ThoughtSpot Review
May 10, 2020

ThoughtSpot Review

Dino Cavallo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ThoughtSpot

ThoughSpot is being used increasingly across the organization. It has taken root within merchandising and continues to expand from there. It has helped enable quick access to information for non-technical users. Further data needs to be ingested to unlock the benefits for the supply chain group. Initial attempts to replicate existing reporting in ThoughtSpot have identified some limitations with respect to formatting.
  • Speed
  • Dynamic ability to drill down/up.
  • Ability to share information.
  • Initial attempts to replicate existing reporting in ThoughtSpot have identified some limitations with respect to formatting (year over year, week over week comparisons, etc.).
  • Creating search string to get the data you want is not as intuitive as it is made out to be.
  • Tweaking search string to generate visualizations in desired format is not always clear.
  • Still in infancy, not quite there yet in terms of ROI, but promising.
Certainly, this is company/business/use specific, but ThoughtSpot is fairly intuitive and most anyone with at least some business intelligence reporting experience can start creating queries/reporting right away. This, of course, assumes that all the underlying data is loaded and curated accordingly. That said and in place, I think a few hours of additional/dedicated training will go a long way to getting users very proficient with ThoughSpot.
This all depends on the underlying data being loaded and curated accordingly. If so, ThoughtSpot is very accurate and timely.
  • Great clean look and feel, quick and responsive.
  • Ability to visualize and share information easily.
  • Views are dynamic and support related questions (drill-down) easily.
We have yet to enable SpotIQ.
  • Well suited for quick queries.
  • Well suited for simple reports/visualizations/pinboards.
  • Well suited for more senior (manager and above) audience.
  • Not well suited for more complex queries.
  • Not well suited for ad hoc data analysis (data must be curated by the support team).

ThoughtSpot Feature Ratings

Customizable dashboards
8
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
6
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
8
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
Not Rated
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated