Unrivaled for Real-Time data streaming. Leaves to be desired more to be cloud ready
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Spotfire Streaming at my organization is used to get real time data instead of relying on a job to run every few hours. Our sales data sync needs to be done dynamically to showcase to the Leadership Team hence using the tool gives us the best output. We also have it integrated with other Spotfire tools to visualize whats coming in
Pros
- It shares data across our visualization suite in real time
- Manage to keep even the biggest data sets up to date
- It has the push based approach for the data updates so we always see the latest data without manually refreshing
Cons
- Being a niche tool, there's not much community support
- It is on prem, making it slow to boot. not cloud native (It could be that it is our org's issue)
- The dev environment is very tough to understand for large projects due to the wire style UI/UX
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for any dynamic needs, but for most use cases, especially in sales we don't need real-time dynamic data. It is only since it gets well integrated with our visualization tool. Especially with the drawbacks of not using a more "open-source" tool for which you can find help online.