A tool that makes meaningful insights into the impact of a pandemic
April 12, 2020
A tool that makes meaningful insights into the impact of a pandemic
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is the only product on the market that supports search, analytics and BI across corporate. It's been used by the whole organization. We have users who use pinboards on a daily basis. We have users that launch searches for a specific loan and drill down to its details. ThoughtSpot was able to hold large data volume in memory and return search results in the desired timeframe.
- Searching like Googling was the number one feature that we were looking for and ThoughtSpot does it best.
- Pinboards are very useful for the group of field managers who're working on a set of products.
- Data manipulation ( e.g. joining multiple tables and views ) under the hood
- The model file/worksheet is typically used as a whole and it'll be nice if it could be used at the column level.
- Integration with commonly used ETL tools, such as Informatica, will help the IT/Data department greatly.
- Through Thoughtspot's self-service nature, pushing analytics to the lowest level has an obvious positive impact on our corporate digitization objective.
- Through automated data updating processes, we can deploy some IT capacity to other areas and still support the demanding Thoughtspot user base.
We conduct user on-board training for any new user to get it started with Thoughtspot. We provide follow-up training in a month or two to cover advanced features beyond the 101. Typically, within a couple of months, a new user is good at the basics. In many cases, users said that they needed to change their mind set a bit from traditional reporting to the self-service reporting.
ThoughtSpot has been designed to provide accurate answers to ad-hoc data questions rapidly and we have used this feature from day one. We have integrated our analytical needs into pinboards, data visualization and drill down.
SpotIQ is another nice feature. The algorisms behind it have produced meaningful predictive insights when we used SpotIQ to predict the impacts of the resent COVID-19 pandemic on our business.