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Looker Studio (former Data Studio)

Google Looker Studio, formerly Google Data Studio, is a BI tool for creating interactive reports and dashboards. Looker Studio is one of the most commonly used marketing reporting tools. It allows marketers to use more than 600 connectors as data sources and create reports from templates.

Recently, Google has renamed Google Data Studio to Looker Studio. Google aims to unify all its business intelligence tools under the Looker brand and make Looker the face of all existing Google Cloud data analytics programs.

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