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Spotfire

Score8.2 out of 10

824 Reviews and Ratings

What is Spotfire?

Spotfire, 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.

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Smart Visual Analytics
Geospatial Analytics
Intelligent Data Wrangling
Point-and-click Data Science
Real-time Streaming Analytics

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Top Performing Features

  • Interactive Data Analysis

    Ability to analyze data interactively using Python or R Notebooks

    Category average: 8.9

  • Visualization

    The product’s support and tooling for analysis and visualization of data.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Automated Machine Learning

    Tools to help automate algorithm development

    Category average: 8.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Security, Governance, and Cost Controls

    Built-in controls to mitigate compliance and audit risk with user activity tracking

    Category average: 8.5

  • Self-Service Model Delivery

    Multiple model delivery modes to comply with existing workflows

    Category average: 8.3

  • MDM Integration

    Integration with MDM and metadata dictionaries

    Category average: 7.8

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Spotfire cloud to create and share visual analysis across our departments. This product addresses our previously lack of alignment and internal communities when it comes to company goals, impact from the different segments of our company. We have been using this tool for a while now and it quickly became the go to tool for our QBRs.

Pros

  • Easily create visual analysis
  • Access to basic dashboards
  • Dynamic visuals

Cons

  • Needs longer than usual user training
  • Lacking templates
  • Difficult to print (dimensions)

Return on Investment

  • Improved internal and external progress visualisation
  • Faster turn around for clients
  • Better data analysis

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Cloud

Survey on Spotfire Visualization

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Spotfire for data visualizations including but not limit to business metrics report as well as patient profile and safety data review in clinical studies. It adresses the user requirement that have interactive visualizations and support drill down analysis with the study data, allow users to have in-depth understanding about the contributed data points behind the visulizations and tables, etc. Some kind of standard reports and visualization / tables have been developed that could be reused for different purpose.

Pros

  • Support diversified visualizations and tables with multiple filters panels
  • Built-in drill down analysis and tooltips support with additional information presented as needed
  • Support expanded data analysis with external programming language like R, SAS when necessary
  • Support multiple data sources and file formats

Cons

  • The interface could be further beutified and optimized, adapt to the modern front-end UI design
  • The performance enhancement when proceed huge datasets in published web player working mode
  • Simplify the call function of external language R, SAS, even with API, etc.

Return on Investment

  • Enable the trend analysis about pre-defined key indicators from the standard metrics report and faciliatate the decision making
  • Facilatate the data review activities especially for safety review, including lab test data, adverse events, etc.
  • Less investment in both development side and user side, easy to learn for new users, support quick solution for common tasks.

Other Software Used

Shiny

Flexible Visual Analytics Tool to Meet Any Organization's Needs

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire is an extremely versatile visual analytics tool which utilizes a no-code, point and click approach to data science based solutions. In my organization, we primarily use Spotfire as a means to visually represent and analyze test data from production or prototype parts. This could be to quickly identify outliers or to apply various statistical methodology such as capability analysis. Though with the flexibility of the tool, we also use it as a means to improving outdated web based project tracking tools.

Pros

  • Easy to use, no-code, point and click UI
  • Great visual analysis tool for bulk data sets
  • Flexible use-case with quick embedded open-source integration
  • Create dashboards that stand the test of time

Cons

  • Easier debugging for slow to load tables/analytic dashboards
  • Improved how-to organization and detail from Tibco Spotfire's website
  • Allowing the option for a prototyping mode which will only load small percentage of data for quicker load times

Return on Investment

  • Spotfire has consolidated the functionality of several older tools into one system
  • With Spotfire's flexible nature, any data analyst is capable of altering/updating or creating new tools from scratch allowing for open, creative thinking - further removing the need for different tools
  • With it's quick visual analysis with on-demand data, production or prototype issues can be quickly identified and reviewed allowing for quick containment

Alternatives Considered

JMP Pro, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and Microsoft Excel

Other Software Used

JMP Pro, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Spotfire Review.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire is the best data analytics and business intelligence tool available today. Our business requires applications to process and handle large amounts of data, which can be achieved with Spotfire. The application helps provide us with the best data visualization in understandable visuals without complex formulas or technologies.

Pros

  • The application is customisable according to our needs.
  • We can project the data in the best possible visual.
  • Easy to create and use reports.
  • Reporting can also be scheduled from the application.

Cons

  • Initial training is needed to use and work on the application as it provides much functionality.
  • The cost of implementation and usage is expensive compared to other tools.
  • The complexity.
  • Data governance model needs to be checked.

Return on Investment

  • Less time to process a huge amount of data.
  • Data visualization in easier and non complex way which is easier to understand.
  • Ability to collaborate with other tools.
  • Automatic report schedule.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID Governance, Microsoft Intune, Trellix Enterprise Security Manager

Spotfire is a powerful data visualization tool.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Spotfire to present data (reporting) to our internal customers. The tool allows our internal customers to filter their data for better analysis and presentation.

Pros

  • Better visualization on the data that we want to show to our customers.
  • Better filtering on data.
  • Better analysis can be done by our customers.

Cons

  • Expensive license.
  • Performance issues on the large datasets.
  • Users look for more customization.

Return on Investment

  • Not easy to find the developers from market.
  • Spotfire is user-friendly, and my internal customers are happy to do their analysis using the data visualization shown to them.
  • Performance on the dataset needs to improve.

Other Software Used

Spotfire Streaming