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Score 7.6 out of 10

Based on 51 reviews and ratings

Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 729 reviews and ratings

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Feature Rating Comparison

Chartio (discontinued)

TIBCO Spotfire

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Chartio (discontinued)

TIBCO Spotfire

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

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TIBCO Spotfire

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Chartio (discontinued)

TIBCO Spotfire

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Chartio (discontinued)

TIBCO Spotfire

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Chartio (discontinued)

TIBCO Spotfire

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

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TIBCO Spotfire

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Direct linkage to our databases. Abstracts away the visualization layer so we can focus on the data and the queries.
Host of graphs and tools that permits all types of data visualizations.
Haven't quite used this yet, but there is a new embedding feature that will be very helpful so that we can embed the charts into a company central dash.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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They have an excellent support team. Every one of their support engineers are top quality. You don't have to deal with the dreaded Tier 1, tell me about your problem and then I'll send you to Tier 2 scenario.
We're able to quickly build POCs in a matter of days. Spotfire's data wrangling capabilities are amazing, and if you need a little bit more data engineering/data science power, you have the option of using Python or R.
Spotfire is very extensible. If there's some advanced visualization that's not available out of the box, we've been able to generate it thru their JSVIZ add-on, which allows us to utilize any JavaScript visualization library (ie. D3, Highcharts, Plotly, Fusioncharts, etc.).

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Professional in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

There is not a last full month date range option. You can still get the range that you need, but the dashboards will have to be manually updated to exclusively display one whole month.
When building a chart, the area which displays your tables and fields is finite. You can't adjust the size to make it easier to see. They do allow a mouse-over to see the entire name of your table/field, but I would prefer to adjust the width.
Once you modify a query in the Custom Query tab, there doesn't seem to be a way to go back to using the U.I.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Retail Company, 51-200 employees

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Screen resolution. Spotfire has always struggled a bit with getting everything to fit on the screen and with printing/exporting to other applications.
Buttons. The latest version has moved a lot of the most used buttons, and put them into these sliding windows where you can't see them all the time as you could before. To me this is a great dis-service, because now I have to click multiple times to get to common functions.
Advanced coding. Spotfire offers a lot of expandability through the Tibco Enterprise Runtime for R, but this requires an insurmountable knowledge of what different objects are called, and of the unique programming language that it uses. They market this feature heavily as one of the best things about Spotfire, but it is so incredibly difficult to use or to get started using.

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Jonathan Tucker

Reservoir Engineering Tech

Red Bluff ResourcesOil & Energy, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Chartio (discontinued) 8.0

Based on 24 answers

Great customer support: You will receive an answer by email usually within 20-30 minutes. Not only that but our CSMs for Chartio go out of their way to help, they have even created charts for some of the less experienced users that wanted an example to work from. We have had nothing but great experiences with this team.

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User Researcher

WorkivaFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees

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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

Chartio (discontinued) 7.6

Based on 6 answers

I really like using Chartio. I use it on a daily basis for pulling data from different sources and combining data (the explore tab was a great idea for this use). I think I would give it 8/10 because there needs to be more documentation or maybe blog posts about things people are doing with it. I only have my own ideas about what to do /how to graph things. I know there are some articles, but it would be awesome to have a section on the neat dashboards people are building or how they show data in different ways. Another complaint is how much time it takes to load. I know our databases aren't set up precisely for Chartio and I have been creating data stores. But the data stores have so many more limitations that adds a whole new layer of frustration. Love the product, keep up the good work and the fast fixes.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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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

Chartio (discontinued) 8.6

Based on 4 answers

No answer on this topic is available.

TIBCO Spotfire 7.7

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

Chartio (discontinued) 7.3

Based on 2 answers

No answer on this topic is available.

TIBCO Spotfire 7.7

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

No score

No answers yet

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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

No score

No answers yet

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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

Chartio (discontinued) 8.2

Based on 1 answer

I use self learning materials. Pretty helpful. I find myself having to go back to the "drilldown" instructions though, and have a hard time finding hidden variables on a dashboard, so perhaps there is room for intuitive improvements (or maybe I'm just being lazy)

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Director in Other

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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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

Chartio (discontinued) 7.3

Based on 2 answers

No answer on this topic is available.

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

Chartio so far has been the easiest BI tool to setup and has also been the most affordable. There are some other, great, BI tools out there but they were a bit to heavy handed for what we needed. Also - despite the high cost per user in Chartio, the other tools were still more expensive.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Engineering

E-Learning Company, 11-50 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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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

Chartio (discontinued) 6.8

Based on 2 answers

Chartio has worked well as our datawarehouse has rapidly expanded, and the usability/performance hasn't seemed to have suffered. What we haven't yet realized is additional savings from additional users. We have some dashboard needs for users who truly just view of a few charts, and the licensing structure hasn't yet been structured in a way that would support that type of approach...having 50 "core" licenses, and then potentially several hundred view only licenses for partners that would use the application infrequently.

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Director of Sales and Marketing

VetSourceVeterinary, 51-200 employees

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.3

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

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We have saved around 10 people-hours a week through Tibco Spotfire, easily a return on investment without accounting for the additional insights.
As an example, we have changed the hours of our hot counters in stores as a result of the work we could do in spotfire. this has saved waste and labour in stores.

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Manager in Other

Retail Company, 501-1000 employees

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Screenshots

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Chartio (discontinued) Editions & Modules

Edition

Starter	$40¹
Professional	$60¹
Organization	Contact sales team

per user/per month

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

Per Seat
Per Hour (Starting)
Per Seat

Additional Pricing Details

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

Rating Summary

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