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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Sisense

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.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
    SisenseThoughtSpot
    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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    Pricing Offerings
    SisenseThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    SisenseThoughtSpot
    Considered Both Products
    Sisense Ltd
    No answer on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot provided a twist on the typical Analytics / report builder interface. The natural language query building is just so much easier to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot is the leader in embedded analytics and is much easier to work with massive volumes of data. None of the other tools listed had both of those functionalities, which were most important to us. There are other features that they have such as easier drill down, …
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    much more extensible and much easier to embed
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    85%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    79%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    27 Answers
    Features
    SisenseThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Sisense and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Sisense
    9.7
    47 Ratings
    17% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.6
    85 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports10.037 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards10.047 Ratings9.185 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.033 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Sisense and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Sisense
    8.8
    47 Ratings
    9% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.8
    87 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Drill-down analysis10.047 Ratings9.187 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities9.047 Ratings7.786 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.027 Ratings5.447 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration7.33 Ratings8.985 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Sisense and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Sisense
    10.0
    46 Ratings
    18% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.8
    80 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Publish to Web10.036 Ratings8.552 Ratings
    Publish to PDF10.046 Ratings9.574 Ratings
    Report Versioning10.024 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling10.039 Ratings9.261 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.133 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Sisense and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Sisense
    9.5
    45 Ratings
    17% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    83 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)10.045 Ratings7.782 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization9.042 Ratings8.876 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.029 Ratings8.062 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining10.01 Ratings7.710 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Sisense and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Sisense
    10.0
    45 Ratings
    16% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.5
    82 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)10.045 Ratings8.679 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model10.044 Ratings8.671 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.045 Ratings8.575 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control10.01 Ratings8.313 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.668 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Sisense and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Sisense
    9.7
    40 Ratings
    21% above category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.4
    50 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access10.040 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Mobile Application10.025 Ratings7.031 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.034 Ratings6.843 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Sisense and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Sisense
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    6.4
    48 Ratings
    20% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings4.939 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings4.632 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.231 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.932 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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    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
    SisenseThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (58 ratings)
    8.4
    (87 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.7
    (82 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.1
    (47 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.2
    (47 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SisenseThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Sisense Ltd
    I believe Sisense is perfectly suited for any organization of any size that have access to the proper resources, as the tool is very expensive. The data connectors come in all shapes and sizes out of the box, which allows a great deal of data control within the ElastiCubes. Additionally, while the platform only runs on Windows platforms, the web application can be accessed on any client: mobile, Apple, Windows, etc. This allows a much more flexible user experience, resulting in data and dashboards reaching further than any other tool.
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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
    Sisense Ltd
    • Customization - lots of supported and community plugins available. Users can also adjust the look and feel through JavaScript.
    • Innovation - Sisense is continuing to push the envelope by developing new features through Sisense Labs.
    • Customer support - the commitment to excellent customer service and ensuring organizations get the most out of their investment.
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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
    Sisense Ltd
    • The usability of the application on mobile devices needs some improvement, especially navigation and filtering.
    • Dashboards that are created by multiple users can be a bit of a hassle to share by Admins.
    • If you need to embed dashboards into your website, you are require to buy a license separate from the user and platform license. This is a norm on most BI visualization tools, but Sisense can seem a bit on the high side, cost-wide.
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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
    Sisense Ltd
    I think the business and myself as a user has come to rely on SiSense as a dashboarding and quick ad-hoc reporting tool. I am hoping to integrate SiSense dashboards into more parts of the business in the future. We have reduced our report turn-around time for the most part from hours/days to minutes and in some cases almost the speed of thought. Reports are also easier on the eye and more easily distributed. I would also like to say that the support and professionalism from the SiSense team has been excellent.
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    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
    Sisense Ltd
    New V5 is ground floor of an exciting collection of possibilities. Weekly Sisense developers come up with new functionality that they share with us in their forums. The move to HTML5 has been pleasing in that widgets auto size themselves into appropriate forms in the board but everyone of them can be popped out to full page size to be looked at in more detail
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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
    Sisense Ltd
    There are very few situations when there is unexpected downtime. Mostly during development, new dashboard implementation and during upgrades. other then that there were very few crashes.
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    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
    Sisense Ltd
    SiSense is usually performing better then other solutions even if going for complex reports/dashboards(of course within reasonable frames). I haven't noticed any bad influence on other systems, usually if something happens it stays within SiSense.
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    ThoughtSpot
    It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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    Support Rating
    Sisense Ltd
    SiSense's support ninjas are very knowledgeable and are exceptionally responsive. So far, all of the issues we ran into were resolved within minimum time. My sense of dealing with the support staff at SiSense is that they are very focused on not just answering your immediate question, but also to delve into the cause of the matter.
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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
    Sisense Ltd
    Easy and free training that allowed us quickly understand basics in SiSense and start using them. More advanced features requires some browsing through SiSense forums, but there is always support to help, and SiSense support is one of the best whith which I worked so far.
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    ThoughtSpot
    inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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    Online Training
    Sisense Ltd
    Many examples, videos and scenarios which you try on your own right away. This combined with in-person training gives you enough to utilize most of SiSense's power.
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    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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    Implementation Rating
    Sisense Ltd
    Remember to migrate the plugins. The documentation however is pretty straight forward.
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    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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    Alternatives Considered
    Sisense Ltd
    1) Easy to use, really, there is nothing too much to say. The set up is easy and not confusing. You can use it internally or externally.
    2) Customer Service, having spoken to various product reps from similar industry. Sisense rep provides you with the best support to get started, and it is really appreciated.
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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
    Sisense Ltd
    Product is quite easily scalable. The whole installation can be easily moved to stronger machine if needed.
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    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
    Sisense Ltd
    • Report development time is reduced from 2~3 days to 2~3 hours.
    • Report querying time is improved from 0.5~10 mins to 2~30 seconds.
    • A 2-staff team delivers 10 times the BI output that we did on the old system.
    • We were able to deliver BI and data analysis for all business functions instead of a very limited group of users
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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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    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