Case Study: Yahoo achieves democratized real-time analytics for 1,000 users with Looker

Bringing Data Analysis to Everyone

Yahoo needed to democratize data across the company: give business users a single, self‑service way to query multiple data stores, enable real‑time monitoring for teams like Y! Mobile, remove bottlenecks from centralized data queues, and ensure every answer could be traced to a single source.

By adopting Looker as the front end to all data stores, roughly 1,000 Yahoo employees can run thousands of daily queries, drill into results via customized dashboards, and monitor app usage in real time. The result is faster, data‑driven decisions and improvements across teams, with consistent, traceable answers and no single data queue slowing work.

Yahoo

Suresh Duddi

VP Engineering