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ThoughtSpot

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What is ThoughtSpot?

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.…

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Popular Features

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  • Report sharing and collaboration (76)
    7.9
    79%
  • Drill-down analysis (78)
    7.7
    77%
  • Customizable dashboards (77)
    6.8
    68%
  • Formatting capabilities (77)
    5.8
    58%

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ThoughtSpot Analytics Team

$95

Cloud
per month flat subscription

ThoughtSpot Analytics Pro

starts at $30,000

Cloud
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use

ThoughtSpot Analytics Enterprise

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Cloud
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.thoughtspot.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $95 per month
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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

6.8
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

6.9
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

7.7
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.

7.2
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

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

8.3
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.7
Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

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

7
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

What is ThoughtSpot?

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-personalized, and actionable insights. Customers can use both ThoughtSpot’s web and mobile applications to improve decision-making. ThoughtSpot’s low-code developer-friendly platform, ThoughtSpot Everywhere, lets customers embed AI-Powered Analytics to their products and services, monetizing their data and engaging users. ThoughtSpot boasts users among organizations like T-Mobile, CVS, Comcast, BT, Ecolab, Wells Fargo, OpenTable, Huel, and Albertsons, who rely on ThoughtSpot to transform how their employees and customers take advantage of data. ThoughtSpot can be tried free for 30 days.

ThoughtSpot Features

BI Platform Features

  • Supported: Administration via Web Interface
  • Supported: Live Connection to External Data
  • Supported: Snapshot of External Data
  • Supported: In-memory data model
  • Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
  • Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
  • Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
  • Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
  • Supported: ETL Capability

Supported Data Sources Features

  • Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
  • Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
  • Supported: Oracle
  • Supported: MS SQL Server
  • Supported: IBM DB2
  • Supported: Postgres
  • Supported: MySQL
  • Supported: ODBC
  • Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
  • Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
  • Supported: EMC Greenplum
  • Supported: IBM Netezza
  • Supported: HP Vertica
  • Supported: SAP Hana
  • Supported: Teradata
  • Supported: Salesforce
  • Supported: SAP
  • 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
  • Supported: Delivery to Remote Servers

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
  • Supported: Predictive Analytics
  • Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
  • Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
  • 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: Report-Level Access Control
  • Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
  • Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
  • Supported: Mobile Application
  • Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features

  • Supported: REST API
  • Supported: Javascript API
  • Supported: iFrames
  • Supported: Themeable User Interface (UI)

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 appScreenshot of ThoughtSpot Everywhere developer playgroundScreenshot of ThoughtSpot EverywhereScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of SpotApps library of analytics use case templatesScreenshot of ThoughtSpot Modeling Language (TML)Screenshot of Integration with dbt models and metricsScreenshot of The analytics catalog, to search on trending answers and LiveboardsScreenshot of AI-guided suggestion, to modify existing answers, ask the next question, and uncover deeper insights

ThoughtSpot Videos

ThoughtSpot lets anyone use search ask any question, find insights, and drill infinitely into their company data in seconds. Or get automated insights, when needed.
ThoughtSpot Everywhere: Engaging analytics experiences with search & AI. Businesses today run on apps, and those apps run on data. Too often, however, that data is presented in stale, static dashboards. Users want to be able to surface and explore insights on their own.
Getting more from data in spreadsheets, with ThoughtSpot for Sheets.
How ThoughtSpot Sync enables users to operationalize insights from ThoughtSpot for business apps in use every day, including Slack, Google Sheets, Microsoft Team, ServiceNow, Salesforce, and HubSpot.
ThoughtSpot and dbt’s integration shows how to use search and AI to run live queries on dbt data models and metrics directly in Snowflake, Databricks, or dbt’s Semantic Layer.
ThoughtSpot Sage combines GPT-3’s natural language processing and generative AI with ThoughtSpot's own patented search technology. With guardrails provided by analysts, anyone, regardless of technical ability, it uncovers AI-generated insights and in plain speak.

ThoughtSpot Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Dansk, Deutsche, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederland, Norsk, Português, Suomi, Svenska, 中文(简体), 日本語

Frequently Asked Questions

ThoughtSpot starts at $95.

Tableau Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, and Looker are common alternatives for ThoughtSpot.

Reviewers rate Report Delivery Scheduling highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of ThoughtSpot are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we use ThoughtSpot as our main dashboard and analytical tool. The main business problem was that most of our analyst team is non-technical but have great expertise in domain knowledge. There was also constrained of the data engineering team and – boarding team not understanding the domain and providing dashboard and analysis Which were time consuming, resource, heavy and not very useful to the analyst team. Hence, we built a use case across operational efficiency, resource management, as well as the use of technology technology to get insights, especially the AI, analytical part of ThoughtSpot. This allows non-technical analyst as well as the account managers to directly create stories and insights which are useful to the client in a quick and easy way.
  • Dashboarding for non-tech people
  • Easy Search of data
  • Ease of getting insights
  • AI driven Analytics
  • Easy to build charts
  • UI
  • Integration with Microsoft products
ThoughtSpot is really useful. If you have domain experts who lack technical abilities and you need them to get to insights and stories real quick. It is not useful when you have large data engineering teams who have the practical knowledge of the domain or the data. Scientist do have the domain knowledge as the product is expensive
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ThoughtSpot allows us to create liveboards that are fast processing when it comes to large datasets. We are able to do live data connections that give us the scalability to find insights that ultimately guide us in strategic management of our data whether it is engineering, marketing, product, etc. This serves a wide array of use cases on whether this is strategy-focused or product-focused.
  • Data connections with live data sources
  • Customer support with chat
  • Ease of use with visual charts
  • formulas are not intuitive
  • need to have totals and percentages into one chart
  • use spotIQ within the liveboards
Large data sources to fast processing speeds onto a liveboard
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is our main BI tool. We use it to give our business users access to all kinds of data.
  • Makes it really easy for nontechnical users to access data.
  • Data models are more complex than other tools.
  • Missing niche features (like table calculations).
It is excellent if you want to give access to a tool to many people who aren't BI experts. We removed our BI teams as a dependency for most users to build out reports and access data. From an admin perspective, there are a handful of frustrations, but we can get over those. I would recommend a more advanced tool like Looker or Tableau if you want very advanced customization options and to build feature-packed dashboards.
Nikhil Sinha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Thoughtspot to enable self-serve analytics on pharmaceutical data.
Thouhtspot's USP is its ease of use for the end users and they get answers from their data in just a few clicks.
Plus, with the introduction of Thoughtspot sage, the Gen AI capabilities provides users with NLP capabilites on their data - which is great for business and HQ users (who are not so tech savvy).
Lastly, feature like SpotIQ provide users with automated analysis and insights on their data - which otherwise would have required some manual intervention from a technical user.
  • Ease of Use
  • Very Fast Querying on even huge datasets
  • Strong data modelling features
  • Customizability of the visualization/liveboards
  • Addition of support for more data warehouse systems
  • Option of creating data extracts
Thoughtspot is great for promoting data democracy to the end users (primarily business users).
It enables them to build simple visualizations and pin multiple of them together on a liveboard just by entering their queries in simple natural language.
But, for building more complex visualizations, Thoughtspot lags behind other (older) BI tools in the market - as it has relatively limited customizability options for visualizations as of now.
Leah Tolan, Ed.S. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Real-time insights and very user-friendly to individuals who do not have excellent knowledge or experience around software management. Accessibility to users to design their reporting and dashboards is beneficial. Tracking data and performance is a plus for me and my colleagues using the software on related programs and projects being created.
  • Data configuration
  • Accessibility and security for data
  • Tracking and progress reports
  • Data does not always match
  • Better updating
  • lacking functionalities and limitations
Team support is great, and very useful if needed. The cloud production is awesome, my favorite part as mentioned previously is the accountability integrations with the dashboard and having useful recommendations around visualizations.
Henri Ajenstat | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We were consulted by a State organization to analyse data collected through a wide scale user survey. Our mandate was to identify the most frequently quoted applications in calls to the Help Desk and understand their impact on overall satisfaction. After clustering by profile, data was imported into ThoughtSpot and relevant questions asked to generate answers as easy to interpret graphical representations.
  • Speed of execution
  • Meanigful statistical constructs
  • Experimental interactions wth data
  • Ease of stating questions in natural language
  • Legends to help interpret results to avoid biais
  • Sophisticated data modeling features (AFC for example)
Regularly, we need to analyse relationships between variables and represent them in a format easy to interpret by non statisticians. ThoughtSpot is of great help in this phase of the analysis to articulate insights backedup by graphical evidence.We are kless at ease with ThoughtSpot where mixed models are required (FC–AFC–FCA). Then we resort to specialised statistical packages (XLSTAT or SPSS).
May 01, 2023

BI consultant

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we are using ThoughtSpot as a self service BI platform where we want our business users to create their own insights and deep dive into the data themselves and as a whole become more data driven company.
  • Generate great insights using spot IQ
  • needs very less technical knowledge so even an agent level employee can use it to generate insights
  • slice and dice data to whatever granular level is needed without creating any explicit hierarchies
  • more pixel perfect dashboarding
  • more option as compared to existing BI tools when it comes to look and feel
for any use case where you users needs immediate or frequent insights from the data.
since license is not at user level so if you need to open data to large employee base
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my organization we use ThoughtSpot to create management dashboards and reports. They include financial- and non financial KPI's.
This product improved the quality of our reports and dashboards. It's flexible and easy to use.
The main problem that we had with other software was the fact that we have multiple sources/databases. ThoughtSpot is able to link them al together but is still easy to use. Great product and easy to use.
  • Combine multiple sources / databases
  • Click and play / drag and drop -> ease to use
  • Cloud based so always available
  • Possible to work at the same time with multiple users
  • Quick and easy learning
  • More training video's for beginners
  • Example or standard reports to show what's possible
[ThoughtSpot is] easy to use. Lot's of possible thing you can do.
No problems combining multiple sources and/or databases.
Great performance.
Nice way to create dashboard and reports. Can handle both financial- and non financial KPI's.
This makes it possible to great the best reports for management and own use.
Cloud based product so always available.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's being used by one department to support many business units. The goal is to better understand when is the best time to contact customers for purchasing. This proves to be a bit difficult as it challenges you as a data analyst to choose the right input data for the software to ingest.
  • The interface is pleasing. Makes you feel like you have access to some future tech software you would see in a Bond film or something.
  • Their customer service has been top notch as far as I can tell.
  • When there are questions they are quick to respond or reach out to colleagues that might better know.
  • Better communicating the limitations of the software. It's not valuable to me to know that it's a sign of success that "purchased" is included in the data set for successful transactions.
  • Giving direction on data cleanliness could be improved.
Even though I am not in the contract discussions or know pricing, my understanding is that it is a very expensive product. I'm not certain we are ready to extract the value we should out of this relationship, yet. I believe that by improving our data set by including real-time data instead of just historic we could potentially be better at utilizing this product.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We had initially purchased it to embed a dashboard for external users, but currently are using it for product discovery work.
  • Thoughtspot allows users to easily access data for ad hoc reporting.
  • Great features including notifications, drilldowns, and search.
  • Easy user access management.
  • We ran into issues when it came to modeling our data because we have billions of rows of data.
  • Sometimes creating the calculations was difficult.
Thoughtspot is well-suited for users who want to access data easily and create reports on their own. It's good for nontechnical users after the data model is set up. Based on my experience, it may be helpful to have help with data modeling during the integration phase.
October 31, 2022

ThoughtSpot Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our no-code AI platform turns unstructured data into structured content to enhance existing models, products, and BI. The current BI tools all lack certain features and ThoughtSpot was the perfect choice to embed within our product. The output from our platform, when visualized with ThoughtSpot is seen very clearly, resonates with our customers, and gives them flexibility into customizing if they so choose. The additional features & querying functionality in ThoughtSpot make it easy to navigate through our data and create visuals that answer the questions a user asks.
  • 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.
  • Drill down in a dashboard could be improved, with the ability to click around the various visuals to then filter down the entire dashboard (i.e., click on a date and all visuals reflect data from that date).
  • For some of the visuals, additional color representation would be nice in some cases. When working with the sentiment, sometimes a green to red gradient is desired by an end-user.
ThoughtSpot is well suited for: Embedding use cases Working with large volumes of data (>TBs) Use cases that involve lots of questions from an end-user, the search querying, and SpotIQ helps out here ThoughtSpot is not well suited for: Use cases that want an easier drill down/filtering with the visuals Users who want a word cloud of any kind.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ThoughtSpot is used to visualize outputs from NLP/AI use cases for our client. It helps to visualize output and show various trends to help clients make decisions with investment research, credit risk, ESG insights, and so on.
  • Clean UI, I like the UI as it looks very clean and modern.
  • Filters, ability to create custom filers and explore data underlying in tables.
  • 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.
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ThoughtSpot is a very important data analysis software for our company and department that has been used because it has been collaborating in deep and accurate analysis based on different graphs, databases, tables, and illustrative panels for business decision making. We have already had experience with several types of software of this type, but the ThoughtSpot software is the one that has more assertiveness in facts. Its level of customization is greatly improved in the interface and brings better quality in the presentation of results and reports. Technical support is another strong point because it has a fast and punctual service in solving the problem or question.
  • User-friendly and customizable interface.
  • Function to create personalized reports and rich in details of the analyzed data.
  • Very fast and accurate in the content filter.
  • Smart dashboard, graphs and tables to illustrate the information to the analyst.
  • Real time analysis.
  • Graphs are excellent ways of visualizing the data, but I feel like there are very few options available in terms of choice. It can be improved.
  • It's complex for beginners. Training or intensive is required to learn all the features and get the most out of the software.
It is a cloud software with great BI analysis and artificial intelligence capabilities and excellent real-time data analysis capabilities in graphs and dashboards and data export in reports. We recommend it to anyone interested in this kind of intelligent and accurate information analysis technology that can aid decision-making, business, and development. The insights we use are always reliable and help us every day. I recommend technical support because they always helped us to clear doubts about the software and features.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Piloted in the claims department to easily aggregate large amounts of data to identify any trends over time.
  • Intuitive
  • Fast
  • Proactive
  • Better chart recommendations
  • Visualizations are often not effective
It can be very useful with some training and overcoming the learning curve.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We embedded ThoughSpot into our AI no-code platform to enhance the BI function of our product.
  • Easy to use UI
  • Wide selections of visualizations
  • Embrace Connector
  • Drill down filter/ability to apply a filter to pinboard by clicking directly on the visualizations
  • Lack of color customization
  • More charts size options/ability to customize the charts size and shape
We selected ThoughtSpot because it's easy to embed into our platform. Also, features like SpotIQ are exciting and useful for our clients to analyze our data.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Thoughtspot is currently embedded in our product as the last mile visualization. It provides our organization the ability to sell with/to/through the entire FSI ecosystem.
  • Easy to embed
  • Easy to deploy
  • last mile capabilities
  • great search analytics
  • drill downs
  • flashy visualizations
  • AI thresholding
Great for embedded analytics, and search analytic capabilities.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Mainly used to cater reporting needs to our external vendors. In our current scenario, we were not able to share our reporting with our vendors due to our security reasons and protocols. So, as an option to venture into other tools, we choose Thoughtspot.
  • Speed
  • Search Option
  • Business user friendly
  • AI powered tool
  • Quick TMT
  • Limitation on visualizations
  • Graph - Chart options
  • Colour changes options / Formatings Improvements
  • Answer arrangement options on Pinboard
Well suited in:
- Sharing information where multiple departments are involved.
- Quick turn-around is required.
- Where more business analysts are involved.

Not suited for:
- IT based infrastructure
- Pinboards requiring complex formatting
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are trying to build the overall analytics in ThoughtSpot with different metrics and use cases. The purpose we bought in ThoughtSpot is to give access to external users for a better understanding of the reporting point. But we see there are a lot of limitations with the product where the analyst finds it difficult to show the pinboard as he wants to.
  • Its very fast in retrieving data
  • data model creation seems to be easy handled
  • search option is great
  • Need more vizualizations
  • Limitations in lot of cosmetic changes like font ,color etc
  • Drill down function have to be improved
Overall the product is very much fast and AI features are interesting. But need a lot of improvements as such in the product development, enable more options for cosmetic changes. Limitations in the pinboard need to be addressed like selector placement, rearranging the filters, more options for sizing of the answers in the pinboard.
November 28, 2021

ThoughtSpot Trial

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[My] department conducted a trial period of the ThoughtSpot software.
  • Data visualization
  • Data summary
  • Generating report tables
  • Data manipulation
  • Merging related data sources
  • Model building
  • Statistical analysis
ThoughtSpot is well suited to summarize and visualize clean data in an interactive way.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are utilizing ThoughtSpot to gain additional insight into our customer's characteristics and behaviors. ThoughtSpot is currently being used across our organization to help keep all employees educated on how our customers act, what our most popular items/pages are, looking at trends, etc. It's been a great tool thus far.
  • ThoughtSpot provides the ease of creating reports based on the metrics you're looking for.
  • I personally like how you can have a report template and then easily add new columns to your report based on your KPI's.
  • I like how you can add visual graphs to the pinboard and it's not just the data, but I also like that you can export the data into excel so you or your customer can manipulate the data to achieve the look and feel you're looking for.
  • There's not really anything that I don't like. In fact, I wish I had more access to the backend features (and not just our engineering team), so I could create even more reports.
Based on my personal use case and the access that I have, I would recommend ThoughtSpot. One of the advantages, besides the obvious, is I like how you can share your pinboard with other members of the company. This way you're not having to re-create the wheel every time a different user wants the same report, and then that user can even customize the report to exactly what they're looking for.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We evaluated ThoughSpot for a pilot to make market research/voice of the consumer data more accessible. The pilot did not launch, but ThoughtSpot was brought into our organization to be used with Snowflake to enhance our overall data access through the "data lake." It is being used by multiple departments but siloed on the IT and data science side.
  • It provides user-friendly access to complex analysis for those with limited program experience.
  • It has a fair pricing model with unlimited users that pay for the data processing usage.
  • It provides good customer service and partnership that's reliable and able to solve issues quickly.
  • I would appreciate easier access to test or pilots for implementation.
  • I would like a "lite" version for new or non-power users.
ThoughtSpot is great for mining data insights across data sets with ease. It is great for generating insights for single data sources as other tools can perform that same function. In today's world, however, the more data the better. Thoughtspot helps make those connections and makes it easier for less tech-savvy users to perform advanced analytics.
Chris Mann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using the ThoughtSpot embedded product to build out our B2B marketing revenue attribution product called Cortex.
  • Embedding reports into a multi tenant SaaS product
  • Creating custom dashboards
  • Data exploration via natural search
  • 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
If you are building an embedded app, ThoughtSpot is a great solution. If you are looking for all of the nuanced BI features that you see in more mature BI tools, make sure ThoughtSpot has the features you need.
Tawanna Armstrong | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are in the process of rolling out ThoughtSpot across the organization. This tool addresses the evaluation of different use cases across the different CRE business lines. The business can quickly connect to data and gain insights that are specific to their use cases ie space across a portfolio, spend across services, trends, etc.
  • Ease of use for non-technical users
  • Provides quick insights
  • Ease of use to connect to data
  • Custom reporting capabilities for application usage for clients to develop
  • Content management to group or assign content by different entities
ThoughtSpot is great for any user group that wants to quickly flush out quick questions to specific use cases.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use [ThoughtSpot] as a data discovery engine. We have rolled it out to some of our clients and they use it to build pinboards to assist them to run their business and to report to executives the results of their work and efforts over the past week, month, or quarter.
  • Quick to insights
  • Beautiful charts
  • Easy to set up
  • Print to PDF is not fully supported and that has a big impact on sharing pinboards with executives.
  • In my opinion, customer support is slow to react and often leads to an endless circle of tickets that sometimes never get resolved. I feel like this involves finger-pointing from one team to another and I find it very frustrating.
  • The search bar is really nothing like Google search. In my experience, the cursor moves in odd places and the results of a basic search are far more difficult to get than a Google search. I feel like it's a long way to go here.
You need to know [ThoughtSpot] well and have lots of hours using it in order to really use it well. Setting up quick answers and pinboards for business users works fine, but the tool can be very difficult for non-analytic folks to use. It looks clean and simple, but it does not live up to what we have hoped it would be.
Prashast Vaish | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ThoughtSpot is currently being used by my department and not the whole organization. I work for an insurance client and am responsible for data analytics and visualization. Graphs and other visualizations provide a clearer understanding of what the data says and this is where ThoughtSpot comes in. My clients are trying to move completely to ThoughtSpot for any visualization requirements.
  • ThoughtSpot is great at using artificial intelligence to give some automated insights from data.
  • ThoughtSpot allows you to source data from multiple data stores like Redshift, Excel, etc.
  • Querying on ThoughtSpot is super easy.
  • It provides a wide variety of visualization.
  • Since ThoughtSpot is not widely used, there are very few tutorials.
  • ThoughtSpot needs to include a lot more customization in their visualizations.
  • Sometimes, ThoughtSpot is buggy and clients need to contact their support to resolve issues.
ThoughtSpot is by far the best BI tool for business users who are not that tech-savvy. Since querying is super easy and very intuitive, users can get insights in no time. It also supports natural language processing for querying data which takes it a step ahead of other tools. Since ThoughtSpot only charges you based on the storage you use, it helps reduce costs as well. ThoughtSpot lags behind when a user requires a lot of customization in their visualizations. It also does not have a free version for users to try and see for themselves.
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