Thoughtspot - Powerful BI Tool
January 21, 2020
Thoughtspot - Powerful BI Tool
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with ThoughtSpot
Solving for human-scale data access implies solving for data-scale by definition, but data is only a means to an end; the end is to help humans do their jobs better as we approached the problem from the other end. We realized that the solution would end up being quite different than what the industry was trying to do—creating big data lakes, throwing a bunch of data in there, and connecting their existing BI tools to it, then hoping for the best. Being able to store a lot of data in a data lake does not matter. You might have a petabyte of data or maybe even two, but if only a handful of experts know how to access it, it will have a minimal impact on your business. On the other hand, if you gave accurate data access to a million human beings—whether your employees, customers, or partners—even if it were only a hundred gigabytes, it would have a significant impact on your business.
- Powerful search
- Maximized data sources
- Simple reports are easy to create, and simple questions are readily answered. Complex problems that involve sub-queries etc. are tough to answer.
- Migrating between environments could be refined.
- Lightening fast performance on terabytes of data.
- ThoughtSpot has cool features that help you get more proficient at using the full tool capacity, i.e., replay feature, which shows steps by steps how to construct your question, especially helpful for more complex searches. Your data can be transformed into a chart and even presentation slides; the tool is intuitive enough to learn your search pattern and also to present suggestion scenarios related to your historical searches; and so much more!
ThoughtSpot is very intuitive for the end-user. No particular technical skills are required to start using the tool. You need to know your data to search for meaningful statistical results.
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 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.
The easy to use UI allowed our teams to get on-boarded to the platform very quickly and let our least BI friendly teams customize reports to their liking. Answering 80 percent of the questions based on the data set and then use another BI application to answer more in-depth questions