ThoughtSpot Reviews

This tool is good for a user who is not familiar with database design or structure. It is easy for a user to create a report on their own by simply typing something like "sales for division 1 last quarter"

This is still early for this fresh new product so the charts are not as modifiable as some other BI tools.

Also the charts on a dashboard DO NOT link so if you highlight/select something on chart 1 it does not highlight/filter chart 2. This feature needs to be added to be a serious contender.

Figure out what the end goal is. If you want users to create their own dashboards this is an easy tool for them to use. The charts on a dashboard DO NOT interact with each other (filter or highlight multiple charts) which makes it a bit harder to create a high level dashboard and easily filter to get something like "division 1" stats

We have various KPI dashboards created in thoughspot that are primarily used by directors and above. It is easy for them to get in and view the dashboard and switch between the dashboards.

ThoughtSpot fits the sweet spot of total cost of ownership and ease of adoption. Once information is configured and curated, there is no required IT touch. Adoption is user-driven rather than IT pushed. The costing model is based on amount of data stored in ThoughtSpot. Even with AWS storage costs and as user adoption grows, there is no better cost per user BI application on the market.

Understanding the value proposition that ThoughtSpot offers, it is not focused on high-density, crisp visualization as other applications provide. There is a 5-10% use case that cannot be solved by ThoughtSpot. I am interested to see if this 5-10% use case fades away over the next few years.

Start with one instance and let business team members evangelize and lead adoption. Keep IT out of the way.

My company needs to learn how to have a conversation with information, rather than to simply digest content delivered via static slide decks. ThoughtSpot is critical in changing the way we consume insight. As insight delivery moves from pull to push and the iteration questions can be answered more quickly, we will reach a spot where we are leading information rather than simply trying to keep up with it.

The ability for end users to upload data (with appropriate rights) to do instantaneous visualization.

The automation method for creating daily data loads is overly complicated and the ODBC has really never delivered as needed.

If considering an end user ad hoc reporting tool there are few on the market that will server an organization better than ThoughtSpot

We have solved ad hoc reporting for our external customers relative to very specific data views. The single greatest benefit we have realized is cost savings by putting report creation in the hands of our service associates versus needing a technical team.

Very easy to adopt - no long learning curve to start to get meaningful insights into previously hard-to-tap data.

US date formats! Doesn't (currently) default to sorting by things like dates in tables. Occasionally switches graph format when you weren't expecting.

Great for giving business users access to high volume data which updates regularly, particularly where you ask a lot of adhoc questions of the data. Won't solve any underlying data quality issues though - in fact will force you to confront them!

Reducing basic MI work load for analytical team; serving data direct insights to business decision makers. Insight being gained faster, less time wasted.

Easy of use, a google like interface where you ask questions

Ease of development

Ease of deployment

Our users love it, self service BI, fast

ThoughtSpot consultants knowledgeable and helpful

Having to wait for the next upgrade :). It is too early to tell but at the moment I havent found anythingthat I dislike

From my experience you need to evaluate this for yourself and you'll be surprised how easy it is to deploy and use.

Many different areas with their own needs, but all want answers fast. ThoughtSpot gives us an edge in a fast moving business.

I do like the ability to ask questions about the data - can be very user friendly. Tool has a lot of potential, but still immature.

Documentation/Guides content vague/ambiguous. Inconsistency with bugs/errors. Basic UI/UX for visualizations lacking (for example dual axis only has 1 available y range to set, which doesn't make sense for plotting $ & %, furthermore the visualization will render okay for answer, but errors on pinboards). Also ability to pin objects to pinboards is confusing with enabling filters and leveraging worksheets vs aggregated worksheets. Was expecting ability to type conversational questions about data vs bluntly inputing object names.

We are trying to provide an easy and intuitive self-service BI platform. We are still exploring the tools capabilities before releasing to wider audiences within organization.

The response from the support team was spot on. They were very receptive and very happy to help

Our main issue was the ThoughtSpot appliance does not support Webseal which is an industry standard for secure access

Ask many questions about how they support their product. Also sending data to the vendor they want to use a 3rd party called Egnyte. So you will be placing information to a third party. You may not like that idea.

We were trying to solve a search engine issue for our in house clients. The application worked great in the Proof of Concept stage. When moving toward production we had many issues that needed to be addressed. Another main issue is ThoughtSPot wanted unfettered access to the appliance. Our company does not allow that. Also Thoughtspot wants to handle backups and restores of data, again something we do not allow.

ThoughSpot has excelled in a BI area called Search BI. Here a business user starts typing what he/she is looking for in a google-like search box with TS offering search completion hints. Once the business user has finalized and executed a search, TS automatically generates both the underlying data plan for retrieving the result data and the visuals to render the information in a way that is deemed most effective. And TS is very fast at doing this.

It can take a little time to get used to this type of business analytics search capabilities. Initial setup time of course will be there (as expected with any BI product) when implementors have to spend time to learn about business data and what makes most sense of that data to decision-makers.

We work as implementation partners with ThoughtSpot, helping them to find new clients, demonstrating the capabilities and driving towards sales and post-sales.

I like how easy and quick it is to able to extract information from enriched fields within seconds to produce visualizations and answer questions...Manually, this process used to take hours to days.

Having to learn the query language took time - there wasn't a real go-to section to write formulas.

Thoughtspot allows you to use your time to understand what's happening with your business instead of running the processes to get to that point.

Quantifying success with new products is easy to trend. We can more easily see the impact. The biggest benefit is the hundreds of hours our team saves every month.

The user interface is so easy to use and being able to create a pinboard in minutes for the rest of the business to use has made my life a lot easier!

I would like to see a few more graphing options and a bit more flexibility when organising data to be viewed in a pivot table

Get buy in from all areas of the business and it will become an integral part

Supplying business MI to users who don't like to get into the depths of data

Ease of use, dashboard creation is simple and intuitive, support has always been available.

Lack of row-level security, AWS users seem to be at a major disadvantage.

Don't use AWS :)

Trying to show business analytics both internally to our BI team and externally to our clients. We are still unsure of it's use as we've only been encountering problems with TS on AWS.

The group assigned to our implementation is highly customer service focused, very responsive and always helpful. They do a great job of detailing steps so all involved understand the process.

At this point, there is nothing to dislike, critique or point out. We don't anticipate any issues.

100% recommendation to pursue purchasing ThoughtSpot.

We are going to eliminate or virtually eliminate the need to continue to produce reports for our customers. The natural language approach will give them the ability to develop their own reports as needed. It will also reduce processing and hardware requirements within the reporting area.

Fast answers done quicker than it takes to type in a query.

As a power user I'd like a little more control and visibility into what the IT dept is stuffing into our system. Also so many people like this product and use this product that it gets full fast.

Buy it you won't be sorry.

Analytics. After a monthly 5 hour preassemble and load of our churn data we can do a weeks worth of analysis in less than an afternoon. Plus non-technical people can get answers by themselves.

Performance and ease of use. The tool to very easy to use once you understand how it works. The end user can naturally search and find the answers they are looking for.

Importing the data. Automatically importing the data from other data sources into ThoughtSpot has to be done via scripts. For easy imports, I was hoping for a UI / wizard.

We are implementing ThoughtSpot for the ease of use for AdHoc reporting.

An excellent tool that is simple, doesn't require extensive user training, provides data at your fingertips without the complexity and time involved in creating reports

nothing to dislike so far, maybe a few more visualization options would be welcome

I would recommend getting this tool - it saves time and your end users will thank you

we will be able to cut down implementation time that is required to build reports in traditional BI tools

Ease of Use from the user perspective. My team will likely to use it more often.

Currently in development of the product and have not run into dislikes yet.

Try it. you can only gain knowledge and potentially solutions.

Enabling team members to answer their own questions allowing me to work on the backend.