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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. 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.
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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)
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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 Integrations
- dbt
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Sheets
- Microsoft Excel
- HubSpot CRM
- ServiceNow Customer Service Management
- Gainsight PX
- Salesforce
- Zoho
- Looker Modeler
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ThoughtSpot Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | English, Dansk, Deutsche, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederland, Norsk, Português, Suomi, Svenska, 中文(简体), 日本語 |
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ThoughtSpot starts at $95.
Reviewers rate Report Delivery Scheduling highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of ThoughtSpot are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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August 20, 2021
In My Opinion: A Work in Progress
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.
August 16, 2021
The New Generation BI Tool
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.
August 07, 2021
ThoughtSpot Works Well With Snowflake
ThoughtSpot is being used across multiple departments in the company. In our department, we are using it for transactional data analytics, for example, what was the revenue of a partner in a certain period of time for a certain business unit or product.
- Integration with Snowflake
- On-the-fly analytics
- Easy to use
- Limited visualization charts options
- Look & feel of the charts (limited customization options, like colors, etc.)
- Performance on large data sets
July 24, 2021
Accurate, easy to use product!
We can use ThoughtSpot to locate lease information very quickly. We can also use ThoughtSpot to locate pre-recorded calls very quickly. I am in the collections department, so ThougthSpot is also used for our credit card tracker.
- Fast - never have to wait a long time for data to load
- Easy to use
- Can save your favorite searches
- You have to know exactly what key words to search for
July 23, 2021
ThoughtSpot is the best choice for AI augmented BI
ThoughtSpot is used at the division level so all research scientists and business analysts can query into experiment data and process data, get visuals without coding, and access the source data with just a few clicks.
- Ask questions in a natural and meaningful way with a business mindset not restricted by IT skills
- Develop further insights based on search results and recommendations, and vote on quality and relevancy
- Totally shield complexity of tech from end user, so users have consumer-grade UX
- We are surprised to see how this benefited data management and governance
- The productivity gain is enormous
- Customizable UI with minimum coding
- Link to main stream ML platform such as Databricks and AWS Sagemaker
July 23, 2021
ThoughtSpot the King of Adhoc
We use ThoughtSpot throughout our company. The ease of use and the accessibility make it a prime tool for quick research and verification. I work in our Compliance department and I use the tool every day for research. We also have several pinboards setup for quick metrics into several of our more important processes. Each time a new product is released we go to ThoughtSpot to create boards for review.
- Ease of access to company data
- Easy to create and manage pinboards
- I can pull data at any moment for any questions from leaders
- I can review and understand trends and build easy to read reports
- It could be easier to create new worksheets using views
- They removed the ability to have hyperlinks work inside of the search. I use to use hyperlinks in my pinboards but they are no longer clickable.
July 16, 2021
My ThoughtSpot Review
It's my understanding it is used by the whole organization. We, as the Marketing Department use it for customer survey results, email metrics, and overall business performance.
- Ability to update and make dashboards.
- Easy to collaborate with other team members.
- Simple interface.
- For us as an organization, the hardest part is making sure we're aligned on how we look at the data.
- It can be easy for data to be manipulated in different ways (this goes along with the first bullet point).
July 14, 2021
ThoughtSpot: Charts and Graphs
ThoughtSpot is being used across our business to solve an analytical challenge we had that our incumbent vendor was unable to support. The rollout was smooth and we encountered only medium issues during the rollout following a fairly drawn out and fraught negotiation with the vendor in the UK.
- Analytics
- Support
- Details
- Sales process
- Negotiations
- Staffing
January 21, 2021
ThoughtSpot
It's used across the whole organization. It's been useful for addressing the big amount of queries we receive on a daily basis, as the platform is user-friendly and you can direct people that normally wouldn't run a report in a ERP.
- Intuitive platform, easy to learn how to use it.
- Lots of charts possibilities, and presentation mode saves you hours doing PowerPoint presentations.
- It's quite easy to upload a new database to analyse different datasets.
- There's still some work to be done in presentation mode.
- The tool could be a bit faster.
January 13, 2021
Great tool, even better company!
ThoughtSpot is used widely by organization--roughly 300 active users. It allows users to analyze their data without having to rely on a data analyst. By having a true data democracy, all of our users are able to get the data to make well-informed decisions on their own.
- Self-service data analytics
- Easily search your data using natural language processing
- Ease of use
- Pixel-perfect charting
- Better documentation
- Easier to be picked up by a new user
January 11, 2021
Next Level of Self Service and more
ThoughtSpot is used as an addon to the current BI Landscape. The use case are:<br>- Next Level of Self Service BI<br>- High volume Data to be analyzed by the end user<br>- Reduce the number of used Dashboards by combining data sources and use case into just a few.
- Live Search on Cloud data bases (Snowflake, Redshift, Big Query, Terradata and SAP Hana)
- Speed of search on data set bigger the 20 GB
- Intuitive way to create sharable information
- Using SpotIQ for unexpected insights (Specially the speed)
- ETL Functionality (Dataflow is getting there)
- More data source connectors
- Debugging data loading scripts before using them (Simulation)
- More chart types
Currently developing this as our infusion data insights solution for customer-facing analysis for Infusion medication safety practices and trends. Options are being explored that will be the solution to drive parallel analysis with other BD portfolio products. Speed to insight to identify improvement opportunities and measure outcomes
- Speed to insight within massive data banks
- UI for all learner levels, up to executives (highlights key takeaways to data scientists)
- Graphical output
- Data modeling
- Advance understanding of the problems that the healthcare industry is facing (great at counting cans of tuna, however healthcare has more complexities and variables)
- Account consultant is readily available, however need to use more dedicated time with them to hone my skills
ThoughtSpot enable self-service BI, and is positioned between classical dashboard BI and AI/ML-based Data Science. It opens up opportunities for business users to better understand their data, and to develop insights on this data. Based on the natural language based query language end user can more easily navigate through their data, and build insights graphics per click. Collaboration with peers and insights consumers is enabled through a social media like sharing, commenting and voting experience. All in all a great step towards data driven company. There are similar products, but ThoughtSpot shines in its set of features and capabilities, as well as in the User Experience.
- Natural Language Query formulation
- Immediate response to any change in query or layout
- Foster collaboration on developed insights
- A true SaaS offering (e.g. like Snowflake)
- Packaged installation based on Docker / Kubernetes
- Full-fledged multi tenant support
January 07, 2021
ThoughtSpot makes quick work of searching large data sets
ThoughtSpot is currently being used by our strategy and planning organization. This group is responsible for ad-hoc analysis of data but also gets requests for one-off analysis. We're attempting to leverage ThoughtSpot as a tool for one-off analysis so that users can pull their own data without having to have a deep understanding of the other tools in play for data analysis.
- Data visualization
- Data insights
- Ease of searching
- Lots of hands on IT work needed for initial setup
- Sometimes difficult to develop complex metrics
January 07, 2021
ThoughtSpot for self-service business analysis
ThoughtSpot is available across the organization. Some functions have taken a larger leap in self-service analytics with ThoughtSpot. It helps us with reducing cost and improving efficiency.
- Analysis comes more naturally in ThoughtSpot than in other tools through NLP.
- It ties in very well and effortlessly with our fiscal calendar and makes time series analysis by fiscal dates very efficient.
- Auto ML (Spot IQ) is able to uncover insights that encourage users to dive into areas that they would have not known otherwise.
- Visualization options and graphics colors can be improved.
- Deeper analysis with "growth of" has a lot of untapped potential.
- Administration processes (upgrades, patches, migrations, etc.) can be better.
December 14, 2020
Good data is no accident
ThoughtSpot is primarily used a resource tool. We have Global projects and ThoughtSpot helps us to closely track project hours on a weekly basis. It is also used to estimate project related billing costs.<br>ThoughtSpot is used also as an internal cost management tool given the rapid analytics capability.<br>Many other users have leveraged ThoughtSpot to create basic lists and counts.
- Search through millions of rows of data in seconds.
- Rapid response time with searches.
- The search indexing feature is impressive.
- Content sharing.
- Scheduling.
- Improve the export feature so that PDFs are paginated.
- Pivot table exports need to have column labels included.
- Better user/group security - ability to create special groups as in roles.
- Better ability to report on content, tables(rows loaded, etc.), system reporting leverage search.
- Improve scheduling to allow for report bursting to multiple users/groups/roles from a single Pinboard.
May 10, 2020
ThoughtSpot Review
ThoughSpot is being used increasingly across the organization. It has taken root within merchandising and continues to expand from there. It has helped enable quick access to information for non-technical users. Further data needs to be ingested to unlock the benefits for the supply chain group. Initial attempts to replicate existing reporting in ThoughtSpot have identified some limitations with respect to formatting.
- Speed
- Dynamic ability to drill down/up.
- Ability to share information.
- Initial attempts to replicate existing reporting in ThoughtSpot have identified some limitations with respect to formatting (year over year, week over week comparisons, etc.).
- Creating search string to get the data you want is not as intuitive as it is made out to be.
- Tweaking search string to generate visualizations in desired format is not always clear.
ThoughtSpot is being used by a number of departments at our company. It allows the average user to access data quickly and make sound business decisions.
- Adhoc search.
- Instantaneous visualization.
- Getting access to data fast.
- Formulas - i.e. aggregation of data for common financial time periods are cumbersome.
- Formatting - Not able to apply basic formatting, it makes tables hard to read.
- Querying - Restricted to querying only one worksheet at a time.
- When sharing scheduled reports - PDF or CVS attachments don't do the report justice, format-wise and visually.
April 29, 2020
Remove barriers to your organisation's use of data
We use ThoughtSpot to supplement Tableau in sales analytics and marketing teams. It is used for quick data access and analytics.
- It's fast, and easy to use for non technical users.
- Alternative non-specialist search based analytics tools are all too young to be useful.
- There are no per user fees, so it's possible to democratise access to key data.
- Loading data can be slow.
- Total storage is generally limited by RAM, which makes space relatively expensive (Snowflake connector has potential to mitigate this for some users).
- Cloud option is expensive.
April 19, 2020
An investment in ThoughtSpot provides solid ROI quickly
ThoughtSpot is our data warehouse linked to our application for daily use by end-users as well as internally by al areas of the company. It is used for a variety of reporting (sales, inventory, billing) as well as for developing projections. The data warehouse we have developed is quite extensive.
- Excellent natural language
- Good, clean UI
- Highly performant
- Ongoing functional support could be improved
- Quicker reaction to patch / bug fixes
- Increase in self-service day to day system maintenance
April 14, 2020
ThoughtSpot Review - Canadian Tire
ThoughtSpot has been revolutionary in day-to-day reporting and analytic needs. We rolled out the tool throughout merch organization first and it allowed for ease of use and access to most granular information. That allows for quicker decision making, as well as needed customization for end-users. While we started with roll out to merch first, we ended up implementing the tool with supply chain, branding, marketing, procurement, etc. All to great success and high adoption rate.
- Ad hoc searches
- Custom functions such as top 10, vs, quarter to date, etc.
- Ability to combine tabular representation of info and visuals
- Ease of formula creation
- More custom visuals
ThoughtSpot is the only product on the market that supports search, analytics and BI across corporate. It's been used by the whole organization. We have users who use pinboards on a daily basis. We have users that launch searches for a specific loan and drill down to its details. ThoughtSpot was able to hold large data volume in memory and return search results in the desired timeframe.
- Searching like Googling was the number one feature that we were looking for and ThoughtSpot does it best.
- Pinboards are very useful for the group of field managers who're working on a set of products.
- Data manipulation ( e.g. joining multiple tables and views ) under the hood
- The model file/worksheet is typically used as a whole and it'll be nice if it could be used at the column level.
- Integration with commonly used ETL tools, such as Informatica, will help the IT/Data department greatly.
April 06, 2020
Armature Review
We use ThougthSpot at the Enterprise level.
- Spot IQ
- Adhoc search
- Multiple graphs
- Frequent data refresh
- Space restricted admin access
- User-based licensing
March 27, 2020
ThoughtSpot: Easy installation and immediate application
Our organization has had the ThoughtSpot appliance on-prem for about a year. ThoughtSpot hosted a workshop with each division within our organization to establish viable proof of concepts (POCs). Through the workshop, we were able to rank the POC options and then execute an SOW for our most viable option. By the time the SOW was completed, that particular division was "all-in" with the application. It has been extremely helpful for the division in answering questions using the data we already have within our databases. We think of ThoughtSpot as a compliment to Tableau. Tableau does beautiful things with visualizations, but it can only answer specific questions as the designer created it. With Tableau, we can drill down as the answers create more questions without having to continue to recreate new dashboards. That has been the most helpful aspect of the application for our users. Since the first POC was so successful, we engaged ThoughtSpot for a second POC/SOW with a different division that we felt would be the most challenging. We completed that second POC even more smoothly than the first. If we can implement ThoughtSpot in our most challenging division within the organization, then we can use it anywhere.
- Ability to drill down into questions on the fly.
- Easy-to-read pinboards for non-technical executives, including natural language questions.
- Ability to join multiple databases so data can be analyzed across the organization.
- SpotIQ: showing us insights to our data that we didn't even think to ask about.
- The visualizations aren't quite as clean as other leaders in the viz space.
- Difficult to customize the visualizations.
- The application is still in its younger years and still needs more time to be fully developed.
March 18, 2020
Best out there at the moment
We are in the process of rolling out TS for our global O2C use case across all operating companies of Siemens. It is addressing the identification of automation levers and rework avoidance where we are currently using process mining solutions. The benefit of TS lies in its performance and usability so that people without domain know-how can interact with the data. Or in easier terms, everyone can become Iron Man. A suit for everyone. You don’t have to be a rocket or data scientist. It is the first time in my professional life where the democratization of data could become a truth.
- Performance speed.
- Using AI (spotiq) to facilitate insights.
- Super easy usability.
- Ease of set up.
- None so far.