Tableau Desktop vs ThoughtSpot

• Allows for complex dashboards to be made and then presented to less-technical audiences
• Stories help highlight important information in the information, allowing a presentation to stand on its own without having to be explained in person
• Recommends different visualizations based on the type of data inputted

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• Ability to drill down into questions on the fly.
• Easy-to-read pinboards for non-technical executives, including natural language questions.
• Ability to join multiple databases so data can be analyzed across the organization.
• SpotIQ: showing us insights to our data that we didn't even think to ask about.

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• When creating a data source that needs several tables to be joined together, Tableau does its thing by loading the metadata, executing a query and loading data for preview. It does it after each and every join condition. Basically, every time you add a join condition you wait for a minute to create another one. God bless you if you are joining ten tables. There has to be way to pause this data load or at least some part of it to make this process faster.
• We had this issue of connection looping with Tableau. Even with a good connection, Tableau ask us to reconnect to the data source. This thing goes in an infinite loop until you hit "No" or "Cancel". And it doesn't exactly show in the log that why is it doing that. Logging needs to be improved.
• Tableau doesn't like Star or Snowflake schema even with a columnar database. We have these big Star schema (some of them are a little snowflaked) that we tried to load in Tableau. But they were slow. We converted those to the flat tables and Tableau works great with it.

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• ThoughtSpot can do a better job of providing prescriptive analytics.
• Live connection for other databases is a much needed feature.
• Pinboard canvas should allow for custom size rather than sticking to 5 pre-defined sizes.
• More features needed in pinboard level filters.

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• Tableau has provided my clients with the information necessary to allocate multi-million dollar research budgets effectively, ensuring the company is getting the most bang for its buck.
• Tableau has given my office the ability to present data quickly and easily in a professional format that customers can understand, and has them returning frequently for additional analysis and projects.

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• I think ThoughtSpot helped save a lot of time of people (mostly in IT and Finance), so there's a tangible return of investment.
• I also think this helped to give better visibility to our teams. Having the option of drilling down helps the team to be more informed and under the detail.

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