Spotfire Reviews & Ratings 2023

Starting at $0.99 Per Hour (Starting)

Overview

What is Spotfire?

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…

Recent Reviews

Leveraging Data for Enhanced Sales Strategy using Spotfire

8 out of 10

September 29, 2023

We use Spotfire to analyze our business data and make better decisions. It helps us solve problems like understanding customer trends and …

Spotfire is a formidable solution for preparing, visualizing and analyzing business data.

9 out of 10

September 27, 2023

Incentivized

Spotfire finds its consistent use within our organization as a data analytics tool which help us to analyze our business operations and …

Tibco Spotfire capability assessment from uday to day usage

9 out of 10

July 24, 2023

Incentivized

at compacny level Tibco spotfire is used to create various dashboards to ease day to day activities

Fast and Accurate Market decision making

10 out of 10

July 20, 2023

Incentivized

i use it to make fast and accurate pricing decisions being able to live link external data for commodity pricing and overlay it with my …

Insightful Manufacturing Process Interogation

10 out of 10

July 18, 2023

Incentivized

Spotfire is great at visualizing very large data sets. With hundreds or thousands of process inputs and outputs you can easily see …

Feels like a BI-Tool on Steroids

8 out of 10

July 14, 2023

Incentivized

In our organization, TIBCO Spotfire is instrumental in high-level development, particularly with field data. Conducting PoCs, Spotfire

Spotfire is a powerful Visualization Tool.

8 out of 10

July 11, 2023

Incentivized

We Tibco Spotfire in our Marketing Tech Dashboard. We build dashboards to help users understand data and come up with insights. Insights …

TIBCO Spotifire is spot-on!

10 out of 10

June 23, 2023

Incentivized

Spotfire is an excellent tool for yield analysis, engineering verification, and design of experiments. Every user has the option to …

Very good with visualizations

8 out of 10

June 22, 2023

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I use TIBCO Spotfire in my organization by creating visualizations for our data. I also create tables that are able to be queried without …

Spotfire - Make you data analysis easier

8 out of 10

June 21, 2023

Incentivized

As an engineer I work with millions and millions of rows of data which can be very intimidationg. With the help of spotfire I am easily …

TIBCO Spotfire for the Energy Industry

7 out of 10

April 08, 2023

Incentivized

It's used across the company for visualization and analytics.

Very good interactive inmersive analytics for predictive maintenance

6 out of 10

April 04, 2023

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We first use it with an on-premise solution Now we use it through the cloud as a BI tool, to provide condition based maintenance insights, …

Powerful BI Platform, but Requires IT Support

5 out of 10

March 23, 2023

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Spotfire is used to conduct exploratory data analysis and advanced analytics. It allows us to visualize large sets of data easily with a …

Reliable and always available SaaS BI tool to handle easily massive amount of data

8 out of 10

March 23, 2023

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Uses cases that Spotfire adresses are condition based maintenance, predictive maintenance, descriptive analytics, material forecasting, …

TIPCO Spotfire on pricing analysis

9 out of 10

March 23, 2023

Incentivized

There are several groups using Spotfire. In pricing team, we used it to identify outlines of costs, material purchased price, others.

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How Spotfire Differs From Its Competitors

TIBCO Platform Integration

Yes, we integrated Spotfire with TIBCO Data Science. This integration boosted our analytics capabilities and improved collaboration among teams, enhancing our overall data-driven insights and decision-making.

Ideal Data Sources

We'd like to connect our sales database to Spotfire. This would help us analyze sales trends in real-time, optimize strategies, and make data-driven decisions for improved sales performance and customer satisfaction.

TIBCO Platform Integration

We have an existing integration between our Tibco Spotfire and Tibco API Exchange Gateway. We benefit from this integration as we are able to analyze data like transactions rates, requests and so on that are available on the Gateway.

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Ideal Data Sources

It would be much better if we had an integration with our construction projects management tools like Procore. This would makes it easier for us to analyze our projects, their progress and also run analytics to help predict and anticipate for future outcomes.

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TIBCO Platform Integration

We are integrating Tibco Spotfire with other components allowing to have real time data. this help a lot the management to make decisions in a fastly manner. The tool is powerfull enough to customize dashboard using python scripts and R allowing to process and transform data before exploitaition …

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Ideal Data Sources

Mainly We are using Tibco Spotfire drivers to connect to various plate forms, starting with Oracle, Mysql, MariaDB, Microsoft Excel, flat files, ETL for data transformation to make data ready before injection in Dashboards and so on so forth.
The impact we would like to see is to have Tibco …

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Ideal Data Sources

terra data and microsoft sequal server. the impact is to have fast reliazlbe accurate and quick data in real time that is constantly updating to be able to make fast decisions and see a holistic view of your market

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TIBCO Platform Integration

Our organization started to integrate and connected TIBCO Streaming with Spotfire. Compared to almost all competitors, I believe it is frustrating to need a separate tool for this capability.

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TIBCO Platform Integration

Our organization does not integrate any additional TIBCO tools. It would be nice to see Jaspersoft or Statistica implemented into the standard process of flow. However, the speed of evolution of these tools outpaces the funding available for software upgrades. You buy a tool only for it to become …

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Ideal Data Sources

Our current set up uses MSSQL databases for all raw data on Windows OS. However, the backend uses python scripts to pull data from outdated Excel files and other formats, then update into the database. There are issues with lost data, broken scripts, and unreadable data. It would greatly help this …

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TIBCO Platform Integration

This type of thing has not been done within my area of work.

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TIBCO Platform Integration

We have integrated spotfire with our reporting took to push data directly into custom templates used to monitor data on a daily basis.<br>This makes it quick to find outliers and rectify the problem in an efficient manner. With this integration we can use spotfire on any machine and have login …

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Ideal Data Sources

We use are in built database and opertaional system with spotfire to integrate data reporting and analysis to enable us.

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TIBCO Platform Integration

Tibco streambase.

The integration hasn't been valuable when compared when in-house solution due to customization needs.

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Integrations with other TIBCO products

No. TIBCO's other products are too inflexible for some of our needs and require dedicated support.

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TIBCO Platform Integration

No, we are using it with Databricks and AWS functionnalities

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Ideal Data Sources

Infor EAM CMMS, IBM Maximo, SAP, Databricks, AWS S3, AWS Cloud Watch, AWS fargate, AWS We are already impacting the business automating activities, opening automatically working orders, validating insights back from CMMS to TIBCO Spotfire.

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TIBCO Platform Integration

We explored TIBCO Virtualization, as a tool to bring in Marketing web based data. However, we ultimately did not implement it.

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Ideal Data Sources

We have connected TIBCO Spotfire to many of our operational systems, including operations databases, CRM systems, Marketing databases. The power of Spotfire is that it makes it easy to manage large sets of data, to conduct data transforms on those datasets, to join and append data, and then …

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TIBCO Platform Integration

It is not our case. We use Tibco Cloud Spotfire through AWS.

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Ideal Data Sources

We Connect diferent computer maintenance management solutions, CMMS, like Infor EAM and IBM maximo. We Connect to databricks, S3 in AWS, Azure, aura quantic business process management BPM, … We connect in a bidirectional way so that we extract information starting with the CMMS data and intégrate …

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Ideal Data Sources

Currently, most users use Excel data files. However, connection to SAP and Google GCP would be more valuable in the future.

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TIBCO Platform Integration

Unfortunately we do not have other TIBCO products in our organization.

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Integrations with other TIBCO products

No, we did not try any integration with other TIBCO products.

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TIBCO Platform Integration

We integrated Spotfire with Tibco TDV, Tibco Runtime for R, Tibco Spotfire Statistical Services and several internal custom applications to generate the operational reporting, data analysis, and forecasting reporting we want and need to adapt to changing economic conditions. Daily dashboards …

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TIBCO Platform Integration

We just focused on Spotfire only until now. So we do not have this experience yet.

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Ideal Data Sources

We connected so many various databases all the time without any problems.

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TIBCO Platform Integration

i have only used the Spotfire version and have not integrated with other applications or used any APIs

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Ideal Data Sources

Probably all data bases and websites. live feed from websites through scripts would be amazing

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Ideal Data Sources

We use Ms msql and MySQL server. It is easy to establish connections with spotfire to these servers. It provide stable connectivity during data refresh even on direct connection or import data. Spotfire offers flexibility on pulling data like parameterized queries.

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Integrations with other TIBCO products

I have been using Spotfire with some of other TIBCO products too, like TIBCO Data Science and TIBCO Data Virtualization. These products are well supported by Spotfire and they come with native integration. For example, TDV needs no specific setup before starting with Spotfire as there is a native …

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Cloud Benefits

TIBCO Spotfire Cloud Analyst approach is definitely something great for small and mid sized organizations. To start with any kind of on-premises setup, the organization spend a lot of time and money in achieving economies of scale. They make actual benefits only when they scale at large. However, …

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Cloud Migration

Honestly, as an end user - there will not be much difference. For developers, only a slight changes were there to deal with. We migrated from on-premises structure to hybrid cloud and experience was not much different for usage and performance.
However, the real impact was on availability part. The …

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TIBCO Investment Preservation

Yes, we were able to do so. Challenging part was adaptation of newer cost model.
In on-premises approach, we needed to incur a heavy investment in initial phase of establishment only and needed to spend time to achieve economies . Also, the operations was difficult because regardless of analysis …

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Future Proofing

I would say, they were mostly there; not completely. When we adapt to the new structure, the costs do shoot up with usage at scale. Whatever we were saving on hardware, we ended up investing in services.
Functionality wise, Cloud delivered access and availability; but we had to sacrifice some …

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Customer Feedback

Though there were lot of recommendations were taken up, but not the all required. For example, version for IronPython is still set to 2.7 which is based on Python 2 paradigm. This involves a learning curve for script developers. Need was to adopt a unified standard for all tech in bracket e.g. …

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Integrations with other TIBCO products

We have integrated TIBCO Spotfire with actions on a demo basis, which provides considerable flexibility on the ability to perform detailed database updates without leaving TIBCO Spotfire.

Integrations with other TIBCO products

some real time visual streaming to implement in one customer for stock exchange business

Cloud Benefits

The Tibco Spotfire cloud is beneficial for business users who need a lightweight solution to access various reports. It also helps to keep loading times relatively quick, even for those with slower connection speeds. There are some occasional performance issues with vague errors. The only reason I …

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Cloud Migration

I did not participate in the initial deployment of any Tibco Cloud based solutions.

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TIBCO Investment Preservation

I did not participate in the initial deployment of any Tibco Cloud based solutions.

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Future Proofing

Tibco has continued to investment significantly into their cloud capabilities. I have found these solutions to diversify Spotfire's usage away from just the traditional analytics front and allow improved enterprise reporting for non-technical personnel. The lightweight client makes it easy to …

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Integrations with other TIBCO products

We also use TIBCO Data Virtualization, which gives us live links to our data.

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Cloud Benefits

The cloud services have allowed me to use Spotfire from anywhere and access the associated data from anywhere.

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Cloud Migration

This was a new deployment for us and the transition went smoothly. I just had to work on moving data sets over.

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TIBCO Investment Preservation

Yes we have been able to migrate existing applications to the cloud. Once again, accessibility was the main driver for this, which has been achieved.

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Customer Feedback

The times where I've provided feedback, they have usually mentioned that I was not the first to make a request for a specific feature. Usually those features are already in development and I see them in 6-12 months.

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Breadth of Deployment

We have more than 800 users and user types mainly include Analysts who develop the dashboards, CIO Office, Metric Managers, and field executives.

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Integrations with other TIBCO products

We definitely evaluated few products , but the existing range of products what we had in our organization met our business needs and real reason to adopt another TIBCO product did not arise in our case.

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Integrations with other TIBCO products

We do not perform any integration with other similar products.

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Awards

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Popular Features

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Customizable dashboards (293)
9.0
90%
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (305)
8.7
87%
Drill-down analysis (288)
8.3
83%
Formatting capabilities (301)
7.8
78%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Spotfire excels at visualizing complex data, making it easy to understand trends and patterns.
It could also enhance guidance for new users and provide more templates for quicker analysis

Supriya Parihar

Project manager

Eduventum learning services LLP (Education Management, 51-200 employees)

Excellent support materials like articles and how-to videos.
The reporting tools need to improve on simplicity and details.

Faith Ontale

Civil Engineering Manager

STV (Civil Engineering, 1001-5000 employees)

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Pricing

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TIBCO Spotfire for Amazon Web Services

$0.99

Cloud

Per Hour (Starting)

TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Consumer

$250/yr

Cloud

per seat

TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Business Author

$650/yr

Cloud

per seat

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://spotfire.tibco.com/products/comp…

Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting / Integration Services

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.2

Avg 8.1

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.2

Avg 8.0

8.3
Drill-down analysis
(288) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
7.8
Formatting capabilities
(301) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
8.2
Integration with R or other statistical packages
(223) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
8.4
Report sharing and collaboration
(273) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.2

Avg 8.3

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

8.2

Avg 8.1

8.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
(305) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
8.5
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
(270) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
8.1
Predictive Analytics
(233) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
7.7
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
(7) Ratings
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

Avg 8.5

8.7
Multi-User Support (named login)
(240) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
8.4
Role-Based Security Model
(205) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
7.8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
(227) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
7
Report-Level Access Control
(7) Ratings
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.2

Avg 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

8.2

Avg 7.9

8
REST API
(70) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
8.3
Javascript API
(69) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
8.1
iFrames
(53) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
8.2
Java API
(56) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
8.1
Themeable User Interface (UI)
(68) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
8.3
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
(59) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

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Product Details

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.

Spotfire Features

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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)

Spotfire Screenshots

Screenshot of Intelligent Data Wrangling

Screenshot of Point-and-click Data Science

Screenshot of Real-time Streaming Analytics

Spotfire Videos

Intro to Visualizations in Spotfire

Creating a Dashboard in 5 Minutes

Spotfire Application Walkthrough

Advanced Analytics Scripting with Python and R

Spotfire Integrations

Spotfire Competitors

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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Frequently Asked Questions

Tableau Desktop, QlikView, and Microsoft Power BI are common alternatives for Spotfire.

Reviewers rate Customizable dashboards highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Spotfire are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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