Looker Consulting · Durham
Looker Consulting in Durham
Looker advice for Durham organisations, where the governance question is who may change a model everyone depends on. A single shared definition is the platform's strength and its risk — one edit alters every report drawing on it, so the process around changes matters as much as the modelling itself.
Why this comes up
The problem
An analyst adjusted a metric definition to fix one report, and figures moved across a dozen dashboards nobody told.
What you get
What we deliver
- Change process established, with review before anything reaches production
- Model ownership assigned rather than left to whoever is most confident
- Impact of a change made visible before it is made, using dependency information
- Development and production environments separated properly
- Existing model assessed for duplication, unused fields and accumulated complexity
- Analyst access designed so people can explore without altering shared definitions
Want this scoped for your business in Durham?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what looker consulting would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Durham
North East
Durham's economy is dominated by its university and cathedral, so the commercial base is small and much of the local demand comes from spinouts and suppliers attached to the institutions rather than from independent industry.
Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones.
Sectors we work with in Durham
- Higher Education
- Tourism & Heritage
- Public Sector
- Retail
- Research
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Looker
- LookML
- Git
- BigQuery
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Retail
- SaaS businesses
- Media companies
- Financial services
- Technology companies
Why us
Why Durham businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Looker Consulting in Durham — common questions
- Who should be allowed to change the model?
- A small group, with review. The shared model is infrastructure rather than a report, and treating a change to it like a change to production code — proposed, reviewed, tested — is proportionate to the number of things that depend on it.
- How do we know what a change affects?
- By using the dependency information the platform holds. Before altering a field it is possible to see what references it, and making that a required step turns an alarming discovery afterwards into an informed decision beforehand.
- Can analysts still work freely?
- Yes, and it needs designing. Exploration, ad hoc analysis and personal saved content should be unrestricted, while changes to shared definitions go through review — the two are compatible once the boundary is explicit rather than assumed.
- What does an ageing model look like?
- Fields nobody uses, joins added for one request years ago, and complexity that everyone works around rather than through. Reviewing it periodically and removing what is genuinely unused keeps it comprehensible, which is what determines whether people trust it.
- Do you work with businesses across County Durham?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout North East, including Durham and the surrounding County Durham area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Durham businesses do you usually work with?
- Research spinout software and visitor systems, usually on institutional procurement timelines rather than commercial ones. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Tourism & Heritage, Public Sector, Retail and Research.
- Do you cover the areas around Durham?
- Yes — we work throughout North East, including Newcastle, Sunderland, York. Durham is an urban area of roughly 70,000+, and we take on work across the wider County Durham region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Looker Consulting in Durham
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise