BrightGauge vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BrightGauge
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
BrightGauge is a BI tool from ConnectWise that puts essential information in one place, providing visibility for more informed decisions. The user can customize BrightGauge dashboards and sync other business tools in its BI dashboard software for ultimate visibility. Users can also display data with embeddable gauges on public sites.
$325
per month
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.
$1,500
per year (5 users)
Pricing
BrightGaugeThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
Standard
$325
per month
Enterprise
$449
per month
Enterprise+
$635
per month
Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
$50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BrightGaugeThoughtSpot
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup Fee$499 one-time feeOptional
Additional DetailsSet up fee is waived for Enterprise+ customers. A discount is offered for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
BrightGaugeThoughtSpot
Features
BrightGaugeThoughtSpot
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BrightGauge
8.1
14 Ratings
1% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.5
85 Ratings
8% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.210 Ratings6.021 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.814 Ratings8.885 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.213 Ratings7.725 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
BrightGauge
7.7
14 Ratings
4% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.6
87 Ratings
6% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.414 Ratings8.887 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.513 Ratings7.586 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages4.77 Ratings5.447 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.213 Ratings8.785 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
BrightGauge
7.9
14 Ratings
5% below category average
ThoughtSpot
8.7
80 Ratings
5% above category average
Publish to Web9.410 Ratings8.552 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.414 Ratings9.274 Ratings
Report Versioning5.07 Ratings7.918 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.214 Ratings8.961 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.54 Ratings8.733 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
BrightGauge
5.9
12 Ratings
30% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.9
83 Ratings
1% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.012 Ratings7.782 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.16 Ratings8.676 Ratings
Predictive Analytics6.06 Ratings7.862 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining2.52 Ratings7.410 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
BrightGauge
8.7
14 Ratings
3% above category average
ThoughtSpot
8.3
82 Ratings
2% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.614 Ratings8.579 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model9.213 Ratings8.371 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.213 Ratings8.275 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control8.34 Ratings8.113 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.35 Ratings8.568 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
BrightGauge
6.8
7 Ratings
15% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.7
50 Ratings
2% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.56 Ratings7.448 Ratings
Mobile Application6.01 Ratings7.531 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile5.96 Ratings7.343 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
BrightGauge
7.4
8 Ratings
5% below category average
ThoughtSpot
6.8
48 Ratings
14% below category average
REST API8.36 Ratings5.739 Ratings
Javascript API9.62 Ratings5.432 Ratings
iFrames10.02 Ratings8.231 Ratings
Java API6.01 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)3.53 Ratings7.232 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.03 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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User Ratings
BrightGaugeThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(14 ratings)
8.5
(87 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.4
(7 ratings)
8.6
(82 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
BrightGaugeThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
ConnectWise
BrightGauge lets us know when we have critical issues that need solving. A massive influx of tickets all at the same time triggers an investigation. Usually, it is tied to a server going down, which we can address. It would not be helpful for a small MSP or IT department with just a few daily tickets. The stats are better used to track a large amount of clients.
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ThoughtSpot
It is well suited when the same data is consumed by many different people with different analytics and visualization requirements because, if you have the data available in ThoughtSpot, every user can prepare different views. Also, it is a good reporting tool, you can get rid of slides if you have a good dashboard prepared, gaining flexibility and agility.
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Pros
ConnectWise
  • SQL queries can be presented in many different ways to illustrate the data. They can be used in lists, graphs, meter, etc.
  • The datasets frequency of updates can be customized to from 5 minutes to annually. It's very granular in this respect.
  • It allows dashboards to be shared outside your organization with clients, partners, and vendors to maximize collaboration and reporting.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
  • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
  • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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Cons
ConnectWise
  • Annual or more than annualized data is desperately needed for MSPs to show trends, current limitation is previous 240 days for ConnectWise tickets
  • Alerts when datasets do not sync properly, I have to rely on my team to notice vs get an automated alert from BrightGauge
  • Small thing, but it would be nice to have more options on the report scheduler to enable a start date. If you wish to do it quarterly, you have to start the schedule exactly 3 months from the next run.
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ThoughtSpot
  • It would be great if ThoughtSpot can add the feature to filter by clicking on visualizations. i.e if I click on a particular data point in the chart if the full dashboard can filter just for that particular data point.
  • Color coding the heatmap with different colors like green to orange to red.
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Likelihood to Renew
ConnectWise
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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Usability
ConnectWise
Usability is BrightGauge's strength. Granting the ability of virtually any user to be able to create a dashboard is incredibly valuable. If an organization very simple and straight forward reporting needs then BrightGauge is a perfect fit for them. Connecting to the dataset we used was very quick and easy and I imagine it would be the same for any major data source you would like to pull from.
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ThoughtSpot
The rating is because of the ease of use of the interface as it has a no code interface that makes it easy to setup data pipelines without extensive programming. Cloud native integration: It integrates seamlessly with cloud based data warehouses. Automated data loading, Scalability, Cost Effective, Transformations, Data Governance and security.
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Reliability and Availability
ConnectWise
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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Performance
ConnectWise
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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Support Rating
ConnectWise
Anytime I have reached out to the BrightGauge support team they have been quick, responsive, and solved my issue. They go out of their way to be helpful!
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ThoughtSpot
I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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In-Person Training
ConnectWise
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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Online Training
ConnectWise
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
poor instructions
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Implementation Rating
ConnectWise
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Alternatives Considered
ConnectWise
I'm not aware of any other competitors to Bright Gauge that we selected. They seem to be very close to managed IT service providers and have been great at tailoring their support to the PSAs like ConnectWise, AutoTask, etc. I can see Bright Gauge getting more and more popular as time goes by
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ThoughtSpot
We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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Scalability
ConnectWise
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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Return on Investment
ConnectWise
  • We were purchased by a large PE firm because we could easily show CSAT ratings.
  • The easily trackable stats are suitable for the C-Suite to see which division is the most profitable.
  • We won 60,000 MRR by displaying to potential customers how we track important issues with the gauges.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Time to market ROI is massive vs hiring the full-time dedicated team to build and maintain a frontend multi-tenant SaaS data viz product.
  • It will be interesting to see over time how the advanced features play out in terms of usability and end value, such as Natural Search, which we are very excited about, and the machine learning tools.
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ScreenShots

ThoughtSpot Screenshots

Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the Spotter AI agent that surfaces insights through natural language queriesScreenshot of AI Assist producing SQL in real timeScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the integration with dbt models and metrics