We performed a comparison between MicroStrategy and ThoughtSpot based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two BI (Business Intelligence) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"Scalability is the best thing. You can really scale."
"It is a reliable solution for our needs."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"I haven't come across any bugs."
"I think what we're currently excited about is the ability to integrate R. Most of our data scientists use R for their modeling. I heard at one of the sessions, here at MicroStrategy World 2018, that you can put your R scripts directly into MicroStrategy, so any modeling effort that you've done in the past can be transferred into MicroStrategy."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"The scalability is good."
"I would say the return on investment is good. Whatever we invested, we got results. We have been finding it easy to use and onboard new use cases."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"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."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"It's easy to drill down or expand data to get more details right out of the box."
"ThoughtSpot takes the modifying of existing reports out of our hands."
"The ability to do ad hoc explorations of data has been most valuable."
"In the developer, there are things that you able to do in a document or a report that you are not able to do in the Dossier."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"We haven't invested in the mobile platform. We want to invest, but the problem is the security. We are in the health domain, so we have PHI data."
"It is performing well, but sometimes we have complex requirements and the performance decreases, and then we have to find another way to make it perform again. That is what you encounter when use the project, but that's inevitable because if we would have used another product, we would've had the same thing."
"A customized visualization is lacking in this product."
"If I want to order columns, this feature is not there."
"The dashboards could give you more ability to fine tune the appearance. You get a great deal more control over how something looks in Power BI than you do in ThoughtSpot."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The most difficult thing I found is that it only deals with the files and does not have direct connectivity to databases."
"The one area of the solution that I do hear needs improvement is on the visualization front."
MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 reviews while ThoughtSpot is ranked 15th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 8 reviews. MicroStrategy is rated 8.2, while ThoughtSpot is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThoughtSpot writes "You can drill down into any data right out of the box, with a straightforward deployment, and great support". MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Qlik Sense, whereas ThoughtSpot is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, Amazon QuickSight and Apache Superset. See our MicroStrategy vs. ThoughtSpot report.
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