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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Spotfire

    Score7.7 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

    Sumo Logic

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ASumo Logic is a log management offering from the San Francisco based company of the same name.

    $3

    Per GB Logs

    Pricing
    SpotfireSumo Logic
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essentials
    $3.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise
    $4.00
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Security
    $4.25
    Per GB Logs
    Enterprise Suite
    $4.75
    Per GB Logs
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SpotfireSumo Logic
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFor Enterprise engagements, contact Spotfire directly for a custom price quote.—
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    Community Pulse
    SpotfireSumo Logic
    Considered Both Products
    Cloud Software Group
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    Sumo Logic
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    46 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    39 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    33 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    SpotfireSumo Logic
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Spotfire and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Spotfire
    8.9
    298 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Sumo Logic
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.5293 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates9.1257 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Spotfire and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Spotfire
    9.0
    310 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Sumo Logic
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis9.0288 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.9301 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages9.2223 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.2273 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Spotfire and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Spotfire
    8.9
    282 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Sumo Logic
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web9.1227 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.2266 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.3177 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Spotfire and Sumo Logic
    Feature
    Spotfire
    8.9
    309 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Sumo Logic
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)9.2305 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.8270 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.9233 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SpotfireSumo Logic
    Small Businesses
    Chartio (discontinued)
    Score7.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP Lumira Discovery (legacy)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SpotfireSumo Logic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (351 ratings)
    9.7
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (30 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    8.0
    (27 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.1
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (27 ratings)
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.3
    (52 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (55 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.4
    (17 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (36 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    9.3
    (36 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.2
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    SpotfireSumo Logic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Sumo Logic
    SumoLogic is a fantastic log aggregator and analysis tool, a fine alternative to Splunk. Searching is powerful and mostly intuitive and results come fast. If you have application logs in clusters or Kubernetes pods that lose their logs every time they're restarted, Sumo is the solution for you
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    Pros
    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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    Sumo Logic
    • Sumo Logic allowed for our InfoSec team to ingest logs from our CDN directly, in real-time, instead of massive compressed archives that were sent every two-hours (the only alternative at the time). Sumo Logic had an app for these logs, that allowed us to easily get an immediate payoff from the data, with canned dashboard and saved searches.
    • Sumo Logic has a fairly extensive REST API when it comes to log sources, source configurations, dashboard data, searches, etc. Their wiki for the API is usually kept up to date.
    • Sumo Logic, during the period of time I had used their product, had added the ability to configure agents via configuration files. This allowed customers to configure their endpoints, and modify the endpoints, with configuration management tools like Chef / Puppet / Salt. Beforehand, the only option was to always make changes either via the web portal or REST API.
    • The solutions engineers were extremely helpful, and easily reachable when issues would occur.
    • Users at our company found it easy to get started, working on new dashboards, scheduled searches, and alerting. The alerting worked well with our third-party paging tool.
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    Cons
    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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    Sumo Logic
    • I like the help center, but I think if it had more GUI tools, it could help new users.
    • Pulling out data is sometimes hard to read, (Maybe if I knew how to export data better, this would not be an issue for me).
    • I would like better know-how on how to create reports that will help our business.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Sumo Logic
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    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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    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic is very powerful but definitely requires some configuration work to get the most out of it. You can get a certification related to this, but it is definitely not something you can just throw together.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Sumo Logic
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    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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    Sumo Logic
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    Sumo Logic
    I would give this rating because I attended a free Sumo Logic training at a WeWork in Chicago. I found the training very useful, and I learned a lot of features that I was not aware of before I went to the training. I like the idea that SumoLogic provides free training seminars. I am certified in level1, and I plan on certifying to level2.
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    In-Person Training
    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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    Sumo Logic
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    Online Training
    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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    Sumo Logic
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Sumo Logic
    I was satisfied with the implementation, as at the time, it was the best way to implement the product with the available feature sets in Sumo Logic. User creation and management became more of an issue during continued use, instead of it being an issue related to deploying the product in our environment.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Sumo Logic
    Sumo Logic works very well out of the gate. For a small business it has given us what we need. I worked at a larger company previously, and we produced so many logs we had to create a custom logging service to handle them all. Cost and availability are big issues when deciding between the different services, whether self maintained and hosted, or provided by another company.
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    Scalability
    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,
    Incentivized
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    Sumo Logic
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Cloud Software Group
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    Sumo Logic
    I've assisted several OneLogin customers with partner accounts to Sumo Logic. It has always been pleasant.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Sumo Logic
    • I can't think of any negative side effects other than it being SO slow sometimes, but compared to Splunk everything is slow
    • It's SO much cheaper than Splunk that the time it takes to query information is well worth it
    • In the times that we've had Sumo go down or stop logging information, we've found that we'd be absolutely lost without Sumo
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