Introducing Looker Data Apps
As a business intelligence user, this probably sounds familiar: Most dashboards only provide you with a standardized canvas and a fixed library of charts, and the “analysis” consists of a CSV export that takes you to another system. Or sometimes it's designing the dashboard that’s the challenge: You can picture the executive briefing, the customer-facing portal, or the interactive explainer that you want, but can’t assemble it out of the available grid tiles.
Either way, the solution has always been to build a custom application. The advent of AI has sped up the process — a working prototype now takes an afternoon — but the excitement of that first demo fades fast. Without access to governed data, row-level security, an infrastructure owner, or a clear path through security review, a tool written by an LLM is simply a prototype that can never go to production.
Today, to bridge this gap,...
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