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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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Verified user
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
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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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Verified user
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 Time to Value

Not too long - particularly after they have created a couple of dashboards/views. First experience can be a bit weird coming from platforms like Tableau, as ThoughtSpot is more human-language similar. But it is not complex (at least to get the basic use).
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

We experienced that there is good amount of initial upfront work. As our application involved dynamic user on-boarding with SSO and enabling security for users to see the data. This was one of the challenges we had, to define our semantics later and come up with design for row level security.
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ThoughtSpot BI Team Impact

ThoughtSpot has definitely taken up a good amount of time in our BI platform team. Currently, the model is being matured and we are hoping the roles are more defined. Recommendations from ThoughtSpot team would be helpful to have clarity on the support model.
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ThoughtSpot BI Team Impact

We are just at the beginning of our ThoughtSpot journey, but we feel strongly that our investment in ThoughtSpot will free up significant time and resources being spent today building dashboards and reports for users. Our power user analyst community can then be freed up for higher value added …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

ThoughtSpot is able to combine multiple sources/databases. Next to that you are able to make the report or lay-out the way you want.
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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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

I believe it's a complex process and novice users might take a little more work to learn how to use all the features. The analyzes are accurate and processed in a short time. Training is essential for users to get to know the tool.
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

We have nothing to complain about. Everything is presented visually in the form of information and graphs and customizable reports with filters show what we are looking to visualize. Everything is accurate and shown based on facts and less premonition.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

It is very user friendly for the business analyst as the UI was very intuitive. And a very basic training in case of beginners was good enough for others to start working on the tool.
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

The tool was very accurate in providing the data and insights to the user. With basic changes on the search options, the information provided were very insightful.
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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

The implementation process that ThoughtSpot uses for standing the application up and getting it into the final user's hands is about six weeks. We thought this would be near impossible considering the other priorities our teams had, but we managed to have an end-user training in exactly six weeks. …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

The answers are 100% accurate because we are 100% confident in the data. ThoughtSpot doesn't answer questions on its own, nor does it pull answers from other sources other than what you feed it. Therefore, the answers can only be as accurate as the data you provide it. We are confident in our data …
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ThoughtSpot Spot IQ

Our organization loves the idea of SpotIQ. It's so amazing to see how fast the application can analyze billions of rows of lines and come up with insights. We have enjoyed seeing the insights, but we haven't seen any in particular that have struck us as something we didn't already know. However, …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

The AI engine seems to be more accurate and gives the output as expected in a few minutes. The spot IQ feature is also very interesting for business users to get more insights into the business.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

This depends on the time they choose to dedicate to the tool. I was the Data BI Admin over the tool for over a year and when I had new people I would sit down with them and explain how it worked and those who were willing to go mess around with the tool and asked questions learned very quickly. …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

As long as the data is correct coming from your data source ThoughtSpot has time and time again provided me with answers within a very short window. The trouble that many companies run into is data access, generally the data review does not take too long it is the access that is the issue. …
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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 Time to Value

Thoughspot is fairly easy to learn and new users - users without any prior technical knowledge can also get onboarded to performing simple activities on their data within 3-4 days.
The more advanced functionalities, a user can get accustomed to within a week or so.
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Thoughtspot provides instant answers on the search queries run on the live data.
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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Cloud Data Support

Thoughtspot already has support for many cloud data warehouses like Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Starburst etc., so it was easy for me to migrate the existing data on other BI tools to Thoughtspot.
But, I did notice that there were some data warehouses that Thouhtspot didn't support, although their …
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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 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

It depends on the out-of-the-box product. We are building on top of ThoughtSpot very quickly as we are hiding many of the ThoughtSpot features. I would say it's taken our team a few weeks to get a pretty decent handle on all of the foundational ThoughtSpot features. We have not explored Natural …
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

It takes about a few hours to fully understand how a dashboard can be reviewed and then insights further derived for a business user will take longer for a technical user who wants to understand from an integration standpoint.
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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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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

ThoughtSpot Product Tour

www.thoughtspot.com
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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.

7.2
Avg 7.9

Access Control and Security

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

7.9
Avg 8.5

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.8
Avg 7.9

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 7.8
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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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Quick, dynamic and custom

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 01, 2024
Verified User
Engineer in Quality Assurance
Pharmaceuticals Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Data visualization related to customer complaints. ThoughtSpot allows for quick and easy customization of the required information. Some superusers provide basic dashboards using complaints datasets, and then the team is able to customize what to display (e.g. complaints belonging to a specific customer, country, year…) and how (type of graph, grouping…).
Pros
  • Customization
  • Human language friendly
  • Good user interface
Cons
  • Complex for new users
  • Non-admins cannot easily customize color palettes (at least in a corporate environment)
Likelihood to Recommend
Scenarios where you don’t need a static dashboard, but a dashboard to play with, easily add data, remove it, change how it is visualized… I’d recommend having a basic view that allows users to avoid a lot of pre configuration and just need to type in what they want to see.

Easy to adopt and beautiful interface. Could improve by enhancing testing/validating options.

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
November 14, 2018
Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Creating formulas ad hoc
  • Easy visualization and switching between view types
Cons
  • Faster population of variables. Sometimes when typing a formula, it takes some time for it to load.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's good for on-the-fly analysis. However, if we wanted to see a more robust analysis, some tests need to be done outside of ThoughtSpot to ensure accuracy.

Good experience as a ThoughtSpot Customer.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
November 13, 2018
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are planning on using ThoughtSpot to enable users with Self Serve Analytics under our Single Family Analytics group. We have heavy report users both internal/external to Fannie Mae. There was a need from Users for self service when it came to capabilities around generating analytics and getting more insights. We have piloted this capability with some users and are looking forward to opening up to our full stream of users in next few months.
Pros
  • Self Serve Capability
  • Performance
  • Spot IQ insights
Cons
  • Object level Migration capability and automated deployment features. This was an important capability we had challenges with, as a standard SDLC we wanted to avoid manually creating pinboards in production. We have lower environment and production boxes and wanted to have the capability of migrating the tested reports in lower environment to production. We did not want the full backup and restore and needed more native support for migrating only the objects which were tested in lower environment.
  • More controls and users for Unix Shell. We had issues sometimes with the limitation on User ID’s in ThoughtSpot ,mainly with the Shell Users. It would be helpful if ThoughtSpot could provide the capability to on-board new users.
  • More visibility into the back-end generated SQLs would be very helpful. Currently, the UI feature is very good, but during the development phase of the reports, and while validating the reports, it would be more helpful to provide an option for the user to see the underlying SQLs.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited when there is need for Performance and Self Serve analytics.

ThoughtSpot will change your company's visibility into the future

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 12, 2018
JP
Joseph Pruiett
Sr. Manager, Data Services
Performant Corp (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
ThoughtSpot has been selected to replace most of our general reporting implementations. We want to spend more time on data quality and less time on custom report churn as ThoughtSpot is providing us the ability to go this route. Currently our legacy systems have been integrated into ThoughtSpot. We still have new platforms and other service lines that need to get integrated which the company is ready to have one place for analytical reporting to be done. The problem that ThoughtSpot solves is wasted time on custom report development that generally has to go through several iterations to answer the questions the business is initially asking. ThoughtSpot reduced that time and cost by 1000% by allowing the business users to determine what answers they really are trying to extract out of the data set by having direct access to all the data for a specific focus area.
Pros
  • Speed of aggregation is is unmatched with other analytics tools.
  • Visualization is instantaneous in most interactions which gives the users the Google response time we have been conditioned to in this day and age.
  • The business is empowered to create their own custom dashboards for their focus area.
Cons
  • Regression testing for all existing functionality to ensure smooth upgrade to existing worksheets, dashboards, etc., that have been created on prior versions.
  • Ability for modifications to underlying source tables to propagate changes throughout all worksheets built on top of source data. Currently if you have to modify a relationship field or primary key definitions, you have to recreate everything sitting on top of that source which as time goes on it makes it very problematic to address relationship issues that have been uncovered over time.
  • group_max performance
Likelihood to Recommend
We have found for general and in-depth reporting ThoughtSpot is perfect. We have identified that in some cases it's better to grab the flow of events as you need to see them prior to pushing into ThoughtSpot so we are not dependant on using group_max to find the date an event happened because as with all reporting systems, views on top of views on top of views can eventually be a performance issue.

Still in the early stages... High Hopes for the future

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 13, 2018
HX
Hailing Xu
Business Intelligence Manager
Capital Group | American Funds (Investment Management, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Fast search results for large data sets
  • User friendly interface for search
  • Data Aware: For example, uses column names, data values
Cons
  • Visualization fine tuning/customization
  • Data integration options are limited
  • Data join features are very limited to leverage data from different sources
Likelihood to Recommend
Q/A system for a well structured data set is highly . We use ThoughtSpot to get quick answers, which in this scenario will reduce the number of reports and ad-hoc queries for well defined data sets. It can also replace custom UIs to interact with well-structured data for internal apps, as well as websites.
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