On this episode of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Looker's CEO Frank Bien and Chief Product Officer Nick Caldwell about how the company's LookML language allows users to build deep and wide data models using all existing data. Many of the new paradigms for accessing data are also now being connected to Looker. Given this, the conversation covers where Looker has been, and where it is going. The discussion specifically delves into:









How Looker is positioned to take advantage of the new focus on the data layer

How Looker's clients are responding to the ability to unlock value from new troves of data

What Caldwell sees as exciting from a product perspective for the future

The value of opening up data to more users for real-time analysis

The future use cases where Looker can play a role

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Designing Enterprise Platforms: Hosted by Dan Woods, analyst at Early Adopter Research and contributor to leading tech publications, this podcast focuses how to create product-based platforms that can have a transformational impact. The goal is to understand how to combine and integrate products rather than build from scratch. All aspects of platform building are covered from technology, to change management, to integration strategies.