Mode, or Mode Analytics, from ThoughtSpot since the June 2023 acquisition, is a business intelligence platform that unifies company analytics by bringing data teams and business teams together, so analysts can provide rapid answers to strategic, ad hoc questions. And, business stakeholder can access relevant data to answer their own questions which can often detract more impactful work.
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Rational BI
Score 7.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data. Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network…
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BI Standard Reporting
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Mode Analytics
8.5
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4% above category average
Rational BI
8.3
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1% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports
9.30 Ratings
7.60 Ratings
Customizable dashboards
8.40 Ratings
8.70 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates
7.80 Ratings
8.50 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
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Mode Analytics
7.4
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8% below category average
Rational BI
8.3
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4% above category average
Drill-down analysis
7.10 Ratings
7.70 Ratings
Formatting capabilities
6.70 Ratings
8.20 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7.30 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration
8.70 Ratings
9.20 Ratings
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Mode Analytics
7.9
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5% below category average
Rational BI
9.0
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6% above category average
Publish to Web
8.10 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF
5.80 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Report Versioning
7.70 Ratings
8.60 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling
9.60 Ratings
9.20 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers
8.30 Ratings
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After launching a new contact pathway in a help experience, Mode Analytics can help provide insight into the sentiments from users as well as the engagement with any written content. Numeric outputs are easier to manage, whereas more nuanced/emotional feedback is sometimes hard to quantify (though not impossible if you get creative).
Rational BI allows managing data analysis coming from different projects in order to create useful reports and dashboards. I usually set up automatically scheduled reports. All the stakeholders can easily share a rational view with the possibility to filter between the interesting arguments. Sometimes different user profiles could be needed, optimize the view.
Documentation for new users could be better. Sometimes it's hard for my users that are not that skilled in IS/IT to set up data connectors are understand the dynamics of data sources.
I have used several other BI solutions as well, and their GUI is okay, but surely there is also room for improvement here. Not all things are made entirely logically.
Understanding their price structure. Generally, their website looks nice, but it's not very informative when it comes to pricing, and support options. I really miss some kind of transparency and overview.
Rational BI allows managing data analysis coming from different projects. The outputs are one or more reports, that can be delivered automatically to the stakeholders or other communication media inside the organization. Nice dashboards help to describe and analyze data. Sometimes different user profiles could be needed, optimize the view.
Tableau is a huge pain to edit or create dashboards, by comparison. It can make better looking visualizations, but in practice, letting users drill down and change dimensions slows the end user experience so much that it's often not worth it.
Looker is amazing for data modeling, but you have to get your whole business all in on it to take advantage. Viz capabilities are similar.
Databricks has a lot of functionality overlap, but the visualizations are terrible. Databricks' great strength is that you can use notebooks to do anything with code.
Today there are many companies providing BI solutions, and generally, I think Microsoft Power BI is the easiest go-to solution as it is part of the Office365 software. However all software solutions have their limitations, advantages, and disadvantages, but sometimes you don't need the perfect solution. You just need a solution that delivers 80-90 percent of the full potential to reach your goal and in this scope, we were really happy with Rational BI.
It has allowed us to monitor ongoing financial transactions written to our SQL data tables in real-time and that helps us to monitor user transaction activities in real-time
Using Mode we have been able to also track users who undertake fraudulent financial transactions; preventing financial losses to our users
Mode's collaborative abilities have been very helpful in sharing transaction monitoring workload across our compliance and cybersecurity team