# ThoughtSpot Reviews **Vendor:** ThoughtSpot **Category:** [AI Agents For Business Operations](https://www.g2.com/categories/ai-agents-for-business-operations) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 329 ## About ThoughtSpot ThoughtSpot is the Agentic Analytics Platform company for the enterprise. With natural language and AI, ThoughtSpot empowers everyone in an organization to ask data questions, get answers, and take action. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot is intuitive enough for anyone to use, yet built to handle large, complex cloud data at scale. Customers like Coca-Cola, Hilton Worldwide, and Capital One are unlocking the full potential of their data with ThoughtSpot. ## ThoughtSpot Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of ThoughtSpot, finding it simple to convert data into understandable information. (63 reviews) - Users value the **real-time insights** from ThoughtSpot, driving growth and making data accessible for all experience levels. (43 reviews) - Users appreciate the **advanced analytics capabilities** of ThoughtSpot, enabling deep insights and efficient data tracking. (31 reviews) - Users appreciate the **intuitive search-based interface** of ThoughtSpot, enabling easy data access for everyone. (23 reviews) - Users value the **flexible data visualization** in ThoughtSpot, which simplifies analysis and enhances understanding for everyone. (21 reviews) - Data Analysis (19 reviews) - Efficiency (18 reviews) - User Interface (16 reviews) - Users value the **excellent customer support** from ThoughtSpot, enhancing their experience with engaging and responsive assistance. (14 reviews) - Data Handling (14 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note a **learning curve** with ThoughtSpot, especially for those new to analytics or data visualization. (23 reviews) - Users note the **missing features** in ThoughtSpot, including limited AI functionality and non-reusable report components. (13 reviews) - Users find the **learning difficulty** of ThoughtSpot can be challenging initially but rewarding once mastered. (8 reviews) - Users find the **complexity of setup and data modeling** in ThoughtSpot to be challenging and overwhelming. (7 reviews) - Users find **limited customization** options in ThoughtSpot frustrating, especially for search visuals, despite its ease of use. (7 reviews) - Users find the **difficult learning curve** of ThoughtSpot challenging, needing time to master its advanced features. (6 reviews) - Users find ThoughtSpot's pricing to be **expensive** , especially as query consumption increases, impacting affordability for smaller businesses. (6 reviews) - Initial Difficulty (6 reviews) - Limited Visualization (6 reviews) - Users are frustrated by **slow bug resolution** in ThoughtSpot, feeling that this issue is not prioritized adequately. (5 reviews) ## ThoughtSpot Reviews ### 1. Eases access to data with a modest learning curve **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** I like how intuitive simple queries can be to create. Sometimes, it is as straightforward as just typing in the question you want to answer with your data - especially since the AI-Answer functionality has been available. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Building your own query with words, for more complicated questions can sometimes over-simplify or pull in the wrong parameters. Results can be accurate for the query that was created, but some institutional knowledge of the datasets is still required to ensure that the correct fields are being used for the specific business question being asked. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** When an ad-hoc request comes in for simple descriptive stats, ThoughtSpot has been a great tool. Most queries are fairly straightforward to create. The visualization tool is accessible and provides a great way to quickly generate digestible representations of the data. ### 2. Impressive capabilities, well thought out implementation... **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** In my daily use of ThoughtSpot I've found it to be feature rich and capable. I'm still learning the more advanced features, and what I've learned so far has been easy to understand, with good documentation and tutorials. I look forward to digging into the more advanced uses for my day to day tasks. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** While in general I find there are few downsides, there are some concepts and implementations that do take some time and effort to understand. Having said that, the documentation and examples/tutorials are helpful. The web-based interface can be klunky from time to time, but I believe that is more of the browser and connectivity side of the playing field than ThoughtSpot itself. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** ThoughtSpot is my go-to platform for immediate access to company performance data. While there is a learning curve, it has been easy to get up and running for my day to day data analytics needs for myself and my internal clients, allowing me to turn around reports and requests quickly and efficiently. ### 3. My team built a complex reporting solution using ThoughtSpot **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** ThoughtSpot is great in that it makes it easy to create new reports and for users to slice and dice the data in different ways. The team behind it is very smart and capable and it is always improving as a product. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Sometimes it's hard for developers to give up the ability to write their own SQL. This is the tradeoff when using a BI tool. But the benefit of this is the flexibility it gives the end-user to change the parameters of a search in realtime. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** ThoughtSpot helps us use our historical data to show our customers the value add that our base product is providing. In addition, it allows our users to get personalized insights into their own computing environments. Many of our customers have requests for custom reports and ThoughtSpot makes it possible to create these without developers getting involved. ### 4. Great data visualization/analytics tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Catherine K. | Director of Marketing & Community, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** We connect ThoughtSpot to our community to track engagement. Without ThoughtSpot, we wouldn't have access to this level of analytics, as it isn't provided to us by our platform. I love the variety of ways there are to slice and dice the data. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Sometimes it's not intuitive to use, and it isn't always easy to know exactly what you need to type in to get the results you're looking for. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our current platform does not give us a high enough level of analytics to track member engagement. ThoughtSpot gives us the tools to do this. ### 5. Solid comprehensive data analytics solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** I like that I can analyze a single customers or any number of customers' data all from one location. I also like that I can export said data, format it myself and then send to colleagues or share with the customer themselves which is very helpful **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** I would say the minor formatting details that require exact information be entered to get the desired output of data is a little annoying at times. This could possible be how my company has it setup for our usage and not a requirement from the solution itself **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm currently in software sales so the information I obtain from Thoughtspot helps me make educated decisions on what solutions the customer already has and what other solutions they may benefit from ### 6. Pretty Good. Missing some niche features. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** It makes it really easy for people who are non-technical to answer questions. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** There are a couple of things that are rough around the edges and features that are missing. For example, if you want to add a new column to a table, you have to completely edit the database connection, rather than editing just the table. This becomes a bigger issue if you don't have the right permissions. Also the whole concept of data table vs. worksheet is confusing and weird. Missing features include things like converting measures to dimensions on the fly, replacing references in a table, table calculations, ect. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is our main BI tool. It allows us to serve our large organization with a relatively lean team. We were able to get out of the way of building reports and have been able to put that in the hands of users. ### 7. Fantastic BI platform that offers quick and reliable ways to derive insights from our data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Thoughtspot is very easy to use and is also easy to teach to new users. The liveboard creation is fast and allows us to quickly deliver important insights to our users. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** The organization leaves a lot to be desired, tags are ok but some kind of hierarchical structure like folders would be great **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our data is vast and can be very complex to create dashboards that cater to all of our business users. Thoughtspot's explore and drill down functionality has been very beneficial for our users that need to take analytics to the next level and explore all of the data that we have to offer. ### 8. I can't emphasize enough how much ThoughtSpot has transformed our daily operations at Lululemon. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jai K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** The interface of ThoughtSpot is incredibly user-friendly, especially for people like me who struggle with challenging data. It enables us to create reports, dashboards, and handle data without requesting POwer BI assistance. The search feature on ThoughtSpot is incredibly quick compared to other search engines. It's like having a data finding quick capability. We no longer waste a ton of time searching for data manually thanks to this. ThoughtSpot meet our requirements as a new technology. Our analytics tool is created to our specifications, complete with personalized data and integration with the rest of our tech used in the company. We enjoy exchanging data-related ideas, and ThoughtSpot makes it simple to do so. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Here are some things I've observed as a Retail Experience Function Consultant that aren't so great: ThoughtSpot is designed to be user-friendly, however non-data professionals might need some training to utilize it effectively. I had a hard time in training and getting trained by ourselves. ThoughtSpot is not inexpensive. With those license fees and additional expenses, small firms can feel the pinch when credits goes low. But keep in mind that it can be worthwhile for the data intelligence. ThoughtSpot can communicate with the majority of systems, but there are occasions when it's like trying to squeeze a square peg into a round hole. It can get difficult and technical. Large Data Issues: ThoughtSpot may struggle a little when you have a ton of data or challenging queries. To make it work, it needs to be fine-tuned. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool makes data access more user-friendly and accessible to non-technical people. Real-time insights are provided, enabling quicker decision-making. Operations are streamlined by removing the requirement for manual data extraction and processing. Business users now have the option to design their own reports and dashboards, giving them more independence in their data collection. Teams may simply work together on data and share knowledge, making collaboration easier. Additionally, it scales easily to meet our expanding data needs. Additionally, it improves data security and control, which is important, particularly in a retail scenario. Overall, it greatly improves every aspect of operational effectiveness. ### 9. AI Forward Visualization Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arpit V. | Social Media Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** the feature to generate automated insights powered by GEN AI model. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** The visualization features are not up to the mark **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** The fact to quickly generate insights and get answers to questions based on data and visuals. ### 10. Good but slow **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** ThoughtSpot allows me to break down data metrics in a variety of ways. It gives me up to date numbers that allow me to pivot my work and get a holistic view as well. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** I have to refresh the whole site each time I want to access my most updated data. It would be helpful for the system to update and not require a full refresh to view. I use Thoughspot throughout the day. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thoughtspot is giving us a full picture with data. I can use it for its holistic view and then hone in on certain areas based on metrics that need change. ### 11. Customer Success Manager **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Liveboards are easy to make and put together. The visualizations are nice options and creating liveboards feels pretty intuitive. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** ThoughtSpot is very slow loading which is the biggest callout. The DMV Sloth meme comes to mind. Also when building multiple Answers the data often "breaks" and needs to be reloaded. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm a User working in Customer Success department. I use Thoughspot to analyze and report on my client performance using our SaaS platfrom. I use it to help me prepare for monthly touch bases, Quarterly business reviews and renewal conversations. I use it to help me identify opportunities and successes in our customers using our platform. ### 12. Senior data engineer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sukhjinder S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** I used thoughtspot for querying the data and best part is write those query like "top 10", easy to sum, and some amazing functionality to querying the data **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Thoughtspot is great product and I think more functionality should be added. Such as functionality like powerbi **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We querying the data from the snowflake and prepared to show the relevant highlights of the data. ### 13. Great job on Streamlining work for jobs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian T. | Field Operations Supervisor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Thoughtspot has helped my company streamline productivity tracking in a manner that is seamless and quick to see details **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** I cant say that i have found anything i dont like about Thoughtspot **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thoughtspot keeps work flow streamlined and coordinated in a way thats easy to follow ### 14. Great tool for non-IT people who want to generate report or dashboard their own **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pankaj K. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** You can type your requirements in Lemon Language, and ThoughtSpot will generate the graph or dashboard for you. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Its bit costly compare to other BI tool. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our provider can directly use data and generate the report by own ### 15. Best ad-hoc visualization tool for analysts and whole business community **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Doug S. | IT Program Manager, Machinery, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** All my data visualization needs are met by ThoughtSpot allowing me to easily create excellent dashboards and visual reports. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** No show stoppers here, it handles well whether I want reporting or data processing. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me a lot to make dashboards and visualizations that support the company's decision-making regading changing strategy in the event of sales or demand drops. ### 16. TS Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Natural language search bar, semantic layer, ease of dev. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Lack of customizability with legend values, colors, and ordering. Occasional bugginess. Inability to update int data type to varchar in TML. Needs a better integration with dbt and dbt semantic layer. Needs a better integration with github to version control dash tml **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Embedding BI layer for internal and external partner. ### 17. Useful data aggregation tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Good visuals, helps me to keep track of KPI and additional metrics on my team. Easy to view and manipulate, good UI **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Building some of the pipelines can take some time, or so my manager says... **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving our issue of how to measure cases completed and display data from Salesforce ### 18. Useful but not perfect **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** It has a great level of detail available from high level categories to individual item info. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Sometimes it is hard to figure out which attributes/columns are what I am looking for. I also get confused when there are multiple data sources I pull from but I am not sure what I can use together vs separate. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access to lots of data in one spot ### 19. ThoughtSpot is an intuitive tool that allows user to easily access analytics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** It's easy to get started in ThoughtSpot. Everything is intuitive and easy to use. Easy to share across users. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** The interface can look a bit better. To me it isn't the most eye-captivating application **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Publishing analytics datasets widely to users so they can access and create their own reports/ liveboards for their own analytics needs ### 20. Intuitive and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** its so easy to find what you're looking for, to configure data however you want to see it, create calculations etc. rather than trying to figure out what table to use to pull data in MS Access, its very instinctual to pull the data you need from Thoughtspot. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** sometimes i find that the data in a report doesn't match when i start applying filters. for example, if i'm looking at a $'s variance at a high level it will display $XXM but then when i drill down to the indivual drivers the numbers don't seem to align which causes me to question the integrity, but that could just be a user error vs thoughtspot error. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** informing me of how i am tracking to my sales plan, how my business is performing, where i need to make adjustments, what trends are forming. allows me to create visuals that are easy to decipher data. ### 21. Stakeholders love it, still some important features that are lacking **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Katie S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Stakeholders love that it is much easier to use compared to a previous BI tool we implemented Cost is reasonable compared to competitors Snowflake integration **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** For our use case, there are key limitations, such as a lack of date parameter functionality comparable to other BI tools. Some features are released but feel as if they are not fully fleshed out Support has overall been pretty responsive. However, some tickets have been open for a long time, which has necessitated workarounds. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a very limited number of licenses with a previous BI tool, and the reports were difficult to use. If you wanted a different view of the data, you needed to know SQL. ThoughtSpot has been much more user-friendly with features like Explore. ### 22. Great product, very easy to use. Immediate value. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Helps me very easily understand how much my customers are using our software. Extremely helpful in rightsizing renewal contracts. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Nothing comes to mind. Overall great product. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thoughtspot is providing visibility into all of my customers utilization of our software product. ### 23. Our ThoughtSpot journey has been a tremendous success **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tom D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** 1) The leadership team and staff are excellent 2) The cloud product continues to deliver new features and value each month 3) We evaluated over 15 vendors during our evaluation and ThoughtSpot was the clear winner 4) It supports our need for multi-tenant, SaaS delivery to our customers 5) The new Sage GPT/AI feature will be a game changer 6) They listen to feedback and new enhancement requests and incorporate those into the product **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** 1) Need more support of features for Amazon Redshift data store 2) Needs to be more flexible to embed content beyond using iFrames 3) Sage/GPT needs the ability to understand industry specific data models and metrics 4) Continue to improve integration with predictive analytic tools and models **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) Predictable cost model 2) Saas delivery - no need to host, upgrade, and support software 3) BI layer for our near real-time operational reporting solution ### 24. Thoughtspot makes business analytics easy and quick **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** It gives end users the ability to directly see deep insights around their data. It also also enables the quick sharing of valuable liveboards and answers to continued questions throughout the company. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Some reporting features can be slow and cumberson when adjusting views, I do wish some could be sped up **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving the divide between SOPs users and sales users when trying to access data insights. ### 25. Great for analysts **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Thoughtspot has a lot of great functionality, great support and is easy to use as a beginner analyst **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Sometimes it is hard to know what feature to use **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** LMS reporting metrics ### 26. Using ThoughtSpot **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Easy to use existing ThoughtSpot reports as well as creating your own reports. Natural Language **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Finding the data/fields for new reports can be challenging. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding both legacy and current data. ### 27. ThoughtSpot enables End-Users to query a Data Warehouse **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael E. | Analytic Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** ThoughtSpot really makes it easier for End-Users to query a Data Warehouse as there is no need for SQL knowledge and Maintainers can set up Worksheets containing all required Joins and even add pre-calculations and additional logic. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** One has to be careful to set up a Worksheet to avoid ambiguous Column Names, but even here ThoughtSpot tries to help by pointing these out. Other than that I have not come across any big problems. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** End-Users can query the Data Warehouse with an intuitive interface which nearly gives natural language feeling when creating queries (or answers as they are called within TS) ### 28. Very likeable user interface **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Easy to understand, easy to visually digest **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** data dumps can be at different times compared to report store **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping data in an easy view; ease of access of information ### 29. A Killer BI Product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** The ease with which it uses NLP for BI. With a few simple expressions, you can get recommended visualization for your desired question regarding the business. The key aspects is the data modelling part where you have to be SPOT on with your THOUGHTS to make this work EXACTLY as you want. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** TML and import/export is slightly tricky and not many resources to get help from. As this is an evolving product, I am sure these will be addressed. The company should have support centers for users who want advanced topics. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Grafana earlier, which had a query-based interface. After that, using ThoughtSpot was a breeze. ThoughtSpot makes it so easy for our use cases, and if the data modeling part is right, you will face no issues with ThoughtSpot. ### 30. Sales Engineer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Ease of use and quick creation of dashboards **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** There seem to be moments where ThoughtSpot is running slowly and my data take time to load. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is helping us create dashboards quicker than what was possible with Tableau. This has given my team a lot more time back in the day! ### 31. ThoughtSpot is the best BI tool out there **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** I love ThoughtSpot's UI the most. I always say it is like the Apple of BI tools. I also love the ability to develop Liveboards and other objects through the TML. I also love that there are new often frequently and these updates are actually relevant to the developers and end users. It makes me excited about the product! **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** I find that the technical capabilities on the developer side are lacking, the UI often has bugs and glitches that makes things challenging. There a few basic BI feautres I wish ThoughtSpot was able to provide. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** ThoughtSpot allows for our business users to navigate dashboards and explore data in an easy way. The UI allows business users to easily manipulate existing report for their specific needs. We just launched the tool with the organization but we feel once we put all our governance procedures in place ThoughtSpot specifically will allow us to be successful. ### 32. ThoughtSpot is a huge time saver when it comes to quickly analyzing and reporting on data. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremiah (Jerry) W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** The ease of use. Not needing to know specific syntax makes using this tool extremely easy compared to other means of reporting on the same data. ThoughtSpot does a great job of figuring out what you want to see. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** There are few options to customize the look of a map view type of chart. It would be nice to have different icons for different layers. For example, be able to plot site locations on a map using a tower icon and plot customer ticket locations or outage locations on the same map using a different icon. The basic grey map is also not very useful when zooming in on a specific area, as no details (state, city, street, etc.) are shown. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** ThoughtSpot is solving the problem of being able to quickly analyze and report on data pertinent to my department's success metrics. Old ways of reporting and analyzing data were slow and challenging for the end user. ### 33. Great tool for Business Performance Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parthiban B. | OFS Global Income Statement Leader , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Ease of viewing and downloading big data. Customizable reports. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Still has an element of manual work required. User interface can be better and more straightforward in building tables/ running reports. Would be great if the interface can be closer to how it is done in SAP. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It enables me to process big data at a short space of time and no 'runtime errors'. Enables me to run routine reports at a click of a button. Business has benefitted from these reports. ### 34. ThoughtSpot is great for dashboards, sharable throughout the company **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** I love the sharable dashboards for quick win loss reporting throughout the organization **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Sometimes setting up filters and managing views can be confusing **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supporting the socialization of win loss throughout my organization ### 35. Speed, Scalability & Access **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eddie W. | Manager, Merchandise Planning, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2022 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** With ThoughtSpot, users have much easier access to data. They're able to see data that, before, they may not even have known existed. This improves data literacy and allows new and different types of analysis. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** There could be slightly easier functionality with copy/pasting out of ThoughtSpot in a table format. Sometimes there's ad hoc work that needs to be done on the fly in a spreadsheet **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** ThoughtSpot allows me to be much more agile in my analysis of operational KPIs. As I forecast financially what I expect our business to deliver, I need granular data to understand impact of new SKUS, promotions, regions, pricing and loyalty. ### 36. Easiest way to visualise data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2024 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Live data connection with simple visuals **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Limited functionality to customize visuals **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping make quicker dashboards ### 37. The most efficient business intelligence and analytics platform I've seen so far! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samara M. | Digital Transformation Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** There are many unique features in Thoughtspot that I favor. These include, -Allows us to ask questions in natural language and receive answers through interactive visualizations. - ThoughtSpot uses machine learning algorithms to surface insights and trends in the data, making it easier for users to discover important information. - Allows us to access and analyze data without technical expertise or IT support. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** There are only very few things I dislike about Thoughtspot. They are, - While ThoughtSpot is designed to be user-friendly and easy to use, it can still be complex to set up and configure, especially for large and complex data sets. - ThoughtSpot is a superior business intelligence and analytics platform, which can be expensive for some organizations, especially small and medium-sized businesses. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem it solves for my company and me is that ThoughtSpot's machine learning-driven insights and natural language processing capabilities make it easier for users like us to find and explore the data we need without needing technical expertise. ### 38. Great product for monitoring productivity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Pulls all relevant metrics into one screen with helpful graphs reflecting data over time **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Still doesn't reflect all relevant data my team is looking for, but I know that is still in progress at this time. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Watching team metrics & providing relevant cycle time feedback. Allows me to see outstanding cases that have been pending for long periods of time, along with case numbers and preparer details. If I'm having any issues, we've been able to go directly to our internal POC supporting this feature to have them fixed or get help when needed, extremely fast. ### 39. Highest ROI in the industry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Landon C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Ease of use and trend of feature additions **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** I would like for loading time to be more optomizable. I also prefer creating data sources in the DW because worksheets can be really slow to load. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is allowing our business users to have real-time data and get answers to data questions without the need for asking the data team. ### 40. Very flexible tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul F. | Client Operations Delivery, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** That is a very flexible tool to use, also provide excellent charts making easier to validat the information. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Some times its not very clear from where the reports came **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is reducing the use of excell, giving free time to use in other activities ### 41. A modern tool for BI analytics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akash D. | Digital Marketing Strategist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** I find this tool to be very beneficial for my professional work as it provides accurate analytics that I can rely on. This has allowed me to enhance my business operations. The feature that I value the most is its AI capabilities, BI platform, support for cloud data, usability, mobile reporting, workflow, dashboards, graphs, and data visualization. Overall, I am highly impressed with Thoughtspot. It has greatly assisted our executive management in making informed decisions through real-time data visualization and trend analysis. This has significantly reduced our workload since we no longer have to perform all the analyses manually. Thanks to Thoughtspot's AI-based system, my team and I no longer experience burnout. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** I have doubts about the precision of the information retrieved by the ThoughtSpot, as we have seen there have been instances where we have compared data obtained from Thoughtspot with manually collected data, and have discovered inconsistencies. This may vary from company to company but I find the pricing to be on the higher side when compared to the number of features available. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love this product because it stores all our data in one place, which has saved us so much time and effort. Before using Thoughtspot, we used to have our data on different devices and in paper form, which made it difficult to find the information we needed quickly. Now, everything is in one convenient location, and we can access it easily whenever we need to. It has also helped us collaborate more effectively with our team and clients through a digital platform, which has resulted in quicker and better-informed decision-making. Overall, I'm very impressed with Thoughtspot and would recommend it to anyone looking to streamline their data management process. ### 42. Really Intuitive & User Friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikhil S. | Business Technology Solutions Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** I love the ease of use it offers. Natural Language Processing is something that would appeal to a lot of Users who are not that technically proficient. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Customizability of Liveboards is an Achilles heel as of now. Hope it gets more customizable in the future. Also, the connection options to data warehouses, although ever-expanding, are still relatively lower than competitors. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thoughtspot has helped us create an NLP-based Self-Service tool that has democratized data for the end users. Along with its AI insights, this provides excellent value to end users on their data. ### 43. Thought Spot **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arpit V. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** User-friendly interface: ThoughtSpot has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for non-technical users to query and analyze data. Fast data retrieval: ThoughtSpot's in-memory calculation engine allows for fast data retrieval, enabling users to get answers to their queries quickly. Interactive visualizations: ThoughtSpot allows users to create interactive visualizations to help them better understand their data. Self-service analytics: With ThoughtSpot, users can conduct their own analysis without having to rely on IT or data analysts, saving time and resources. Cons: **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Limited data sources: ThoughtSpot currently supports a limited number of data sources, which may be a limitation for some users. Requires data modeling: Before data can be analyzed in ThoughtSpot, it must be modeled using the platform's schema creation tools, which may require some technical expertise. Cost: ThoughtSpot is a paid platform, which may not be affordable for all organizations or individuals. Security: As with any analytics platform, there is a risk of sensitive data being exposed if proper security measures are not put in place. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** ThoughtSpot aims to address these issues by providing a user-friendly platform that allows users to quickly and easily analyze data. With its natural language search capabilities and intuitive interface, users can ask questions in plain English and get answers in real-time. This allows organizations to make faster and more informed decisions, leading to improved business outcomes. ### 44. Great for business stakeholders **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** My business stakeholders love Thoughtspot and find it very easy to use. They can easily view their metrics, explore the data, and drill down. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** The analyst experience of building out worksheets, formulas, visualizations, and liveboards can be frustrating at times. The workflows aren't always intuitive, and sometimes tweaking something can take many steps. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to visualize and analyze all of our data in one spot and easily share that out with other employees. We can also monitor and alert on key metrics. ### 45. ToughtSpot Tech Engineer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karteek K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** Easy to analysis data with table level and graphical interface. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** Some times its hard to get the search result instead need to refresh and query all the things. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to search the answers which we needed and its simple to get our solutions. ### 46. The best and amazing tool for BI and data analytics! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nithya F. | Account Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2022 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** The features of this tool are quite helpful for my professional work. Because it offers us accurate analytics that we can rely on. It helps me improve my business operations. The aspect of this functionality that I value most. There are most of my favorite features in this product AI features,BI platform,cloud data support, usability,mobile reporting,workflow, dashboards,graphs and data visualization. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** For teams with medium skill levels like mine, it can be difficult to meet ThoughtSpot's price requirements. Furthermore, considering how Thoughtspot helped my business, I had no animosity toward them. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted to build dashboards for my office's operations, but we didn't have a compatible and valuable product. They also required the ability to switch between chart types and perform data searches for various insights. That challenge was overcome through Thought spot. ### 47. Promising BI tool, with many features being added constantly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** The natural language query, now empowered by AI. Making data and insights accessible to business users has freed up a lot of time for the data team. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** When errors happen, there is very little information of what the issue is. Support could be improved. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use TS as our main BI tool, we send our regular reports to our clients from TS, we use it to get any data visualisations or KPI for our internal business users, as well as for analysis purposes. ### 48. Easy to Use Data Aggregator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kelley N. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** I use ThoughtSpot daily and love the ease of use, layout and visual design. I'm a huge fan of the "explore" and "drill down" capabilities which have made my data analysis a breeze. **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** At times finding the correct way to search fields can be cumbersome, however it could be user error. **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Specifically where is my business coming from, what is our throughput and where are our inefficiencies. ### 49. Great UX and usability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atharva K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** * Intuitive * Easy to use * Graphs look good * 100% than Tableau **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** * Confusing using it for the first time * Nothing else to add **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** * Visulisations * Saves time with coding on SQL and Python ### 50. Data anlyst useage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2023 **What do you like best about ThoughtSpot?** It is atime saver and a data warehouse and is helpful when putting together large data sets and acts as our data wwarehouse that we can pull analytics from everdya **What do you dislike about ThoughtSpot?** it sometimes is hard because it will take a lot of time to update and thus delays our broader global teams workflows and puts us behind and takes too long often **What problems is ThoughtSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us use our statistics for quarterly reporting and keeps us updated on current market info and data and analytics and os great for our org for this reason ## ThoughtSpot Discussions - [Do you have a roadmap for automated insights a la the use case above?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26396-do-you-have-a-roadmap-for-automated-insights-a-la-the-use-case-above) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - 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