The Challenge: Analytics Lived in One Place, Execution Lived in Another
Picture the weekly leadership meeting at a large enterprise operations team. The project manager has monday.com open on one screen showing task progress, sprint status, and resource allocation. On another screen — or more likely, on another tab they're fumbling to find — sits their Looker Studio dashboard with revenue metrics, KPI trends, and operational performance data.
Sound familiar?
For this enterprise organization with over a thousand seats on monday.com, the disconnect between where work happened and where results were measured had become a daily source of friction. Their operations, marketing, and IT teams all relied on monday.com as their single source of truth for project execution. But the moment anyone needed to answer "how is this actually performing?" they had to leave monday.com entirely, open Looker Studio, find the right dashboard, filter to the right date range, and then mentally stitch together what they were seeing with what was happening on their boards.
It wasn't just inconvenient — it was creating blind spots. Team leads were making execution decisions without looking at the analytics. Analysts were building dashboards without understanding the project context. And leadership was spending the first fifteen minutes of every meeting just getting everyone onto the same page, literally.
The Goal: One Workspace, Full Visibility
The team had a clear objective: bring Looker Studio dashboards directly into the monday.com boards where work was already happening. No context-switching. No second tabs. No "let me pull up the numbers" delays.
Specifically, they needed to:
- Embed live Looker Studio dashboards directly alongside project boards so that anyone viewing a board could instantly see the performance data tied to that work
- Maintain dashboard interactivity — filters, date ranges, drill-downs — all working natively inside monday.com without redirecting to an external URL
- Support multiple teams across operations, marketing, and IT, each with their own dashboards and access requirements
- Avoid complex technical setup — this needed to work for project managers and team leads, not just data engineers
The Solution: Looker Studio Embed for monday.com
The team installed Looker Studio Embed for monday.com from the monday.com marketplace. The setup was straightforward:
Step 1 — Connect and embed. Team admins added the Looker Studio view to their existing monday.com boards. Each board got its own relevant dashboard — the marketing team embedded campaign performance dashboards, the operations team embedded their OKR tracking, and IT embedded their system uptime and incident response metrics.
Step 2 — Configure access. Because Looker Studio respects existing Google Workspace permissions, the team didn't need to create a separate access management layer. Anyone who could already view a dashboard in Looker Studio could now view it inside monday.com.
Step 3 — Embed at the board level. Rather than creating a single "analytics" board (which would have recreated the same silos they were trying to eliminate), the team embedded dashboards contextually — directly on the boards where related work was tracked. The Q4 product launch board got the product analytics dashboard. The customer success board got the NPS and churn dashboard. Every board told a complete story: here's the work, and here's how it's performing.
The Outcome: Decisions Happen Where Work Happens
The shift was immediate and behavioral, not just technical.
Leadership meetings got shorter. When the project board and the performance dashboard are in the same view, there's no "let me share my screen" delay. Everyone sees the same data in the same context. Meetings shifted from "reviewing the numbers" to "deciding what to do about the numbers."
Team leads started making data-informed decisions autonomously. Previously, checking analytics was a separate activity that required a separate tool. When the dashboard is right there on the board you're already looking at, consulting the data becomes reflexive rather than deliberate. A marketing lead noticed a dip in campaign engagement while updating their task status and adjusted their strategy the same afternoon — a connection that might have taken days to surface in the old workflow.
Cross-functional alignment improved. When operations and marketing both see each other's dashboards embedded in shared boards, there's a common language. "The Looker dashboard shows X" is a much more productive conversation starter than "I think I saw something about engagement being down."
Onboarding accelerated. New team members joining a board didn't need to be told "and also go check this Looker dashboard at this URL." The analytics were already there, in context, the first time they opened the board.
Why Looker Studio Specifically Resonates with Enterprise Teams
Enterprise organizations gravitate toward Looker Studio because it's already where their data infrastructure lives. These are companies with established data warehouses, BigQuery pipelines, and analytics teams that have invested in building comprehensive Looker dashboards. The last thing they want is to recreate those dashboards in a different tool.
What they do want is to take those dashboards to where the rest of their team works. And for organizations with hundreds or thousands of seats, monday.com is often that place.
The Looker Studio Embed integration bridges exactly that gap. It doesn't replace Looker Studio. It doesn't try to replicate its functionality. It simply makes Looker Studio dashboards available inside monday.com — which turns out to be exactly the kind of lightweight, high-impact integration that enterprise teams adopt and keep.
Who This Is For
This integration is particularly valuable for:
- Operations teams that track project execution in monday.com and operational KPIs in Looker Studio
- Marketing teams running campaigns on monday.com boards while measuring performance in Looker-connected analytics platforms
- IT and engineering teams managing sprints in monday.com with uptime, performance, and incident dashboards in Looker Studio
- Leadership that needs a single-pane-of-glass view combining execution progress with business performance
- Any enterprise already invested in both Google Cloud / Looker Studio and monday.com that's tired of context-switching between the two
Get Started
If your team is already using Looker Studio and monday.com, the integration takes minutes to set up — no code, no API configuration, no data engineering required.