Overview
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.…
ThoughtSpot: A lot of potential, let's wait and see!
Really good at making data accessible, but rough around the edges!
ThoughtSpot - the new GenAI based BI tool around the block!
Thouhtspot's USP is its ease of use for the end users and they get …
Great tool for Data Analyzing and Reporting!
ThoughtSpot and ideal compagnon for guided analytics
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Great software, easy to use and lot's of possibilities
This …
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Thoughtspot for Non Technical Users.
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Tips for improvement for business peeps!
An enhanced data analysis software with effective artificial intelligence.
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Great BI tool! Easy to use, many useful features.
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The more advanced functionalities, a user can get accustomed to within a week or so.
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The anwers are accurate as long as the end user knows keywords and method of querying on the data.
Although thoughtspot can mostly return relatively simpler answers, and the more complex ones might result in inaccuracies.
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It's easy to use and very user friendly.
With some help you are able to adjust and do things yourself in about an hour.
The lay-out is great and buttons make sense.
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That makes it flexible and easy the create the overview you want. This way it's easy to answer the data questions as they promise. Great product.
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It is a great tool and I recommend it to anyone.
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For consumers, 1 hour. Longer to learn the meaning of the data of course.
For admin - you need to understand how the meta data is processed, etc. to create good user …
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It is unfortunately possible to end up with duplication in your meta data, which can result in unhelpful results (usually these are easy to spot, but in theory you could create a situation where the results are misunderstood - i.e. wrong). Careful …
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I would say, after a day of playing around, users are good to go!
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It has been helpful in presenting what visuals may look like when doing a deep dive into the business.
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Awards
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Popular Features
- Report sharing and collaboration (76)7.979%
- Drill-down analysis (78)7.777%
- Customizable dashboards (77)6.767%
- Formatting capabilities (77)5.858%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
ThoughtSpot Analytics Team
$95
ThoughtSpot Analytics Pro
starts at $30,000
ThoughtSpot Analytics Enterprise
contact for pricing
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $95 per month
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.
- 6Pixel Perfect reports(21) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 6.7Customizable dashboards(77) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 7.7Report Formatting Templates(25) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 7.7Drill-down analysis(78) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 5.8Formatting capabilities(77) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 6.3Integration with R or other statistical packages(45) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 7.9Report sharing and collaboration(76) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 7.6Publish to Web(47) Ratings
- 8.1Publish to PDF(68) Ratings
- 7.9Report Versioning(18) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 8.6Report Delivery Scheduling(56) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
- 6.6Delivery to Remote Servers(29) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
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.
- 8Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(73) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 7.5Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(69) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 6.6Predictive Analytics(57) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
- 6.8Pattern Recognition and Data Mining(6) Ratings
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 8.3Multi-User Support (named login)(71) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 8.3Role-Based Security Model(64) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 8.4Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(68) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
- 8.5Report-Level Access Control(6) Ratings
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
- 8.3Single Sign-On (SSO)(60) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 7.9Responsive Design for Web Access(43) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 7.4Mobile Application(27) Ratings
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
- 6.9Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(39) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another
- 7.1REST API(34) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
- 6.8Javascript API(28) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
- 7iFrames(26) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
- 7Java API(13) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
- 7.1Themeable User Interface (UI)(27) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
- 7.1Customizable Platform (Open Source)(15) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Product Details
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What is ThoughtSpot?
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 Integrations
- dbt
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Sheets
- Microsoft Excel
- HubSpot CRM
- ServiceNow Customer Service Management
- Gainsight PX
- Salesforce
- Zoho
- Looker Modeler
ThoughtSpot Competitors
ThoughtSpot Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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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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(193)Attribute Ratings
- 9.7Likelihood to Renew6 ratings
- 8.7Availability3 ratings
- 7.7Performance3 ratings
- 8.5Usability73 ratings
- 8Support Rating4 ratings
- 4Online Training1 rating
- 5In-Person Training1 rating
- 7Implementation Rating2 ratings
- 8Configurability1 rating
- 7.7Product Scalability3 ratings
- 9Ease of integration1 rating
- 9Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 8Vendor post-sale1 rating
- 8.4Data Sources5 ratings
- 7.8Data Sharing and Collaboration5 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 37)ThoughtSpot: A lot of potential, let's wait and see!
- 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
- Makes it really easy for nontechnical users to access data.
- Data models are more complex than other tools.
- Missing niche features (like table calculations).
ThoughtSpot - the new GenAI based BI tool around the block!
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
It enables them to build simple visualizations and pin multiple of them together on a liveboard just by entering their queries in simple natural language.
But, for building more complex visualizations, Thoughtspot lags behind other (older) BI tools in the market - as it has relatively limited customizability options for visualizations as of now.
BI consultant
- 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
since license is not at user level so if you need to open data to large employee base
Great software, easy to use and lot's of possibilities
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
No problems combining multiple sources and/or databases.
Great performance.
Nice way to create dashboard and reports. Can handle both financial- and non financial KPI's.
This makes it possible to great the best reports for management and own use.
Cloud based product so always available.
ThoughtSpot Review
- 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.
Tips for improvement for business peeps!
- 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.
- 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.
Great BI tool! Easy to use, many useful features.
- 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
My Thoughts on 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
- Sharing information where multiple departments are involved.
- Quick turn-around is required.
- Where more business analysts are involved.
Not suited for:
- IT based infrastructure
- Pinboards requiring complex formatting
Faster Analytics on Thoughtspot
- 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
Great Way to Get Additional Insights!
- 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.
- 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
ThoughtSpot Fits the Needs for Various Use Case Scenarios
- 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
The New Generation BI Tool
- ThoughtSpot is great at using artificial intelligence to give some automated insights from data.
- ThoughtSpot allows you to source data from multiple data stores like Redshift, Excel, etc.
- Querying on ThoughtSpot is super easy.
- It provides a wide variety of visualization.
- Since ThoughtSpot is not widely used, there are very few tutorials.
- ThoughtSpot needs to include a lot more customization in their visualizations.
- Sometimes, ThoughtSpot is buggy and clients need to contact their support to resolve issues.
ThoughtSpot Works Well With Snowflake
- 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
ThoughtSpot the King of Adhoc
- 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.
ThoughtSpot
- 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.
Great tool, even better company!
- 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
- If a user is data savvy and needs to get a quick number to answer a question
- If a user needs to do simple data exploration
- If a user needs to refresh a static dashboard on a regular basis.
- Well experienced data analysts trying to learn the syntax of ThoughtSpot
- Analyzing custom data sets
ThoughtSpot for self-service business analysis
- 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.
- Self-service analysis using NLP and time keywords (last month, year to date) for off-calendar fiscal periods is phenomenal.
- Gives the business users a large productivity boost by reducing the build time for self-service analysis.
- Spot IQ encourages us to look in places that were not on our radar in the past.
Remove barriers to your organisation's use of data
- 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.
An investment in ThoughtSpot provides solid ROI quickly
- 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
ThoughtSpot Review - Canadian Tire
- 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
The strength of the ThoughtSpot tool is its search and ability to do quick data pull or quick analysis on the fly.
ThoughtSpot: Easy installation and immediate application
- 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.
Thoughtspot - Powerful BI Tool
- 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.