ThoughtSpot Reviews

Name: ThoughtSpot
Brand: ThoughtSpot
Rating: 3.8 (8 reviews)

3.8 out of 5

8 reviews
87% willing to recommend

3,084 followers

What is ThoughtSpot?

ThoughtSpot is a powerful business intelligence tool that allows easy searching and drilling into data. Its ad hoc exploration and query-based search features are highly valued, and it is easy to set up, stable, and scalable.

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ThoughtSpot is the #8 ranked solution in top Embedded BI Tools, #14 ranked solution in top Data Visualization solutions, and #19 ranked solution in top Business Intelligence Tools. PeerSpot users give ThoughtSpot an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. ThoughtSpot is most commonly compared to Microsoft Power BI: ThoughtSpot vs Microsoft Power BI. ThoughtSpot is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 75% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 24% of all views.

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Anthony Fiorino

SVP, Head of Enterprise Data Mgmt & Data Intelligence at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable feature is probably the core functionality itself, which is the ability to search and drill down into any data right out of the box. Of course, there's data modeling needed, and things like that, but I can throw it at a set, and I can get up and running in a matter of hours. If a new group comes to me and says, "Hey, I've heard about ThoughtSpot. I have some data and I want to be able to do some analytics, do some profiling, do some BI against it." In a couple of hours, I connect to their source and I just do it. Now for a production product, we have to model and perform it over time, but at least I can get people up and running extremely fast with a tool that's intuitive and easy to use.

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Madhu Srinivasan

Principal Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I would like to see more flexibility in adding the pins. Currently, we have four different sizes in which I can add pins, but I would like to be able to resize my pins. Additionally, when I add a pin, it goes to the bottom of the screen and I have to drag it all the way to where I want it. So I would like to have a little more flexibility in that. I would also like to have a larger color pallet. A simplistic look is important to me. I would be happy to see automatic emails for when volume falls below a certain threshold. Right now, I'm sending those out by hand. This would be a wonderful feature to have and I think they are rolling it out in the next version.

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Avirat Gaikwad

Senior Consultant at Slalom

The majority of issues we have are similar to those every visualization tool faces in the initial phase. Something like a customized visualization, which a lot of companies build for Power BI or Tableau isn't available in ThoughtSpot, or there are minimal options. That's something that I'd like to see in the next release. ThoughtSpot is essentially a query-based search engine where you can type your query and get the answer. If you don't have your data prepared well, your user won't understand what this search engine is for, or they won't get the right answer. So, it doesn't have that powerful query. We usually create models in DBT and then get that into ThoughtSpot as a worksheet.

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ThoughtSpot mindshare

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As of January 2025, the mindshare of ThoughtSpot in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category stands at 1.5%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	BI (Business Intelligence) Tools	Jan 21, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Jan 21, 2025	Download
Comparison	ThoughtSpot vs Microsoft Power BI	Jan 21, 2025	Download
Comparison	ThoughtSpot vs Tableau	Jan 21, 2025	Download
Comparison	ThoughtSpot vs Amazon QuickSight	Jan 21, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Microsoft Power BI	4.0	22.6%	93%	318 interviews Add to research
Tableau	4.2	19.7%	89%	295 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"It's easy to drill down or expand data to get more details right out of the box."
"I like ThoughtSpot's search capabilities. You can also create custom analytics even if you aren't an experienced data analyst. We have users with no data analytics experience making some of the dashboards we've created, copying components, and customizing them to their specific use cases."
"ThoughtSpot takes the modifying of existing reports out of our hands."

Room for Improvement

"In terms of features, I'd like to be able to pivot data - for example, going from rows to columns. It's not easy to do."
"ThoughtSpot is a fairly new product, so some usability aspects aren't as mature as we'd like them to be. One example is their organizational methodology, like how objects are organized in their dashboards inside the product. They're all on a flat list, which works if you've got five or 10 dashboards. However, it's insufficient when you're a large enterprise with multiple groups looking at the same dashboards. It isn't organized well."
"A customized visualization is lacking in this product."

Pricing

"I give the pricing a six out of ten."

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Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

11%

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10%

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The solution is used for reporting purposes, self-service BI, and embedding into other applications for customers to do self-service analytics. It helps businesses with metrics, KPIs, and important insights by sourcing data from various sources into one golden source and visualizing it in an easy way for the business to consume. The pricing model is ideal, charging for data rather than the number of users.