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DigitalOcean Uses Looker to Cover More Ground

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries	Software
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	DigitalOcean, a developer-focused cloud computing platform, was facing challenges in managing and utilizing their data effectively. As the company grew, their product evolved to cater to larger teams of developers working on more complex projects. However, they realized that there was a wealth of data across the company that wasn’t being properly incorporated into the decision-making process. They were initially doing every single analysis in an Excel spreadsheet, which was not scalable or efficient. They needed a solution that could centralize their data and make it more accessible for decision-making. Read More
About Customer	DigitalOcean is a cloud computing platform focused on developers. The platform is used by more than 800,000 developers worldwide to host projects, websites, or their world-changing app. The company primarily caters to developers, both as individuals and as teams. As they grew in size, DigitalOcean’s product began evolving to be more consumable, more usable by larger teams of developers looking to work on larger projects, requiring more complex infrastructure. They also built out a community platform, which sought to educate individual developers via high-quality tutorials. Read More
Solution	DigitalOcean decided to use Looker to centralize and make better use of their data. Looker provided a structure and analysis around the data, allowing teams to share data and answer questions more efficiently. This opened up the possibility of new perspectives on data and more solutions toward a unified goal. Looker also provided visibility into the data, which was a key factor in DigitalOcean's decision to choose it. The centralization of the team and the people working with the data, as well as the data itself, provided a lot of value for DigitalOcean. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms

Applicable Industries

Software

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

DigitalOcean, a developer-focused cloud computing platform, was facing challenges in managing and utilizing their data effectively. As the company grew, their product evolved to cater to larger teams of developers working on more complex projects. However, they realized that there was a wealth of data across the company that wasn’t being properly incorporated into the decision-making process. They were initially doing every single analysis in an Excel spreadsheet, which was not scalable or efficient. They needed a solution that could centralize their data and make it more accessible for decision-making.

About Customer

DigitalOcean is a cloud computing platform focused on developers. The platform is used by more than 800,000 developers worldwide to host projects, websites, or their world-changing app. The company primarily caters to developers, both as individuals and as teams. As they grew in size, DigitalOcean’s product began evolving to be more consumable, more usable by larger teams of developers looking to work on larger projects, requiring more complex infrastructure. They also built out a community platform, which sought to educate individual developers via high-quality tutorials.

Solution

DigitalOcean decided to use Looker to centralize and make better use of their data. Looker provided a structure and analysis around the data, allowing teams to share data and answer questions more efficiently. This opened up the possibility of new perspectives on data and more solutions toward a unified goal. Looker also provided visibility into the data, which was a key factor in DigitalOcean's decision to choose it. The centralization of the team and the people working with the data, as well as the data itself, provided a lot of value for DigitalOcean.

Impact #1	Looker enabled DigitalOcean to centralize their data and make it more accessible for decision-making.
Impact #2	The streamlined method by which Looker allows teams to share data and answer questions opened up the possibility of new perspectives on data.
Impact #3	Looker provided visibility into the data, which was a key factor in DigitalOcean's decision to choose it.

Impact #1

Looker enabled DigitalOcean to centralize their data and make it more accessible for decision-making.

Impact #2

The streamlined method by which Looker allows teams to share data and answer questions opened up the possibility of new perspectives on data.

Impact #3

Looker provided visibility into the data, which was a key factor in DigitalOcean's decision to choose it.

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DigitalOcean Uses Looker to Cover More Ground

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