ThoughtSpot vs. Yellowfin

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot 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)
Yellowfin
Score 8.8 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Yellowfin is a cloud-based business intelligence and dashboarding platform.
$250
per month
Pricing
ThoughtSpotYellowfin
Editions & Modules
Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
$50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ThoughtSpotYellowfin
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ThoughtSpotYellowfin
Features
ThoughtSpotYellowfin
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
7.3
89 Ratings
12% below category average
Yellowfin
7.6
15 Ratings
6% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.021 Ratings7.08 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.289 Ratings8.315 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.725 Ratings7.513 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
7.5
91 Ratings
7% below category average
Yellowfin
8.2
15 Ratings
4% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.490 Ratings8.714 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.290 Ratings8.715 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages5.749 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.688 Ratings8.714 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
8.3
84 Ratings
1% above category average
Yellowfin
-
Ratings
Publish to Web8.255 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.678 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.564 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.135 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
7.4
86 Ratings
8% below category average
Yellowfin
7.0
15 Ratings
8% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.585 Ratings7.015 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.679 Ratings6.715 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.565 Ratings7.313 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.913 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
8.1
86 Ratings
5% below category average
Yellowfin
7.7
14 Ratings
1% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.282 Ratings7.314 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.974 Ratings7.012 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.778 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control7.916 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.572 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
7.6
53 Ratings
3% below category average
Yellowfin
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access7.351 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application7.234 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.146 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
7.1
51 Ratings
9% below category average
Yellowfin
6.6
8 Ratings
10% below category average
REST API6.942 Ratings6.68 Ratings
Javascript API6.535 Ratings6.38 Ratings
iFrames8.134 Ratings7.57 Ratings
Java API7.013 Ratings7.08 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.335 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.115 Ratings6.06 Ratings
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User Ratings
ThoughtSpotYellowfin
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(91 ratings)
8.7
(15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(85 ratings)
8.3
(10 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(3 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(3 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(4 ratings)
5.6
(7 ratings)
In-Person Training
5.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
4.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(3 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ThoughtSpotYellowfin
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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Idera, Inc.
We can recommend this software without hesitation, as it has the ability to generate reports and data analysis, as well as process the data automatically, which saves time. It is ideal for small and medium-sized companies that wish to improve their services in the business world
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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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Idera, Inc.
  • Yellowfin’s Storyboard, Timeline and Collaborative tools make it easy to share data and insights across an organisation.
  • Strong Operational and Executive Dashboards that reflect the business KPIs and can send out prompts to people within the business based on rules.
  • Yellowfin makes it incredibly easy to create dynamic reports and dashboards which incorporate maps through locational intelligence functionality.
  • Yellowfin is a single license and all access is via a web browser making it perfect for both on-premise and cloud deployment. Mobile apps are also available.
  • User roles and source filtering allows Admin/IT to offer different functions/views by user group/role.
  • Mobile BI applications to support any device ..
  • API connectors ( YF 7.2 on the way in Mar16 ) for a range of third-party Web-based applications, data sources, Enterprises CRM/ERP apps & open data platform apps, including Salesforce, Google Analytics, Twitter, Youtube , Zoho CRM, XE.com & more coming to make endusers to integrate their applications for better benefits
  • Yellowfin Integration with Predictive analytical and Big Data processing tools like R, UDF, Spark to build rich applications for end users
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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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Idera, Inc.
  • The ability to predefine a colour for a specific graph as a selection option dynamically.
  • The ability to customise the label of a chart, especially with respect to performance related reporting graphs we need an increase in dynamic charting options to meet our more specialised requirements.
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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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Idera, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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.
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Idera, Inc.
As mentioned previously, if a newer company is looking for a strong, polished BI tool, Yellowfin would be a great software vendor to consider. Unfortunately, the high cost might be a barrier to these newer companies who dont have any legacy software/agreements such as an EA agreement with Microsoft.
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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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Idera, Inc.
99.9% availability
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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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Idera, Inc.
No answers on this topic
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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Idera, Inc.
They have good support in what they provide. But what they provide is not what is promised. I would stay with them if I can. Be very careful before signing up with them. They are not what they seem in the sales pitches. Be very careful and make sure you test and test before you sign up.
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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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Idera, Inc.
Yellowfin provides 3 levels of training to support consumers, business analytics, developers and Administrations :
  1. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 1 (Exploration)
  2. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 2 (Advanced)
  3. Yellowfin BI Training - Level 3(Expert)
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Online Training
ThoughtSpot
poor instructions
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Idera, Inc.
Web-based training for large audiences for Level 1 and Level 2 I would suggest
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Implementation Rating
ThoughtSpot
Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Idera, Inc.
Design the data model and views for each dashboard is very important and it is the success factor Configuration of cluster for large implementation
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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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Idera, Inc.
Yellow Fin platform is browser agnostic and is accessible from desktops as well as mobile devices. It is very simple and fast, it is integrated with Big Data, clients do not require a great training. It just works. But it’s easier to have things on the cloud, especially if you need to use different computers. Yellow Fin lacks the cloud feature.
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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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Idera, Inc.
- Tested 500 con-current users in Linux platform with 4 cores systems - Tested with cloud based VM - Tested with 1000 reads per minutes
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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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Idera, Inc.
  • made our org more data centric
  • Decisions are made based on data vs opinion
  • has created a single source of truth for the bulk of the organization
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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

Yellowfin Screenshots

Screenshot of Location IntelligenceScreenshot of Yellowfin DashboardScreenshot of Yellowfin SignalsScreenshot of Yellowfin MobileScreenshot of Yellowfin Sales KPIs