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    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
    ThoughtSpot
    Editions & Modules
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
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    Pricing Offerings
    ThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    ThoughtSpot
    Considered Both Products
    ThoughtSpot
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    Great ease of use for business users and self-service capabilites
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    It stacks up well against these modern BI tools. These are the most popular tools and its ability to perform well with live connections gives it an advantage. However, having more control over formatting/customization would allow it to go further. Plus, developing a stronger …
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    I think PBI was terribly slow and clunky. UI was outdated. Solution was expensive for what we needed. ThoughtSpot was worlds different (in a better way).
    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
    It is more flexible and PowerBI, easier work online, and share information with many users. Also the dashboards and beautiful, and the user experience is better. Performance used to be faster.

    We use Looker for different use cases but, when it comes to reporting and sharing …
    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 provided a twist on the typical Analytics / report builder interface. The natural language query building is just so much easier to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot is easy to build charts and it is probably the easiest tool to build things quickly. The quality of the charts is middle if not lower pack compared to others. The dbt integration is wildly oversold and does not add any value.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot can handle large datasets A LOT better.
    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
    Thoughtspot is a fairly new tool when compared to Tableau. I'll just list the benefits of each one of threse below -
    Tableau -
    1. Much more customizable the Thoughtspot
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    Have not used as much, tried ThoughtSpot out for the first time for evaluation and testing purposes to see if this type of software would be helpful.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    Much easier to handle for quick turnaround analytics projects
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    we were looking for something which provides self service capabilities and something which very eay to use from users perspective.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    I liked thought spot because of the ad-hoc capabilities and their search functionality.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot is more powerful of a tool than something like QlikView or QlikSense with the correct training.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot is my top choice from the above two as the UI is the most modern and user-friendly as well.
    Incentivized
    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, …
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    much more extensible and much easier to embed
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    Compare to Kibana, which was we used previously, ThoughtSpot is definitely better in terms of UI, visualizations, usability, and the SpotIQ/ML components. The only disadvantage for ThoughtSpot is the lack of drill-down function/click-on filters.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    The main reason for selecting Thoughtspot was to share reporting with other external vendors and ease of doing business.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    We have been using Tableau as the enterprise reporting tool and felt sending data to external people had few restrictions hence we tried with ThoughtSpot.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot can similarly generate tables, visuals, and dashboards in Tableau, but in a faster and easier way.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    We liked the support we were getting in the sales process (this has continued to be fantastic), I personally knew several people in the company. In the pilot we ran, our devs enjoyed working with ThoughtSpot.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    ThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.189 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.5
    91 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.390 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.090 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages5.949 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Publish to Web8.155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.478 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.364 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers8.035 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    86 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.585 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.079 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.565 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.913 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    86 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.282 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.974 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.778 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.816 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.772 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    53 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.051 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.734 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.746 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    51 Ratings
    7% below category average
    REST API7.342 Ratings
    Javascript API6.835 Ratings
    iFrames8.134 Ratings
    Java API7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.235 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.115 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    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
    ThoughtSpot
    It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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    Support Rating
    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
    ThoughtSpot
    inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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    Online Training
    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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    Implementation Rating
    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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    Alternatives Considered
    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
    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
    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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    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