#1 most frequent
United States of America
62.4%724 installations of 1,161
What is ThoughtSpot?
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Media
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Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screen
Top Performing Features
Publish to PDF
Category average: 8.5
Report Delivery Scheduling
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
Category average: 8.4
Drill-down analysis
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
Category average: 8.4
Areas for Improvement
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
Category average: 7.9
REST API
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
Category average: 8.1
Javascript API
A Javascript API is a type of API
Category average: 8.2
Who Buys & Uses ThoughtSpot
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
10.4%121 installations of 1,161
#3 most frequent
India
4.0%46 installations of 1,161
Great for Live Connections
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use ThoughtSpot for reporting, to generate insights, ask questions, and to deliver dashboards/reporting to our business teams
Pros
- Live Connection
- Natural Language
- Performance
Cons
- Setting up data connections
- More intuitive interface
- Stronger community
Return on Investment
- Sped up time to insight
- Faster to decision making
- better performance
- Cost savings
- Time savings
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Tableau Desktop and Microsoft Power BI
Other Software Used
Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Microsoft Power BI
An amazing way to democratize access to your data
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We're using ThoughtSpot as our main BI and self-service analytics tool as well as experimenting with reports embedding
Pros
- Empower and enable self-service analytics
- ease of use
- customer-centric sales approach and post sales support
Cons
- robustness of visualizations and customization options
- Missing central semantic layer
- Not enough capabilities around managing global data models and metrics definitions
- More robust AI assisted data model management
Return on Investment
- Reduction in time to insight from weeks to minutes
- 80% monthly active users
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Tableau Cloud, Microsoft Power BI, Preset and Looker
Fast and user freindly analytics for smarter business decisions
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have a client who has a lot of entities, assets, and loans, so there is a lot of data to be managed. ThoughtSpot gives all the analysis for it in bar graphs and charts. It helps our team to quickly analyze large datasets without needing complex SQL queries. It is easy to get insights of it. We use ThoughtSpot across different departments dashboards,ad-hoc analysis and providing a monthly view of all the transactions to the client.
Pros
- It allow users to type simple search queries and instantly get charts,tables, or insights without any technical skills.
- dashboards update in real time and make it easy to drill down in detail by just clicking on data points.
- SpotiQ feature automatically finds trends,anomalies and key drivers in the data that may be missed.
Cons
- While search is great for simple questions but handling complex calcultions and joins can be hard and requires backend work.
- Dashboards and searches can be very slow when working with large databases.
- Visualization and dashboard customisation are limited as comared with different BI tools.
Return on Investment
- Faster decisoin making - Business teams doesnt need to wait for the reports from data team ,they can get answers instantly.
- Higher productivity - Analysts spend less time on creating manual reports and more time on insights.it reduces 2 weeks of manual work.
- Better business outcomes - with quick and easy access to KPIs and trends teams acan act faster on sales , revenue and operations data.
Usability
Other Software Used
Tableau Desktop, Jira Work Management
ThoughtSpot for the Win
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We need it to visualize our data across the entire company as well as a reporting/visualization that we whitelabel for our customers. It solves not just getting an understanding of our and our clients' revenue/claims/resolution rates, but also gives us very interesting trends and insights in our data that we would have otherwise overlooked.
Pros
- Reporting
- Data Visualization
- Trends and Insights
- Liveboards and one-stop-shop dashboarding
Cons
- Faster implementation (even though it's easy enough as it is)
- More API's for individual features
- Faster performance
Return on Investment
- Swapped out previous reporting solution and re-assigned resources
- Reduced TTL from 3 months to 1 week
- Reduction in Azure spend
- Excited clients and customers
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Power BI
Other Software Used
HubSpot CRM, Jira Software, Aha! Roadmaps
Easy to use dashboards
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it to build dashboards to track various metrics for our campaigns like CTR, campaign name and other engagement metrics.
Pros
- It helps track combined data
- It looks into details of what campaigns are performing well
- It helps segregate into days of week for the campaign that's performing well
Cons
- If it could be integrated with Braze to track tests
- Using Braze tests and directly getting results in ThoughtSpot
Return on Investment
- ThoughtSpot has provided a seamless way to provide data
- It has helped us in making data-driven decisions
Usability
Other Software Used
Braze, Amazon Web Services
