Apache Camel vs TIBCO Spotfire | TrustRadius

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Score 8 out of 10

Based on 27 reviews and ratings

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 716 reviews and ratings

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Feature Rating Comparison

Apache Camel

TIBCO Spotfire

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Apache Camel

TIBCO Spotfire

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Apache Camel

TIBCO Spotfire

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Apache Camel

TIBCO Spotfire

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Apache Camel

TIBCO Spotfire

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Apache Camel

TIBCO Spotfire

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Apache Camel

TIBCO Spotfire

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Camel has an easy learning curve. It is fairly well documented and there are about 5-6 books on Camel.
There is a large user group and blogs devoted to all things Camel and the developers of Camel provide quick answers and have also been very quick to patch Camel, when bugs are reported.
Camel integrates well with well known frameworks like Spring, and other middleware products like Apache Karaf and Servicemix.
There are over 150 components for the Camel framework that help integrate with diverse software platforms.
Camel is also good for creating microservices.

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Senior Software Consultant at Randstad

Cox CommunicationsBroadcast Media, 10,001+ employees

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Cross tables. Most people call them pivot tables perhaps, from the excel version, but Spotfire does them so much better! Easier to build and arrange, and with tons more options than the excel pivot table.
Mapping. The improved mapping capabilities of Spotfire along with its ease of use, allow you to build fabulous looking maps very quickly.
Aggregation. Spotfire is built to aggregate, and it does this better and faster than anything else I know of.

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Jonathan Tucker

Reservoir Engineering Tech

Red Bluff ResourcesOil & Energy, 11-50 employees

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Cons

I find the "seda" endpoint to be less obvious that it is doing multi-threading than Spring Integration's executor mechanism.
Integration with Spring Beans is pretty good, but I believe SI's is a bit better (for obvious reasons, both being Spring products).
SI's use support is probably a bit better/faster and I believe the user base is larger so that there are most questions/answers for SI on StackOverflow

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Engineer in Engineering

Defense & Space Company, 11-50 employees

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Arguably the most useful feature of Spotfire is the information builder which allows sql queries on APIs to databases and ERPs, however, this doesn't come with the entry package, spotfire cloud. As a small company we cannot justify hosting ourselves and we're not big enough for enterprise, so we have to manually load the data ourselves every week.
The custom expression feature unlocks some of the better features, but requires some level of programming to understand.
Cloud gets the updates to Spotfire a lot later than the non-cloud users.

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Manager in Other

Retail Company, 501-1000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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TIBCO Spotfire 8.1

Based on 27 answers

-Easy to distribute information throughout the enterprise using the webplayer.-Ad hoc analysis is possible throughout the enterprise using business author in the webplayer or the thick client.-Low level of support needed by IT team. Access interfaces with LDAP and numerous other authentication methods.-Possible to continually extend the platform with JavaScript, R scripts, HTML, and custom extensions.-Ability to standardize data logic through pre-built queries in the Information Designer. Everyone in the enterprise is using the same logic-Tagging and bookmarking data allows for quick sharing of insights.-Integration with numerous data sources... flat files, data bases, big data, images, etc.-Much improved mapping capability. Also includes the ability to apply data points over any image.

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Data Visualization Developer

QuintilesResearch, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

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TIBCO Spotfire 8.5

Based on 25 answers

Basic tasks like generating meaningful information from large sets of raw data are very easy. The next step of linking to multiple live data sources and linking those tables and performing on the fly analysis of the imported data is understandably more difficult.

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Brock Robertson

Reservoir Engineer

Tapstone EnergyOil & Energy, 51-200 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.8

Based on 16 answers

Even though, it's a rather stable and predictable tool that's also fast, it does have some bugs and inconsistencies that shut down the system. Depending on the details, it could happen as often as 2-3 times a week, especially during the development period.

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Global Pricing and Marketing Operations Lead, Analytics & Research

General Electric - Power Generation ServicesOil & Energy, 10,001+ employees

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Performance

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.8

Based on 16 answers

Generally, the Spotfire client runs with very good performance. There are factors that could affect performance, but normally has to do with loading large analysis files from the library if the database is located some distance away and your global network is not optimal. Once you have your data table(s) loaded in the client application, usually the application is quite good performance-wise.

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Manager in Information Technology

Pharmaceuticals Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support Rating

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TIBCO Spotfire 8.4

Based on 28 answers

Support has been helpful with issues. Support seems to know their product and its capabilities. It would also seem that they have a good sense of the context of the problem; where we are going with this issue and what we want the end outcome to be.

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Product Manager - Mobile Computing Analytics Cloud Platform

Zebra TechnologiesComputer Hardware, 5001-10,000 employees

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In-Person Training

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.7

Based on 52 answers

The instructor was very in depth and provided relevant training to business users on how to create visualizations. They showed us how to alter settings and filter views, and provided resources for future questions.However, the instructor failed to cover data sources, connecting to data, etc. While it was helpful to see how users can use the data to create reports, they failed to properly instruct us on how to get the dataset in to begin with. We are still trying to figure out connections to certain databases (we have multiple different types).

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Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 10,001+ employees

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Online Training

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.9

Based on 54 answers

The online training is good, provides a good base of knowledge. The video demonstrations were well-done and easy to follow along. Provided exercises are good as well, but I think there could be more challenging exercises. The training has also gone up in price significantly in the last 3 years (in USD, which hurts us even more in Canada), and I'm not sure it is worth the money it now costs (it is worth how much it cost 3 years ago, but not double that.)

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Operations Analyst II

Empire LifeInsurance, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation Rating

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TIBCO Spotfire 5.7

Based on 18 answers

The original architecture I created for our implementation had only a particular set of internal business units in mind. Over the years, Spotfire gained in popularity in our company and was being utilized across many more business units. Soon, its usage went beyond what the original architectural implementation could provide. We've since learned about how the product is used by the different teams and are currently in the middle of rolling out a new architecture.I suggest:

Have clearly defined service level agreements with all the teams that will use Spotfire. Your business intelligence group might only need availability during normal working hours, but your production support group might need 24/7 availability. If these groups share one Spotfire server, maintenance of that server might be a problem.
Know the different types of data you will be working with. One group might be working with "public" data while another group might work with sensitive data. Design your Library accordingly and with the proper permissions.
Know the roles of the users of Spotfire. Will there only be a small set of report writers or does everyone have write access to the Library?
ALWAYS add a timestamp prompt to your reports. You don't want multiple users opening a report that will try and pull down millions of rows of data to their local workstations. Another option, of course, is to just hard code a time range in the backing database view (i.e. where activity_date >= sysdate - 90, etc.), but I'd rather educate/train the user base if possible.
This probably goes without saying, but if possible, point to a separate reporting database or a logical standby database. You don't want the company pounding on your primaries and take down your order system.

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Michael Soliman

Senior Database Developer

TransUnion Interactive1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We chose Apache Camel because it was lightweight, easy to get started with and because it had a groovy DSL since we were a grails shop when we started using it.

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Lead Software Engineer

BrighterInternet, 51-200 employees

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TIBCO Spotfire is a very good product and stacks up well against the competition for creating customized dashboards. It also has intuitive capabilities to create visualizations that could help the user see their data. Moreover, it also has a lot of options for customization in terms of data slicing, integrations with statistical languages like R, creating multi-page dashboard views, etc.The reason we selected Spotfire was because of all the features mentioned above and also the pricing which was very competitive compared to its competitors in the market.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.4

Based on 4 answers

In an enterprise architecture, if Spotfire Advanced Data services(Composite Studio),data marts can be managed optimally and scalability in a data perspective is great. As the web player/consumer is directly proportional to RAM, if the enterprise can handle RAM requirement accomodating fail over mechanisms appropraitely, it is definitely scalable,

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Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Apache Camel is open source and Java based. So if your engineering team is strong in Java this could be a good framework to adopt.
Apache camel is open source.
Camel could be run on OSGi containers like Karaf or Fuse.

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Team Lead in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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The ROI from Spotfire has generally been positive. After digesting the healthy up front cost, analysts have come to rely on the software more than most any other software product besides perhaps Excel.
The initial time spent on Spotfire looked like it might turn out to be a waste of money. But after putting the time in, Spotfire saves analysts time and thereby money.
Perhaps the most positive return on investment from Spotfire is the automated reports, eliminating analyst effort.

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Senior Economist

Utah LegislatureFinancial Services, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Apache Camel Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

TIBCO Spotfire Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

TIBCO Spotfire Platform	Please contact TIBCO sales

SaaS Edition

TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Analyst	$125/mo, $1250/yr¹
TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Business Author	$65/mo, $650/yr¹
TIBCO Spotfire for Amazon Web Services	$0.99²
TIBCO Spotfire Cloud Enterprise	Please contact TIBCO sales
TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Consumer	$25/mo, $250/yr⁴

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Additional Pricing Details

For Enterprise engagements, please contact TIBCO directly for a custom price quote.

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