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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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Easy to use dashboards

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 28, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use it to build dashboards to track various metrics for our campaigns like CTR, campaign name and other engagement metrics.
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Verified user
Strategist
ThoughtSpot1 year of experience

ThoughtSpot - The most brilliant AI solution in the market

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 1, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 k...
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Manager
ThoughtSpot2 years of experience

ThoughtSpot for the Win

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 22, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We need it to visualize our data across the entire company as well as a reporting/visualization that we whitelabel for our customers. It solves not just getting an understandi...
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Verified user
Vice-President
ThoughtSpot1 year of experience

ThoughtSpot for analysts in Business organizations

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 25, 2024
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We use ThoughSpot as a Business Analytics and reporting tool. Some of our organization data is connected and available in ThoughtSpot so we can generate tables, charts and a c...
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Analyst
ThoughtSpot2 years of experience

ThoughtSpot - powerful and easier insights

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 25, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I have used ThoughtSpot to create an intuitive dashboard that helped users to understand data more and in an easier way. One of the major problems that ThoughtSpot addresses i...
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Kanchana Velaga
Engineer - Information Technology
Sr Software Engineer
Kipi.bi
ThoughtSpot3 years of experience
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How ThoughtSpot Differs From Its Competitors

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

It's amazing how fast it works and how much data it keeps in memory for users to be able to access quickly. One of the best attributes about ThoughtSpot. I have yet to test how much data it can continue to do this for, but only once was I struggling with its ability to query quickly.
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ThoughtSpot BI Team Impact

Reduced time spent on Ad-hoc request. Before, we had several employees dedicated to doing exclusively ad hoc requests; now we can reduce the amount of time required to produce ad hoc reports and they can spend their time on other projects. Only side note is that ThoughtSpot is not yet the best …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

I will answer the questions about timeliness. As for the data being stale, this happens when the data is loaded into ThoughtSpot. We have been running the import script nightly, which means the data can be up to 24 hours old. However, this is configurable. As for the timeliness in terms of speed, …
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ThoughtSpot BI Team Impact

In the past, we have used Open Text's iHub product. This is the commercialized version of the open source product called BIRT. This product requires a developer to design and write a report that is primarily used to create static PDF reports. ThoughtSpot was needed in our organization for our …
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ThoughtSpot BI Team Impact

Still in a process of mastering the skill on the business user side and promoting the tool capabilities, as is requires a culture change. Personal opinion, it might be the most used tool in the near future in my organization.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

New users are able to spin up relatively quickly. One of the things that ThoughtSpot does really well is it has a very verbose and built out documentation site. This provides new users plenty of resources to use when spinning up on ThoughtSpot to get the data that they need.
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Very accurate and timely. We currently use ThoughtSpot to power a custom reporting suite in one of our vertical products. There is growth to be done there, but overall the ad hoc piece works well. Although we would like to be able to restrict the ad hoc access at times.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

The time it takes to someone to get up to speed with ThoughtSpot varies according to their skillsets. For someone who is used to SQL and relational databases it is quite fast, otherwise it will take longer. Although it is important to say that it is faster to learn ThoughtSpot than SQL.
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

The most impressive thing regarding ThoughtSpot is the fact it can make a query extremely fast regardless of the size of the dataset. It is also quite impressive it can learn and adapt to your recent questions making it easy to get what we need in a timely manner.
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ThoughtSpot BI Team Impact

We have more time than before. As an example my manager asked me for a report that needed a quick turn around. I believe that without ThoughtSpot I would be able to deliver it in time, which I actually did. This gave me more time to spend on the modeling and analysis rather than the building the …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

They are extremely accurate and quickly able to pull data with very little training required. They can quickly get to answers they need and not have multiple people involved in pulling the data
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Cloud Data Support

We have ThoughtSpot attached to our data warehouse, and users are able to pull any data from the system at any time. They have access to all the data available within the cloud data warehouse
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ThoughtSpot Spot IQ

SpotIQ is one of the areas we have not utilized well yet. It works well and points out statistical outliers that may seem obvious to users we have.
It has been helpful in presenting what visuals may look like when doing a deep dive into the business.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

Certainly, this is company/business/use specific, but ThoughtSpot is fairly intuitive and most anyone with at least some business intelligence reporting experience can start creating queries/reporting right away. This, of course, assumes that all the underlying data is loaded and curated …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

The ad hoc answers are great, it is so easy to jump in and quickly ask a question about our data or a particular client's usage. Its only limited by the amount of data we have been able to feed in.
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Cloud Data Support

We moved our analytics data to Snowflake in anticipation of selecting a vendor like ThoughtSpot. The architecture and the ability to work directly with Snowflake tables made implementation easy.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

I've found that it takes roughly a month for users to become proficient in ThoughtSpot. There's some documentation and training on ThoughtSpot's site but it also has a built-in formula assistant that explains formulas and gives syntax examples. It is based on UNIX, so it can be a little different …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

The answers that I get as an ad-hoc request that I use ThoughtSpot for are fantastic. ThoughtSpot is incredibly easy to use, so if the data within ThoughtSpot is complete and whole, it is correct.

It is a great tool and I recommend it to anyone.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

Most new users are able to navigate the product comfortably within a week. By using a train the trainer philosophy, we are able to focus our efforts on key members within an organization to get them up to speed quickly with the necessary knowledge for them to take what they have learned and use …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Accuracy and timeliness are key requirements and selling points for our data warehouse deployment. The product is very stable data-wise, allowing us to continually update the data warehouse to within 15 -> 30 minutes of our transactional information. This gives users confidence in their ability to …
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ThoughtSpot Spot IQ

This is an area where I cannot provide any detailed information (positive or negative) as I do not have any direct involvement with ThoughtSpot's integration with SpotIQ.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

We conduct user on-board training for any new user to get it started with Thoughtspot. We provide follow-up training in a month or two to cover advanced features beyond the 101. Typically, within a couple of months, a new user is good at the basics. In many cases, users said that they needed to …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

ThoughtSpot has been designed to provide accurate answers to ad-hoc data questions rapidly and we have used this feature from day one. We have integrated our analytical needs into pinboards, data visualization and drill down.
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ThoughtSpot Spot IQ

SpotIQ is another nice feature. The algorisms behind it have produced meaningful predictive insights when we used SpotIQ to predict the impacts of the resent COVID-19 pandemic on our business.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

ThoughtSpot is very intuitive for the end-user. No particular technical skills are required to start using the tool. You need to know your data to search for meaningful statistical results.
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Ad-hoc reporting is very powerful with ThoughtSpot. I would also say ThoughtSpot is very useful for the power user that creates their own Excel file to create their own visualizations. They can import that Excel file and create visualizations on the fly. Heatmaps and geo visualizations are also …
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ThoughtSpot BI Team Impact

The easy to use UI allowed our teams to get on-boarded to the platform very quickly and let our least BI friendly teams customize reports to their liking. Answering 80 percent of the questions based on the data set and then use another BI application to answer more in-depth questions
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

It's very fast for any user to get the data from the ThoughtSpot, whatever they need. As ThoughtSpot has the inbuilt AI features which helps the users to automate the process to get the data without indepth knowledge of the tool and serves their requirements very quickly which makes it easy to use …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

It gets you the result faster because of the inbuilt AI feature, which processes your requests and analyses the same to cater your needs and fulfill your requirements. The AI feature automates the process so the user can search using a Google like interface to get the data they need and they don't …
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

How long it takes to get up to speed on ThoughtSpot depends on how in depth they need to go. Users who just need to do searches and make simple database queries can get up to speed in just 3 or 4 hours. Users who are used to SQL and want to make more sophisticated queries will take longer, as …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

This is where ThoughtSpot excels. Users can get very accurate and quick answers for ad-hoc queries. If the data is organized correctly, users can find data--that used to require complicated SQL queries that took minutes to get--in Thoughtspot in seconds, without knowing SQL. This allows …
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ThoughtSpot BI Team Impact

We have just started to import data to ThoughtSpot. We don’t have many results yet. We believe this will allow our BI to concentrate on higher-value projects, because they won't need to spend as much time on simpler queries and users will be able to do their own queries directly. However the data …
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Pricing

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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

contact for pricing

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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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.

7.2
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

7.3
Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.2
Avg 8.3

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.

7.3
Avg 7.9

Access Control and Security

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

7.9
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.8
Avg 7.8

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

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

6.9
Avg 7.7
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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.
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

ThoughtSpot Competitors

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

ThoughtSpot Downloadables

Frequently Asked Questions

ThoughtSpot starts at $95.

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

Reviewers rate Publish to PDF highest, with a score of 8.7.

The most common users of ThoughtSpot are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Useful for simple ad hoc reports

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
November 13, 2018
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Being used to reduce ad hoc requests by allowing users to create dashboards with ease.
Pros
  • Easy for business users to use. The search functionality is simple and clear
  • Data loading is fairly simple when connecting to databases
  • A lot of display options for users to show their data in a desired format
Cons
  • On the backend data mapping can get very messy and needs to be constantly monitored
  • Importing an Excel or CSV file is not nearly as simple as it should be
  • More flexible graph options
Likelihood to Recommend
When business users have many simple ad hoc requests, ThoughtSpot is a wonderful tool to take over that work. Users themselves can make the graphs, tables, and dashboards with minimal operation team support due to the easy and friendly interface, and they can complete whatever dashboard they need to accomplish their goals.

The power of ad-hoc reporting.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 13, 2018
DS
Doug Smith
Director of Application Development
Phototype (Graphic Design, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Currently, ThoughtSpot is being used with our senior management. The plan is to eventually allow our external customers access to ThoughtSpot via API into our custom built applications. We are currently obtaining information on our employee utilization. We are working to get all of our sales revenue into the system and make that searchable.
Pros
  • Ad-hoc reporting is number one. Very easy for the end user to create their own ad-hoc visualization.
Cons
  • ETL process. Should have a built-in way to import your data.
Likelihood to Recommend
Ad-hoc reporting is very powerful with ThoughtSpot. I would also say ThoughtSpot is very useful for the power user that creates their own Excel file in order to create their own visualizations. They can import that Excel file and create visualizations on the fly. Heatmaps and geo visualizations are also very powerful.

ThoughtSpot - from a user/admin perspective

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 06, 2018
JW
Jason Westenskow
Senior Director Business Intelligence
Allconnect (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using ThoughtSpot throughout the organization. I've personally trained our call center supervisors in the use of the tool along with retraining our corporate users repeatedly. I am the in-house expert on ThoughtSpot.

Our main use case is research and ad-hoc exploration. Tasks that would take hours to days previously are completed within 1/2 hour and span millions of rows of data in the process. Specifically, we are speeding up our access to data (user license limitations are removed with ThoughtSpot) and speed of insight (e.g. ad hoc exploration).
Pros
  • Millions of rows via in-memory database creates quick-insight/access to data
  • No user license restrictions (license is based on data loaded to the instance)
  • Easy Google-like interface for querying data
Cons
  • Simply put, ThoughtSpot is a new product. formatted/pixel-perfect reports are not what ThoughtSpot is good at.
  • Limited app-level administration controls.
  • Limited in allowing modification to "loaded" tables. For example, a DBA likes fields in a proper order. ThoughtSpot relies heavily on unchanged table structures (assigned by guide) and so new field adds must be added to the end or all relationships and reports are invalidated. This is not the end of the world.
Likelihood to Recommend
ThoughtSpot is great for data exploration. As long as your data can be connected via primary key / foreign key relationships (no referential integrity is enforced - it's a relationship). Starting from the raw tables, a user can comb through millions of rows of data and use both simple and complex formulas to break up the results.

ThoughtSpot is not built for pixel-perfect reporting. Don't plan on using this as a wholesale replacement for financial reporting - unless you're willing to forgo the normal report structure.

Thought Spot easy to use, fast and a great backend tech stack.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 14, 2018
JS
John Swingle
Director Financial Engineering
Fannie Mae (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it for ad hoc analysis and for future Voice Recognition.
Pros
  • Easy to use.
  • Automatically indexes all columns.
  • Fast engine for data.
  • Spot IQ
Cons
  • Can be picky on initial set up
  • Spot IQ can produce more results than can easily be looked at
Likelihood to Recommend
For Ad hoc analysis for people that know the data, it’s very strong. Not so much for end users with no programming skills.

Great Product!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 13, 2018
Verified User
Strategist in Corporate
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Ad-Hoc analysis and analytics of internal and external reporting data.
Pros
  • Ad-Hoc analysis
  • Drill-down analysis
  • Clean and clear visualizations
  • Powerful SpotIQ AI insights
Cons
  • Continued development of real-time computations.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for ad-hoc analysis and exposing large volumes of data to end-users who are not overly technical. Not necessarily the best standardized reporting solution.
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