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What is Mode?

Mode, or Mode Analytics, from ThoughtSpot since the June 2023 acquisition, is a business intelligence platform that unifies company analytics by bringing data teams and business teams together, so analysts can provide rapid answers to strategic, ad hoc questions. And,…

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Popular Features

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  • Customizable dashboards (9)
    8.4
    84%
  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (9)
    7.7
    77%
  • Integration with R or other statistical packages (9)
    7.4
    74%
  • Formatting capabilities (9)
    6.8
    68%
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What is Mode?

Mode, or Mode Analytics, from ThoughtSpot since the June 2023 acquisition, is a business intelligence platform that unifies company analytics by bringing data teams and business teams together, so analysts can provide rapid answers to strategic, ad hoc questions. And, business stakeholder can…

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Product Demos

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.5
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.5
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

7.9
Avg 8.4

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

6.5
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

9.4
Avg 8.6

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

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Product Details

What is Mode?

Mode, or Mode Analytics, from ThoughtSpot since the June 2023 acquisition, is a business intelligence platform that unifies company analytics by bringing data teams and business teams together, so analysts can provide rapid answers to strategic, ad hoc questions. And, business stakeholder can access relevant data to answer their own questions which can often detract more impactful work.

With Mode as a central hub for a company’s analysis, data teams and business teams can work with data together with the goal of creating operational efficiency, increasing data literacy, and turning data into a competitive advantage.

Mode Features

BI Platform Features

  • Supported: Live Connection to External Data
  • Supported: In-memory data model

Supported Data Sources Features

  • Supported: Oracle
  • Supported: MS SQL Server
  • Supported: Postgres
  • Supported: MySQL
  • Supported: Salesforce
  • Supported: Google Analytics

BI Standard Reporting Features

  • Supported: Customizable dashboards

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

  • Supported: Drill-down analysis
  • Supported: Formatting capabilities
  • Supported: Predictive modeling
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
  • Supported: Report sharing and collaboration

Report Output and Scheduling Features

  • Supported: Publish to Web
  • Supported: Publish to PDF
  • Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
  • Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Predictive Analytics
  • Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
  • Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages

Access Control and Security Features

  • Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
  • Supported: Role-Based Security Model
  • Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
  • Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features

  • Supported: REST API

Mode Integrations

Mode Competitors

Mode Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

Mode, or Mode Analytics, from ThoughtSpot since the June 2023 acquisition, is a business intelligence platform that unifies company analytics by bringing data teams and business teams together, so analysts can provide rapid answers to strategic, ad hoc questions. And, business stakeholder can access relevant data to answer their own questions which can often detract more impactful work.

Looker, Tableau Desktop, and Sisense for Cloud Data Teams are common alternatives for Mode.

Reviewers rate Report Delivery Scheduling highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of Mode are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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October 03, 2022

BI software designed for analysts

Verified User
Analyst in Product Management
Computer Software Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Mode is a clear category winner for how it easy it is to go from interactive analysis to professional quality reporting. You can easily do all your SQL and quite a bit of R/Python. If you want to quickly go from your database to simple charts, this is your pick. If you need to do heavier data modeling, scheduling jobs, or ML, you'll need something else, like Databricks. In my opinion, the quality of visualizations and some developer/analyst features make Databricks an unacceptable substitute.
May 27, 2022

A Powerful Data Reporting Tool For Collaborative Work

Kofi Obo Wood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kofi Obo Wood
Head of Operations
Waya Limited (Financial Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Mode is well suited for scenarios where one has to do queries in both SQL and R programming allowing for dynamic data pulls. This along with its ability to schedule reports allows for collaborative work with different teams. But unfortunately, it has limited options when it comes to visual charts. Mode also allows for seamless display of data. The SQL environment is quite intuitive and easy to use with chart-building and calculated fields tools stacked on top of the underlying query making the data more accessible to people who have limited SQL knowledge. Unfortunately, Mode can also be quite slow in handling larger data sets and its error handling is not as expansive as one may want.
December 23, 2021

Mode Analytics - Quick data analysis at your fingertips!

Verified User
Manager in Other
Publishing Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for quick analysis and easy to set up and get going. I would not use it as an enterprise BI tool as it has quite a few limitations. Especially when it comes to massive data sets and being able to connect to various data sources.
December 23, 2021

Mode Analytics

Devindra Sooklall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Devindra Sooklall
Data Management
Numerator (Market Research, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Mode is well suited for creating reports that need to be viewed with relative frequency or reports that are difficult to run manually. I believe it has a place in any organization that needs to analyze/visualize/democratize data across stakeholders due to its accessibility and overall ease of use/navigation.
December 21, 2021

Fantastic Product; Account Management is consistently difficult

Verified User
Executive in Product Management
Financial Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Mode Analytics is great for white label embedding (on one hand, the feature hasn't been improved much since we signed up; on the other -- it hasn't needed to improve) -- our reports look excellent. Mode Analytics is also great for a security-first analytics console. Click a button and get right to powerful SQL and Python tooling with your data.
December 21, 2021

Powerful data visualization

Jacob Rossi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jacob Rossi
Help Systems Analyst
Lyft (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
After launching a new contact pathway in a help experience, Mode Analytics can help provide insight into the sentiments from users as well as the engagement with any written content. Numeric outputs are easier to manage, whereas more nuanced/emotional feedback is sometimes hard to quantify (though not impossible if you get creative).
November 30, 2021

Mode Analytics Pros and Cons

RL
Rita Lo
Analytics Lead
Lyft Inc. (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Mode is great for speed and presentation. If you have a business idea, want to see a data prototype to validate your hunch, and need something to easily pull a few lines of SQL code and build a dashboard, Mode is a perfect solution. It's also a tool that allows for easy dashboard sharing. It does not have some of the nuances offered by Tableau but wins out in simplicity/intuitiveness. If you're looking for high-level modeling/forecasting, however, Mode comes up a bit short. Anything requiring a lot of processing power should be moved to a dedicated notebook/programming environment.
November 09, 2020

For the advanced user

AR
Alexandre Rezende
Quantitative Researcher
Save (Financial Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
For any data scientists or engineers willing to do advanced analytics. The simple analytics in it are hard to do. And business users with no knowledge of SQL will have a problem to even get started. The availability of Python and JS will give advanced users a lot of flexibility without the need to learn anything new. IT will just streamline access to data and management of notebook versions.
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