DigitalOcean Uses Looker to Cover More Ground
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Looker
Tech Stack
- Cloud Computing
- Data Analytics
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
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
About The 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.
The 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.
The 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.
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