Case Study: BQ achieves faster scaling and lower cloud costs with Looker

BQ Powering mobile innovation

BQ, a leading European technology company based in Spain, was struggling to scale its services as demand for its smartphones, 3D printers, and robotics grew across more than 40 countries. Its existing IT setup, built on individual virtual machines, made it difficult for a small engineering team to reliably support millions of devices while controlling costs. BQ turned to Looker-related analytics in its Google Cloud environment, alongside Google Kubernetes Engine and BigQuery, to better manage growth and data.

Looker was used to help BQ visualize metrics and build dashboards from data analyzed in BigQuery, giving product and engineering teams faster insight into device and app performance. The overall solution helped BQ scale from 15 to 350 services, support a 2,000% increase in services, and reduce cloud hosting costs by about 60%, while improving development speed and freeing engineers to focus on innovation.

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Pablo Moncada

IT DevOps Team Lead