Looker's business intelligence platform combined with Abacum creates a powerful data ecosystem that transforms how finance teams analyze and plan. This integration bridges the gap between operational analytics and strategic financial planning, enabling faster, more informed decision-making.

What is Looker and how does it work?

Looker is an enterprise business intelligence and data analytics platform that helps organizations explore and share insights in real time. Acquired by Google Cloud in 2020, Looker uses its proprietary modeling language (LookML) to create a semantic layer between raw data and end users, ensuring consistent metrics and definitions across the entire organization.

Benefits of Integrating Looker with Abacum

• Unify operational and financial data by connecting Looker's real-time dashboards with Abacum's planning models, creating a single source of truth

• Automate data flows from Looker's analytics directly into Abacum's budgeting and forecasting workflows, eliminating manual data exports

• Enhance forecast accuracy by leveraging Looker's historical trend analysis and pattern recognition within Abacum's scenario planning

• Accelerate reporting cycles through synchronized metrics between platforms, reducing time from data to decision by up to 70%

• Enable self-service analytics for finance teams to explore operational drivers without SQL knowledge while maintaining governance

• Scale financial planning across departments by combining Looker's departmental dashboards with Abacum's collaborative planning workspace