Release Highlights

New in ThoughtSpot 6.1

ThoughtSpot Embrace for Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Azure Synapse

Live query your data warehouse to get blazing fast, granular insights while leaving your data where it resides.

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Deploy ThoughtSpot on RHEL 7.7 on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, as well as DELL and Supermicro hardware. It’s also available for early access on Microsoft Azure and VMware.

New Search Data API

Execute searches programmatically using low code REST-based API so you can design your own analytics experience however you imagine.

Backup & Restore with Cloud Object Storage

Optimize your cloud storage costs by using Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage as your primary ThoughtSpot backup repository.

New Map Support

Use map visualizations to analyze data down to postcode granularity for Norway and Switzerland.

ThoughtSpot Frontend Delivery via CDN

Get new UI capabilities without a full platform upgrade. Experience faster application frontend load times in high traffic areas.

New in ThoughtSpot 6

ThoughtSpot Embrace for Snowflake

Deliver fast and easy access to granular insights with live-query to Snowflake.

Answer Explorer

Let AI suggest the next best question to ask, and get your answers in one click.

Monitor Headline Metrics

Follow headline metrics and proactively get updates on changes in your inbox.

Advanced Chart Configuration

Drag and drop attributes and measures, flexible number formatting choices, easy axis grouping and naming.

Enhanced Content Sharing

Discover more content to share, easily share with new users, and add notes while sharing.

Access Request

Request access to content you do not currently have permission to see.

Scriptable Worksheets

Export Worksheets, propagate across environments, and update in bulk.

Cloud Native Storage

Leverage persistent storage in Google Cloud Storage to save big when deploying on the Google Cloud Platform.

Additional Features:

• Streamlined data loading from GCS buckets
• Configurable new user welcome email
• Detailed maps for Austria, Italy, Poland, and Sweden
• In-product learning and video content

New in 2019 Fall Release

Answer Explorer ^BETA

Let AI suggest the next best question to ask, and get your answers in one click.

Guided Onboarding

Get started with ThoughtSpot in 3 easy steps.

Pinboard Subscriptions

Follow your favorite pinboards to stay up to date on critical insights.

Enhanced PDF Export

Flexibly customize detailed paginated PDF reports to share offline.

Full Screen Presentation

Tell your data story by presenting all your insights in full screen.

Candlestick Charts

Visualize financial metric movements over time.

Combined Join and Schema Viewer

Edit joins and visually explore schema relationships in a single view.

Cloud Native Storage

Leverage persistent storage in S3 to save big when deploying on AWS.

Support for R5 Memory Optimized Instances on AWS

Boost performance and lower per GB costs on r5.4xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5.16xlarge instances.

And more!

Ask an Expert

Bring business people and analysts closer together. Get more answers on your data by collaborating with data experts directly within ThoughtSpot.

Favorites

From your homepage, quickly access your most commonly used Answers and Pinboards.

Custom Calendars

Support for 4-4-5, 4-5-4, and 5-4-4 calendars for manufacturing and retail, and flexibly define other custom calendars based on your unique fiscal requirements.

Inline Subqueries with “In” Keyword

Ask deeper business questions in a single search. For example, "What are this year’s sales of my top 10 products from last year?"

Expanded Cloud Offering

One size does not fit all when it comes to the cloud. ThoughtSpot is now available for “small” and “medium” instance types on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Also, easily load data files stored in Amazon S3 into ThoughtSpot.

SpotIQ Detailed Insight Feedback

SpotIQ proactively solicits your feedback on thumbs-down on insights you deem not to be useful so it can provide more valuable personalized insights going forward.

Expanded Localization

Added language support for: English (Australia); Portuguese (Portugal); Spanish (Spain); Dutch; Norwegian; Swedish; Danish; Italian, and; Finnish (Soumi). Detailed maps for Japan and Australia. Japanese phrase-level translations.

Expanded Features for Mobile

Seamless experience between the ThoughtSpot mobile app and the web-based application. Support for Favorites, offline access, content sharing, and enterprise governance via MDM. Let users to create and view content on-the-go.

Additional Enhancements

• Ranking and percentile functions
• Flexible 1:1 or 1:n join cardinality options
• Self-service upgrades
• Support for in-cluster install of Qualys, Splunk Forwarder, SNMP
• Unicode support for CSV downloads
• And much more!

New Logo, New Brand Identity

The ThoughtSpot 5.1 interface incorporates a new mark, new typography, and new color schemes for a simple, modern, clean user interface.

New Pinboard Presentation Experience

Pinboards auto-adapt to your screen resolution, so you have ultimate clarity whether you are on the go, on your computer, or presenting in a boardroom.

SpotIQ User Preferences

Admins and individual users can configure their own profile to make insights more relevant to them.

Bulkload Connector for Alteryx

Easy data preparation with Alteryx. It’s the fastest path from data source to search.

Copy and Edit Answers

Make a copy of an answer and immediately start editing.

Quick Select

Easily navigate between and select search suggestions.

Number Rounding Support on Charts

EShow rounded or non-rounded numbers out to the furthest decimal or integer.

Additional enhancements to your search experience and content presentation

• Stack multiple measures on y-axis
• Improved search editing
• Long pinboard descriptions
• Case sensitivity support on formulas
• Localization and keyword support Español (España), Português (Portugal), Italiano, Dansk, Suomi, Svenska, Norsk, Nederland]

SpotIQ Pervasive Insights

Uncover deeper answers to known and unknown questions with “Did you know?” insights on your Smart Home Page and Instant Insights on answers and pinboards.

Related Answers

Get a 360-degree view of suggested queries, saved answers and pinboards that are related to your question.

Embedded R in Answers

Streamline BI and advanced analytics workflows to bring data science closer to business outcomes.

Enhanced Visualizations

Experience new stacked bar charts, improved chart configuration capabilities, easy inclusion and exclusion filtering, and a more interactive table widget.

Materialized Views

Execute blazingly fast queries on search results persisted as physical tables in-memory.

Flexible Worksheet Joins

Pick different join types for each relationship within a single worksheet metadata model to enable more complex data questions.

Flexible Aggregations

Easily compare data at different levels of aggregation using just a single search.

Expanded Cloud Deployment Options

ThoughtSpot is now certified on Google Cloud Platform, bringing multi-cloud analytics across private and public cloud environments to the enterprise.

Enhanced Embedded Analytics APIs

Inline search from external applications, and operationalize results by executing an action in 3rd party applications based on an insight.

Smart Homepage

Easily access recent, trending, popular content

Comparison Analysis

Compare measures with a single keyword

Enhanced Time Series Analysis

Query multiple periods, calculate MoM/QoQ growth

Pivot Tables & Localization

Pivot table reporting updates and new language support