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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 7.9

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

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

8.3
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 heavily rely on Spotfire in our organization for business intelligence requirements. It has been verified that this is an incredibly intuitive and user-friendly technology, which makes it easy for our staff to assess and utilize effectively. Given how frequently we deal with location-based data in our firm, its analytics capabilities have also proven to be quite helpful. The need for efficient and effective commercial enterprise intelligence is one of the primary issues it resolves. It offers every essential feature needed to gather, examine, and present data, enabling businesses to make wise decisions and gain priceless insights. Moreover, Spotfire's extensive range of connectors to various records resources ensures that businesses may easily access and incorporate their records for analysis.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire is a kind of data visualization source, where multiple data sources can be connected including databases, cloud services, and spreadsheets. It supports advanced levels of analytics with the integration of R and Python, and data scientists can perform complex analyses within it. Inbuilt with features of predictive analytics tools, allowing users to create predictive models and create data-driven predictions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Spotfire to analyze our business data and make better decisions. It helps us solve problems like understanding customer trends and optimizing our processes. Our use case focuses on improving efficiency and decision-making through data insights.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire is great at visualizing very large data sets. With hundreds or thousands of process inputs and outputs you can easily see correlation / causation when one part of the manufacturing process changes and the effect it has on others.

It is also easy to build dashboards to easily convey results to people with less statistically robust backgrounds.

Overall, Spotfire is an essential tool that allows for interrogating manufacturing issues and resolving them quickly with minimal effort.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our organization, Spotfire is instrumental in high-level development, particularly with field data. Conducting PoCs, Spotfire helps analyze and visualize data, uncover patterns, and assess feasibility. With its rich visualization options, we present findings effectively to stakeholders. Spotfire's capabilities enhance our ability to harness field data insights and make informed decisions for successful solution implementation.
Mark Edralin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We Spotfire in our Marketing Tech Dashboard. We build dashboards to help users understand data and come up with insights. Insights that help them take actions to help company manage their revenue and manage the churn. The Spotfire is very powerful tool especially it's ability to use simple scripting to be able to use complicated calculations like forecast, rate difference, % of Total, running % changes, etc.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire is an excellent tool for yield analysis, engineering verification, and design of experiments. Every user has the option to customize the layout and tasks performed by this versatile tool. Large amounts of data is efficiently managed and can be displayed quickly in many different forms. Spotfire also is growing in terms of MODS available and scripts that are found from the robust online community.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Spotfire in my organization by creating visualizations for our data. I also create tables that are able to be queried without much user difficulty. Spotfire addresses the business problems mentioned. Other platforms do not provide the connectivity, flexibility, and options that Spotfire provides. It also allows for data from multiple different sources to join, modify, etc.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 able to arrange this data within visualizations that help me understand it and draw conclusions. It is also very easy to switch between the visualizations to facilitate quick learning. The scope of my use case is daily usage with auto updated data within the tool.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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, for predictive maintenance services and to provide railway operators with services related with energy consumption, drivers performance, safety related issues. We are also using it for purchase forecasting internal services.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire is used to conduct exploratory data analysis and advanced analytics. It allows us to visualize large sets of data easily with a significant speed advantage over some of its competitors (e.g. Power BI & Tableau). This tool is used across the organization by our analysts to support various organizational reporting needs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Uses cases that Spotfire adresses are condition based maintenance, predictive maintenance, descriptive analytics, material forecasting, geolocation of alarms, Monitoring the use being made of our platform both internally and with external users.
Now is also connected to our BPM and we use it as BI tool to control and monitor projects and comerciall opportunities
March 17, 2023

Entry level user

Marco J. Morelli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We would like to use Spotfire in our Research Centre at the Hospital for a quick visualization and analysis of the data for projects which do not need the development of ad hoc methods, to be used by users without a computational background. The results were okay, although you always need to take into account the cost related to changing a workflow from what people are used to. In particular, those without a technical background were thrilled to be able to run simple analyses without having to learn how to code. A couple of years later, we decided to use Spotfire to show results to collaborators
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is our primary BI tool for analyzing revenue, user acquisition, web performance, and any other metrics collected for our organization. It is used primarily in the Marketing department but some dev users access it for usage metrics. It allows us to track various departmental KPIs as well as visualizing any other performance goals as required.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we are using Spotfire as our main reporting tool. Previously we used Business Objects, but we don’t use it anymore. With Spotfire we make daily reports about our production results, OEE, etc. Also we use Spotfire-dashboards for management. We are using it through the whole organization from CEO to Teamleader.
Dr Manan Trivedi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In R&D we have different departments, and we use Spotfire for our studies in the electronic Trial Master file (eTMF) department to see the cleanliness and completeness of eTMFs. We also use it to measure progress towards KPIs and targets, and to prioritize actions.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Spotfire for staff as a cross section of users across the organization. It enables faster, simpler, and more timely reporting and analysis information sharing to those that need it daily and weekly.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
I use Spotfire as consulting tool for my customers. My customers want to quickly detect their problems and know the root cause. I am very sure Spotfire can meet their demands for these very fast and very efficiently.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire is currently being used for real-time tracking. Like other software, Spotfire is more for visualizations. At the same time those visualizations help us in picking out only related data. Currently, it is being used to address supply chain problems that most industries face - assisting them with inventory management and logistics
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Spotfire as data visualization tool for displaying current status of our production line. With Spotfire it enable us to create dashboards with ease as it's user interface is easy to understand specialty the new version. Another thing with solve with spotfire is easy to create custom visualization and custom ui functionality using JavaScript. Another thing I like with spotfire is you can change your chart properties on the fly using iron python.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire is an amazing choice as a BI Analytics platform. It provides end to end solution of all Data Analytics needs, with all cutting age modern technology integrations available. It is a solution as a whole or as a small piece of implementation. It offers compete control over the components and a rich API to automate it. Developers feel empowered and are free to choose technology of their choice like TERR, Python, IronPython, JavaScript etc.; and without much learning curve they can start contributing with the help of their existing skill-set. Spotfire is a scalable, trust worthy, available and secure platform as a Summary.
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