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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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ThoughtSpot - The most brilliant AI solution in the market

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 1, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
we use ThoughtSpot as our main dashboard and analytical tool. The main business problem was that most of our analyst team is non-technical but have great expertise in domain k...
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Manager
ThoughtSpot2 years of experience

ThoughtSpot for the Win

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

ThoughtSpot for analysts in Business organizations

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

ThoughtSpot: A great Tool for getting insights to data

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 24, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
One of the major challenges that ThoughtSpot solves is reducing the dependency on data teams for reports and insights. ThoughtSpot also integrates well with modern data cloud ...
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Engineer
ThoughtSpot3 years of experience
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How ThoughtSpot Differs From Its Competitors

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

Business end user: will have a hard time if they only now Excel, those experienced with e.g. Tableau will need some time to understand on how to deal with data themselves, but then will gain much more agility in data journey (learning and mastering their data)<br>Technical users: The set-up of …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

ThoughtSpot offers quick turn-around times. Data preparation cannot be omitted, but afterwards an end user can really quickly create insight and pin them for sharing with others. In regards of accuracy, ThoughtSpot provides data statistics for each Natural Language Query, which data has been used …
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Cloud Data Support

ThoughtSpot's Embrace technology allows to connect to all major Cloud DataWareHouse technologies and vendors (GCP Big Query, AWS Redshift, Snowflake, SAP Hana). ThoughtSpot is very useful to analyze Cloud Data.
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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

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

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

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

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 Time to Value

Quite easy with basic business intelligence knowledge and for basic searches, pin-board creation. Training would be required for advanced uses including creating worksheets (views) and data loads etc.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

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

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

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

That all depends on your data model being fed into ThoughtSpot. If that is wrong, your answers are wrong. If it's right, then ThoughtSpot serves up those correct answers. But it all depends on the pre-work of the data architects and data analysts feeding this in.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

It's very adaptable by any new users or non technical users because of its user friendly and intuitive interface. The AI powered dashboards help understand data in more detail and in an easier way. The basic query that has been entered can be converted into a structured query in the back end and …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

ThoughSpot gives very accurate and faster answers based on the questions taht we give. As its very user friendly, it helps users to quickly adapt to the UI and interact with the dashboards. The AI powered answers helps in faster insights and more accurate results. It helps in faster decision …
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Cloud Data Support

ThoughtSpot can connect to Live data sources like Snowflake and Databricks, allowing users to query data at a granular level. Users can sync insights into cloud tools like Slack, Hubspot, and Salesforce. ThoughtSpot uses snapshots and backups to protect data and ensure business continuity. …
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

I would say that if a new user started to log in and begin the first module of ThoughtSpot University, they could knock that out in about 1 day if they focused on it. Then getting up to speed with the application would probably take 1 week given that they are using it every day and truly trying to …
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ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Very fast, usually under 15 seconds. The Sage feature allows natural language questions and can typically get it right, or on the chance that it is wrong, it can at least point you in the right direction. You can take the query statement it created and just modify it to suit your exact question.
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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 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

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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Cloud Data Support

More than just DWH, we found that using ThoughtSpot for data lake especially Databricks delta lake provide the seamless experience as data in WDH. In a word, ThoughtSpot is good for either DWH or Lake House.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

It depends on whether the data has been prepared and loaded before. Visualizations are generated really fast within the user interface. if the admin distributed the relevant data to the responsible people appropriately, data insights can be evaluated even faster.
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ThoughtSpot Time to Value

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

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

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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Pricing

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ThoughtSpot Analytics Team

$95

Cloud
per month flat subscription

ThoughtSpot Analytics Pro

starts at $30,000

Cloud
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use

ThoughtSpot Analytics Enterprise

contact for pricing

Cloud
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.thoughtspot.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $95 per month
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Product Demos

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

7.2
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

7.2
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

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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 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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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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ThoughtSpot analysis for Health organisations

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 06, 2018
GB
Gareth Baxendale
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We looked at ThoughtSpot at a time where we wanted to explore the idea of natural language based analytics. This would be used to augment our current investment in other technologies such as QlikSense.

To this end, we carried out a proof of concept to understand how the product could meet our needs.
Pros
  • The company behind ThoughtSpot is very professional and keen to work with you.
  • The product is very good for traditional business-related scenarios such as spend, orders, and purchase related queries.
  • The interface is reasonably good and intuitive.
Cons
  • ThoughtSpot does not allow for true natural language. What it does is allow keywords to be used which it interprets and is similar to the way you might look for a product using Amazon.
  • The product is a challenge when it steps outside of traditional sales-based analysis. In our case, we wanted to analyse health data which is far more complicated and prone to variance.
Likelihood to Recommend
Excellent for traditional BI environments in sales based organisations. The product is improving and thoughtSpot will no doubt work very well in other verticals.

Their model is to provide you with the product on a 'purchase if all goes well' method which may not be to everyone's liking.

Overall the company is great and is really supportive of solving your issues as you learn the system and I would recommend on that basis.

ThoughtSpot fills a gap between classical BI and AI/ML based Data Science

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 08, 2021
Verified User
Professional in Other
Pharmaceuticals Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
ThoughtSpot enable self-service BI, and is positioned between classical dashboard BI and AI/ML-based Data Science. It opens up opportunities for business users to better understand their data, and to develop insights on this data. Based on the natural language based query language end user can more easily navigate through their data, and build insights graphics per click. Collaboration with peers and insights consumers is enabled through a social media like sharing, commenting and voting experience. All in all a great step towards data driven company. There are similar products, but ThoughtSpot shines in its set of features and capabilities, as well as in the User Experience.
Pros
  • Natural Language Query formulation
  • Immediate response to any change in query or layout
  • Foster collaboration on developed insights
Cons
  • A true SaaS offering (e.g. like Snowflake)
  • Packaged installation based on Docker / Kubernetes
  • Full-fledged multi tenant support
Likelihood to Recommend
Quickly gain insights on new or changed data, detect hidden data patterns, quickly spot anomalies, easily leverage Cloud DataWareHouse data, e.g. in Redshift, Snowflake, Big Query, SAP Hana, etc.

ThoughtSpot and ideal compagnon for guided analytics

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 13, 2023
HA
Henri Ajenstat
Analytics Market Manager
ilem group (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We were consulted by a State organization to analyse data collected through a wide scale user survey. Our mandate was to identify the most frequently quoted applications in calls to the Help Desk and understand their impact on overall satisfaction. After clustering by profile, data was imported into ThoughtSpot and relevant questions asked to generate answers as easy to interpret graphical representations.
Pros
  • Speed of execution
  • Meanigful statistical constructs
  • Experimental interactions wth data
  • Ease of stating questions in natural language
Cons
  • Legends to help interpret results to avoid biais
  • Sophisticated data modeling features (AFC for example)
Likelihood to Recommend
Regularly, we need to analyse relationships between variables and represent them in a format easy to interpret by non statisticians. ThoughtSpot is of great help in this phase of the analysis to articulate insights backedup by graphical evidence.We are kless at ease with ThoughtSpot where mixed models are required (FC–AFC–FCA). Then we resort to specialised statistical packages (XLSTAT or SPSS).

Makes analytics fun! Easy to implement & a game changer for our clients

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
July 22, 2024
Verified User
Employee in Product Management
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I'm the Principal Product Manager for a SAAS-based marketing automation solution. We implemented ThoughtSpot as an embedded & white labeled solution to provide advanced analytics to our customers. Our users get the pre-defined liveboards we create for them, but can then drill into their data, see trends, and run analyses using AI. Advanced users can create their own visualizations and liveboards.
Pros
  • Natural language search to generate visual answers
  • Easy data modeling
  • Tools for embedding into our application
  • Managing security & content sharing across our multiple clients
Cons
  • Some visualizations can be hard to format correctly
  • Adding a search parameter or making a small change can completely reformat your visualization into a different graph type
Likelihood to Recommend
Easy to use for the average business user. Easy to embed into a 3rd party app.

Good tool, still needs some polishing

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
November 13, 2018
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
ThoughtSpot
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are embedding ThoughtSpot into our website. External customers (financial advisors) will be able to get a summary of how their retirement plan participants are doing as far as being on target to retire successfully from a pre-built pinboard. They can then modify or start a new search as they see fit. We use row-level security so people can only see data for their plan, and have pre-aggregated data with no row-level security so they can compare to the industry without seeing details of plans that are not theirs. We also use column-level security to hide things like an SSN column, or a formula to mask the SSN based on what group the user is in.
Pros
  • Very fast. The in-memory solution seems to respond very quickly.
  • Very easy to type something and get a nice visual with little effort.
  • Everything can be shared with other uses very easily.
Cons
  • Until the natural language search is available, an external customer with zero training is going to have some issues. Everyone is spoiled by searching the way we speak so that feature will be great when available.
  • Why can't I thumbs up/down an insight that was generated for me like I can when I run an analysis myself?
  • You constantly get popups about saving before losing changes. It would be nice if it only popped up when there was an actual change. For example, when I change something and then change it back, I shouldn't get a 'do you want to save' popup.
Likelihood to Recommend
ThoughtSpot works very well for AdHoc queries by users. In the past it was always a slow request process to IT to generate a specific report, and then lots of back and forth to get it adjusted.

I don't feel that it works really well for external customers who can't have any training. The searching isn't as intuitive as it seemed in the sales presentation. The natural language feature should help significantly with this.
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