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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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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)
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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 8.6.
The most common users of ThoughtSpot are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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October 31, 2022
Thoughtspot for Non Technical Users.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
January 21, 2020
Thoughtspot - Powerful BI Tool
Solving for human-scale data access implies solving for data-scale by definition, but data is only a means to an end; the end is to help humans do their jobs better as we approached the problem from the other end. We realized that the solution would end up being quite different than what the industry was trying to do—creating big data lakes, throwing a bunch of data in there, and connecting their existing BI tools to it, then hoping for the best. Being able to store a lot of data in a data lake does not matter. You might have a petabyte of data or maybe even two, but if only a handful of experts know how to access it, it will have a minimal impact on your business. On the other hand, if you gave accurate data access to a million human beings—whether your employees, customers, or partners—even if it were only a hundred gigabytes, it would have a significant impact on your business.
- Powerful search
- Maximized data sources
- Simple reports are easy to create, and simple questions are readily answered. Complex problems that involve sub-queries etc. are tough to answer.
- Migrating between environments could be refined.
November 18, 2018
Powerful data analytical tool
We are in the process of training users. It speeds up and simplifies users queries of financial information. We also use it to find possible fraud through database queries. It allows users to query our database without knowing SQL.
- It shows charts, based on the database
- It is easy to do searches. Even non expert users can do searches without knowing how to use databases.
- It allows you to drill down to the data in tables.
- ThoughtSpot queries are much faster than with our previous database.
- Deployment is difficult. The instructions for deployment could be more detailed so we don't need to ask ThoughtSpot for help.
- ThoughtSpot could use a Windows GUI for the backend.
- Using command line is difficult and complicated.
- Even a Unix GUI would be usefull.
November 16, 2018
ThoughtSpot - The Future Has Come!
ThoughtSpot is being used by different departments across the organization. My department (Operations Support Services) is one of the early adopters. The business problems we are addressing are mainly of ad-hoc nature, i.e. requests for a dataset that other tools functionality cannot accommodate.
- ThoughtSpot is very intuitive for the end user. No particular technical skills are required to start using the tool, just you need to know your data in order to search for meaningful statistical results.
- With ThoughtSpot you are getting real-time data, which is particularly helpful when you need to make timely decisions for resolving data exceptions/issues.
- ThoughtSpot has really cool features that help you actually get more proficient to use the tool full capacity, i.e. replay feature which shows steps by steps how to construct your question, especially helpful for more complex searches; your data can be transformed into a chart and even presentation slides; the tool is intuitive enough to learn your search pattern and even to present suggestion scenarios related to your historical searches; and so much more!
- Historical data searches are important for the operational business areas, as it's common to export and save results for the decision making process. In this regard, maybe adding historical search repository for reference purposes, or historical replays.
November 16, 2018
Good software
We use ThoughtSpot for reporting and to present our data analysis. We use the graphics and its search capabilities in order to have deeper insights. We use it at our operations department for reporting and monitoring and data relations.
- It is a good data search tool
- It's intuitive
- Easy to use
- More data structures
- Easy ways to manipulate data into structures (as an example pivot tables excel)
- Be able to incorporate external predictive models
November 14, 2018
Thought Spot easy to use, fast and a great backend tech stack.
We use it for ad hoc analysis and for future Voice Recognition.
- Easy to use.
- Automatically indexes all columns.
- Fast engine for data.
- Spot IQ
- Can be picky on initial set up
- Spot IQ can produce more results than can easily be looked at
November 14, 2018
Easy to adopt and beautiful interface. Could improve by enhancing testing/validating options.
We are using it as an analytical tool for Risk Analytics. It's being used in a specific department. It addresses aggregate measures of risk at the enterprise level, as well as giving the capability of drilling down. Aggregate measures are good for reporting purposes but if we had to answer the question about why a metric is trending one direction, ThoughtSpot is a great tool to create different views and drilldowns to tell a story.
- Creating formulas ad hoc
- Easy visualization and switching between view types
- Faster population of variables. Sometimes when typing a formula, it takes some time for it to load.
November 13, 2018
Great Product!
Ad-Hoc analysis and analytics of internal and external reporting data.
- Ad-Hoc analysis
- Drill-down analysis
- Clean and clear visualizations
- Powerful SpotIQ AI insights
- Continued development of real-time computations.
November 13, 2018
Still in the early stages... High Hopes for the future
We are setting it up as a quick-answer tool. First we will roll it out to BI and data analysts so they don't need to build ad-hoc queries and reports for data requests. Next, we will roll the product out to some data-savvy marketing and sales users to enable self-service for them.
- Fast search results for large data sets
- User friendly interface for search
- Data Aware: For example, uses column names, data values
- Visualization fine tuning/customization
- Data integration options are limited
- Data join features are very limited to leverage data from different sources
November 13, 2018
The power of ad-hoc reporting.
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.
- Ad-hoc reporting is number one. Very easy for the end user to create their own ad-hoc visualization.
- ETL process. Should have a built-in way to import your data.
November 13, 2018
Useful for simple ad hoc reports
Being used to reduce ad hoc requests by allowing users to create dashboards with ease.
- 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
- 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
February 06, 2018
ThoughtSpot - from a user/admin perspective
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).
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).
- 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
- 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.