Toad Data Point Reviews & Pricing

by Quest Software | Founded 1987, Aliso Viejo, CA

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What is Toad Data Point?

Industry Specialties: Serves all industries

Toad Data Point is a data query solution that enables enterprises to access their information and generate reports through visual querying and automated workflows. Business analysts can pull information from virtually any source such as files, ODBC, cloud and in-memory data storage through self-service data integration. It empowers non-technical teams to derive meaningful insights from data by creating SQL queries through a drag-and-drop interface. Businesses can share query results with others in CSV, PDF, HTML and Excel formats.

It ensures data quality by flagging incomplete and duplicate records through one-click data profiling. In addition to a free 30-day trial, the vendor offers two commercial editions: Base and Professional.

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Toad Data Point Benefits and Insights

Why use Toad Data Point?

Key differentiators & advantages of Toad Data Point

Faster Data Insights: Do away with analytic silos and data bottlenecks by connecting to virtually any data source. Pulls data from Excel and Access files, BI data sources, unstructured data sources, and SQL and NoSQL databases. Connects to ODBC data sources such as Netezza, IBM iSeries, Ingres and Vertica.
Assess Data Quality: Assess risk in leveraging business data for new applications or data warehouses by identifying ambiguities in data. Shorten the implementation cycle for projects by making data easy to understand through master data management (MDM).
Multi-Platform Support: Deploy anywhere – on-premise, in the cloud or go hybrid. Supports integrations with Oracle, DB2, SAP Solutions, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Azure SQL DB, MongoDB, Salesforce and many more.
Custom Interfaces: Opt to import and export data through the traditional UI with one click, or create direct query-to-report workflows through the Data Point Workbook. Design automation processes and build visual queries through an intuitive interface.
Collaboration: Share enterprise-ready charts and graphs with others across the organization through email, or place them in a shared folder. Collaborate on workflows and insights, and standardize analytics best practices through shared input.
Automation: Speed up delivery life cycles – reduce the time to insight by half. Automate database activities and streamline them through the Windows scheduler. Plan for long-running tasks to run during off-hours and automatically send the results to Excel.

Industry Expertise

Toad was named “Best Data Quality Solution” and "Best DBA Solution" in the 2020 DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards. The vendor provides self-service data querying to clients in multiple industries around the world that include finance, manufacturing, healthcare and higher education.

Key Features

Query Builder: Pull data from multiple, disparate databases through the Cross-Connection Query Builder and the Cross-Connection Editor. Create queries through simple drag-and-drop actions – no need to write SQL. Annotate tables and diagrams with notes and save queries for future use in the Project Manager.
One-Click Charting: Send SQL query results to Excel, CSV and HTML formats with a single click from the interface. Convert data sets to Excel instances as pivot tables and linked queries, and change colors or assign labels as needed in Excel.
Data Profiling: Identify data challenges early on in any project by surfacing data anomalies and outliers. Assess data quality through the number of unique and non-unique records, incomplete and duplicate information and specific data patterns. Available for the Professional Edition only.
Intelligence Central: Directly pull data from relational and non-relational data sources. Collaborate securely with teams on SQL scripts, project artifacts, provisioned data and automation processes. Add and remove members through Active Directory and manage access to shared files and folders through permissions settings. View data insights in QlikSense, Microsoft Excel, Tableau and more.
Data Transformation: Prepare data for analysis by manipulating and changing it from a table, data grid or SQL query and display a sampling in a window, leaving the source table intact. Export data as an Excel or CSV file, save it to local storage, publish it to Intelligence Central, or save it as a transform and cleanse document with the extension .tct. Only available in the Professional Edition.
Design Reports: Visually design customizable, pixel-perfect reports with charts and pivot tables through the Data Report Designer, or the data reports tool from the interface controls. Save new and existing reports to the Project Manager.
Project Management: Save time through quicker access to files through the Project Manager. Organize database diagrams, queries and reports in groups and double-click on items to load them for execution. Create multiple projects to manage and track linked tasks through to-do lists.

Limitations

At the time of this review, these are the limitations according to user feedback:

Data cleansing and transformation aren’t available with the base edition.
The base edition doesn’t connect to NoSQL data sources and doesn’t offer sharing and collaboration.
SQL generation is only supported for Oracle and MySQL connections.
Sampling isn’t supported for all databases, only for Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL Server and MySQL.
Data profiling excludes binary columns or any other data sets that can’t be compared.

Suite Support

Before reaching out to support, go through the knowledge base articles, technical documentation, release notes, video tutorials and community forums on the vendor’s support portal, available 24/7 to all subscribers.

In addition to self-help resources, standard technical support is available Monday through Friday during local business hours. Call phone support directly for severity 1 cases. Sign up for the 24/7 support plan for round-the-clock troubleshooting assistance. Premier support subscribers get access to a dedicated technical account manager. Response times will vary depending on the support plan and issue severity level. Additionally, on-demand consulting services are available for health and upgrade assessment, cloud access management and more.

Email: Not available. Log in to the vendor’s website to access live chat with customer support.

Phone: 1-800-306-9329 from 5 a.m – 5 p.m. PST, Monday through Friday.

Training: The vendor offers a free, introductory data prep training course. For tailor-made training, reach out to the vendor for quotes. Third-party websites offer a few courses such as Oracle SQL for business analysts.

Tickets: Submit a new support request from the vendor’s website, or log in to check support request status.