Item: ThoughtSpot
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Thoughtspot is used in my organisation as a Google for data; predominantly thoughtspot is used by our senior management to find trends and compare sales performance. Thoughtspot is a powerful tool for general day to day data analysis and provides a quick glance at KPIs for your organisation.

Pros and Cons

It's a Google for data
Thoughtspot can process huge amounts of data smoothly
It is generally very fast with rendering visuals on large datasets
Great support staff

Thoughtspot does not have a mobile app
It cannot perform group by functions effectively
Not meant for complex visualizations
Not flexible enough for users to build combination charts

Alternatives Considered

Answer Rocket

While Thoughtspot runs on "keyword search" technology, it needs the users to import data and build the data model in thoughtspot which creates a duplicate copy of your data mart. Answer Rocket uses "NLP (Natural Language Processing)" to work on your existing database and while the queries may be a little slow it does not create the need to load, store and maintain a duplicate copy of your data mart.

Data Integration

While thoughtspot supports basic ODBC drivers it is highly complex to move data to the thoughtspot box for any kind of analysis since thoughtspot does not run on your RDBMS system. To get thoughspot to do what it is good at a lot of investment needs to go into data modeling to deliver the right data model that makes analysis easy.

Collaboration and Sharing

Thoughtspot is a web based tool that offers a search bar so essentially everything is shared depending on your access level however thoughtspot also offers the capability to download PDFs and csv-s to be shared across your team.

Other Software Used

Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Alteryx Analytics, Alteryx Analytics Gallery, JIRA Software, BetterWorks, Teradata Database, Hadoop, IBM Cognos

Likelihood to Recommend

Thoughtspot is a very powerful tool if you want data insights quickly - it can process huge datasets quickly. It has a fantastic customer support system. Thoughtspot is not meant for detailed analysis of data, please do not compare this with tools like Tableau that offer a far superior range of visuals and functions to build effective data analytics solutions. Thoughtspot also does not offer the flexibility to deploy the app on-premise without buying pre-configured hardware from the organisation.

Thoughtspot: google your data

Overall Satisfaction with ThoughtSpot