TrustRadius Insights for Toad Data Point are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Easy-to-use Query Builder: Reviewers have consistently praised the Query Builder in Toad Data Point, stating that it is easy to use and efficient for building SQL queries and accessing data. Several users have found this feature particularly helpful in their data analysis tasks.
Intuitive Workflow Feature: The new workflow feature in Toad Data Point has received positive feedback from multiple reviewers. They appreciate its resemblance to products like Hyperion, which makes it familiar and intuitive for business analysts to work with their data. This feature simplifies the process of analyzing and manipulating data, saving time and effort.
Dimensional Views for Efficient Analysis: Many users have discovered the hidden gem of dimensional views in Toad Data Point. These views allow them to display similar data in multiple windows and easily filter on specific criteria. Users appreciate that all windows reflect the same filtered data, enabling efficient analysis across different perspectives.
I work as a data scientist, marshalling and summarizing data for model-making and analytics to be run against it. I use Toad as a development and query environment against our corporate data warehouse, which encompasses multiple data sources. The target is a Netezza data appliance and the majority of work we do utilizes standard, uncomplicated SQL against
Pros
Connects to multiple data sources
Allows code folding to encourage focus on subsections of code
Is standard across multiple database engines
Is stable and well documented across its history
Cons
Leaks memory in Windows 10 (at least as currently configured)
Occasionally hangs and requires a restart
Some operations are either multi-step or unintuitive
Does not support extensions to change functionality
Likelihood to Recommend
Appropriate for general querying and some DBA work. It's the universal least-offensive solution for most environments - not best of breed, but not subject to unusual/extensive requirements. It just works.
On the other hand, some functionality (e.g. data import/export, snippets) are perfunctory and minimal and seem to be either difficult or impossible to automate. If you need to streamline those operations, you'll be forced to rely on third-party solutions that mostly work on top of (instead of with) TOAD.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Research & Development (10,001+ employees)
Toad Data Point is our main tool to extract data out of the enterprise data warehouse using structured query language or SQL. It facilitates analytics and data-driven evidence-based decision making for operations as well as senior leadership. Analytics is primarily focused on synthesizing data into reportable components that drive strategy for the organization and for me personally none of that would be possible without the ability to efficiently extract this information out of the warehouse using Toad Data Point.
Pros
Export data into excel.
Export data into excel using a pivot table functionality.
Navigation between windows is intuitive and easy to understand.
Good for SQL novices and experts alike.
Cons
Occasionally freezes up when disconnected from the laptop docking station.
Better functionality to export data into Excel on an automated basis needed for automated querying.
Better integration with Python Jupyter notebook.
Likelihood to Recommend
Toad Data Point is the clear tool of choice if the end-user is interested in reports that are relatively simple to build using SQL code and export to Excel. It is less useful if the analyst also needs to run statistical models on the data and visualize the data for those functions I usually use RStudio or Jupyter Notebook which incorporates those features much more seamlessly.
Toad Data Point (TDP) is a business analysis tool. I work with department heads to show how it will solve their data needs and make better/quicker data analysis decisions. This tool is perfect if your data is in more than one data store. It supports almost 50 different data stores including Sales Force Automation, OBIEE, and other big applications. Toad supports connectivity to almost 50 different databases/Microsoft Office products/and ODBC compliant data stores.
It is also relatively easy to learn and has many of the same cool features of the Toad (database development tool) product. You don't need to know anything about SQL to do serious data analysis.
Toad Data Point is also integrated with Intelligence Central so it is very easy to share your workflows AND your data with others in your department/your company. It is more of a department kind of tool though. Intelligence Central also allows you to automate things so your data is organized and ready for use upon your arrival in the morning.
Pros
Ease of building SQL/accessing data, using the Query Builder.
The new workflow feature mimics products like Hyperion and is centered on how business analysts are used to working with their data.
The dimensional views are definitely a hidden gem. This feature allows you to display similar data in multiple windows, then filter on specifics. ALL windows will then reflect the same data. An example here would be salaries organized by dept then salaries organized by job type. As you filter, both analyses will reflect the filtered data.
You can easily create spreadsheets and pivot table spreadsheets.
You can email the results to the team/you can save the results in the intelligence central repository so others can access it.
You can automate all of these things.
Cons
The workflow is a relatively new feature. Quest is adding additional functionality and the workflows are useful now.
Would be nice if the 'Automate' feature was a bit easier to use.
Would be nice if some of the SQL Editor features in the traditional interface worked better in the new workflow interface (although, these are being fixed with each release).
Would be nice if there were fewer releases.
Likelihood to Recommend
This is the best data analysis tool I have seen. I have worked with several and this tool allows for data to be gathered from several different sources and then saved to Excel, in a number of different formats. The saving to Excel is strong. It remembers formatting/headings/data locations and even allows you to name the tabs. This functionality can be automated with either the new workflow or the traditional automation.
Where it is weak is when specific reporting needs are required. Although, the traditional interface has a full-featured report writer.
Most shops don't buy the Intelligence Central and they are really missing the boat when it comes to team collaboration and data preparation for specific reporting.
Toad Data Point is our go-to software for viewing and troubleshooting transactional information and data in our Oracle databases. It is used company-wide by our IT, Database and Technology departments at the company. Thanks to Toad we can easily parse out and work with our data in several different formats that are helpful when it comes to troubleshooting.
Pros
Excellent at parsing data.
A great tool to easily manipulate and export data in various formats.
Easy to setup.
Cons
The program can error out when reconnecting to a database from a timeout but that is easily fixed by restarting the program.
If you aren't familiar with database tools the UI can be overwhelming to some.
Likelihood to Recommend
As far as working with Oracle databases Toad is a great tool and feature-rich as far as what can be accomplished with your data. Compatible with several platforms and an excellent tool for export data into Excel formats for additional editing or reporting. UI can be slightly overwhelming for those that are somewhat new to SQL queries and database work.
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We use Toad Data Point to move data across various systems. We move data to NutriKids, TransFinder and Destiny every day. We use it also as a data auditing tool. It is our number one query writing tool, which is easy to use because of the graphical interface. It has improved our day-to-day operations with data analysis.
Pros
Ease of use. It is a very easy product to use without any particular training.
Multiple data source connection. It easily connects to multiple data sources which allows you to use different data sources to run reports.
Seamless application. Once you set everything up-- whether it is an FTP or export of data-- you can set it and forget it!
Cons
Training. I think they should offer some basic training, which is all that was needed.
Licensing. We had to purchase a couple of copies for two machines. I am not sure if anything can be done about that.
Vender Expos. Have not heard of them being at any national conferences.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would certainly recommend it in conjunction with our student information system, PowerSchool. Since our student information system does not allow updates from an ODBC connect, there is no way of doing a mass update to data incorrectly. Being able to see the table and easily do joins has made me more efficient when writing sql statements.
Toad Data point is a great product for joining datasets from all over the place. We constantly need to have the ability to bring together data from analytics, government organizations and internal data. This was previously a very cumbersome process having to use a ton of excel and access datasets. With Toad Data Point we immediately are able to join data and cleanse it right away.
Pros
Joins data from across Oracle, Access, Google Analytics
Can pull from Sharepoint lists data
The ability to cleanse data and transform easily
The user interface is very easy to use for not so technical users
Cons
The connections can be a bit slow to setup
More functionality could be added to the process that can easily be transformed or cleansed
Continue to add more data sources
Likelihood to Recommend
An example of how we use Toad Data point is we have to connect data from external datasets outside of our company for government agents, access databases that we have built over the years, sharepoint lists and our core company data within an Oracle database. We previously had to do a very cumbersome process of exports to excel and try and pivot data. Now we can do it extremely quickly.
Unfortunately (I am sure we are not the only organization) we have data in a lot of different datasets all over the company. We have access databases, oracle, mysql, sharepoint lists and excels from government entities that we previously had a hard to joining in a cohesive manner together. Toad Data Point takes all those pain points away seamless interactions amongst all of them.
Pros
We have excel files and sharepoint sites that we have to constantly be pulling data from. Previously we had to download, load into access or some other data software. Now we can just connect to all the sources.
When you connect to a lot of different data sets the data can be a little unclean. The cleansing tool within Toad allows for you to sync up to layout of data pretty quickly
The trending feature on the datasets that you pull is pretty useful, it basically shows how much variation their is in the column that you are looking at. For example if all the data is has the same value or every row is different (street addresses ).
Cons
In the past I have had some issues with the connections to some sources like google analytics. Toad can continue to build its connection tools
Sometimes the transformation and cleansing tool could be better utilized if they had a few more capabilities
The products UI could be updated a bit but honestly I really cannot complain about this product
Likelihood to Recommend
I cannot say a bad thing about this product, it has been a lifesaver for our teams multiple times. Before this product we would have had to spend hours trying to consolidate all the datasets from various areas into one area (usually ended up being Access unfortunately). I wish we would have purchased this product much earlier.
<p>My team (IT Reporting & Analytics) is the only group within our organization that uses Toad Data Point.</p><p>We use this product to analyze and track issues within our analytics environment. When needed we use it to develop and manage functions/procedures and packages to enhance the analytics functionality of our environment</p>
Pros
We use Toad Data Point to analyze data structure and the quality of data within our analytics environment.
It allows us to review, create, and modify programs within the Oracle database
Cons
I find the explain plans that can be generating difficult to use, and should provide better suggestions as to how to improve performance
Likelihood to Recommend
<p>We receive calls from our functional areas complaining about inaccurate data. Toad makes it easy to track the data's progress from our ERP to the Analytics environment. This allows us to determine quickly were the problem lies and the ability to correct mistakes.</p><p>Toad Data point is not well suited for less technical users.</p>
VU
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Our company is a real estate office along with an in house escrow. Our escrow company uses software to produce the escrows while on the real estate side of the house we use a Transaction Management Software to flow listings and transactions. We use TDP in several ways. The first way is to produce numerous reports for the owner regarding the escrow department. Some of those reports include weekly opening, closing and canceling of escrows and the number and dollars behind those. Along with the average closing time of escrows compared to previous years passed based on escrow officer along with real estate agent. On the real estate side of the house, we use the TMS companies API to pull data into our database and then use TDP to create reports on the agent's transactions and listings. Some of the reports look at the number of listings the agent takes compared to the number closed both in number and dollars, this information helps us develop classes for agents which are having problems getting listings but not being able to sell. Another report that is run once a month is agent production.
Pros
When I am not in the office, I can have someone that has used it only a hand full of times jump in and produce a great looking report by using the interface which is nice looking and intuitive. This strength of TDP is ideal for those reports that have to get out ASAP and an SMA is not available.
The ER Diagrammer helps in building those relationships in a hurry if you're doing some business analysts. You can't get this feature for the price.
I use the explain plan when I can't figure out why a query is not returning the results I think it should. It is a powerful tool and it's easy to see the problems with the representation.
Cons
At times the tool does seem a little slow some speed tweaks would be welcome.
To make it even more intuitive adding intellisense would be nice.
A data presentation dash would be a nice touch to customize data.
Likelihood to Recommend
In our case, it is well suited for preparing data for management and also to compare the data between our escrow department and our real estate side. Comparing the two sides makes it easy to see patterns of agent behavior. We also use it to cross check both sides to make sure the dates in both applications match.
Toad Data Point is used by one department to provide automated reports for multiple groups within Supply Chain. It is used to automate repetitive tasks that analysts would typically do manually such as exporting and manipulating data in Excel.
Pros
Toad is particularly good for writing SQL queries because of the drag and drop features that automatically create scripts as well as the intellisense feature for including specific columns in queries.
Toad has a simple yet powerful automation script interface which makes it very easy to automate execution of queries and exporting of data.
Toad has numerous data connection wizards, and it is very easy to connect to any data source.
Cons
Toad boasts a cross connection query wizard, but queries have always run very slowly for me, and I do not use this feature after I initially tried it out.
Toad sometimes crashes unexpectedly when I disconnect from data sources.
Occasionally the intellisense feature hangs and doesn't return the column list when coding SQL. Also, the filters on the query results hang with larger result sets and then never pop up.
Likelihood to Recommend
Toad is well suited for creating ad hoc queries and exporting data to Excel. It is also good for analyzing tables in preparation for creating ETLs, creating and altering views and stored procedures quickly. It is less appropriate with complex ETL processes because it runs very slowly and cannot process multiple data flow simultaneously.
