virtuality users can easily connect Looker to data from anywhere. Access data from any source in real-time, or leverage built-in integration features to consolidate data to data storage for Looker access.

  • Demand on data: Enables Looker to connect to any data source in real-time.
  • Common Data Layer: Provides a semantic data layer that allows quick adaptation to changing business requirements without altering the underlying data structures.
  • Enhance performance: Speed up large data processing with intelligent in-memory caching, push-down to source systems, and physical data movement to 3rd party databases for repeated queries (materialization).
Analytics & reporting
Analytics & reporting

Data integration (ETL/ELT/Rev ETL)

CData Virtuality is a powerful integration tool that combines data virtualization and automated ETL processes. Create an agile data infrastructure by extracting, integrating and processing a wide variety of data sources.

  • Automate replication: Replicate data from any data source o a database or a cloud data warehouse and keep it up-to-date automatically.
  • Manage data changes: Keep data source schema in sync with data storage, and even update it when new fields are added to replicated objects.

Data governance & management

With CData Virtuality, you can establish centralized controls and audit capabilities to ensure high data quality, security, and compliance.

  • Manage access: Includes a robust permission system, customizing visibility and actions per user role.
  • Data lineage: Automatically track data journeys and transformations, clarifying origins, changes, and usage.
  • Secure data: Secure sensitive data with column masking and fine-tune access at row and column levels for privacy and compliance.
  • Track metadata: Keep a detailed history of metadata changes for effective tracking and reverting, ensuring data integrity.
Data governance

Looker & data virtualization

CData's Virtuality Platform™ revolutionizes enterprise data connectivity, enabling seamless integration with any data source. With hundreds of enterprise-class data connectors — and more continually being added — CData ensures instant access to data wherever it resides. This empowers analysts and data scientists with rapid, high-performance access to all data sources, driving faster, more insightful decisions and propelling organizational agility to new heights.

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