Google Cloud Announces BigQuery Features That Accelerate Performance and Increase Efficiency for all Business Intelligence Workloads BI Engine and materialized views give organizations performance gains across any business intelligence tool, from Google's Looker and Connected Sheets to Tableau, to Microsoft Power BI, and more News provided by Share this article Share this article SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Google Cloud today announced two powerful enhancements that will continue to meet the customer demand of reducing time to insight and increasing performance of BigQuery. BI Engine and materialized views for BigQuery build upon the open, intelligent and flexible Google Cloud platform to provide sub-second query response time and high concurrency. The performance gains provided through these enhancements allows organizations to provide employees with increased access to data at scale and empower them with the ability to make fast data-driven decisions that directly impact the business.