Salesforce Experience Cloud vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Engagement (formerly Salesforce Experience Cloud or Salesforce Community Cloud) is an online forum powered by Salesforce that enables businesses to connect with their employees, customers, partner organizations, and prospects. Designed to help facilitate communication and information sharing, customers can ask questions and request help, administrators can integrate data from third-party apps, and employees can collaborate across projects and…N/A
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot 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 Experience CloudThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
$50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Salesforce Experience CloudThoughtSpot
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Salesforce Experience CloudThoughtSpot
Features
Salesforce Experience CloudThoughtSpot
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.3
89 Ratings
12% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.021 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.289 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.725 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.5
91 Ratings
7% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.590 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings7.290 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.849 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.788 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
8.3
84 Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.355 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.678 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.464 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.135 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.4
86 Ratings
8% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.685 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.579 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.665 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
8.1
86 Ratings
5% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.382 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.074 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.878 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.916 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.672 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.5
53 Ratings
3% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.251 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.034 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.946 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Experience Cloud
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.2
51 Ratings
7% below category average
REST API00 Ratings7.042 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings6.535 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.134 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.335 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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User Ratings
Salesforce Experience CloudThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(71 ratings)
8.6
(91 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(15 ratings)
8.3
(85 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(5 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(18 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.4
(4 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 Experience CloudThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
Salesforce
For well-suited, this product is great for your external clientele groups that you would not necessarily want to have a high user fee rate for. So basically general public or a group that will be authorized to come in and just do a few things here and there, but you don't necessarily want them access to all of your systems and your data points for groups that it would not be a great use for. I'd say probably your high level internal staff, they're going to be using a lot of the backend functionality automations, evaluating data, managing data, and doing custom inputs. That's just not what's intended for.
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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
  • Easy to use, just like Salesforce's other products. Many users can sit down and figure it out in no time, and with a little training become power users.
  • Fast and secure - Salesforce is a leader in the cloud world so you get consistently fast results and security that is top notch in the industry.
  • Accessible from anywhere - if you use cloud CMS already this is a no-brainer, but for those that do in-house CMS still, this is a major difference. Mobile access from anywhere on the planet without a VPN is something you just can't do without the cloud.
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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
  • Unlike other CMS platforms like Wordpress and Adobe Experience Manager, Salesforce does not provide a fully featured editor with a drag-and-drop design tool.
  • Our content creators and marketing team often struggle with permissions and how to distribute content across different experience cloud sites.
  • Also, there is no side-to-side comparison view for content editors to update the content easily.
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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
Renewal exercise is already underway. Platform is to ubiquitous to not leverage, especially at a Fortune 50 firm
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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
Strengths: - Intuitive for Salesforce Users – If you’re already working within the Salesforce ecosystem, the Salesforce CMS is easy to navigate, with a clean UI, drag-and-drop content management, and reusable assets for quick updates. - Seamless Integration – Since it connects natively with Experience Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and CRM, it allows for efficient multi-channel content distribution without needing extra third-party tools. - AI-Powered Personalization – The ability to deliver dynamic content based on user profiles and engagement data is a huge plus, making content delivery more relevant and impactful. Challenges: - Learning Curve for New Users – If you're not already familiar with Salesforce, the interface can feel overwhelming, requiring training to fully leverage all features. - Limited Customization & Workflow Automation – While it works well for structured content, advanced approval workflows and deep editorial customization are limited compared to enterprise CMS platforms like Adobe Experience Manager. - Media & Design Limitations – Salesforce CMS is not as robust for managing rich media-heavy content, which can be frustrating for teams needing more flexibility in multimedia presentation.
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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
Again, since we provide and recommend solutions, I can't speak to every client's individual experience, but can offer general reflections as to keep their collaborations private, that they are satisfied with the experience. We hear a lot about how this system helps to encourage collaborations between their own business partners, customers, and internal members, and enables quality integrations with other products that help drive revenue.
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ThoughtSpot
It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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Support Rating
Salesforce
Although support from Salesforce itself can be quite unresponsive sometimes, the community hub is incredibly helpful. The large user base of Salesforce products contribute to troubleshooting and the forums are a powerful tool for finding solutions and possible bugs and response times can be quite fast compared to your regular support channels.
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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
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Alternatives Considered
Salesforce
Salesforce Experience Cloud was selected due to its tight integration with our existing Salesforce CRM platform. Customization of the portal was much, much simpler compared to Sharepoint - especially with role-based security parameters that are ultimately inherited based on attributes within the Salesforce CRM platform. Salesforce Experience Cloud was a natural fit for this customer-facing purpose.
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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
  • Time savings for our customer success team - no need to continually follow up on tickets as customers have access to see status themselves
  • In the future, it will also allow us to create more impactful knowledge articles that will increase self-service over ticket creation
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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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ScreenShots

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