AI for BI
November 13, 2018

AI for BI

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ThoughtSpot

We are using ThoughtSpot to democratize the data across the company. It was initially launched for a single department but within weeks it was being used across the entire enterprise. It mainly solves the business problem of having static reports. It is very difficult, if not impossible, for a report developer to think about all the permutations and combinations which users might be interested in. ThoughtSpot solves this problem brilliantly.

Pros

  • ThoughtSpot is great at answering questions no one asked before.
  • SpotIQ helps identifying the data quality issues.
  • Giving users ability to create their own reports is a huge plus.
  • Lightening fast performance on terabytes of data.

Cons

  • ThoughtSpot can do a better job of providing prescriptive analytics.
  • Live connection for other databases is a much needed feature.
  • Pinboard canvas should allow for custom size rather than sticking to 5 pre-defined sizes.
  • More features needed in pinboard level filters.
  • Overall customer satisfaction has improved dramatically after implementing ThoughtSpot.
  • Turnaround time to develop reports has reduced.
ThoughSpot does a good job of following Steve Job's philosophy about not requiring a user manual. The interface is crisp, clean and very simple to use. The performance is lightening fast. Users are given curated data which is vetted by the data owners, hence the chances of getting wrong answer are very low.
ThoughtSpot is very well suited to make data available across the company. It does lack at connecting R and other tools to the database for further enrichment of the data. Mobile app is not available.

ThoughtSpot Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
9.3
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
9
10.0
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
8.0
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
6
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
9.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
Mobile Capabilities ()
Not Rated
9.0
REST API
10
Javascript API
9
iFrames
9
Java API
8
Themeable User Interface (UI)
10
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
8

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