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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Saturn Cloud

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/ASaturn Cloud is an ML platform for individuals and teams, available on multiple clouds: AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. It provides access to computing resources with customizable amounts of memory and power, including GPUs and Dask distributed computing clusters, in a wholly hosted environment. Saturn Cloud is presented as flexible and straightforward for new data scientists while giving senior and experienced staff the capabilities and configurability they need.…

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    Spotfire

    Score7.8 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
    Saturn CloudSpotfire
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    Saturn CloudSpotfire
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—For Enterprise engagements, contact Spotfire directly for a custom price quote.
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    Community Pulse
    Saturn CloudSpotfire
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    Saturn Cloud
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Saturn CloudSpotfire
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of Saturn Cloud and Spotfire
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    Saturn Cloud
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    Ratings
    Spotfire
    7.2
    8 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Connect to Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings7.88 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources00 Ratings7.48 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection00 Ratings7.88 Ratings
    MDM Integration00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Saturn Cloud and Spotfire
    Feature
    Saturn Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Spotfire
    9.1
    8 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Visualization00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis00 Ratings9.28 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Saturn Cloud and Spotfire
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    Saturn Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Spotfire
    7.4
    8 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment00 Ratings7.28 Ratings
    Data Transformations00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Data Encryption00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Built-in Processors00 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Saturn Cloud and Spotfire
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    Saturn Cloud
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    Ratings
    Spotfire
    7.6
    8 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
    Automated Machine Learning00 Ratings8.55 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development00 Ratings7.68 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery00 Ratings6.76 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of Saturn Cloud and Spotfire
    Feature
    Saturn Cloud
    -
    Ratings
    Spotfire
    7.4
    7 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Flexible Model Publishing Options00 Ratings7.87 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
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    Saturn CloudSpotfire
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    RapidMiner
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    DataRobot
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Anaconda
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    DataRobot
    Score8.2 out of 10
    IBM Watson Studio
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Saturn CloudSpotfire
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (22 ratings)
    8.4
    (351 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.6
    (30 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (27 ratings)
    Availability
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    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    7.1
    (14 ratings)
    Support Rating
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    8.7
    (27 ratings)
    In-Person Training
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    8.3
    (52 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    9.0
    (55 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.4
    (17 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
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    8.5
    (36 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
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    9.3
    (36 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
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    7.0
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    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    Saturn CloudSpotfire
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Saturn Cloud
    Saturn Cloud is a powerful data science platform that offers numerous benefits to organizations. It simplifies and streamlines the development, deployment, and scaling of data science and machine learning models. The platform addresses common business problems such as scalability, collaboration, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. With Saturn Cloud, organizations can easily handle large datasets and complex computations, collaborate effectively among data science teams, automate repetitive tasks, optimize workflows, and utilize flexible and cost-efficient cloud resources. By leveraging Saturn Cloud, organizations can accelerate their data science projects, improve productivity, and achieve better outcomes in areas such as predictive modeling, recommendation systems, fraud detection, and more.
    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.
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    Pros
    Saturn Cloud
    • Parallel Computing: Saturn Cloud helps us do multiple tasks at the same time, making our work faster and more efficient.
    • Easy Scalability: Saturn Cloud lets us adjust our computer power depending on our project's needs, without any hassle.
    • GPU Support: Saturn Cloud helps us work better with powerful machines, especially when we need them for complex tasks.
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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
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    Cons
    Saturn Cloud
    • While Saturn Cloud offers a range of pre-built templates and workflows, there is currently limited support for customization. For example, users may not be able to modify the pre-configured environments that come with the templates, or may find it difficult to integrate their own custom libraries and tools. Offering more flexibility in this area could help users tailor the platform to their specific needs and workflows.
    • While Saturn Cloud offers a variety of pre-built environments for data science and machine learning workloads, some users may prefer to use custom Docker images instead. However, the platform currently has limited support for Docker, which can be a limitation for users who need to work with specific dependencies or custom libraries. Adding more robust support for Docker could help to make the platform more versatile and adaptable to a wider range of use cases.
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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
    Saturn Cloud
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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
    Saturn Cloud
    This is user friendly , better than its counterparts. Anyone familiar working with other cloud solutions for GPU will agree on this. Hence the rating of 10 was given to this. I personally love the fact that I get so much compute time for being a free user which is very efficient in terms of budget
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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
    Saturn Cloud
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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
    Saturn Cloud
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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
    Saturn Cloud
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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
    Saturn Cloud
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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
    Saturn Cloud
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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
    Saturn Cloud
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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
    Saturn Cloud
    Saturn Cloud provides an R server, that's super important. Even you can write R on CoLab with different settings, but it is inconvenient and slow. Saturn Cloud can give me a different IDE environment that I'm more used to, even if I'm using Python. Whereas CoLab is more dedicated to Jupyter notebook
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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
    Saturn Cloud
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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
    Saturn Cloud
    • Although we are still in the implementation phase with Saturn Cloud, we anticipate significant positive impacts on our business objectives.
    • The platform is expected to enhance our computational capabilities with its easy access to top-tier NVIDIA GPUs, which should accelerate our AI and machine learning projects. We believe this will lead to reduced development times and faster deployment of our generative AI models.
    • While Saturn Cloud provides excellent computational resources and reliable uptime, I find that their user interface could be improved. The UI can be unintuitive at times, making it a bit challenging to navigate and configure certain settings. Enhancing the user interface to be more streamlined and user-friendly would significantly improve the overall experience. Having pre-configured stacks readily available would also save time and make the platform even more efficient to use.
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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.
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