Item: ThoughtSpot
Rating: 9
Author: Doug Smith

Overall Satisfaction with ThoughtSpot

Usability

ThoughtSpot is very intuitive to use. The UX/UI (user experience and user interface) is very plain and easy to use. It looks like it was modeled after Google (fast but pretty plain). The "drillable", "exclude from result", and "show underlying data" are, in my opinion, the most powerful features. Overall rating is great.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently, ThoughtSpot is being used with our senior management. The plan is to eventually allow our external customers access to ThoughtSpot via API into our custom built applications. We are currently obtaining information on our employee utilization. We are working to get all of our sales revenue into the system and make that searchable.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Ad-hoc reporting is number one. Very easy for the end user to create their own ad-hoc visualization.

Cons

ETL process. Should have a built-in way to import your data.

Return on Investment

It is too early to tell. We just implemented ThoughtSpot

Likelihood to Recommend

Ad-hoc reporting is very powerful with ThoughtSpot. I would also say ThoughtSpot is very useful for the power user that creates their own Excel file in order to create their own visualizations. They can import that Excel file and create visualizations on the fly. Heatmaps and geo visualizations are also very powerful.

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The power of ad-hoc reporting.