As a self-qualified Looker "Guru", I was very excited to play with Omni, a tool created by a super smart crew of Ex-Lookers. Omni takes the semantic layer modelling approach to BI and democratises it even further. It combines Looker's code-based modelling layer approach with the Self-Service Workbooks of Tableau, empowering a wider variety of users to consume and improve the model without falling into the pitfall of complexity creep. The experience is smooth and responsive, and the underlying caching seems to do a decent job of ensuring consistent performance across Dashboards with many queries. Stack: Snowflake.

I've seen the data landscape evolve over the last 10 years, and the team at Omni Analytics has done a great job of identifying the strengths of various analytics platforms and making a single offering that truly marries those workflows harmoniously. Up until now, there have been very specific (and successful) analytics tools that cater to a governed model, iterative SQL analysis, or workbook BI. Omni supports all of these workflows simultaneously, which unlocks all departments within an organization to be empowered as data analysts. Power SQL users will enjoy the product as much as the data team used to the governed model approach. Oh, and by the way, the visualization and business user experience is snappy and responsive to boot. The Omni Analytics team has created so much in such little time - the sky's the limit on the capabilities of the product with this type of groundwork.

Getting up and running on Omni was a breeze and allowed for usuable analytics and reporting within the first few days of making the db connections. The Omni UI and user experience feels intuitive and self service reporting is very natural. Our organzation has some ops/business users and a few power users who can write SQL and neither one of these groups is underserved by Omni app. The Support experience so far has been unmatched and very responsive, technically capable, and genuinely interested in our success as Omni clients.