ThoughtSpot - the new GenAI based BI tool around the block!
January 04, 2024

ThoughtSpot - the new GenAI based BI tool around the block!

Nikhil Sinha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ThoughtSpot

I use Thoughtspot to enable self-serve analytics on pharmaceutical data.
Thouhtspot's USP is its ease of use for the end users and they get answers from their data in just a few clicks.
Plus, with the introduction of Thoughtspot sage, the Gen AI capabilities provides users with NLP capabilites on their data - which is great for business and HQ users (who are not so tech savvy).
Lastly, feature like SpotIQ provide users with automated analysis and insights on their data - which otherwise would have required some manual intervention from a technical user.
  • Ease of Use
  • Very Fast Querying on even huge datasets
  • Strong data modelling features
  • Customizability of the visualization/liveboards
  • Addition of support for more data warehouse systems
  • Option of creating data extracts
  • Thoughtspot has reduced the turnaround times for queries on data for one of our clients by greater than 50%
Thoughspot is fairly easy to learn and new users - users without any prior technical knowledge can also get onboarded to performing simple activities on their data within 3-4 days.
The more advanced functionalities, a user can get accustomed to within a week or so.
Thoughtspot provides instant answers on the search queries run on the live data.
The anwers are accurate as long as the end user knows keywords and method of querying on the data.
Although thoughtspot can mostly return relatively simpler answers, and the more complex ones might result in inaccuracies.
Thoughtspot is very easy to use, and it is designed with data democracy in mind - meaning even non - tech users can get up to speed with the tool fairly quickly and create visualizations on their data using NLP querying.
The UI and fuctionalities have also been kept quite simple.
Thoughtspot already has support for many cloud data warehouses like Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Starburst etc., so it was easy for me to migrate the existing data on other BI tools to Thoughtspot.
But, I did notice that there were some data warehouses that Thouhtspot didn't support, although their support team did assure me that the support will be provided in the coming quarters.
Thoughtspot is a fairly new tool when compared to Tableau. I'll just list the benefits of each one of threse below -
Tableau -
1. Much more customizable the Thoughtspot
2. Has support for almost all the data warehouses to build visualizations.
3. Ability to create data extracts on Tableau server

Thoughtspot -
1. Much simpler to use as compared to Tableau
2. Comes with GenAI and NLP support
3. Data analysis and insights tools like SpotIQ
4. Quicker to create dashboards/visualizations

Do you think ThoughtSpot delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with ThoughtSpot's feature set?

No

Did ThoughtSpot live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of ThoughtSpot go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy ThoughtSpot again?

Yes

Thoughtspot is great for promoting data democracy to the end users (primarily business users).
It enables them to build simple visualizations and pin multiple of them together on a liveboard just by entering their queries in simple natural language.
But, for building more complex visualizations, Thoughtspot lags behind other (older) BI tools in the market - as it has relatively limited customizability options for visualizations as of now.

ThoughtSpot Feature Ratings

Customizable dashboards
4
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
2
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
8
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Delivery to Remote Servers
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
9
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Report-Level Access Control
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
9
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated