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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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April 25, 2024
ThoughtSpot Review
We use ThoughtSpot as a central piece of our analytics platform. It houses a large majority of our internal and external reporting. It covers a pretty large scope and solves numerous business problems for us, including ad hoc reporting, embedded reporting, internal reporting, external reporting etc. We also leverage RLS to limit external reporting.
- Reporting development is pretty simple
- RLS
- Visualizations are pretty clean for the most part.
- Objects are not able to be referenced across
- Lacks the ability to put reports in directories. There's no sense of organization
- Reporting can be very buggy sometimes
- Can't limit peoples ability to create as many reports as they want.
March 15, 2024
ThoughtSpot: A lot of potential, let's wait and see!
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
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).
January 04, 2024
ThoughtSpot - the new GenAI based BI tool around the block!
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.
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
May 01, 2023
BI consultant
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
December 16, 2022
Great software, easy to use and lot's of possibilities
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.
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
October 31, 2022
ThoughtSpot Review
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.
October 26, 2022
Tips for improvement for business peeps!
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.
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.
February 11, 2022
Great BI tool! Easy to use, many useful features.
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
December 31, 2021
My Thoughts on Thoughtspot
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
December 16, 2021
Faster Analytics on Thoughtspot
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
September 12, 2021
Great Way to Get Additional Insights!
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.
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
August 20, 2021
ThoughtSpot Fits the Needs for Various Use Case Scenarios
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
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 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.
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 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.
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
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.