The opposite experience is what sold me on Looker - super competent team and very clear in how “the magic works”. All logic and queries are right there to copy/paste into your own editor to fiddle with if you so choose, or use the built-in SQL runner. At the same time, non-tech users need not worry about such stuff.
I can only wait and see for so long.
Biggest gripe for me is the lack of comparison period within the tiles that display numbers. For example you have 1k users doing X. Is that good or bad?
Data in context is much more usable - if X is leaving and it’s a 50% drop from last week, that’s great news!
Conversely, if X is feature use, you have 100m users and the change is 2% from last year, maybe it’s not so good.
Two observations:
1. the ads made fun of Excel. "Still using Excel for data analysis? lol"
2. all top comments were invariably like "what's wrong with Excel for data analysis?", but Domo didn't care
I see: Domo is a fork of Plan9.
Had a good laugh.
The first warning sign was that their pitch was full of cool sounding words. They kept referring to the product as a "cloud based operating system", whatever that meant.
When we asked them to demo, their presales consultant struggled to create anything other than a canned demo.
Personally, I even find their site annoying:
https://www.domo.com/