ThoughtSpot vs. Yellowfin

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot is an AI-Powered Analytics company, that aims to create a more fact-driven world with an easy to use analytics platform. ThoughtSpot enables users to leverage natural language search powered by large language models to ask and answer data questions. Users within an organization can limitlessly engage with live data in any popular cloud data platform to create and interact with granular, hyper…
$95
per month
Yellowfin
Score 7.9 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 Team
$95
per month flat subscription
ThoughtSpot Analytics Pro
starts at $30,000
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Analytics Enterprise
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Pro
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Enterprise
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
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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
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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
ThoughtSpotYellowfin
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
6.7
79 Ratings
20% below category average
Yellowfin
6.2
12 Ratings
28% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.021 Ratings5.85 Ratings
Customizable dashboards6.579 Ratings6.212 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.725 Ratings6.511 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
6.8
80 Ratings
18% below category average
Yellowfin
6.6
12 Ratings
21% below category average
Drill-down analysis7.580 Ratings6.711 Ratings
Formatting capabilities5.679 Ratings7.112 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages6.345 Ratings6.38 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration7.778 Ratings6.511 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
7.8
74 Ratings
7% below category average
Yellowfin
5.9
11 Ratings
34% below category average
Publish to Web7.648 Ratings6.411 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.169 Ratings6.211 Ratings
Report Versioning7.918 Ratings5.89 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.557 Ratings5.611 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers6.830 Ratings5.55 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
6.6
76 Ratings
20% below category average
Yellowfin
5.9
12 Ratings
31% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.175 Ratings6.012 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.071 Ratings5.812 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.058 Ratings5.810 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.27 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
7.4
75 Ratings
15% below category average
Yellowfin
6.3
11 Ratings
31% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)7.773 Ratings6.311 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model6.966 Ratings6.510 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.170 Ratings6.410 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control7.78 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.762 Ratings5.94 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
7.6
46 Ratings
5% below category average
Yellowfin
6.7
8 Ratings
17% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access7.644 Ratings6.25 Ratings
Mobile Application7.427 Ratings6.48 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.939 Ratings6.28 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
6.9
44 Ratings
14% below category average
Yellowfin
6.1
5 Ratings
26% below category average
REST API6.535 Ratings6.15 Ratings
Javascript API6.429 Ratings5.45 Ratings
iFrames7.227 Ratings6.05 Ratings
Java API7.013 Ratings6.35 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.328 Ratings6.55 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.115 Ratings6.55 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
ThoughtSpotYellowfin
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(80 ratings)
6.3
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.7
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(75 ratings)
6.3
(7 ratings)
Availability
8.7
(3 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.7
(3 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(4 ratings)
5.7
(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
7.7
(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
Well suited for my clients for a Macro view of business insights, credit risk, ESG insights, etc. However, I think ThoughtSpot needs to make exploring underlying data easier, adding a feature where you can click on charts and filters will help users and especially business users to easily understand the granularities as well.
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Yellowfin
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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Yellowfin
  • 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
  • Ability to build a single dashboard tile containing the main value, a sparkline, and a percent change over time
  • Easy way to build a user experience that allows for selecting different metrics to trend from a drop-down on a multi-axis graph
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Yellowfin
  • 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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Yellowfin
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Usability
ThoughtSpot
The tool is easy to use if you know what you are doing and looking for. I know as they work towards improvements and simple language it will become even easier, but as of now they are doing a great job but there is room for improvement.
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Yellowfin
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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Yellowfin
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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Yellowfin
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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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Yellowfin
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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Yellowfin
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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Yellowfin
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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Yellowfin
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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Yellowfin
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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Yellowfin
- 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
  • Positive ROI immediately seen for first POC.
  • Saved an immense amount of time for a sole analyst on a team by enabling the end-users to ask their own questions instead of always turning to her, allowing her to focus on other priorities.
  • Immediate answer to question on second POC that led to personnel changes.
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Yellowfin
  • Yellowfin gives us a BI tool that is incredibly sleek, which leads our data to be clean, concise, and in an "easy-to-digest" format.
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ScreenShots

ThoughtSpot Screenshots

Screenshot of ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of A Liveboard for drill downScreenshot of Live query, to connect to cloud data platformsScreenshot of Search to analyze and visualize dataScreenshot of A look at queries runScreenshot of Consuming insights on iOS app

Yellowfin Screenshots

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