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  1. Information technology and software
  2. Professional services (engineering, legal, consulting, etc.)
  3. Retail and wholesale

What is Tellius

Tellius is a cloud analytics platform that combines business intelligence dashboards with augmented analytics features such as natural-language querying and automated insights. It is used by data and analytics teams and business users to explore data, build reports, and identify drivers behind changes in key metrics. The product emphasizes search- and conversation-driven analysis and includes capabilities for automated explanations and forecasting on top of connected data sources.

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Natural-language driven analytics

Tellius supports search and natural-language questions to help users explore metrics without writing SQL. This can reduce reliance on specialized analysts for common ad hoc questions. It also provides guided follow-up questions and visualizations to move from a question to an analyzable chart. These features align with organizations that want self-service exploration across business teams.

Automated insights and drivers

The platform includes automated insights that surface anomalies, trends, and potential drivers behind metric movement. It supports explanation-style analysis to help users understand contributing dimensions (for example, which regions or products drive a change). This can shorten the time from detection to investigation compared with manual slice-and-dice workflows. It is particularly relevant for KPI monitoring and root-cause exploration use cases.

End-to-end BI workflow

Tellius combines data connectivity, semantic modeling/metrics, dashboards, and sharing in a single environment. Teams can move from exploration to repeatable reporting without switching tools for every step. It supports embedding and distribution patterns commonly required for operational analytics. This breadth can be useful for mid-market teams that want one platform for both self-service and governed reporting.

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Modeling and governance tradeoffs

As with many self-service analytics tools, organizations may need to invest time in defining consistent metrics, permissions, and data definitions to avoid conflicting results. If governance is not implemented, natural-language and exploratory features can amplify inconsistent interpretations of KPIs. Larger enterprises with strict semantic-layer requirements may need additional process and oversight. This can increase implementation effort beyond initial dashboarding.

AI explanations require validation

Automated driver analysis and insight generation can produce plausible but incomplete explanations depending on data quality, granularity, and available dimensions. Users still need to validate results, especially for high-stakes decisions. Some analyses may require custom statistical approaches or domain-specific logic not covered by built-in automation. This can limit reliance on the system as a standalone “analysis agent.”

Ecosystem and mindshare limits

Compared with the most widely adopted analytics platforms, Tellius has a smaller third-party ecosystem for prebuilt content, community examples, and specialized integrations. This can affect ramp-up time for teams that prefer extensive templates and a large user community. Vendor resources and partner availability may be more limited in some regions or industries. Buyers may need to validate long-term fit for enterprise-wide standardization.

Plan & Pricing

Plan Price Key features & notes
Premium Customized (contact sales) Up to 10 users; AI-powered analytics & insights; Guided Insights; Search-driven ad-hoc visualization; Vizpads for sharing; Connect & prepare cloud data, RDBMS, & apps; Up to 50M rows in live-mode; 10 GB in-memory cache; Live/pushdown query to cloud data warehouses; Fully hosted on Tellius Cloud; "Try For Free" button on pricing page and Tellius offers a 30-day free trial.
Enterprise Customized (contact sales) Unlimited users; All Premium features plus Automated ML modeling (AutoML); SAML single sign-on (SSO); API access; Embedding & white-labeling; Scale to unlimited data; Flexible deployments (customer cloud, on-premises, or Tellius Cloud); Enterprise-grade security, controls, and support; "Talk to Sales" required for pricing.

Seller details

Tellius, Inc.
Reston, Virginia, USA
2016
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https://www.tellius.com/
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