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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesforce CRM Analytics

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce CRM Analytics (formerly Tableau CRM) is a cloud-based business intelligence solutions and analytics software. It provides users with automated data discovery, CRM-connected analytics, top-down views of data, augmented analytics, predictive insights, and customizable data visualization tools.

    $125

    per month

    ThoughtSpot

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.

    $1,500

    per year (5 users)

    Pricing
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsThoughtSpot
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsThoughtSpot
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    73%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.8
    48 Ratings
    5% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports7.541 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.548 Ratings8.189 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.546 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.8
    49 Ratings
    3% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.5
    91 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.548 Ratings8.390 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.548 Ratings7.090 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages7.537 Ratings5.949 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.546 Ratings8.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.1
    47 Ratings
    1% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Publish to Web9.037 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.044 Ratings8.478 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.543 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.540 Ratings8.364 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.534 Ratings7.935 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    7.4
    45 Ratings
    8% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    86 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.042 Ratings7.585 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization6.540 Ratings7.079 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.042 Ratings7.565 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.02 Ratings6.913 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    9.0
    48 Ratings
    6% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    86 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.046 Ratings8.282 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.546 Ratings7.974 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.042 Ratings7.678 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control9.02 Ratings7.816 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)9.541 Ratings8.772 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    6.7
    45 Ratings
    15% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    53 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.543 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.034 Ratings6.734 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.539 Ratings6.746 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Salesforce CRM Analytics and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Salesforce CRM Analytics
    8.2
    33 Ratings
    6% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    51 Ratings
    7% below category average
    REST API8.031 Ratings7.342 Ratings
    Javascript API8.529 Ratings6.835 Ratings
    iFrames8.525 Ratings8.134 Ratings
    Java API8.528 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.528 Ratings7.235 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.527 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
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    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (51 ratings)
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.1
    (41 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.7
    (41 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salesforce CRM AnalyticsThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    For us it really comes down to that book management and next best contact for our advisors. When we're thinking about a book of business that may range, depending on the advisor, from 400 clients to a thousand clients, how do they really optimize their time? Who do they call next? Who do they work with to make sure not only they're keeping those clients engaged, they're not leaving the firm going to other advisors who they haven't talked to in a while who might need their attention. That's really where that CRM analytics is really proven pretty powerful for us.
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    ThoughtSpot
    It is well suited when the same data is consumed by many different people with different analytics and visualization requirements because, if you have the data available in ThoughtSpot, every user can prepare different views. Also, it is a good reporting tool, you can get rid of slides if you have a good dashboard prepared, gaining flexibility and agility.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Interactive Dashboards, it [consists] of wide variety of charts
    • Data from different sources can be easily integrated with it
    • Security, it provides easy way to secure and share the information with the users
    • Support actions like opening hyperlink etc
    • Almost everything can be done from configuration
    • Data can easily be managed from dataflow.
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    ThoughtSpot
    • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
    • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
    • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Implementation takes time and resources. It is a heavy lift to implement and at first, it can take a little bit of time to understand what you are looking at. But once it's implemented it's easy to get started.
    • Without any BI expertise or resources available to your organization, the implementation of this is difficult. If you aren't used to BI tools and don't have an expert in house, the terminology can be difficult to understand at first.
    • Their support is not on hand to help you if you encounter any issues, at least not on all the plans or the basic plans. Real-time support service is an add-on, so you'll need to be patient if you require help or pay extra money.
    • More functionality for the tool is needed to compete with other heavyweights in the arena like Tableau, Qlik, and Microstrategy. Still lacks the robustness, functionality, and flexibility other competing products possess.
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    ThoughtSpot
    • It would be great if ThoughtSpot can add the feature to filter by clicking on visualizations. i.e if I click on a particular data point in the chart if the full dashboard can filter just for that particular data point.
    • Color coding the heatmap with different colors like green to orange to red.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    For someone who don't have coding background, this could be a useful tool and fairly easy to learn and use given the good support. However, if you know other open source tools, it would be much easier to use the other tools and the knowledge is more transferable in the future.
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    ThoughtSpot
    The rating is because of the ease of use of the interface as it has a no code interface that makes it easy to setup data pipelines without extensive programming. Cloud native integration: It integrates seamlessly with cloud based data warehouses. Automated data loading, Scalability, Cost Effective, Transformations, Data Governance and security.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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    Performance
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    I was not able to be in interaction much with Salesforce support team since every feature works the way it should be working. So far I have not experienced any bug or major glitches that would delay the result of my work and performance. There is also a hotline in our company for Salesforce issue but so far I have not used it.
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    ThoughtSpot
    I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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    In-Person Training
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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    Online Training
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    An implementation partner would certainly result in greater output in a more efficient amount of time. However, I have found implementation partners to be extremely expensive for the output received (at least working for a non-profit company they are frequently unaffordable). Internal implementation does help with usable output though since internal knowledge would better know the data architecture and business processes
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    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    Tableau is the absolute top of the class when it comes to business intelligence, but it doesn't make sense for every business case. In our case, we needed a simple data visualization platform for our CRM platform and sales pipeline. Salesforce Analytics, while nowhere near as robust, did the job we needed it to do perfectly in a significantly more cost-effective manner.
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    ThoughtSpot
    We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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    Scalability
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • I would say it's been positive just because as a company, anyone that has access to it can go in there and pull any company information and we're very up to date then on all of our client base. So I would say it's been a very positive impact.
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    ThoughtSpot
    • Time to market ROI is massive vs hiring the full-time dedicated team to build and maintain a frontend multi-tenant SaaS data viz product.
    • It will be interesting to see over time how the advanced features play out in terms of usability and end value, such as Natural Search, which we are very excited about, and the machine learning tools.
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    ThoughtSpot Screenshots

    Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the Spotter AI agent that surfaces insights through natural language queriesScreenshot of AI Assist producing SQL in real timeScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the integration with dbt models and metrics