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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Clarabridge (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AClarabridge was a solution that helped users understand how customers and employees feel about a company without having to ask. It was acquired by Qualtrics, and its capabilities are now part of the Qualtrics product suite's capabilities.N/A

    Sisense

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/ASisense is a BI software and analytics platform. With what the vendor calls their In-Chip™ and Single Stack™ technologies, users have access to a comprehensive tool to analyze and visualize large, disparate data sets without IT resources.N/A

    Spotfire

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ASpotfire, formerly known as TIBCO Spotfire, is a visual data science platform that combines visual analytics, data science, and data wrangling, so users can analyze data at-rest and at-scale to solve complex industry-specific problems.N/A
    Pricing
    Clarabridge (discontinued)SisenseSpotfire
    Editions & Modules
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    Clarabridge (discontinued)SisenseSpotfire
    Free Trial
    NoYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.For Enterprise engagements, contact Spotfire directly for a custom price quote.
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    Clarabridge (discontinued)SisenseSpotfire
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    Sisense Ltd
    Chose Sisense
    Performance and ease of use.
    Incentivized
    Cloud Software Group
    Chose Spotfire
    Compared to Sisense, Spotfire provides more customizable visualizations and a better iOS platform. However, customer service beyond the base tools is limited.
    Incentivized
    Chose Spotfire
    The only other tool we use in my course is Tableau. Tableau is very popular regionally (Omaha, NE), runs locally on Mac and PC, is free for students and faculty, and has a web outlet for sharing. It also plays well with AWS. For these reasons, we use it as the primary …
    Incentivized
    Chose Spotfire
    I have only briefly used Power BI and I found the interface more familiar as it leverages a lot of familiar aspects that come from Excel. However, I did not find it was a clean an interface for visualizations as Spotfire was.
    Incentivized
    Chose Spotfire
    Spotfire does a few things very well compared to the other software. It has its own pros and cons. Spotfire was selected because of its mobility support, 1-click 1-step easy reports and capture of analytics. Geographical location can be captured with this tool which was a major …
    Incentivized
    Chose Spotfire
    Spotfire can handle relatively larger database and has the ability to do interactive analysis across (pool) multiple database together. In addition, the end users do not need understand the development rationale by using the developed suite for them.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
    46 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    33 Answers
    Features
    Clarabridge (discontinued)SisenseSpotfire
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Clarabridge (discontinued) and Sisense and Spotfire
    Feature
    Clarabridge (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Sisense
    9.7
    47 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Spotfire
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings10.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.047 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Clarabridge (discontinued) and Sisense and Spotfire
    Feature
    Clarabridge (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    8.8
    47 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Spotfire
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings10.047 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings9.047 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Clarabridge (discontinued) and Sisense and Spotfire
    Feature
    Clarabridge (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    10.0
    46 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Spotfire
    -
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    Publish to Web00 Ratings10.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings10.046 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings10.039 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Clarabridge (discontinued) and Sisense and Spotfire
    Feature
    Clarabridge (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    9.5
    45 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Spotfire
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings10.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings9.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings9.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Clarabridge (discontinued) and Sisense and Spotfire
    Feature
    Clarabridge (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    10.0
    45 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Spotfire
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings10.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Clarabridge (discontinued) and Sisense and Spotfire
    Feature
    Clarabridge (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    9.7
    40 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Spotfire
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings10.040 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings10.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings10.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of Clarabridge (discontinued) and Sisense and Spotfire
    Feature
    Clarabridge (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    -
    Ratings
    Spotfire
    7.2
    8 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Connect to Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings00 Ratings7.88 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources00 Ratings00 Ratings7.48 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection00 Ratings00 Ratings7.88 Ratings
    MDM Integration00 Ratings00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Clarabridge (discontinued) and Sisense and Spotfire
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    Clarabridge (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    -
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    Spotfire
    9.1
    8 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Visualization00 Ratings00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis00 Ratings00 Ratings9.28 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Clarabridge (discontinued) and Sisense and Spotfire
    Feature
    Clarabridge (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    -
    Ratings
    Spotfire
    7.4
    8 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment00 Ratings00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Data Transformations00 Ratings00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Data Encryption00 Ratings00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Built-in Processors00 Ratings00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Clarabridge (discontinued) and Sisense and Spotfire
    Feature
    Clarabridge (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    -
    Ratings
    Spotfire
    7.6
    8 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools00 Ratings00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
    Automated Machine Learning00 Ratings00 Ratings8.55 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development00 Ratings00 Ratings7.68 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery00 Ratings00 Ratings6.76 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of Clarabridge (discontinued) and Sisense and Spotfire
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    -
    Ratings
    Sisense
    -
    Ratings
    Spotfire
    7.4
    7 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Flexible Model Publishing Options00 Ratings00 Ratings7.87 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls00 Ratings00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
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    Score7 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Sogolytics
    Score9 out of 10
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Anaconda
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Medallia
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    IBM Watson Studio
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Clarabridge (discontinued)SisenseSpotfire
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (58 ratings)
    8.4
    (351 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (14 ratings)
    9.6
    (30 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (27 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    7.1
    (14 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.7
    (27 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (52 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (55 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.4
    (17 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
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    9.1
    (47 ratings)
    8.5
    (36 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
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    9.2
    (47 ratings)
    9.3
    (36 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.2
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    7.0
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    Vendor post-sale
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    9.1
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    5.0
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    9.1
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    5.0
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    User Testimonials
    Clarabridge (discontinued)SisenseSpotfire
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    The tool is awesome and the survey tool that was demoed for me is truly one that will be a game changer. I've actually been on site with clarabridge and they are awesome and they truly have a bright future in this industry. As HR analytics takes off and continues to grow, they will continue to become a key in how different talent, initiatives, etc., are assessed and can truly get an insight on the voice of employees on many possible initiatives.
    Incentivized
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    Sisense Ltd
    I believe Sisense is perfectly suited for any organization of any size that have access to the proper resources, as the tool is very expensive. The data connectors come in all shapes and sizes out of the box, which allows a great deal of data control within the ElastiCubes. Additionally, while the platform only runs on Windows platforms, the web application can be accessed on any client: mobile, Apple, Windows, etc. This allows a much more flexible user experience, resulting in data and dashboards reaching further than any other tool.
    Incentivized
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    Cloud Software Group
    A high level of data integration is available here it supports various data sources and so on. Collaborating features allow users to give access to the dashboard and merge data analytics with other team members. It can meet the demands of both small and large size business enterprises. A customized dashboard and reports are provided to meet the specific needs and get support of extensibility through APIs and customized scripts.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • With Engagor, it is possible to organize a large volume of mentions in different mailboxes, which is perfect for our large company. With special Smart Folders to drill down into our data, we can make it possible to organize our mentions even more in-depth, divide the workload, and optimize our workflow. This increased efficiency makes it possible to work together closely as a team, across different departments. To sum this up: the Engagor platform provides our company with the perfect foundation to optimize our entire organizational structure.
    • Another very interesting feature Engagor offers is their helpful and state-of-the-art tagging system. At NMBS we filter through large bulks of mentions and private messages on a daily basis which would be very difficult to organize without Engagor.
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    Sisense Ltd
    • Customization - lots of supported and community plugins available. Users can also adjust the look and feel through JavaScript.
    • Innovation - Sisense is continuing to push the envelope by developing new features through Sisense Labs.
    • Customer support - the commitment to excellent customer service and ensuring organizations get the most out of their investment.
    Incentivized
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    Cloud Software Group
    • It has the best coding integration (python, R) of any BI product
    • The ability to work with very large datasets (10 mil+) is better than competitors
    • Export options are more complete and have better functionality
    • The data canvas is the best tool to join and transform data vs. competitors
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • User interface could be more intuitive.
    Incentivized
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    Sisense Ltd
    • The usability of the application on mobile devices needs some improvement, especially navigation and filtering.
    • Dashboards that are created by multiple users can be a bit of a hassle to share by Admins.
    • If you need to embed dashboards into your website, you are require to buy a license separate from the user and platform license. This is a norm on most BI visualization tools, but Sisense can seem a bit on the high side, cost-wide.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • The donut chart is I guess a powerful illustrations but I hope it should be done quite simple in Spotfire. But in Spotfire there are lots of steps involve just to build a simple donut chart.
    • Table calculation (like Row or Column Differences) should be made simple or there should be drag and drop function for Table Calculation. No need for scripting.
    • Information Link should be changed. If new columns are added to the table just refreshing the data should be able to capture the new column. No need extra step to add column
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    Extensive featureset, great customer service.
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    Sisense Ltd
    I think the business and myself as a user has come to rely on SiSense as a dashboarding and quick ad-hoc reporting tool. I am hoping to integrate SiSense dashboards into more parts of the business in the future. We have reduced our report turn-around time for the most part from hours/days to minutes and in some cases almost the speed of thought. Reports are also easier on the eye and more easily distributed. I would also like to say that the support and professionalism from the SiSense team has been excellent.
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    Cloud Software Group
    -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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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
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    Sisense Ltd
    New V5 is ground floor of an exciting collection of possibilities. Weekly Sisense developers come up with new functionality that they share with us in their forums. The move to HTML5 has been pleasing in that widgets auto size themselves into appropriate forms in the board but everyone of them can be popped out to full page size to be looked at in more detail
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    Cloud Software Group
    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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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
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    Sisense Ltd
    There are very few situations when there is unexpected downtime. Mostly during development, new dashboard implementation and during upgrades. other then that there were very few crashes.
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    Cloud Software Group
    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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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
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    Sisense Ltd
    SiSense is usually performing better then other solutions even if going for complex reports/dashboards(of course within reasonable frames). I haven't noticed any bad influence on other systems, usually if something happens it stays within SiSense.
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    Cloud Software Group
    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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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    Sisense Ltd
    SiSense's support ninjas are very knowledgeable and are exceptionally responsive. So far, all of the issues we ran into were resolved within minimum time. My sense of dealing with the support staff at SiSense is that they are very focused on not just answering your immediate question, but also to delve into the cause of the matter.
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    Cloud Software Group
    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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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
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    Sisense Ltd
    Easy and free training that allowed us quickly understand basics in SiSense and start using them. More advanced features requires some browsing through SiSense forums, but there is always support to help, and SiSense support is one of the best whith which I worked so far.
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    Cloud Software Group
    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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    Online Training
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    Sisense Ltd
    Many examples, videos and scenarios which you try on your own right away. This combined with in-person training gives you enough to utilize most of SiSense's power.
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    Cloud Software Group
    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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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
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    Sisense Ltd
    Remember to migrate the plugins. The documentation however is pretty straight forward.
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    Cloud Software Group
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    We moved to Zendesk as it allowed us to have everything we needed. We didn't face FB Jail, we were able to respond to IG, FB & Twitter DMs at all times. The analytics were a bit better and we were able to do NPS and CSAT attached through our Zendesk platform
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    Sisense Ltd
    1) Easy to use, really, there is nothing too much to say. The set up is easy and not confusing. You can use it internally or externally.
    2) Customer Service, having spoken to various product reps from similar industry. Sisense rep provides you with the best support to get started, and it is really appreciated.
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    Cloud Software Group
    Spotfire is significantly ahead of both products from an ETL and data ingestion capability. Spotfire also has substantially better visualizations than Power BI, and although the native visualizations aren't as flexible in Tableau, Spotfire enables users to create completely custom javascript visaualizations, which neither Tableau or Power BI has. Tableau and Power BI are likely only superior to Spotfire with respect to embedded analysis on a website.
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    Scalability
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    Sisense Ltd
    Product is quite easily scalable. The whole installation can be easily moved to stronger machine if needed.
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    Cloud Software Group
    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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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Well, due to the organization not truly pushing it for its value, we have struggled on this. We have seen great insight into certain projects when trying to improve certain processes or management structure and seeing the decline in those categories for term reasons/explanations but that does not truly say that the problem is fixed. You could draw a parallel but living in assumptions can cause more issues.
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    Sisense Ltd
    • Report development time is reduced from 2~3 days to 2~3 hours.
    • Report querying time is improved from 0.5~10 mins to 2~30 seconds.
    • A 2-staff team delivers 10 times the BI output that we did on the old system.
    • We were able to deliver BI and data analysis for all business functions instead of a very limited group of users
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    Cloud Software Group
    • It is costly, so not suitable for small scale implementations.
    • Dashboards are as good as the developer, so need experience to get most out of it
    • You need to be on Spotfire 11 at least to implement out of the box visualizations
    • Integration with Python and R is a game changer, it comes very handy to onboard data scientists without much hassle
    • performance is exceptionally well.
    • Secure
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    ScreenShots

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