- An introduction to search for data - How to add a consumer-friendly, self-search experience to your data app - What the next generation of dashboards looks like - Tools available for product builders - A live deep-dive demo of how to build your first app embedding search

1. How to Build Interactive Data Apps
by ThoughtSpot Product Leaders
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How to build interactive
data apps with the
Bill Back Vika Smilansky
Principal Customer
Success Architect
Director of Product
Marketing

6. 1.1 trillion MB of
data are generated
every day

7. How data is created, stored, consumed has evolved
Data Apps
Data Clouds
Data Storage

8. Everyone is using data apps
Fitness & Health
Apps
Finance Apps Sales Apps Logistics & Sharing
Apps
eLearning Apps

9. Building data apps is hard
Write SQL
Optimize & index
database
Build & train model
Migrate data to BI tool
Integrate search
Add custom logic
& UI to app
Test, migrate, deploy
Write callback &
workflow logic
Integrate chart library
Connect backends
Add security and
authentication
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?
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Sync data
Add machine learning
35%
Analytics
Adoption Rate
(2020)

10. Retention is the silent killer
Global App Growth in The App Store User Retention
in thousands
Source: Sensor Tower
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016E 2017E 2018E 2019E 2020E
5 41 130
262
450
732
1,160
1,750
2,930
3,600
4,180
4,670
5,060
App volume grew 73%
between 2016 and 2020

11. Every app should
be a data app
Every product builder
should be able to
build a data app

12. ThoughtSpot Overview
Technology
Search & AI
SEARCH
AI-DRIVEN INSIGHTS
Customers
which stores are selling the most?
Venture Portfolio Company
Leadership
Industry & Ecosystem
Enterprise & Mid-market

13. The ThoughtSpot Platform
ENTERPRISE
SECURITY &
GOVERNANCE
DISTRIBUTED
CLUSTER
MANAGER
SEARCH
ENGINE
RELATIONAL
SEARCH
AUTOMATED
INSIGHTS
MOBILE
EMBEDDED
& APIS
BUSINESS
MONITORING
SPOTIQ AI
ENGINE
PERSONALIZATION
ENGINE
INSIGHTS
FEED
PINBOARDS
BI & VISUALIZATION SERVER
FALCON
On-prem EDW & DB
FALCON IN-MEMORY CACHE
Data Lake Apps
(Salesforce, Marketo,
etc.)
Files / CSVs
DataFlow
Built from the ground up for search, designed for flexibility
Embrace
DATA MODEL DESIGNER
APP 1 APP 2 APP 3 APP N
THOUGHTSPOT SDK THOUGHTSPOT SDK THOUGHTSPOT SDK THOUGHTSPOT SDK
Insights & Actions
Data Apps
LIVE QUERY
SEARCH AUTO-ANALYZE VISUALIZATIONS PINBOARDS
SEARCHIQ | SPOTIQ
DEVELOPER TOOLS
THOUGHTSPOT API GATEWAY
PLAYGROUND API’s ACTIONS
TABLES WORKSHEETS VIEWS

14. ThoughtSpot Everywhere
Build interactive data apps on an open developer-centric platform
Search API
Actions API
Visualization API
Developer Playground
ThoughtSpot Modeling Language (TML)
Cloud Scale & Elasticity

15. What makes ThoughtSpot Everywhere different?
Search
Embedded Search gives users
a new way to engage with data
Actions
Accelerate time to action with
custom actions and workflows
Dev Experience
Get the ultimate developer
experience to easily build and
customize data apps

16. Provide true self-service analytics on governed data with Search & AI
User
Experience
Cloud
Layer
Enterprise Data in the Cloud
Static
Dashboards
vs.

17. Add AI-driven search to analyze data
Intelligent search indexing
Smart results ranking
Complex queries with ease
Unmatched query performance
Enterprise-grade security &
governance

18. Create truly interactive pinboards to drill anywhere
Drill anywhere into granular details
Pin insights to create your data story
One-click sharing
Present your story on the big screen

19. Go from search to action in seconds
Upload data
Create projects
Flag users
Share attachments
Send texts
Email customers
Initiate workflows
Write back to database
Custom action examples

20. Unlock access to your data
● Use Search & AI to uncover insights
● Live query provides timely answers
● No data-caching required
● Centralize data management and governance
in Snowflake, RedShift and more
Live-Query
Value
Indexing
Connect to your data and search
to find insights in minutes
Query Engine
Search &
AI-Driven
Analytics
Direct Query
Data Clouds
SearchIQ SpotIQ

21. 3 steps to build data apps
Connect
& model
Search & create
visualizations
Embed search & insights
programmatically
1 2 3

23. Additional resources to help you get started
Documentation
Instructional guides with
code samples, integrated
with the developer
playground experience.
Webinar with Ledger
Bennett
Tuesday, 10/12
Learn how companies like Ledger
Bennett are differentiating their
data apps with an interactive
data experience.
Tutorials and
quickstarts
Step-by-step quickstart
guides and tutorials that
you can follow along to
learn how to build your
data app.
Virtual Hands on Lab
Wednesday, 9/22
Join to get a free trial of
ThoughtSpot Everywhere and
create a search experience that
sits directly on top of cloud
warehouse that you can easily
embed into your data app.
Questions? Contact: vika@thoughtspot.com or bill.back@thoughtspot.com

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