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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Tableau Prep

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/ATableau Prep enables users to get to the analysis phase faster by helping them quickly combine, shape, and clean their data. According to the vendor, a direct and visual experience helps provide users with a deeper understanding of their data, smart features make data preparation simple, and integration with the Tableau analytical workflow allows for faster speed to insight. Tableau Prep allows users to connect to data on-premises or in the cloud, whether it’s a database or a…

    $15

    per month billed annually 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 PrepThoughtSpot
    Editions & Modules
    Viewer
    $15
    per month billed annually per user
    Explorer
    $42
    per month billed annually per user
    Creator
    $70
    per month billed annually per user
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Tableau PrepThoughtSpot
    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 PrepThoughtSpot
    Considered Both Products
    Tableau
    No answer on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    Tableau PrepThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Prep and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Prep
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.089 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Prep and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Prep
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.5
    91 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.390 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings6.990 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.949 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings8.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Prep and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Prep
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.378 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.264 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.935 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Prep and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Prep
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    86 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings7.585 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings6.979 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.465 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.813 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Prep and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Prep
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    8.0
    86 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.282 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings7.974 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings7.678 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.816 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.672 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Prep and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Prep
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    53 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings6.734 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.746 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Tableau Prep and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Prep
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    51 Ratings
    6% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.442 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings6.835 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.034 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.235 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Tableau PrepThoughtSpot
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    Cyfe
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Toad Data Point
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Datameer
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Tableau PrepThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (3 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
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 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 PrepThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Tableau
    If your data sets are coming in without much stewardship then Tableau Prep can help to clean the data before you start trying to create visualizations for your end users. You will save a lot of time this way - rather than seeing problems once you are creating dashboards. If you don't have large data sets or your data is relatively simple, then Tableau Prep may not be needed.
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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
    Tableau
    • Display the raw data coming in from the data warehouse
    • Point out situations that might be erroneous
    • Show the distribution of raw data figures
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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
    • Use of Macros within Workflow (and more types of automation)
    • Join Editor also giving a SQL Update Query
    • More types of visuals
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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
    It is a valuable tool for generating and cleaning files for multiple purposes.
    Incentivized
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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
    Tableau
    It works well and is user friendly for the basics but needs more options for bring in data (using SQL queries for example) and export format options.
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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 really had to reach out for any kind of customer support for Tableau Prep, so I can't really say. However, the support that Tableau has given for their other products has been great, so I would assume it would be the same here. They are also constantly adding new features and providing software updates, and that is always a plus.
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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
    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
    Live connections to cloud services (Google Sheets for example) and cloud hosted databases (cloud hosted SIS for example) for scheduled flows are not supported
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    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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    Alternatives Considered
    Tableau
    Before Prep, we had to do all the data joining and connecting in a Tableau Workbook. Not only did this cause workbooks connected with live data to run frustratingly slowly, a new connection and set-up had to be established every time a new workbook as created, even if you were working with the same data. The extracts produced by Prep allow several workbooks to be working from the same data set-up without any additional work, saving time and stress.
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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
    • Quicker data sets for online reports
    • More efficient data cleaning Ad Hoc reports
    • Costly if using data management to schedule data pull and cleaning (priced per viewer accounts not creator accounts)
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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