On February 2, 2017, Nick Mihailovski, Product Manager, Google Data Studio announced that Google Data Studio is now free for everyone.

That the limit on 5 Reports has been removed and you can now create as many reports as you want.

 

He stated: “To enable more businesses to get full value from Data Studio we are making an important change — we are removing the 5 report limit in Data Studio. You now create and share as many reports as you need — all for free.”

 

This means you can now harness the power of analytics in your business all for free.

 

Templates

Google Data Studio already comes with reach templates for most common business setups and they seem to be adding more.

The current templates are covers areas such as Your website Google Analytics report, Youtube Channel Report, Google Analytics + Adwords Report, Google Analytics Ecommerce Reports etc. Below is a view of the sample templates you can use.

 

 

Databases and Other Data Source Connections

Another power of this Free Google Data studio is that you can connect the Studio to a variety of data source

 

Connection with Google Products: 

As you already might have guessed and guessed right , Google Data Studio integrates with other Google Data Sources such as

• Adwords
• Attribution360
• BigQuery
• Cloud SQL
• DCM
• Google Analytics
• Google Sheets
• Search Console
• Youtube Analytics

Other Databases’ Connections:

Currently you can connect to

• MySQL and
• PostgreSQL databases

These two databases are all open source. Which means you can build a very comprehensive data warehouse using either MySQL or PostgreSQL and start your insight in your company from there.

View a sample simple Google Data Studio dashboard from here

 

Now enjoy this good news from Google and Happy Analysing!