ThoughtSpot Reviews & Ratings 2023

ThoughtSpot

Overview

What is ThoughtSpot?

Data insight and collaboration in decision making.

10 out of 10

December 20, 2022

It is used in co-operative data insights in our department. It is one of the best software of this type with a higher assertiveness rate …

Great software, easy to use and lot's of possibilities

9 out of 10

December 16, 2022

In my organization we use ThoughtSpot to create management dashboards and reports. They include financial- and non financial KPI's.
This …

ThoughtSpot and a green data organization

5 out of 10

December 13, 2022

It's being used by one department to support many business units. The goal is to better understand when is the best time to contact …

Thoughtspot for Non Technical Users.

8 out of 10

October 31, 2022

We had initially purchased it to embed a dashboard for external users, but currently are using it for product discovery work.

ThoughtSpot Review

8 out of 10

October 31, 2022

Our no-code AI platform turns unstructured data into structured content to enhance existing models, products, and BI. The current BI tools …

Tips for improvement for business peeps!

7 out of 10

October 26, 2022

ThoughtSpot is used to visualize outputs from NLP/AI use cases for our client. It helps to visualize output and show various trends to …

An enhanced data analysis software with effective artificial intelligence.

10 out of 10

March 09, 2022

ThoughtSpot is a very important data analysis software for our company and department that has been used because it has been collaborating …

ThoughtSpot First-Time Business User Review

7 out of 10

February 18, 2022

Piloted in the claims department to easily aggregate large amounts of data to identify any trends over time.

Great BI tool! Easy to use, many useful features.

9 out of 10

February 11, 2022

We embedded ThoughSpot into our AI no-code platform to enhance the BI function of our product.

ThoughtSpot Embedded Analytics is a homerun

10 out of 10

February 04, 2022

Thoughtspot is currently embedded in our product as the last mile visualization. It provides our organization the ability to sell …

My Thoughts on Thoughtspot

8 out of 10

December 31, 2021

Mainly used to cater reporting needs to our external vendors. In our current scenario, we were not able to share our reporting with our …

Faster Analytics on Thoughtspot

7 out of 10

December 16, 2021

We are trying to build the overall analytics in ThoughtSpot with different metrics and use cases. The purpose we bought in ThoughtSpot is …

ThoughtSpot Trial

1 out of 10

November 28, 2021

[My] department conducted a trial period of the ThoughtSpot software.

Great Way to Get Additional Insights!

10 out of 10

September 12, 2021

We are utilizing ThoughtSpot to gain additional insight into our customer's characteristics and behaviors. ThoughtSpot is currently being …

ThoughtSpot Delivered as Promised and Makes Analytics So Easy Even I Can Do It!

9 out of 10

September 06, 2021

We evaluated ThoughSpot for a pilot to make market research/voice of the consumer data more accessible. The pilot did not launch, but …

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How ThoughtSpot Differs From Its Competitors

In my opinion, it is essential software and is very valuable for helping in decision-making through correct data. The response time of real-time analytical analysis of processed data is incredibly high and demonstrated from graphical dashboards. It is something valued by us at IT and managed.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

These are precise answers that we need to help with decision-making. It reduces time and increases our productivity.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

Depending on the user but I would say it takes a few weeks/month to get up to speed.
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.

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.

Cloud Data Support

It has improved it and enabled the possibility to combine sources/databases.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

Since we have had very few users trained or given access to the software, I would say it is going to take awhile. You have to have such a commanding understanding of our internal BI architecture, to begin with, and really know what the correct signals for success really are that it's proven …

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

I've been frustrated more than not on the output results but I blame our data more than anything. Repeated values are rampant in different values so the software has a habit of just relating those values instead of finding the ones that matter.

Cloud Data Support

No, we have too many tools to start this on another one.

Cloud Data Support

It's great for easy on-demand reporting if the data models are set up correctly.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

It would be very quick for a new user to connect a database and then start building a dashboard, likely less than a day or two. However, to use the full functionality and to work with various datasets, I would say a couple of weeks is enough to get up to speed.

Cloud Data Support

We were using AWS and Snowflake before, we still are with ThoughtSpot.

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.

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.

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.

Cloud Data Support

Before, we did not use these services in the cloud. But now it's been great!

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

I would say about an hour with training, up to 3 hours without training.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Fairly accurate if you know the search commands to pull the desired data.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Highly accurate and timely. I would say >90% accuracy

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

our users are able to interface with the product on day one. It takes our developers about 1 to 2 weeks for certifications etc.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

the answers are not dependent on TS. The answers are dependent on the data.

Cloud Data Support

we utilize snowflake. it gives us the ability to take advantage of snowflakes CDH capabilities

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.

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.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

The business users feel it's simple and they are up to speed once they started using the product. Since they are good at reporting stuff, felt comfortable with using this product from day 1.

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.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

If [you are] working with already clean data, it is very quick to generate reports and visualizations.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

As long as data is already clean and structured in the desired way, building dashboards, identifying trends, and finding answers in data is quick.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

Not that long. Personally, I felt comfortable after about 30-60 minutes, however, I'm an end-user and I'm not setting up the integrations of ThoughtSpot. I would imagine that if you're involved in the actual setup of ThoughtSpot it would take quite a bit longer to get up to speed and get the data …

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

From my initial impressions, the data that we're receiving is very accurate. When I utilize a new product, I tend to cross-reference the data against the source data to ensure that it's correct. So far, all of the data that I've been able to pull from ThoughtSpot has been correct and accurate.

Cloud Data Support

As an end-user, I don't believe that I'm qualified to answer this question.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

The tool is very fast, cutting analysis time in half. Accuracy is great and reliable. I know that I can trust the results and depend on them.

Cloud Data Support

ThoughtSpot has partnered with Snowflake to leverage many data connections and pull them into one platform where we can perform analytics. It has been a huge success.

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 …

Cloud Data Support

We use Google Big Query. Getting ThoughtSpot hooked up to it was a snap.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

It can take non-analytics business users weeks or months to get comfortable. Some never will. As it is now, [ThoughtSpot] does not live up to the promise of being a user-friendly way to search your data and uncover insights in my opinion.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

For an experienced user, the results are very accurate and can be done in real-time.

Cloud Data Support

It has enabled our organization to utilize cloud data warehouse services.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

In my opinion, a fledgling can pick up ThoughtSpot in about 3 to 4 weeks. This can be optimized by putting in more hours.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Since querying on ThoughtSpot is super easy, it does not take a lot of time for users to respond to ad-hoc tasks.

Cloud Data Support

We use Redshift as a data warehouse and ThoughtSpot helps us directly connect it to Redshift clusters and get data to the frontend quickly.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Accuracy- very good. Timeliness- performance issues on large data sets.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

Usually within 48 hours for a new user to sign in and work out data discovery and visual dev work.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Almost 100% of time the search results returned are spot-on, and the response time is seconds.

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.

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. …

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. …

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

I would say 2-4 weeks to become comfortable with the platform. It depends on the user and scope.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

ThoughtSpot has a really quick onboarding process which makes it slick and smart for new users to confidently learn the product and feel confident in using it on a daily basis. I like this a lot, it's definitely a smile-inducing feature from the vendor. I would only suggest more manuals for those …

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

ThoughtSpot provides incredibly accurate and timely solutions to the problems we're looking to solve. Another big smile-inducing feature from the vendor here. We're really happy with the output of ThoughtSpot and find that ThoughtSpot is the quickest of all the vendors we benchmarked during this …

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

I think it's quite easy to learn how to use it. I helped with some trainings in the company and people learnt quite fast to use it as the tool uses an approach similar to Google search.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

The data is always accurate, and it saved me a lot of time as I can quickly run a search without needing to run a report from the ERP.

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 …

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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2022

Popular Features

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Customizable dashboards (72)
8.0
80%
Report sharing and collaboration (70)
8.0
80%
Drill-down analysis (72)
7.6
76%
Formatting capabilities (71)
7.0
70%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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It has artificial intelligence to analyze complex and large data in a short time.
The level of customization is high, but it lacks some graphic details like colors and others.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Chemicals Company, 501-1000 employees

Possible to work at the same time with multiple users
Example or standard reports to show what's possible

Tommie van der Linden

Financial Controller

T-Mobile Netherlands (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)

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Pricing

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Setup fee optional

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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.

7.3Avg 8.1

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

7.4Avg 8.0

7.6
Drill-down analysis
(72) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
7
Formatting capabilities
(71) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
6.9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
(42) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
8
Report sharing and collaboration
(70) 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.

7.9Avg 8.3

8.4
Publish to Web
(41) Ratings
8
Publish to PDF
(62) Ratings
7.9
Report Versioning
(18) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
8.1
Report Delivery Scheduling
(51) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
7.2
Delivery to Remote Servers
(26) 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 pattern and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

7.5Avg 8.1

7.6
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
(67) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
7.6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
(64) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of representation of geographical or spatial data.
7.1
Predictive Analytics
(51) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

Access Control and Security

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

8.3Avg 8.5

8.4
Multi-User Support (named login)
(66) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
8.4
Role-Based Security Model
(59) Ratings
Role based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
8.1
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
(63) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
8.2
Single Sign-On (SSO)
(54) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.3Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

8.3Avg 7.9

9.1
REST API
(31) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
9
Javascript API
(26) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
8.8
iFrames
(24) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
7
Java API
(13) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
8.8
Themeable User Interface (UI)
(24) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
7.1
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
(15) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

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Product Details

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What is ThoughtSpot?

ThoughtSpot is an analytics platform that enables users to leverage natural language search and AI to find data insights and tap into the most cutting edge innovations the cloud data ecosystem has to offer. The vendor states companies can put the power of their modern data stack in the hands of every employee, extend the value of their data to partners and customers, and automate entire business processes. Customers can take advantage of ThoughtSpot’s web and mobile applications to improve decision making for every employee. With ThoughtSpot’s low-code development platform, customers can also embed consumer-grade analytics into their SaaS offerings or build entirely new interactive data apps that engage users and keep them coming back for more. The vendor states organizations like Walmart, BT, Daimler, Medtronic, Hulu, Royal Bank of Canada, Nasdaq, OpenTable, Metromile, Workato, and Nationwide Building Society ruse ThoughtSpot to transform how their employees and customers take advantage of data.

ThoughtSpot Features

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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)

Additional Features

Supported: Search-driven analytics
Supported: Deploy on-premises
Supported: Deploy on AWS
Supported: Deploy on Google Cloud Platform
Supported: Deploy on Azure
Supported: Available as a managed service

ThoughtSpot Screenshots

Screenshot of Connect to your favorite cloud databases in a few clicks

Screenshot of Consuming insights on iOS app

Screenshot of Welcome to ThoughtSpot Everywhere

ThoughtSpot Videos

NFL Analytics by ThoughtSpot: Billy Beane had Moneyball. NFL fans have ThoughtSpot. Whether you're a casual sports fan, an NFL analyst, or an avid fantasy football devotee, ThoughtSpot gives you incredibly simple, yet powerful way to get insights into the world of professional...

ThoughtSpot Everywhere: Create more 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.

ThoughtSpot Embrace brings Search & AI directly to your Amazon Redshift cloud data warehouse. Live query your data warehouse to get blazing fast, granular insights while leaving your data where it resides.

With ThoughtSpot and SeekWell, it's never been easier to operationalize insights by getting them into the business apps powering your business. See how you can help your entire organization make better decisions, all within their existing workflows.

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ThoughtSpot Technical Details

Deployment Types	On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Windows, Linux, Mac
Mobile Application	Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported Languages	English, Dansk, Deutsche, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederland, Norsk, Português, Suomi, Svenska, 中文(简体), 日本語

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Reviewers rate REST API highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of ThoughtSpot are Enterprises (1,001+ employees) from the Financial Services industry.

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