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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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)

    Zendesk Explore

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AZendesk offers Explore, a business intelligence and customer analytics tool which integrates with the Zendesk suite featuring ticket analytics, custom fields, dashboards, and other features. Zendesk is migrating customers of the BIME analytics product, which is approaching end of support, to Zendesk Explore in 2019.N/A
    Pricing
    ThoughtSpotZendesk Explore
    Editions & Modules
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
    Custom
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ThoughtSpotZendesk Explore
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ThoughtSpotZendesk Explore
    Considered Both Products
    ThoughtSpot
    No answer on this topic
    Zendesk
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    ThoughtSpotZendesk Explore
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of ThoughtSpot and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    9.0
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports6.021 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.189 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.725 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of ThoughtSpot and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.5
    91 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    6.7
    10 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Drill-down analysis8.390 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.090 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages5.949 Ratings4.85 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.888 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of ThoughtSpot and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web8.155 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.478 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.918 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.364 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.935 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of ThoughtSpot and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    86 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.1
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.585 Ratings6.66 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.079 Ratings7.16 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.565 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.913 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of ThoughtSpot and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    86 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.3
    10 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.282 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.974 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.678 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.816 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.772 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of ThoughtSpot and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    53 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    7 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.051 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.734 Ratings8.32 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.746 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of ThoughtSpot and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    51 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    4.9
    5 Ratings
    45% below category average
    REST API7.342 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Javascript API6.835 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    iFrames8.134 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Java API7.013 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.235 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.115 Ratings3.13 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    ThoughtSpotZendesk Explore
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Sisense
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ThoughtSpotZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ThoughtSpotZendesk Explore
    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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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Explore is well suited for tracking ticket flow, agent performance, and customer satisfaction providing valuable insights into response and resolution time, workload and support quality. Particularly useful for monitoring ticket handling for different teams. Helps ensure accountability by tracking how long tickets remain assigned before being reassigned to another group. Drill down capability helps identify support bottlenecks. However, it is less appropriate for real time monitoring as it lacks real time data updates making it unsuitable for instant decision making.
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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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    Zendesk
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to use.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom metrics.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom attributes.
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to learn.
    • Compared to other analytics function of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is probably the best as of now.
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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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    Zendesk
    • Some aspects of Zendesk, in general, are not super intuitive. The same goes for Zendesk Explore. And, while you can google answers and hope you find something helpful, there isn't a great way to learn to get the full potential out of the product unless you want to pay for someone from your team to take a class (which costs several hundred dollars).
    • To piggyback off the last point, if you would prefer to get help from a Zendesk expert, you'll find that there is almost no customer support available to you. For a company that aims to help other companies help their customers, this has always struck me as odd. Again, Google is your friend and beyond that, you're mostly out of luck.
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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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    Zendesk
    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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    Zendesk
    I rate Zendesk Explore 8 out of 10 for it's overall usability because it offers powerful reporting and analytics with an easy to navigate interface and intuitive dashboards. It helps improve customer satisfaction by providing valuable insights into ticket handling, agent performance and customer satisfaction. Though the complex query builder can be challenging for non technical users.
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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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    Zendesk
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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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    Zendesk
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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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    Zendesk
    Support for all of Zendesk has exceeding my expectations. This company will always get a 10 out of 10 in my book. Any question you have they make sure you have the answer plus a step-by-step guide on how to do each step so you are set up for success!
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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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    Zendesk
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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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    Zendesk
    I selected Zendesk Explore only to provide an easy and quick access for my managers and supervisors regading metrics and volume trends. Is not the most flexible nor complete data visualization tool, but works well for day-to-day follow ups. You need to use another tool if you want to see long-term patterns (e.g. month over month volume trends) and you need another platform if you want your interaction metrics to interact with other important factors of the business
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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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    Zendesk
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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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    Zendesk
    • Money saved due to proper staffing.
    • Happier Staff- proper staffing ensures no one is overworked.
    • Ability to quickly pinpoint where issues are and why.
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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