Spotfire Streaming

Score5.1 out of 10

35 Reviews and Ratings

What is Spotfire Streaming?

The Spotfire Streaming (formerly TIBCO Streaming or StreamBase) platform is a high-performance system for rapidly building applications that analyze and act on real-time streaming data. Using Spotfire Streaming, users can rapidly build real-time systems and deploy them at a fraction of the cost and risk of other alternatives.

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Real-Time Data Analysis
Ability to analyze data in motion
Category average: 8.6
Low Latency
How many milli-seconds or seconds it takes to ingest, analyze and respond to an incoming event or data-point
Category average: 8.7
Visualization Dashboards
Easy-to-understand pictorial illustration of data with graphs charts and dashboards
Category average: 8.6

Machine Learning Automation
Machine learning helps automate predictive scoring on streaming data
Category average: 8.2
Integrated Development Tools
Tools to allow developers to rapidly create streaming applications via a graphical user interface and selection of predefined functions and operators
Category average: 7.4
Data wrangling and preparation
Tools to rapidly prepare data for analysis by normalization, data cleansing, etc.
Category average: 7.2

Verified User

Analyst in Sales (1001-5000 employees employees)

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

Return on Investment

It is being used as a visualization tool, finding out the ROI directly is a bit challenging
Using a CRM tool instead might work better in a sales use case (with it also having live data)

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Apama Community Edition and SAS Event Stream Processing

Other Software Used

Salesforce CRM Analytics, Microsoft Excel, Outreach

Lyubomir Simeonov View profile

Senior Developer in Information Technology at Morgan Stanley (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My company uses Spotfire Streaming on a few projects. We employee it mainly as a back-end development tool. The processes we set up with it perform data transformations and feed our analytics dashboards.

Pros

This is a rapid development tool that spares us days of raw coding.
It is very easy to access external data sources, filter, aggregate and expose the result back.
Multi-threading features, memory and CPU utilizations are exceptional

Cons

Despite Spotfire Streaming allows writing custom adapters, it is very difficult to manage third party library dependencies. None of the major dependency tools are supported, and one should manage that manually.
The security and authorization system implemented in Spotfire Streaming is not extensible and does not fit out of the box our needs
The system designs was not built with modularization and generalization in mind, hence it is difficult to build reusable modules.
Logging system is harder to manage, compared to plain j4log implementations.

Return on Investment

Reduced significantly our development time
Allowed us to focus on business logic and spared raw coding

Johanes Siregar View profile

Big Data Analytics - Data Engineer in Information Technology at Telkomsel (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

Real-time event processing minimizes time to market and saves the time and processing power to process a large amount of data being streamed.
Easy to use and user-friendly GUI enables a business user to directly test and apply business logic.
Great value and highly scalable.

Cons

So far, Spotfire Streaming has always been able to answer all of our needs to analyze a data stream.

Return on Investment

Highly scalable light weight
User-friendly and easy to use visual event-flow to implements business market reduces the effort and time need for developing an application

Alternatives Considered

Apache Spark

Other Software Used

Teradata Aster Database, Hadoop, Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Hamilton Araujo View profile

Managing Director in Information Technology at AlphaStream (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire Streaming is used in financial and capital market applications by the customers we support. Common applications are market data management, pricing financial instruments, routing orders to execution venues and exchanges, algorithmic trading, high frequency trading, pre- and post-risk management and FX liquity pool.

Pros

Processing events in real-time with real low latency and high throughput.
100% visual program language, which can be extended by common languages like Java, Python and .NET.
Reduced time to prototype, create an application and deployment, which reduces the software lifecycle.
Real robust engine and server. Barely heard of customers having issues in production.

Cons

Overusing can be a problem sometimes when someone forgets the architectural project.
Event processing technology has a different development workflow than other languages and technologies, which would require an understanding from the developer to abstract different ways to accomplish applications.

Return on Investment

Reduced software lifecycle from project to deployment
Reduced number of developers to achieve same or even better quality software
Reduced support and maintenance team while in production

Other Software Used

TIBCO Spotfire, TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, Eclipse

Sonny Zhang, CFA View profile

Associate Director in Finance and Accounting at Scotiabank (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire Streaming is being used by our foreign exchange department for data processing, real-time pricing, and risk management.

Pros

Spotfire Streaming does well for real-time data processing. It is easy and fast to build a robust application. Developers can focus on business logic and don't have to worry regular programming details.

Cons

Lack of security control for sbc connection

Return on Investment

It is easy to deploy and has positive impact on our business objectives

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Machine Learning Automation

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