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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Splunk Enterprise

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASplunk is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.N/A

    Spotfire Data Virtualization

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ASpotfire Data Virtualization is an enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources and delivers the datasets and IT-curated data services foundation for nearly any solution.N/A
    Pricing
    Splunk EnterpriseSpotfire Data Virtualization
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Splunk EnterpriseSpotfire Data Virtualization
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Splunk EnterpriseSpotfire Data Virtualization
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Cloud Software Group
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    59 Answers
    78%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    49 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    59 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    50 Answers
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    Features
    Splunk EnterpriseSpotfire Data Virtualization
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Splunk Enterprise and Spotfire Data Virtualization (formerly TIBCO Data Virtualization)
    Feature
    Splunk Enterprise
    8.3
    92 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Spotfire Data Virtualization (formerly TIBCO Data Virtualization)
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized event and log data collection9.086 Ratings00 Ratings
    Correlation8.488 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management8.489 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility8.082 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools8.383 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces8.888 Ratings00 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection7.966 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data integration/API management8.335 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining7.833 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds7.934 Ratings00 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation7.630 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management8.735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching8.738 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Splunk EnterpriseSpotfire Data Virtualization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (113 ratings)
    7.1
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (25 ratings)
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (46 ratings)
    5.4
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    7.9
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Splunk EnterpriseSpotfire Data Virtualization
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    I'm liking the newer products, and I'm looking forward to how they integrate with the overall product when they come together. Just log in and be able to query a large number of systems for similar issues or a unique one. That is a great fit for Splunk Enterprise, looking for a simple case or a simple String or something of that nature across multiple machines. It's a great fit for that to identify issues or particular software, whatever your scenario is, String, to find it across any particular server or group of servers, so that you can update or do a deployment or whatever it is you're looking to do.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO Data Virtualization is well suited for customers who are challenged to deal with extracting data from dozens of different sources and systems, and do not have the time and liberty to hire data engineers and/or ETL developers to write dozens or hundreds of complex ETLs. However, there are situations where TIBCO Data Virtualization severely underperforms, and those are where we are dealing with large volumes of data, in tera bytes or peta byte scale system. For example, a messaging queue which sends 200 million messages every hour will choke TIBCO Data Virtualization if the technology is chosen to route the data.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • It is very useful in creating custom rules for analyzing system logs and display relevant information. The query language is very easy to learn.
    • We can create custom UI to visualize the output of our data. The interface is very flexible. It also allows the sharing of rules among users.
    • There is an open online community to help others. Stackoverflow also has a splunk community. These resources make it more convenient to learn.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Connecting to different data silos and presenting the data as a singled unified layer of data.
    • Exposing data to Technical and non technical users through Web UI or reporting tools
    • Secured exposure of data as web services.
    • Row level and column level data security
    • Multi tenancy data security.
    • Real time data by connecting to the operational databases
    • Historical data generation
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Splunk light limits number of users to 5. Wish there was a flexible license, where one could add more users.
    • Splunk light does not let you add > few realtime alerts. Wish there was a flexible license, where one could add as many realtime alerts as wanted.
    • Better insight into daily ingestion values
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Performance of TDV Studio (its own IDE) is poor.
    • Performance of TDV repository database is rather poor for larger numbers of objects .(Note: We have approx. 9tsd objects introspected in TDV and approx. 20tsd objects generated in upper DV layers.)
    • Propagation of privileges to parent/child dependencies does not work when applying recursively on a folder. (It's a huge setback when working with large number of objects organized semantically into subfolders.)
    • Lack of command line client interface for scripting at the time of version 8.4 (I had to write my own CLI.)
    • TDV Studio does an absolutely horrible job with its own code editors when indentation is in place. Also, the editor is brutally slow and feature-poor.
    • Tracking privileges on the level of table/view columns causes occasional problems when regranting.
    • TDV's stored programs ("SQL scripts" in their own terminology) compiler leaves out many syntactic and semantic checks, making them hugely prone to run-time errors.
    • TDV Server's REST API is a very poor (in terms of features) and flawed cousin to its SOAP API (at the time of version 8.4).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    We are using Splunk extensively in our projects and we have recently upgraded to Splunk version 6.0 which is quite efficient and giving expected results. We keep track of updates and new features Splunk introduces periodically and try to introduce those features in our day to day activities for improvement in our reporting system and other tasks.
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    Cloud Software Group
    It is useful for us to see the data and do analysis. Also we use it to generate reports and see trends or gather insights
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    Usability
    Cisco
    You can literally throw in a single word into Splunk and it will pull back all instances of that word across all of your logs for the time span you select (provided you have permission to see that data). We have several users who have taken a few of the free courses from Splunk that are able to pull data out of it everyday with little help at all.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TDV's interface is a bit dated and not entirely intuitive. Would recommend some UX design review as the interface leaves a bit to be better understood to be used by users without inherent knowledge of Tibco. Overall I'd suggest more improvement here to ensure usability by a lesser tech audience.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    When properly setup and configured, Splunk is extremely reliable.
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    Cloud Software Group
    We have never encountered issues where it was unavailable when we needed it.
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    Performance
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    This product's performance is very consistent. It is extremely rare for templates to fail. I've been using this software for 5 years and find it to be both simple and powerful. The impact within the company has been very positive as different processes in different areas, such as data analysis, development, and integrations, have been improved, and, best of all, it has not affected the users. Various systems with which it is connected in order to obtain information.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Splunk maintains a well resourced support system that has been consistent since we purchased the product. They help out in a timely manner and provide expert level information as needed. We typically open cases online and communicate when possible via e-mail and are able to resolve most issues with that method.
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    Cloud Software Group
    On a few occasions I have asked TIBCO technical support for help because I have adapted perfectly to their tools, but in those few that I have communicated with their technical team I have received personalized, attentive, responsible attention and I am always assisted by an expert staff the topic. A TIBCO technical support technician spent more than an hour helping me to solve a problem in the initial stage of implementation in my department and this is something that I always appreciate.
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    The online course was simple clear and described the main capabilities of the solution. There is also an initial module that can be done for free so anyone can familiarize themselves with the functionality of this solution. On the other hand, however, there could be more free online courses. Maybe even with a certificate, this would broaden the group of people who are familiar with the platform while increasing familiarity with the solution itself.
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    Cloud Software Group
    The training was helpful. I was able to understand how to use TIBCO for the data load process that we implemented and how to perform various troubleshooting steps based on the training I received. The technician was thorough and took the time to answer any questions. Once we were shown how to use TIBCO in the test environment, we were able to configure the production environment ourselves.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    Smooth without too many major issues.
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    Cloud Software Group
    Other vendors have clearer, more visual implementation documentation. We also did not have our data architect and and server administrator available full-time for implementation. In the future, we will secure the necessary internal resources.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    A lot of products have natively inside their own dashboards and or their own logging repositories. And each one is difficult to learn or they're too complex or they're not verbose in the sense that they're not easy to mine the data that you're looking for. So that could be anything from the native logging that you find in other Cisco products. It's easier to use Splunk to draw the data that you're looking for as opposed to going to the individual's products themselves to get the logs that you're looking for.
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    Cloud Software Group
    We did not need to evaluate another technology in the same category for data virtualization, since we are 100% sure of the capabilities and benefits that we would have with TIBCO Data Virtualization, both for market positioning as well as success stories from other companies. great renown worldwide. From the first day of use, it meets our needs to provide the expected solutions.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    Splunk can scale in to the petabyte per day range which of course is awesome
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    Cloud Software Group
    Good scaling
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Splunk has allowed developers to diagnose production issues when access of control was taken away from them to be allowed to view items in production environments and I believe that is invaluable.
    • At times some developers weren't super happy about using it, but it was more of the fact that they were used to having production access and not creating their splunk queries to get information.
    • Going one place to view logs was very beneficial to have.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • We took spreadsheets that took hours a month to update and made them update automatically using TDV, saving hours a month of analyst time
    • The incremental cost of TDV relative to straight spotfire licensing made it a no-brainer due to the ease of data management
    • We continue to automate legacy business processes in TDV, saving time all over the organization.
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