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Spotfire

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…

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Popular Features

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  • Customizable dashboards (294)
    9.1
    91%
  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (306)
    8.6
    86%
  • Drill-down analysis (289)
    8.3
    83%
  • Formatting capabilities (302)
    7.8
    78%

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Video Reviews

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TIBCO Spotfire Review: Translates Data To Be Visualized For More Effective Understanding
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Pricing

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Spotfire for Amazon Web Services

$0.99

Cloud
Per Hour (Starting)

Spotfire Cloud - Consumer

$250/yr

Cloud
per seat

Spotfire Cloud - Business Author

$650/yr

Cloud
per seat

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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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.

8.3
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

8.2
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.3
Avg 8.4

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

Access Control and Security

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

8.1
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.3
Avg 8.0

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

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

8.3
Avg 7.9
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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

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 Smart Visual AnalyticsScreenshot of Geospatial AnalyticsScreenshot of Intelligent Data WranglingScreenshot of Point-and-click Data ScienceScreenshot 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 Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAvailable in all regions
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, French, German, Portugese, Chinese, Italian

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Tableau Desktop, QlikView, and Microsoft Power BI are common alternatives for 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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Reviews and Ratings

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James Fairley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We were able to increase productivity among our records analysts and streamline our fact analysis procedures by implementing Spotfire. They now have sophisticated skills for exploring and visualizing data thanks to the technology, which makes it possible for them to quickly and effectively examine large datasets.
  • Because of our teams' increased ability to make impulsive, fact-driven decisions, our services and products have reached the market faster. Furthermore, Spotfire has reduced our expenses on various tools by providing full capability, eliminating the need for many specialized pieces of equipment.
  • All things considered, the return on investment (ROI) of implementing Spotfire has been incredibly beneficial, with increased productivity and cost reductions helping to positively influence our business objectives.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User-friendly interface is designed with Spotfire, it contains numerous levels of technical expertise which makes it accessible to business users.
  • Spotfire is BI tool performant software used to create and deploy data products and complete functional and scalable data science.
  • It also represents AI solutions that can be used by business organizations.
Mark Edralin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Spotfire really helped a lot of people in terms of analysis. It eliminates data analysis in excel. Because even underlying data you can explore it in Spotfire.
  • Spotfire helps data analysts to investigate data and also help analysts solve inconsistency of data.
  • Spotfire helps data analysts in building great dashboard that provide insights to users to make decisions to drive revenue and manage the churn.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Analysis helped increase product yield 18%, saving over $70K quarterly
  • Faster tool and product qualification. Leading to more new products released
  • Negative impact is staff reluctance to adopt the tool. Initial complexity is high and discouraging to learn
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very positive. Working with multi client, multi projects, multi use case approach
  • Very good working within AWS SaaS agreement. Fast deploiment when standarising analytics.
  • Very good perceived value by end clients. Reliable and available.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is costly, so not suitable for small scale implementations.
  • Dashboards are as good as the developer, so need experience to get most out of it
  • You need to be on Spotfire 11 at least to implement out of the box visualizations
  • Integration with Python and R is a game changer, it comes very handy to onboard data scientists without much hassle
  • performance is exceptionally well.
  • Secure
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