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Toad Data Point is a cross-platform, self-service, data-integration tool that simplifies data access, preparation and provisioning. It provides data connectivity and desktop data integration, and with the Workbook interface for business users, it provides simple-to-use visual query building and workflow…
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Toad Data Point is a cross-platform, self-service, data-integration tool that simplifies data access, preparation and provisioning. It provides data connectivity and desktop data integration, and with the Workbook interface for business users, it provides simple-to-use visual query building and workflow automation.
Reviewers rate Data Sources highest, with a score of 9.8.
The most common users of Toad Data Point are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Toad Data Point has proven to be a valuable tool for analyzing data from multiple data stores, including Sales Force Automation, OBIEE, and other big applications. Users appreciate its versatility in supporting connectivity to almost 50 different databases, Microsoft Office products, and ODBC compliant data stores. This makes it an excellent choice for working with various data sources.
One of the key use cases of Toad Data Point is extracting data from enterprise data warehouses using SQL. This enables analytics and data-driven decision making for operations and senior leadership. Users have found that the software is effective in moving data across different systems, such as NutriKids, TransFinder, and Destiny. It also serves as a reliable data auditing tool.
With its graphical interface and easy-to-use query writing tool, Toad Data Point improves day-to-day operations and streamlines data analysis. Users have praised its ability to join datasets from various sources, including analytics, government organizations, and internal data. By eliminating the need for multiple Excel and Access datasets, it saves time and effort.
Real estate offices have utilized Toad Data Point to produce reports on escrow departments, such as opening, closing, and canceling of escrows, average closing time, and agent performance. In addition to this industry-specific use case, the software has been instrumental in analyzing and tracking issues within analytics environments by developing and managing functions, procedures, and packages to enhance functionality.
Toad Data Point is widely used company-wide by IT, Database, and Technology departments for viewing and troubleshooting transactional information and data in Oracle databases. Its seamless interaction with various datasets like Access databases, Oracle, MySQL, SharePoint lists, and Excel has resolved challenges in joining data from different sources.
Overall, users find Toad Data Point to be a reliable tool that simplifies complex data analysis tasks across multiple databases while providing the flexibility to connect with various data sources.
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.
Difficulties with Automate Feature: Some users have found the Automate feature in Toad Data Point to be challenging to use, suggesting that it may require improvement in terms of usability.
Issues with SQL Editor Features: The SQL Editor features in the new workflow interface have been reported to have some problems, indicating that they may not work as smoothly as desired by some users.
Frequent Software Updates: Several users have expressed concern about the frequency of software updates, stating a preference for fewer releases.
Users highly recommend giving Toad Data Point a try for a 30-day trial to fully appreciate its extensive functionality and the benefits it offers. They suggest utilizing this powerful tool for running ad hoc queries to extract specific data from databases. Additionally, users find Toad Data Point extremely useful for working with database schemas and establishing relationships between different data entities. To make the most of its features, users emphasize the importance of receiving proper training on Toad Data Point. This will enable users to efficiently navigate through its tools and capabilities, maximizing their productivity and achieving better insights from their data analysis tasks.
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October 23, 2019
Considering a Business Analysis tool? Consider Toad Data Point.
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
I find Toad Data Point easy to use and easy to format and extract data to Excel. The Workbook (new interface) is closely tied to email. Intelligence Central is also closely tied to email. I find this tool essential if your data is stored in different database types or some data is in say Oracle and other data is in an Access data store...or even an Excel spreadsheet can be treated as a data store by Toad.
Discoverer was easy to extract data from Oracle and save to Excel. OBIEE needs a lot of training.
Discoverer was easy to extract data from Oracle and save to Excel. OBIEE needs a lot of training.
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I am a support person for Toad Data Point. Toad Data Point is a data analysis tool that allows a single access to data stored in multiple different databases and storage areas. The above number is based on larger departments. I have seen Toad Data Point being used by single departments containing just a few people to multiple departments in larger organizations where they have hundreds of people accessing data and creating spreadsheets.
Toad Data Point installs at the work station. Toad Intelligence Central has a server component. This component needs an administrator but this admin person can be the help desk for a larger organization or the department head for a small organization. Skills??? Simple PC skills to install the product is all that is needed. If you have installed Microsoft Office (for example), you can install Toad Data Point.
- Automatically subset the data for business analyst use the next day
- Ease of sharing work already done
- Even the novice can create and analyze data using Toad Data Point
- Create spreadsheets easily for additional analysis. ie: use Toad Data Point for a data access tool
- Provide some additional data analysis using its dimensional views (comparing similar data with data filtering)
- Common interface for both the novice and SQL savvy business analyst
- Ability to automate the steps
- To gather and organize the data for specific departmental needs.
- Ease of sharing of the work between users (vacations, out of the office, etc).
- Ease of using the Query Builder. You know your data, and Toad Data Point can access it.
- Building the work flows are easy and intuitive.
- The query builder allows data access via mouse operations.
- Saving data and sharing data and workflows/spreadsheets with others is easy.
- In the traditional interface, the Automation can be a bit dicey for the novice.
- If you don't buy the Intelligence Central, your ability to share data is limited.
- There is not a lot of assistance with the Report Writer feature of the traditional interface.
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October 18, 2017
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My team (IT Reporting & Analytics) is the only group within our organization that uses Toad Data Point.
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
- 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
- I find the explain plans that can be generating difficult to use, and should provide better suggestions as to how to improve performance
I like Toad Data Point being more designed to work with non Oracle databases
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The current users are IT staff and support themselves
- We would like to give Toad Data Pont to some of our power users. They ones that would feel comfortable in using SQL
- Reviewing data quality and what is causing issues
- Adding functionality to our analytics environment by the development of functions/procedures and packages
- Using this product to develop simple data models
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Yes, we used to use Toad for Oracle, however TOAD Data point allows the flexibility to access other data sources more easily
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Since we had used Toad for Oracle, we knew this would be a good quality product with good support
I wouldn't change how we determined to use this product
- If you are familiar with using SQL and PL/SQL this system is easy to use. Otherwise it can be confusing. The feature to select an object and find out all information regarding it is the one I use the most
- I find the explain plans difficult to use and understand, especially if you are not experienced with them.