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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Tableau Cloud

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ATableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.

    $15

    per month per user

    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
    Tableau CloudThoughtSpot
    Editions & Modules
    Tableau Viewer
    $15
    per month billed annually per user
    Enterprise Viewer
    $35
    per month billed annually per user
    Tableau Explorer
    $42
    per month billed annually per user
    Enterprise Explorer
    $70
    per month billed annually per user
    Tableau Creator
    $75
    per month billed annually per user
    Enterprise Creator
    $115
    per month billed annually per user
    Tableau+
    Contact Sales
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Tableau CloudThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Tableau CloudThoughtSpot
    Considered Both Products
    Tableau
    Chose Tableau Cloud
    Tableau Cloud is ery powerful and user friendly with minimal cost when compared with other BI tools.Its robust features like switching toggles, supporting SQL queries for buiding charts and all stands out as the best.It reduces time in creating difficult and complex dashbords …
    Incentivized
    ThoughtSpot
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    Great ease of use for business users and self-service capabilites
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    They’re for different use cases. When I want a dynamic way to quickly obtain the data I need, I’d go with ThoughtSpot.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot's user friendly interface, faster and accurate results, low-code support for building insights and vast availability of native charts, AI powered dashboards helps in faster decision making and helps in driving better business results. The mobile APP that ThoughtSpot …
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    It is more cost effective when compared to Tableau and more easy to use. ThoughtSpot integrates well with modern cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Google, and Bigquery, making it easy to analyze large datasets in real time. Sync insights into cloud tools. Users can sync …
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot was much easier from an end-user perspective. Looker and Tableau allowed for more customization and detailed dashboards.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    We selected ThoughtSpot with the promise that it would evolve into a Google search for business insights. To date, it has not gotten close in my opinion.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    Tableau CloudThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    7% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports7.556 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.774 Ratings8.089 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates6.763 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.6
    74 Ratings
    5% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.5
    91 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.474 Ratings8.390 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.471 Ratings6.990 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.147 Ratings5.949 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.672 Ratings8.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.8
    72 Ratings
    5% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Publish to Web8.668 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.567 Ratings8.378 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.655 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.559 Ratings8.264 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers6.738 Ratings7.935 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.9
    70 Ratings
    2% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    86 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.267 Ratings7.585 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.366 Ratings6.979 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.957 Ratings7.465 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.26 Ratings6.813 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    8.4
    69 Ratings
    1% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.0
    86 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.263 Ratings8.282 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.756 Ratings7.974 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.659 Ratings7.678 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.87 Ratings7.816 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.754 Ratings8.672 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.5
    59 Ratings
    3% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    53 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.357 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.744 Ratings6.734 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.851 Ratings6.746 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Cloud
    7.0
    41 Ratings
    10% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    51 Ratings
    6% below category average
    REST API8.136 Ratings7.442 Ratings
    Javascript API7.534 Ratings6.935 Ratings
    iFrames6.833 Ratings8.034 Ratings
    Java API5.829 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)6.735 Ratings7.235 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.232 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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    Cyfe
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    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.8 out of 10
    Sisense
    Score6.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Tableau CloudThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (76 ratings)
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (20 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)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.0
    (49 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (49 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
    Tableau CloudThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Tableau
    If you're using Tableau as the primary BI tool, then Tableau Cloud is well suited to publish and share the results with a wide(r) audience. It is well suited for various degrees of self-service proficiency, from pure consumers of analytical work to more advanced users who can use web editing for smaller or larger adjustments, and even for desktop power users who will publish their work to Tableau Cloud. It has many good ways to organize the content and make it easily accessible via search, favorites, folders, collections ("playlists for your data"), or history ("recents"). It might not be ideally suited if there are many on-prem sources to be used (even though there are options to connect them) or if you have very special requirements regarding custom server setup, which is limited in a shared cloud environment like Tableau Cloud.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Tableau
    • Tableau Online is completely cloud based and that's why the reports and dashboards are accessible even on the go. One doesn't always need to access the office laptop to access the reports.
    • The visualizations are interactive and one can quickly change the level at which they want to view the information. For example, one person might be more interested in looking at the country level performances rather than client level. This is intuitive and one doesn't need to create multiple reports for the same.
    • The feature to ask questions in plain vanilla English language is great and helpful. For quick adhoc fact checks one can simply type what they are looking for and the Natural Language Programming algorithms under the hood parse the query, interpret it and then fetch the results accordingly in a visual form.
    Incentivized
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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
    Tableau
    • Can be a steep learning curve for new users
    • Modeling and building algorithms aren't always intuitive and take some testing/retesting to ensure it's working as it should
    • Inability to integrate easily with our HRIS platform. Reports are pulled from HRIS at various intervals and uploaded into Tableau
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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
    Tableau
    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
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Tableau
    Based on comments from our clients, I awarded it this grade. Non-technical customers frequently compliment us on the ease with which they can utilize Tableau Online. Usability is rarely a source of contention amongst our customers. Few complaints have come from me as a user of our internal products.
    Incentivized
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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
    Tableau
    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
    Tableau
    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
    Tableau
    I have not had any issues that require customer support from Tableau at this time, which speaks well to Tableau. I have taken an online course with Tableau and it was very professional and well done, so based on that I would assume a similar level of quality for their customer service.
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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
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Tableau
    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
    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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    Implementation Rating
    Tableau
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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    Alternatives Considered
    Tableau
    In determining whether to go with Tableau Online versus Alteryx, two important factors stood out in determining our go-to solution. First, while Alteryx is an impressive tool for data cleansing, it did not stack up in terms of data visualization capabilities. Tableau, on the other hand, provided us everything we needed in terms of visualizing our data and analytics. The second factor is cost. Well neither solution would be considered cheap, Tableau was the more cost effective solution for our needs.
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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
    Tableau
    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
    Tableau
    • When we release new products, we are now able to quickly see data and toggle between current periods and previous to see performance
    • Generating new reports requires less IT time to build
    • Data can be shared across many different device types
    • We now have integration where our customers can extract data from our software more easily-this was a big ask from our customers
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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.
    Incentivized
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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