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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Tableau Public

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ATableau Public is a free edition of the Desktop product. With this edition, data can only be published to the Tableau public website and does not allow work to be saved or exported locally.

    $0

    per month

    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 PublicThoughtSpot
    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
    Tableau PublicThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Tableau PublicThoughtSpot
    Considered Both Products
    Tableau
    No answer on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    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
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    Tableau PublicThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Public and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Public
    9.8
    12 Ratings
    19% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports9.710 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.012 Ratings8.189 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.712 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Public and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Public
    9.7
    12 Ratings
    21% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.5
    91 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Drill-down analysis9.812 Ratings8.390 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.712 Ratings7.090 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.59 Ratings5.949 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.811 Ratings8.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Public and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Public
    9.5
    11 Ratings
    15% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Publish to Web10.011 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF10.09 Ratings8.478 Ratings
    Report Versioning9.89 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.69 Ratings8.364 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.17 Ratings7.935 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Public and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Public
    9.8
    11 Ratings
    23% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    86 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.811 Ratings7.585 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.811 Ratings7.079 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.79 Ratings7.565 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.913 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Public and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Public
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    86 Ratings
    5% 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 Ratings8.772 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Public and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Public
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    53 Ratings
    6% 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 Public and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Tableau Public
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    51 Ratings
    7% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.342 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings6.835 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.134 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.235 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Tableau PublicThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.8
    (9 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 PublicThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Tableau
    Tableau public is the best platform to build dashboards for your personal profile and share with recruiters. It's always good to keep ourselves updated on the latest features, create sample dashboards and save them to a personal profile. Tableau public is free and doesn't need any subscription. anyone can create an account and start building reports.
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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
    • Data visualization: lots of different options, including bar, scatter, pie, waterfall charts to explore relationships between variables, and to present findings/trends to different teams
    • Integrates readily with limited, though different data sources: TXT, CSV, TDE, Access
    • Exports reports for review of different dashboards: client-ready/team-ready, with a clean and tidy presentation in PDF format (or hardcopy)
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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
    • Tableau Public (both Desktop and Server) like their "for a fee" counterparts offer very easy to learn and use tools to transform data into pictures and gain insights into your data. Most organizations report a reduction in development time of 10x vs. other similar tools, due to the intuitive user interface. That said, with Tableau Public, published workbooks are "disconnected" from the underlying data sources and require periodic updates when the data changes. Users are limited to 1 Gb of storage space per user ID and password as well.
    • I would like to see better options for public sharing of visualizations and data from within the "for a fee" products as more and more organizations are moving in the direction of data sharing with partners and their communities.
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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's free, right? I'll keep using the free version. So the real question to ask is this? Will I pay $999 for the Personal version or $1,999 for the Professional? Yikes! That is a big stretch. I'm not sure about that. The product comparison chart is at: http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/comparison
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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
    Tableau public is a great training tool to understand the basics of Tableau before buying it. A great tool to extend Excel's visualization and to publish data for others. Not useful for anything you need secure. No ability to access databases. Static information only.
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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 yet required to contact support as the documentation and help i found online has always worked so far
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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
    I found it sufficient, and fast. I could easily "kick the tires" with Tableau on my data so I got up and running fast.
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    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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    Implementation Rating
    Tableau
    Start at the end and work backward. Identify the business case / issue and questions the end users have, then identify the data needed, and where to get it.
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    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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    Alternatives Considered
    Tableau
    Google Charts/Drive is sufficient for simpler data sets, but it does not integrate with other web platforms and the visualization does not look as professional. I'm not aware of any other competitors that offer the same package as Microsoft.
    Incentivized
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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
    • Tableau Public visualizations have helped drive traffic to our content and sites
    • The lack of cost means it's easy to demonstrate our experience to attract paying clients
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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