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- Drill-down analysis (289)8.383%
- Formatting capabilities (302)7.878%
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What is Spotfire?
Spotfire® is a data visualization platform that aims to speed individual time to insight and spur analytics adoption across the organization. According to the vendor, Spotfire helps users quickly and easily generate insights with three new ways to support their analytical preferences: NLQ powered search, AI-driven recommendations, and direct manipulation. Users can add context with native streaming for integrated analyses of real-time and historical data, best-in-class geoanalytics, and one-click predictive analytics to go beyond basic visualizations and understand the factors driving trends and what will happen next.
The vendor states Spotfire's differentiating hybrid in-memory/in-database analytics architecture supports the most demanding enterprise needs, scaling to thousands of users and limitless rows of data.
Spotfire is deployed in companies in financial services, energy, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, government, travel & logistics, helathcare, and life sciences.
Spotfire® is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, formerly known as TIBCO Spotfire.
The vendor states Spotfire's differentiating hybrid in-memory/in-database analytics architecture supports the most demanding enterprise needs, scaling to thousands of users and limitless rows of data.
Spotfire is deployed in companies in financial services, energy, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, government, travel & logistics, helathcare, and life sciences.
Spotfire® is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, formerly known as TIBCO Spotfire.
Spotfire Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Administration via Windows App
- Supported: Administration via MacOS App
- Supported: Administration via Web Interface
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: In-memory data model
- Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
- Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
- Supported: ETL Capability
- Supported: ETL Scheduler
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
- Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: ODBC
- Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
- Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
- Supported: EMC Greenplum
- Supported: IBM Netezza
- Supported: HP Vertica
- Supported: SAP Hana
- Supported: Teradata
- Supported: Salesforce
- Supported: SAP
- Supported: Google Analytics
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Predictive modeling
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- Supported: Predictive Analytics
- Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
- Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Mobile Application
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features
- Supported: REST API
- Supported: Javascript API
- Supported: iFrames
- Supported: Java API
- Supported: Themeable User Interface (UI)
- Supported: Customizable Platform (Open Source)
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Spotfire Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | Available in all regions |
| Supported Languages | English, Spanish, French, German, Portugese, Chinese, Italian |
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Spotfire® is a data visualization platform that utilizes predictive analytics. In addition to data viz, it includes data wrangling capabilities, predictive analytics, location analytics, and real-time streaming analytics. Spotfire® is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, formerly known as TIBCO Spotfire.
Reviewers rate Customizable dashboards highest, with a score of 9.1.
The most common users of Spotfire are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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- 8.3Likelihood to Renew
- 9Availability
- 7.1Performance
- 8Usability
- 8.7Support Rating
- 8.8Online Training
- 7.3In-Person Training
- 8Implementation Rating
- 7.1Configurability
- 7Product Scalability
- 7Ease of integration
- 5Vendor pre-sale
- 5Vendor post-sale
- 8Data Visualization
- 9.3Data Sources
- 8.2Data Sharing and Collaboration
- 4Tibco Spotfire Smart Recommendations
- 8Tibco Spotfire Data Wrangling
- 6Tibco Spotfire R Engine
- 8.1Tibco Spotfire Mapping
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July 15, 2020
Spotfire is a great visualization platform and a good first step for a data analytics ecosystem
Organization usage: focused in development and operations departments.
Business Problems:
Business Problems:
- Visualization of operations metrics such as production tracking.
- Data QC.
- Prototype advanced analytical approaches.
- Interactive visualizations ("Brush UI").
- Data wrangling interface.
- Search function for Spotfire features.
- Steep learning curve.
- Self help options confusing - online help is convoluted; inline help is mediocre.
- Trellis by a hierarchy or custom grouping of categories.
July 14, 2020
Keep it Simple
We use it for data analysis and reporting. I have personally used it to better present data from multiple data sources into a concise and easily referenced layout.
- Great dashboards
- Intuitive interface
- Easy integrations
- Better interoperability
Spotfire is being used across the whole organization. We've connected to over 23 data sources with ease and have built corporate dashboards for drilling, completions, operations, geology, and reserves. We've also used Spotfire to build some complex Models. Spotfire Analyst users enjoy using it for slicing and dicing their data.
- They have an excellent support team. Every one of their support engineers are top quality. You don't have to deal with the dreaded Tier 1, tell me about your problem and then I'll send you to Tier 2 scenario.
- We're able to quickly build POCs in a matter of days. Spotfire's data wrangling capabilities are amazing, and if you need a little bit more data engineering/data science power, you have the option of using Python or R.
- Spotfire is very extensible. If there's some advanced visualization that's not available out of the box, we've been able to generate it thru their JSVIZ add-on, which allows us to utilize any JavaScript visualization library (ie. D3, Highcharts, Plotly, Fusioncharts, etc.).
- They should have a lower price point for users to access the analyst version who don't require advanced capabilities. For example, a lower price if users just need to do some basic slicing and dicing with their data and not have to the data science functionality (ie. K-means clustering, regression modeling, classification modeling, etc.).
- Currently, you can't change the font type/color on the axis, which I'm sure will eventually be available in the future as they have a Spotfire Ideas portal that they're fairly responsive to and act on. I guess at the end of the day, it's about the data and what insights you get from it.
Spotfire is widely used in my current, previous, and a few other organizations where I worked as a consultant. It helped the management and various departments to see the overall and detailed picture of their business. It helps to identify the problematic area and make necessary business decisions that help the company to better perform in a cost-effective manner. It is used by several departments. Example: Production Department was able to keep track of the overall daily production. They are able to analyze the declining curve, able to analyze production at pad level, well level, etc. Land Department was able to keep track of the various documents that their department is processing in a day. The accounting department was able to keep track of the LOE. There are several other departments that uses this product to see their overall performance of their departments. This is a great product.
- Great visualization.
- Retrieval of data by connecting to various sources like MSSQL Server, Access, Excel, Oracle, Txt file.
- Handling of many millions of records.
- Good security features.
- I see some areas where Spotfire can do an improvement when we do grouping. I see spotfire executes multiple times the same query for the grouping, instead if we can execute onetime get the data will be much more efficient. When executing the same query over and over again for many million rows is time consuming which slows down the performance of Spotfire.
March 02, 2020
Spotfire is incredibly useful!
The Spotfire product is being used by a specific department to provide clients with insights into the data that we collect for them. The collected data is customer feedback about their service, we then provide interactive reports via Spotfire to allow our clients to slice and dice the data and compare themselves to competitors.
- User experience
- Simplicity
- Feature abundance
- Automated report refreshing
- More intuitive cluster performance information
- Further administrative/API capabilities
February 27, 2020
Spotfire will help you Spot that Fire
We have Spotfire connected to on-site databases to create engineering and operations dashboards to drive actions. It is being used by departments such as equipment engineering, process engineering, yield, operations, all taking in data from a variety of data warehouses or databases and sometimes uploaded from Excel sheets where required. Spotfire is solving the business problem of helping spot what areas need action.
- On click actions
- Python integration
- More chart options--lots exist, but there are some great ones out that are hard to make currently
December 12, 2019
Spotfire - One of the best BI and Analytical tool
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are currently using Spotfire in life sciences, energy, banking and retail domain and it has always given the best results to the business users.
- Data Loading from multiple datasources and data connectors especially Information Links.
- Drill Down, Sharing and collaborating analysis.
- Support to IronPython, Statistical programming like R-Script, S+, MATLAB and analytical cababilities
- GeoMapping - WMS layes, TMS Layers, Recommendation Engine, Theme based dashboarding
- User Interface can be improved.
- Scope to add new charts like area chart, bubble chart.
December 02, 2019
A Good Tool For Advanced Data Visualizations
Spotfire is used in my organization for efficient analysis of various market data. It is used to represent a large volume of data in a visual way that enables us to spot new and emerging trends that can impact the bottom line of businesses in the long run. We often use advanced data visualization of Spotfire for efficient trend or pattern analysis.
- Data visualizations.
- Allows data sharing more easily with team members and colleagues.
- I use the visualized data in PowerPoint for client reference. Using graphics is much easier than words.
- The navigation within Spotfire is pretty confusing. The icons within Spotfire do not seem to be user-friendly.
- Not very convenient for smaller size data.
- The analyst version of Spotfire is quite expensive but since we are utilizing the platform almost fully, the paid is justified.
November 22, 2019
Spotfire makes data life simple
It is used to visualize new discoveries in data. It is used by our Data Science team which is lead by the Data and Analytics team at Omnitracs. It allows us to get to actionable insights more rapidly by providing clinical business users throughout the organization with unmatched speed and flexibility to address clinical safety questions.
- Automated reporting
- Data Security
- Visualizing and displaying data
- Easy to use
- Slow performance for large data set
- Too many options , complicated user outfit
- Not very good user interface
November 18, 2019
Spotfire is the 'go-to' tool for any and all data analysis.
Spotfire is being used across several divisions in the organizations. In the 'unconventionals' division that deals with hundreds of rigs and tens of thousands of wells. It uses Spotfire as its go-to analytics tool. The users range from Technicians, Engineers, Geologist, Scientists, to Business Analysts. The business problems range from corporate benchmarking analyses to engineering & operations efficiency work-flows.
- It makes it easy for everyone to access data from a centrally managed location.
- It is able to handle and visualize very large data sets in memory
- By leveraging its scripting capabilities, authors to create very sophisticated and complex work-flows to easy-to-use solutions.
- It reduces the need for larger IT organization to support business needs, by allowing business users to become self supporting.
- Additional out-of-the-box visualizations.
- Repository/source control.
- Library to support storing other (non-Spotfire) files in order to have one repository.
October 19, 2019
An intermediate Spotfire user saving our organization $$ and optimizing business processes.
I recently used Spotfire to build a joint interest payout template to help me gauge on which properties had reached paid out the status and required to bring carried interest owners back in the deck. The company was using an antiquated system to prepare payout statements but many of the statements had errors or bad data, and there was no transparency to calculate penalty uplift charges.
- Report Automation
- Enforce data integrity.
- Visual interpretation of data.
- Guidance on what functions exist in Spotfire desktop version versus Spotfire Cloud version.
- Create Spotfire desktop version for Mac operating system that is comparable to Windows operation desktop version.
October 19, 2019
Spotfire for easy (spatial) data analysis
Our research group is using Spotfire to find relationships between water quality parameters in water well samples taken from shallow aquifers. Spotfire displays the data very quickly, making the data review stage very efficient and allowing for multiple comparisons within minutes. It allows us to determine where we would like to go next in our research.
- efficient
- data display
- ease of use
- could use more colour options in display
- data display could be more customizable
- expensive for individuals or small research groups
October 09, 2019
Useful data visualization tool
Spotfire is currently being used across the department. It helps in the visualization and analyzing of the production data, which is useful for both internal evaluation and external presentations.
- Visualizing dataset.
- Categorizing data.
- Filtering data.
- Loglines and log scales need to be an option for the graphs.
- Titles and names should have more advanced options in a simple manner(no programming needed). Users should be able to specify the content from the table and formating for it.
- The search for the keyword in the filter needs to be improved.
- Labeling on the graph needs to be improved as they are not very good.
- Drawing order needs to be a simple option for line graphs.
October 09, 2019
Spotfire Review
My team uses it to analyze data. Data is imported through our database to Spotifre Analyst and Spotfire will conveniently generate graphical visualizations of our data.
- Visual representations.
- Data collected.
- Difficult to find bathes in drop down list.
October 07, 2019
Spotfire fits most
We analyze and visualize our data from our production machines. Currently only selected departments use Spotfire. At the moment we produce a lot data, but do not use it. This will we change by using Spotfire and the Spotfire Server.
- Nice looking Dashboard
- Fast browsing though the dashboard with millions of datapoints
- You can connect almost everything to Spotfire
- Right now we didn't find anything
October 03, 2019
Spotfire Review
We use Spotfire for data analytics across our organization.
- Ease of use
- Mapping capabilities
- Powerful
- Steeper learning curve vs. other platforms
August 14, 2019
Spotfire for Semiconductor Testing and Data Anaysis
We use it to analyze all our electrical test data. One of our most critical use cases is analyzing on wafer data. We build integrated circuits and have "wafers" with thousands of devices on them and each one has 10-15 measurements. We test multiple wafers per lot and this amount of data grows quickly! Spotfire is great to get all the data into the tool and quickly analyze it to determine yields.
- Pulling in large amounts of data. We used to use Excel and scripts but it struggled to handle so much data.
- Comparing data every which way you can imagine as well as comparing part to part, lot to lot, etc.
- Visualizing and displaying the data. We can analyze and compare quickly, then summarize and show visually concise graphs to management so we can make good decisions.
- The recent interface changes took some time to get used to.
August 06, 2019
First use of Spotfire
We use Spotfire to visualize our data from the production facilities at different points and for different roles in the company in the dashboard. Currently, only the QM department is using it.
- Real-time data steaming
- Analytical insights
- Ease of use
- From my perspective it is perfect for us
July 25, 2019
Spotfire the mighty!
We use Spotfire across multiple departments, though we all have an engineering focus. We use it to address some daily/weekly reporting needs, but also, and more importantly, for data discovery/insights.
- Cross tables. Most people call them pivot tables perhaps, from the excel version, but Spotfire does them so much better! Easier to build and arrange, and with tons more options than the excel pivot table.
- Mapping. The improved mapping capabilities of Spotfire along with its ease of use, allow you to build fabulous looking maps very quickly.
- Aggregation. Spotfire is built to aggregate, and it does this better and faster than anything else I know of.
- Screen resolution. Spotfire has always struggled a bit with getting everything to fit on the screen and with printing/exporting to other applications.
- Buttons. The latest version has moved a lot of the most used buttons, and put them into these sliding windows where you can't see them all the time as you could before. To me this is a great dis-service, because now I have to click multiple times to get to common functions.
- Advanced coding. Spotfire offers a lot of expandability through the Tibco Enterprise Runtime for R, but this requires an insurmountable knowledge of what different objects are called, and of the unique programming language that it uses. They market this feature heavily as one of the best things about Spotfire, but it is so incredibly difficult to use or to get started using.
July 12, 2019
Superb and fun experience with Spotfire!
Spitfire is being used by my department and it addresses all our internal customer requests by installing and configuring the application for upcoming demos for potential customers.
- Easy to install.
- Great user interface.
- Easy to administer from a technical perspective.
- Great support team and response time when you need to get answers to questions.
- At times the node manager installation needs to be reinstalled as the message "no node to trust" comes up the first time. Especially on newer versions.
- The database updates are sometimes hard to find and you are not sure where these are located, I guess it is on the analyst package but it is annoying to get it.
- Sometimes Spotfire analyst or portable fails to load because some Microsoft C++ component is missing, Spotfire should list what specific MS C++ component is required to save you time troubleshooting.
Spotfire is used across the organizations within different divisions who use it for analytics, API, and scripting. It addresses most of the business decisions and oil wells production and Cost.
- Scientific data exploration, high performance, statistical integration and SDK.
- Easy to work with REST API using ADS.
- Easy to use and create visual reports, more exciting design and layout for analysis.
- Need more manuals for training on the advanced features.
- Performance of data loading can improve more for a large set.
- There is no way to identify which DXPs taking up the server disk space it will be created, just one temp file.
- Import and Export can be improved as well you cannot export multiple objects at the same time.
June 18, 2019
Spotfire Review
Spotfire is a nice analytical tool, you can use R Python and other scripts to enhance your reporting. This tool can be used across all your departments. We use the tool across our departments and slowly all the legacy reporting is being migrated to either Spotfire or Power BI, with Spotfire being in demand. We almost add 5-10 new users daily.
- Web-based tool: you can have the web-based version of the live reports.
- Report scheduling
- Usage of R and Python
- Connecting to Azure Datalake
- Pulling data from SharePoint online
- Azure SQL database
June 17, 2019
An oilfield worker's POV
Spotfire is used personally by me for the analysis and inferencing of geological data. But the results are shared with everybody in the form of presentation and publication. The interactive console or theme of Spotfire makes it easy for me to present and analyze giant oilfield geological data simultaneously.
- Solving common problems through Spotfire's ROWID function. In geological data visualization, we often need to access unique values in individual cells, and this can be easily done through the ROWID function.
- Using TERR or R makes my work very easy in solving the first order differential equations.
- Performing hierarchical cluster analysis of stratigraphic sequences (Strata that have the same Depth in different fields).
- Sometimes there are too many options for data visualization. The user outfit should be simple.
- Spotfire should be easier on a system's memory capabilities. It should take less hard drive space.
- Based on common life case studies, more training programs should be offered that describe how to use Spotfire more efficiently.
- If possible, these training programs should be free.
June 15, 2019
Analytics and Visualizations
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
As an analytics platform, it provides insight to data that was previously not used or difficult to use.
- Pulling in data from databases to create rich visualizations.
- Showing data in multiple ways.
- Version control for visualizations.
June 14, 2019
Amazing tool for data discovery and analysis
The solution is used by my department for data exploration, data analytics, visualization, and reporting purposes. As data analytic solution providers, we aim to know the tool as much as we can, we use it every day, for various purposes. Our main goal is to explore the different use cases the solution can solve, the various data sources the tool can connect to, and the different variations of analytical and visual methods, the tool can offer to its users. Also, we continuously evaluate the performance of the tool and compare it to other similar solutions so that we can always offer the best solution to our clients.
- The fact that R can be implemented and used within Spotfire.
- Various data connectors that provide seamless connections to a huge number of data sources from Spotfire.
- An extremely powerful product, yet it's very easy to learn how to use it even on an advanced level.
- Great user community and customer support.
- Performance issues when it comes to very large data sets.
- Spotfire is quite expensive compared to similar tools on the market.
- The selection of visualization could be better and bigger.