below my view on this acquisition.
I think Google is making a good move to break into Enterprise market. After Thomas Kurian joined Google (He is from Oracle), he said that Google will become a leading vendor for Enterprise IT solution and serve the largest enterprise clients in the world. He aims to compete with IBM, SAP and Oracle (Microsoft is is not the best player in this field.) Case in point, Google announce Anthos this year, which aims specifically to serve large enterprise.<p>Looker is one of the best upcoming BI platforms in the market. I like Looker. I even took Looker Certificate exam 3 years ago because I think Looker consultant will be valuable in the future. I would’ve already joined Looker to get their shares if they have office in Vancouver. :slightly_smiling_face:<p>LookML is a killer feature that solves a critical pain point in Enterprise BI and set Looker apart from the competitors, like Tableau and Periscope. This feature is no value to small startups and small company, but great feature for mid-size company, and critical to Large enterprise BI. Looker has a great potential to become the next leading Large Enterprise BI that successes Oracle OBIEE, MS PowerBI and SAP Business Object.<p>I think if Google is to take Looker and make it the next Enterprise BI and use it to get in the door of large Enterprise Customers, They are making a right strategy move. Google will bring a superior BI solution to its top-tier enterprise customers than IBM, Oracle, SAP. It plays well with Google’s strength in data offering, and BI the easier segment for Google to break through comparing to ERP, CRM and other enterprise solution segments.<p>If Google just wants part of Looker and absorb into the Google Machine, they are paying too high a price tag for it. (I don’t think that’s what Google are doing). I don’t think Google is buying it to eliminate competitor either, Google doesn’t have any products that offer similar features or target same market as Looker