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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Excel4apps

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AExcel4apps is a business intelligence software offering from Excel4apps.N/A

    ThoughtSpot

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThoughtSpot 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
    Excel4appsThoughtSpot
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Excel4appsThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Excel4appsThoughtSpot
    Considered Both Products
    Excel4apps
    No answer on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    79%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    27 Answers
    Features
    Excel4appsThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Excel4apps and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    6.3
    4 Ratings
    26% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.6
    85 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports5.43 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards6.13 Ratings9.185 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.44 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Excel4apps and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    7.6
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.8
    87 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Drill-down analysis7.54 Ratings9.187 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.24 Ratings7.786 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages6.52 Ratings5.447 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.14 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Excel4apps and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    6.4
    3 Ratings
    26% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.8
    80 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Publish to Web6.73 Ratings8.552 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.22 Ratings9.574 Ratings
    Report Versioning5.83 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling6.23 Ratings9.261 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers5.02 Ratings9.133 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Excel4apps and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    6.7
    2 Ratings
    17% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    83 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.02 Ratings7.782 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.02 Ratings8.876 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics6.02 Ratings8.062 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.710 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Excel4apps and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    8.1
    3 Ratings
    5% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.5
    82 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)9.03 Ratings8.679 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model9.02 Ratings8.671 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.23 Ratings8.575 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)7.22 Ratings8.668 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.313 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Excel4apps and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.4
    50 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.01 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Mobile Application8.01 Ratings7.031 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.01 Ratings6.843 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Excel4apps and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Excel4apps
    3.4
    2 Ratings
    78% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    6.4
    48 Ratings
    20% below category average
    REST API1.01 Ratings4.939 Ratings
    Javascript API5.72 Ratings4.632 Ratings
    iFrames1.01 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Java API5.92 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)2.01 Ratings6.932 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)5.01 Ratings7.115 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Excel4appsThoughtSpot
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Excel4appsThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.4
    (87 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    8.7
    (82 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.9
    (3 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)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 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
    Excel4appsThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Excel4apps
    We have to calculate most all Lab / Pilot / Proposals sizing and results. The automated calculations in [Excel4apps] is awesome, as once you are familiar with them, it is easy to quickly implement them when needed.
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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
    Excel4apps
    • Easy to install and maintain. After the initial installation, there is little involvement by the technical administrators.
    • Cloning production to a test environment does not require any additional setups unlike Oracle EBS which does.
    • Loading data and reporting on this data is handled via EXCEL spreadsheets which is the "language" of our financial users.
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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
    Excel4apps
    • It is possible but difficult to retrieve data or set criteria from different module into a single report or retrieve. If it is more user friendly instead of having to create a complex formula to retrieve the data, this function will be utilized more often.
    • It will be nice to have visual (graphs, etc.) report template available
    • It is helpful if we can retrieve data for a range of date, instead of just YTD, PTD etc. and multi-year data all at once for comparison too.
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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
    Excel4apps
    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
    Excel4apps
    I am not a power user of Excel. So I find Exel4apps a friendlier version of the things that I could do on Excel and making it easier with a magic wand.
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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
    Excel4apps
    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
    Excel4apps
    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
    Excel4apps
    I have not needed support yet
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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
    Excel4apps
    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
    Excel4apps
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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    Implementation Rating
    Excel4apps
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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    Alternatives Considered
    Excel4apps
    Excel4apps is more user friendly and can retrieve data much easier and in a nicer format than Jaspersoft. Qlik Sense is useful and have more visual reporting and dashboard. However, it is usually used for higher level of analyses and review. Yardi is used for specific purpose, which is different than Excel4apps. Excel4apps can pull all the financial data from Oracle, including billing and collections.
    Incentivized
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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
    Excel4apps
    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
    Excel4apps
    • Increase team transparency
    • Increased reporting
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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.
    Incentivized
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    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