Item: ThoughtSpot
Rating: 10
Author: Joseph Pruiett

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ThoughtSpot has been selected to replace most of our general reporting implementations. We want to spend more time on data quality and less time on custom report churn as ThoughtSpot is providing us the ability to go this route. Currently our legacy systems have been integrated into ThoughtSpot. We still have new platforms and other service lines that need to get integrated which the company is ready to have one place for analytical reporting to be done. The problem that ThoughtSpot solves is wasted time on custom report development that generally has to go through several iterations to answer the questions the business is initially asking. ThoughtSpot reduced that time and cost by 1000% by allowing the business users to determine what answers they really are trying to extract out of the data set by having direct access to all the data for a specific focus area.

Pros and Cons

Speed of aggregation is is unmatched with other analytics tools.
Visualization is instantaneous in most interactions which gives the users the Google response time we have been conditioned to in this day and age.
The business is empowered to create their own custom dashboards for their focus area.

Regression testing for all existing functionality to ensure smooth upgrade to existing worksheets, dashboards, etc., that have been created on prior versions.
Ability for modifications to underlying source tables to propagate changes throughout all worksheets built on top of source data. Currently if you have to modify a relationship field or primary key definitions, you have to recreate everything sitting on top of that source which as time goes on it makes it very problematic to address relationship issues that have been uncovered over time.
group_max performance

Return on Investment

ThoughtSpot has changed our path within the data services department which allows us to focus on larger initiatives rather than your everyday reporting request.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

A week - once they get use to using the interface.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Accurate

Usability

I have been in data realm for most of my career, this is the first product I have labeled as the holy grail of BI because it's Google for your data at speed of the day and age expectancy.

ThoughtSpot BI Team Impact

Yes bigger picture projects.

Likelihood to Recommend

We have found for general and in-depth reporting ThoughtSpot is perfect. We have identified that in some cases it's better to grab the flow of events as you need to see them prior to pushing into ThoughtSpot so we are not dependant on using group_max to find the date an event happened because as with all reporting systems, views on top of views on top of views can eventually be a performance issue.

ThoughtSpot will change your company's visibility into the future

Overall Satisfaction with ThoughtSpot