Snowflake vs TIBCO Spotfire | TrustRadius

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Score 9 out of 10

Based on 116 reviews and ratings

Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 745 reviews and ratings

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Feature Rating Comparison

Snowflake

TIBCO Spotfire

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Snowflake

TIBCO Spotfire

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Snowflake

TIBCO Spotfire

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Snowflake

TIBCO Spotfire

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

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Snowflake

TIBCO Spotfire

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Snowflake

TIBCO Spotfire

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Snowflake

TIBCO Spotfire

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

This is a cloud-based application that provides me a secure platform for the easy sharing of data with my clients.
I feel confident to connect with my numerous business partners just because of its advanced security and effective programming.
Through this tool, I am capable of integrating, analyzing, and the entire data in a precise form and with analytics as well, due to which I always have a transparent idea about the data extraction and its transfer from multiple clouds.

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Business Development Manager

Torqx Capital PartnersVenture Capital & Private Equity, 11-50 employees

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Functional dashboards which can be understood quickly by those who use them
Great visualizations for disparate data sets
Ease of integration of multiple data sets into one consolidated data table
Linking of standalone data tables with data pulled from an API link through information links

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Thomas Plumridge P.Geo

Senior Geologist

Rife Resources Ltd.Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Snowflake UI can be clunky and breaks sometimes, which can be annoying
Snowflake has to be paired with the Data Build Tool (DBT) to allow for templating and macro usage. No inbuilt solution.
Snowflake Python connector development doesn't necessarily track popular packages such as Pandas as quickly as Pandas releases
Could do with better machine learning capability over warehouse tables, but I assume this is coming soon

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Verified User

Engineer in Other

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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They should have a lower price point for users to access the analyst version who don't require advanced capabilities. For example, a lower price if users just need to do some basic slicing and dicing with their data and not have to the data science functionality (ie. K-means clustering, regression modeling, classification modeling, etc.).
Currently, you can't change the font type/color on the axis, which I'm sure will eventually be available in the future as they have a Tibco Ideas portal that they're fairly responsive to and act on. I guess at the end of the day, it's about the data and what insights you get from it.

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Professional in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Snowflake 8.0

Based on 1 answer

SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to

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Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Games Company, 51-200 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

Snowflake 8.7

Based on 11 answers

The interface is similar to other SQL query systems I've used and is fairly easy to use. My only complaint is the syntax issues. Another thing is that the error messages are not always the easiest thing to understand, especially when you incorporate temp tables. Some of that is to be expected with any new database.

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Jake Schlingman

Product Manager

AppFolio, Inc.Computer Software, 1001-5000 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

No score

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.6

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 7.6

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

Snowflake 8.8

Based on 10 answers

Overall, the support from Snowflake has been very good. Since we are one of the major users for Snowflake and have a dedicated tech team to solve all the technical problem on our way. On the side of the technical problem, any sql related questions can be found from everywhere online.

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Verified User

Analyst in Corporate

Cosmetics Company, 10,001+ employees

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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

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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

No score

No answers yet

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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

In my experience running the data management practice at InterWorks, we believe that cloud data warehouse products will eventually serve the majority of data warehousing use cases and power data analytics at most companies. Of this cohort, we believe that Snowflake is the best among them for most customers. It's easier to manage, in many cases faster, and in almost all cases it is less expensive because of the ability to automatically resume and suspend depending on usage.

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Data Practice Director

InterWorksInformation Services, 201-500 employees

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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 visualization tool in the course. As I mentioned earlier, we use [TIBCO] Spotfire as an example of another tool that is popular and excellent. I have found that Spotfire is easier for them to use for many tasks, such as quickly building a visual, adjusting variables and data, and synchronizing charts.

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Cindy Corritore

Professor, Business Analytics

Creighton UniversityE-Learning, 201-500 employees

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Scalability

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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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Faster data retrieval makes real time analysis possible.
Option to create multiple warehouses enable us to track usages and cost by departments.
Option to scale up/down computational warehouse to support peak hours and month end loads makes Snowflake cost effective.
Zero-copy cloning reduces storage and deployment cost.
Multiple users can access the same amount of data without deadlocks which is a common scenario in relational databases.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees

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For me Spotfire is a huge time saver. I can build the pivot table I need to quickly answer questions here faster and with more confidence than anything else I have seen.
The ability to see data in new and creative visualisations instead of just plain tables, allows for better decisions, and cleaner data (you see the mistakes so much easier).

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Jonathan Tucker

Reservoir Engineering Tech

Red Bluff ResourcesOil & Energy, 11-50 employees

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Screenshots

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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

Snowflake Editions & Modules

Edition

US East	$20.00¹

Per TB

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

Snowflake

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TIBCO Spotfire

Snowflake

TIBCO Spotfire

Snowflake

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Snowflake

TIBCO Spotfire

Snowflake

TIBCO Spotfire

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