For Slack users, the Lookerbot tool brings data to your conversation

In much of the enterprise-software world today, data is data and chat is chat, and rarely the twain shall meet. Looker aims to change all that.

On Thursday the data-platform provider launched Lookerbot, a new tool for Slack's popular messaging software that lets users bring their data directly into the conversation.

Looker's data platform aims to create a single source of truth so that every business team can easily ask and answer their own questions; current users include Yahoo, Warby Parker and Sony. Last fall, it rolled out a modular approach to analytics in the form of Looker Blocks, reusable and customizable apps that can be "snapped" together Lego-style to answer different questions.

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