Item: ThoughtSpot
Rating: 10
Author: David Clifton

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ThoughtSpot is primarily used a resource tool. We have Global projects and ThoughtSpot helps us to closely track project hours on a weekly basis. It is also used to estimate project related billing costs.
ThoughtSpot is used also as an internal cost management tool given the rapid analytics capability.
Many other users have leveraged ThoughtSpot to create basic lists and counts.

Pros and Cons

Search through millions of rows of data in seconds.
Rapid response time with searches.
The search indexing feature is impressive.
Content sharing.
Scheduling.

Improve the export feature so that PDFs are paginated.
Pivot table exports need to have column labels included.
Better user/group security - ability to create special groups as in roles.
Better ability to report on content, tables(rows loaded, etc.), system reporting leverage search.
Improve scheduling to allow for report bursting to multiple users/groups/roles from a single Pinboard.

Return on Investment

Positive - Rapid turnaround of business needs.

ThoughtSpot Time to Value

I have literally trained users in 5 minutes on the basic functions that enabled them to retrieve the data they needed.
On average we can train a large number of users in less than 30 minutes.
Many users are self taught and frequently ask about more complex tasks but the tool is so intuitive they usually train themselves.

ThoughtSpot Accuracy

Data accuracy is only as good as the data we load into ThoughtSpot. However, leaders have found they can get faster and just as accurate answers from ThoughtSpot than from the official enterprise reporting tool.

Usability

There are only a few areas where ThoughtSpot has just not matured to a comparable reporting tool.
However, even with these limitations, ThoughtSpot has proven itself in our business as the "go to" rapid data tool.

Cloud Data Support

We are currently in the process of migrating to the cloud. We are excited about the new functionalities that will open up to us.

Likelihood to Recommend

ThoughtSpot is well suited for rapid deployment, getting data in the hands of decision makers. The ease of onboarding non-technical users is a proven example of how ThoughtSpot is innovative and nimble. I have literally trained users on basic functions in 5 minutes.
When the Covid pandemic was ramping up we were able to deploy critical information to our global business leaders within days. Everyone was impressed with its capabilities.

Where ThoughtSpot is less appropriate is the embedding of links, images, videos and other web page type content. An example comes to mind with a function called Bar Chart Racing.

Good data is no accident

Overall Satisfaction with ThoughtSpot