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Pros
Visual Appeal of Visualizations: Reviewers have highlighted the clean and visually appealing design of the visualizations on the platform, making data interpretation more accessible.
Speed of Development: Many users have praised the platform for its speed in development, enabling them to work efficiently and effectively.
Ease of Complex Formulas Handling: Users mention that the platform simplifies working with complex formulas, enhancing their data manipulation capabilities.
User-Friendly Dashboarding Feature: The dashboarding feature is lauded by users for being intuitive and suitable for non-technical users. Efficient Data Search and Insights Generation: Users appreciate how easy it is to search for data and obtain insights quickly on the platform.
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ThoughtSpot Reviews
6 Reviews
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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
Likelihood to Recommend
ThoughtSpot is best suited to analyzing and visualizing data sets where you want to be able to drill down and dissect the data in different ways, but you may not necessarily be sure how to set it up to do that, since ThoughtSpot takes care of the drill down hierarchy that normally needs to be set up in advance. That way you can slice and dice data to suit your business questions. Scenarios where it's not appropriate is if you have data distributed over multiple databases and you want to bring it all together. That can be a challenge.
We use ThoughtSpot as a central piece of our analytics platform. It houses a large majority of our internal and external reporting. It covers a pretty large scope and solves numerous business problems for us, including ad hoc reporting, embedded reporting, internal reporting, external reporting etc. We also leverage RLS to limit external reporting.
Pros
Reporting development is pretty simple
RLS
Visualizations are pretty clean for the most part.
Cons
Objects are not able to be referenced across
Lacks the ability to put reports in directories. There's no sense of organization
Reporting can be very buggy sometimes
Can't limit peoples ability to create as many reports as they want.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think that if a company is looking to roll out a suite of reporting more centrally focused on ad hoc reporting and not necessarily looking to lock down their environment and report creation to strictly and internal analytics or BI team, ThoughtSpot fits that use case. Anything that needs more structure/limitation is not right for ThoughtSpot.
We use ThoughtSpot for internal and external curated analytics.
Pros
Speed of dev
Makes complex formulas slightly easier
Cons
Visualizations
Basic functionality
Focus on the basics as opposed to all in on AI
Likelihood to Recommend
ThoughtSpot is not awful but it is very far from a trusted enterprise platform. We have experienced a significant amount of bugs and ThoughtSpot lacks basic functionality that other BI tool leaders have out of the box.
Mainly used to cater reporting needs to our external vendors. In our current scenario, we were not able to share our reporting with our vendors due to our security reasons and protocols. So, as an option to venture into other tools, we choose Thoughtspot.
Pros
Speed
Search Option
Business user friendly
AI powered tool
Quick TMT
Cons
Limitation on visualizations
Graph - Chart options
Colour changes options / Formatings Improvements
Answer arrangement options on Pinboard
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited in: - Sharing information where multiple departments are involved. - Quick turn-around is required. - Where more business analysts are involved.
Not suited for: - IT based infrastructure - Pinboards requiring complex formatting
We are using ThoughtSpot to democratize the data across the company. It was initially launched for a single department but within weeks it was being used across the entire enterprise. It mainly solves the business problem of having static reports. It is very difficult, if not impossible, for a report developer to think about all the permutations and combinations which users might be interested in. ThoughtSpot solves this problem brilliantly.
Pros
ThoughtSpot is great at answering questions no one asked before.
SpotIQ helps identifying the data quality issues.
Giving users ability to create their own reports is a huge plus.
Lightening fast performance on terabytes of data.
Cons
ThoughtSpot can do a better job of providing prescriptive analytics.
Live connection for other databases is a much needed feature.
Pinboard canvas should allow for custom size rather than sticking to 5 pre-defined sizes.
More features needed in pinboard level filters.
Likelihood to Recommend
ThoughtSpot is very well suited to make data available across the company. It does lack at connecting R and other tools to the database for further enrichment of the data. Mobile app is not available.
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
ThoughtSpot i s very helpful when team requires want quick answers without waiting for the data anaysis team. for eg, Sales head can sales by last quarter region and get instant charts ,it very much works well for creating easy to use dashboards. It is not very best choice when there is complex calculations, in this art other Bi tools work better.
