Sisense vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sisense
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Sisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.N/A
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot is presented as an Agentic Analytics Platform that empowers enterprises to transform insights into action. Agentic AI combined with ThoughtSpot’s natural language search allow users to discover proactive insights from their business data, creating real-time decisioning. The platform’s unified capabilities, along with its agentic AI analyst, Spotter, ensures insights are connected and pervasive, enabling users to create precise, transparent, personalized, and actionable insights with…
$95
per month
Pricing
SisenseThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
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ThoughtSpot Analytics Team
$95
per month flat subscription
ThoughtSpot Analytics Pro
starts at $30,000
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Analytics Enterprise
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Pro
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Enterprise
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SisenseThoughtSpot
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.
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Community Pulse
SisenseThoughtSpot
Considered Both Products
Sisense

No answer on this topic

ThoughtSpot
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot provided a twist on the typical Analytics / report builder interface. The natural language query building is just so much easier to use.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is the leader in embedded analytics and is much easier to work with massive volumes of data. None of the other tools listed had both of those functionalities, which were most important to us. There are other features that they have such as easier drill down, …
Chose ThoughtSpot
much more extensible and much easier to embed
Features
SisenseThoughtSpot
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
9.7
47 Ratings
17% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.2
87 Ratings
13% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports10.037 Ratings6.021 Ratings
Customizable dashboards10.047 Ratings7.887 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates9.033 Ratings7.725 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
8.8
47 Ratings
9% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.4
89 Ratings
8% below category average
Drill-down analysis10.047 Ratings8.388 Ratings
Formatting capabilities9.047 Ratings7.188 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages9.027 Ratings5.748 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.33 Ratings8.386 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
10.0
46 Ratings
19% above category average
ThoughtSpot
8.2
82 Ratings
1% below category average
Publish to Web10.036 Ratings8.153 Ratings
Publish to PDF10.046 Ratings8.776 Ratings
Report Versioning10.024 Ratings7.918 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling10.039 Ratings8.562 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.034 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
9.5
45 Ratings
18% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.3
84 Ratings
8% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.045 Ratings7.483 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.042 Ratings7.977 Ratings
Predictive Analytics9.029 Ratings7.163 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining10.01 Ratings6.711 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
10.0
45 Ratings
16% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.9
84 Ratings
8% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)10.045 Ratings8.080 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model10.044 Ratings7.672 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.045 Ratings7.576 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control10.01 Ratings7.914 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.370 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
9.7
40 Ratings
22% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.8
51 Ratings
0% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access10.040 Ratings7.549 Ratings
Mobile Application10.025 Ratings7.732 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.034 Ratings7.444 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Sisense
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.0
49 Ratings
10% below category average
REST API00 Ratings6.540 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings6.133 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings7.932 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.433 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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User Ratings
SisenseThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(58 ratings)
8.6
(88 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(14 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(6 ratings)
8.3
(83 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(1 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(6 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.3
(1 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.1
(3 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(1 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SisenseThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
Sisense Ltd
I believe Sisense is perfectly suited for any organization of any size that have access to the proper resources, as the tool is very expensive. The data connectors come in all shapes and sizes out of the box, which allows a great deal of data control within the ElastiCubes. Additionally, while the platform only runs on Windows platforms, the web application can be accessed on any client: mobile, Apple, Windows, etc. This allows a much more flexible user experience, resulting in data and dashboards reaching further than any other tool.
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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
Sisense Ltd
  • Customization - lots of supported and community plugins available. Users can also adjust the look and feel through JavaScript.
  • Innovation - Sisense is continuing to push the envelope by developing new features through Sisense Labs.
  • Customer support - the commitment to excellent customer service and ensuring organizations get the most out of their investment.
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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
Sisense Ltd
  • The usability of the application on mobile devices needs some improvement, especially navigation and filtering.
  • Dashboards that are created by multiple users can be a bit of a hassle to share by Admins.
  • If you need to embed dashboards into your website, you are require to buy a license separate from the user and platform license. This is a norm on most BI visualization tools, but Sisense can seem a bit on the high side, cost-wide.
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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
Sisense Ltd
I think the business and myself as a user has come to rely on SiSense as a dashboarding and quick ad-hoc reporting tool. I am hoping to integrate SiSense dashboards into more parts of the business in the future. We have reduced our report turn-around time for the most part from hours/days to minutes and in some cases almost the speed of thought. Reports are also easier on the eye and more easily distributed. I would also like to say that the support and professionalism from the SiSense team has been excellent.
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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
Sisense Ltd
New V5 is ground floor of an exciting collection of possibilities. Weekly Sisense developers come up with new functionality that they share with us in their forums. The move to HTML5 has been pleasing in that widgets auto size themselves into appropriate forms in the board but everyone of them can be popped out to full page size to be looked at in more detail
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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
Sisense Ltd
There are very few situations when there is unexpected downtime. Mostly during development, new dashboard implementation and during upgrades. other then that there were very few crashes.
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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
Sisense Ltd
SiSense is usually performing better then other solutions even if going for complex reports/dashboards(of course within reasonable frames). I haven't noticed any bad influence on other systems, usually if something happens it stays within SiSense.
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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
Sisense Ltd
SiSense's support ninjas are very knowledgeable and are exceptionally responsive. So far, all of the issues we ran into were resolved within minimum time. My sense of dealing with the support staff at SiSense is that they are very focused on not just answering your immediate question, but also to delve into the cause of the matter.
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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
Sisense Ltd
Easy and free training that allowed us quickly understand basics in SiSense and start using them. More advanced features requires some browsing through SiSense forums, but there is always support to help, and SiSense support is one of the best whith which I worked so far.
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ThoughtSpot
inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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Online Training
Sisense Ltd
Many examples, videos and scenarios which you try on your own right away. This combined with in-person training gives you enough to utilize most of SiSense's power.
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ThoughtSpot
poor instructions
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Implementation Rating
Sisense Ltd
Remember to migrate the plugins. The documentation however is pretty straight forward.
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ThoughtSpot
Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Alternatives Considered
Sisense Ltd
1) Easy to use, really, there is nothing too much to say. The set up is easy and not confusing. You can use it internally or externally.
2) Customer Service, having spoken to various product reps from similar industry. Sisense rep provides you with the best support to get started, and it is really appreciated.
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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
Sisense Ltd
Product is quite easily scalable. The whole installation can be easily moved to stronger machine if needed.
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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
Sisense Ltd
  • Report development time is reduced from 2~3 days to 2~3 hours.
  • Report querying time is improved from 0.5~10 mins to 2~30 seconds.
  • A 2-staff team delivers 10 times the BI output that we did on the old system.
  • We were able to deliver BI and data analysis for all business functions instead of a very limited group of users
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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 a Liveboard for drill downScreenshot of live query, to connect to cloud data platformsScreenshot of search to analyze and visualize dataScreenshot of a look at queries runScreenshot of consuming insights on iOS app