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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)
    8.7
    87%
  • Drill-down analysis (289)
    8.3
    83%
  • Formatting capabilities (302)
    7.8
    78%

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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.

8.3
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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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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July 19, 2022

Spotfire

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire is being used as an Enterprise level Business Intelligence Platform.Our data is being fed from various different ERP's and a ETL team is transforming the data in a way it can be consumed by spotfire. During the design phase the spotfire and ETL teams come together and create a model where certain things will be handled in spotfire and most of them in the warehouse. Spotfire is a very robust tool, pulling lots of data with less columns ,makes no harm and gives ideal results.
  • Spotfire has a great Geo Analytics platform where Geo-coding is automatically performed from version 6.0 and complex geoanalytics problems can be solved in combination with the Tibco Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR) engine, if the company has R language expertise
  • Spotfire has some cool inbuilt functions available through which we do not have to do manual calculations like Total,%Cumulative Sum,YOY,MOM QOQ kind of stuff, and lots other functions which make life simpler
  • Iron python scripting is an advantage but, of course, tricky initially if you do not have experience, but it can simplify users' lives if used properly
  • Scheduled updates and caching. If we are trying to get the dashboards up in a flash , this feature is useful
  • One more important thing in the latest version, is the business author piece on the web player where business users can develop their own stuff on Web, this is a good start and hope to see this developed further
  • Spotfire is coming up with new Mobile Metrics platform, i.e. it is responsive on mobile devices
  • Also there is a new KPI chart which can be very useful for Executive reporting.
  • Customizability on the Analyst end: Spotfire is a good tool, but there are a few points where it should improve. I cannot hide an object like a tab or visualization r
  • Data Load speed at the analyst level, I somehow feel when i try to load data in the analyst level it loads slow and while using at webplayer because of the schedule updates it runs fast. I know there is the caching concept, but it is unlike QlikView whichgives a great performance with the desktop version as well. I would expect the same to happen here
Suitable Key questions to buy/use Spotfire: Do you have an enterprise data warehouse ready and are looking for a BI tool which can get you results fast with less development? Do you have a group of analyst who are good at Excel type reporting and can learn a new tool and do better reporting? Do you have a group of data analysts who want to study data to identify patterns in it? Are you looking for a tool/technology company which takes customer feedback and incorporates them into the tool quickly? Are you looking for a tool whose tech forum is increasing? Apart from the above questions, if your team has basic programming skills , they can utilize the power of Java Script/Iron Python and R language to make wonders in spotfire. Ideally any scenario is possible in Spotfire, but do not consider this as data Transformation tool, basic transformations are possible ,but typically its a reporting tool which can tell the story of your data effectively. My purpose to use the software is short development cycles sometimes overnight if data is there.
BI Platform
N/A
N/A
Supported Data Sources
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (3)
80%
8.0
Pixel Perfect reports
80%
8.0
Customizable dashboards
80%
8.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
87.5%
8.8
Drill-down analysis
90%
9.0
Formatting capabilities
90%
9.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
90%
9.0
Report sharing and collaboration
80%
8.0
Report Output and Scheduling (4)
52.5%
5.3
Publish to Web
80%
8.0
Publish to PDF
60%
6.0
Report Versioning
N/A
N/A
Report Delivery Scheduling
70%
7.0
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
90%
9.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
90%
9.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
90%
9.0
Predictive Analytics
90%
9.0
Access Control and Security (3)
86.66666666666666%
8.7
Multi-User Support (named login)
90%
9.0
Role-Based Security Model
90%
9.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
80%
8.0
Mobile Capabilities (3)
83.33333333333334%
8.3
Responsive Design for Web Access
90%
9.0
Mobile Application
80%
8.0
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
80%
8.0
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding (6)
31.666666666666664%
3.2
REST API
60%
6.0
Javascript API
60%
6.0
iFrames
70%
7.0
Java API
N/A
N/A
Themeable User Interface (UI)
N/A
N/A
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
N/A
N/A
I have used Tableau & Qlikview. I felt QlikView is very IT & Developer friendly with great customizable options and a great scope of scalability. Tableau with the limited use i did, I felt was very easy to use for simpler operations but for a larger complex operations I felt Spotfire & QlikView were more appropriate. But honestly, at the ease of use level, I felt Tableau was quite a bit more user friendly than Spotfire & QlikView.
Last couple of years, the amount of newer features what spotfire is bring is good, bt that has not added any value to our day to day work..so 70% impacted in a positive direction, do giving a 7 rating.
We have more than 800 users and user types mainly include Analysts who develop the dashboards, CIO Office, Metric Managers, and field executives.
Spotfire has a range of connectivity to different data sources
Spotfire does have collaboration, but our users could not adapt to it very easily. probably its a training gap or the tools features are not intuitive. We do not use much of the collaboration facilities
I have used all the charts in Spotfire, the ease of use of charts is great and especially their geo-spatial visualizations are very good.I like the tree map & heat map too, which solve many problems.

  • Positive: Business uses these tools for day to day operations, saving time
  • Negative: Usability can be little more intuitive
  • No Training
The only training was from the developers, there was no official training for users...The impact was huge..we spent a lot of time explaining users each area of the tool, this was very cumbersome.
yes it was easy to learn, but the advantage of working with a different BI tool, you can get hold of this too fast, over a period of time there were hurdles but we used to have intermediate sessions from the company (which stopped now) on the new features and releases, there is also a lot of webinar series organized by the company, joining them once a month solves many technical problems(but nothing specific for our organization). Ofcourse there is the Spotfire forum, where most of your encountered problems are already discussed. If its a new problem we need to get creative and read the documentation which is good.
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 Spotfire product did not arise in our case.
No
  • Prior Experience with the Product
With the same data set, would like to build dashboards on multiple tools and see the usability and customer xperieince.
2000
All
20
Spotfire,Datawarehousing,Windows Administration
  • Track weekly progress
  • Actionable insights from the data
  • Predict the future outcomes
Spotfires Map Chart has inbuilt geo coding.As long as you Country,state & city within your data, integration map chart to the fines details is pretty easy.
It offers different types of Charts, and also offers different layers to be overlaid on the map.We can overlay a Feature or marker layer.
For example
1.you want to show how the sales are in the US by state, you can overlay the Feature layer on the base Map.
2.Now you want to see all the costcenter offices in each state by lat long positions, you can see them in the Marker Layer, as each markers.
There is a lot of scope of taking these maps to the next level by using R functions too...

In an enterprise architecture, if Spotfire Advanced Data services(Composite Studio),data marts can be managed optimally and scalability in a data perspective is great. As the web player/consumer is directly proportional to RAM, if the enterprise can handle RAM requirement accomodating fail over mechanisms appropraitely, it is definitely scalable,
Spotfire is pretty stable in our environment.Couple of issues we see is getting our scheduled cached reports loosing its cache at times, but it is considerably stable and all presentations went good :)
No, we have not encountered any problems here, spotfire loads pretty quickly after using Iron Python or Javascript
October 27, 2020

Great product!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire is being used by our team to serve as a KPI dashboard for various clients to show the performance on their data using analytics. It is also being used to create new visualizations that can further highlight how the data can be viewed and further sliced into smaller chunks to be able to dive deeper into it.
  • Better Visualizations.
  • Data extraction options are easier to use.
  • Fast and slick performance.
  • Sometimes the customization features in the visualizations can be difficult to work with.
  • Data loading performance is not always the best.
  • Lack of material design and newer UI features.
Well suited for the following scenarios: KPI dashboard design -- It is very helpful in designing dashboards which highlight KPIs showing data in different forms and visualizations. Multi-page layout -- For scenarios where the data is supposed to be viewed in different pages, Spotfire can help. Slicing and dicing data to view different pivots -- Spotfire can show the data in various ways which helps in creating custom KPIs and visualization. Not well suited for the following scenarios: Flashy UI -- Spotfire does not have the design features or customization to use complex or flashy UI features. Larger datasets -- Spotfire has lagged performance when used with extremely large datasets.
BI Platform
N/A
N/A
Supported Data Sources
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (2)
80%
8.0
Customizable dashboards
80%
8.0
Report Formatting Templates
80%
8.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
77.5%
7.8
Drill-down analysis
80%
8.0
Formatting capabilities
80%
8.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
70%
7.0
Report sharing and collaboration
80%
8.0
Report Output and Scheduling (3)
80%
8.0
Publish to Web
80%
8.0
Publish to PDF
80%
8.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
80%
8.0
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
76.66666666666667%
7.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
80%
8.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
80%
8.0
Predictive Analytics
70%
7.0
Access Control and Security (3)
80%
8.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
80%
8.0
Role-Based Security Model
80%
8.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
80%
8.0
Mobile Capabilities (3)
80%
8.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
80%
8.0
Mobile Application
80%
8.0
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
80%
8.0
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
N/A
N/A
  • Spotfire has helped generate a lot of revenue from many of our clients.
  • We have created customized dashboards for many clients which then garnered special pricing.
  • ROI has been very good as we have been able to make use of the platform and customize the solutions offered.
No.
Spotfire is a very good product and stacks up well against the competition for creating customized dashboards. It also has intuitive capabilities to create visualizations that could help the user see their data. Moreover, it also has a lot of options for customization in terms of data slicing, integrations with statistical languages like R, creating multi-page dashboard views, etc. The reason we selected Spotfire was because of all the features mentioned above and also the pricing which was very competitive compared to its competitors in the market.
  • Improved performance
When we wanted to explore additional use cases with Python or R integration in dashboards, Spotfire was able to provide us with great information and also help us resolve our issues.
  • Python script integration
  • Service Dashboards
100
They come from all functions, most of them are in the analytics space.
70
Business analysts, data scientists, BI developers, BI analysts
  • BI Dashboards
  • Service Overview
  • Reporting
  • New Dashboards
  • Additional customizations
Robust features
Great feature
Super helpful feature.
Good feature.
Not Sure
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Good functionality and robust features.
I wouldn't.
  • Implemented in-house
  • Not involved
  • Not sure
No insights.
  • No Training
There are good training materials available online from Spotfire as well as from third-party sources. These training modules increased my ability to use different features in the tool as well as also motivated me to keep learning to create highly customized and complex dashboards/features that were quite helpful in providing complex solutions for our customers.
Configuration is just right for the type of the product.
No recommendations.
No additional configuration.
Not Sure
Overall great product with robust functionalities and helpful features.
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Visualization
  • Data wrangling
  • APIs
Overall great product with robust functionalities and new features.
Yes, but I don't use it
It is quite scalable.
There are no unexpected behaviors while using the product.
Overall good performance even when connected to other systems.
  • None
No integrations done
  • Not sure.
Not sure.
  • File import/export
  • ETL tools
No
It has easy steps to follow for integrations.
I have not used this feature extensively so I do not have any advice to give at the moment.
No insight in the process of vendor relationship.
No insights.
No insights.
No insights.
No
  • Improved performance.
Aditya Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Spotfire is one of the best product available in the market which is used in all the functional areas addressing all the queries. This will help you to find the hidden insights and create wonderful reports using your data.
BI Platform
N/A
N/A
Supported Data Sources
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (3)
90%
9.0
Pixel Perfect reports
90%
9.0
Customizable dashboards
90%
9.0
Report Formatting Templates
90%
9.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
85%
8.5
Drill-down analysis
80%
8.0
Formatting capabilities
90%
9.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
90%
9.0
Report sharing and collaboration
80%
8.0
Report Output and Scheduling (4)
87.5%
8.8
Publish to Web
90%
9.0
Publish to PDF
80%
8.0
Report Versioning
90%
9.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
90%
9.0
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
90%
9.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
90%
9.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
90%
9.0
Predictive Analytics
90%
9.0
Access Control and Security (3)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Multi-User Support (named login)
90%
9.0
Role-Based Security Model
100%
10.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
100%
10.0
Mobile Capabilities (3)
86.66666666666666%
8.7
Responsive Design for Web Access
90%
9.0
Mobile Application
80%
8.0
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
90%
9.0
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
N/A
N/A
Spotfire is widely used in the company across all the domains and used by thousands of users.
Spotfire can connect with most of the data sources, data connectors and gives best results to users.
Spotfire has good collaboration capabilities using the collaboration panel and analysis can be exported in different formats like PDF, Power Point, HTML etc.
  • Since the architecture is changed in Spotfire v7.5 and above so it's easy to manage all the things from Spotfire Server.
  • Got new features like Waterfall Chart, KPI chart, annotations etc which will help in user experience.
  • New Functions, data connectors
300
Life Sciences, Clinical analysis, Finance, Sales
5
System Knowledge, Database, SQL Queries, Logical thinking, Data Analysis, Programming
  • Sales Analysis, Clinical research
  • Data Prediction
  • Statistical Analysis
Recommended visualizations is one the best feature in Spotfire, this helps those people who are not sure which visual will be best to present data. Here, you have to select the columns which you want to analyze, and Spotfire's recommendation engine will check and show you some excellent visualizations which you can load into your Spotfire analysis file.
When you work on your data and suddenly you realize that it's not up to your expectations i.e it contains errors, not properly formatted, not clean. So, if you have Spotfire then you can do all this very quickly with the Spotfire's data wrangling capabilities.
If you want to do statistical analysis, predictive analytics then you can use the R engine to do all this in your Spotfire analyst.
Spotfire gives a very rich and interactive interface for Map Chart using different types of mapping layers like WMS(Web Map Service) and recently included TMS(Tile Map Service). These helps to bring different types of background layers on the existing map chart for any region to show relevant information to the users.
Yes
Yes, Spotfire has replaced other projects like excel based reporting, BO reports etc where lot of time is consumed in the designing and they can't hold huge volume of data.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Vendor Reputation
  • Analyst Reports
  • Third-party Reviews
  • Vendor implemented
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
  • Implementing Single Sign-On
Our Spotfire environment was quite smoothly implemented.
The product can be configured easily.
Always follow the Installation & Configuration document before doing any configuration.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
Some - we have added small pieces of custom code
Yes
The Spotfire support is quite responsive on the support requests but sometimes the issues(requirements) can't be achieved as those are not available in Spotfire and there is no out of box solution so they ask to raise enhancement request. Also, Spotfire community play a very important role by encouraging users to post their doubts and queries and other users can reply to them.
  • Loading Data from multiple data sources and combing them together.
  • Creating different types of visualizations to get the trends and patterns.
  • Drilling down the data to a lower level to get bottom line impact.
Spotfire is very useful to any of the organization looking to find insights in their data.
Yes
You can access you Spotfire dashboards on iPad and iPhone, this gives you mobility to access the reports on the go anytime.
  • File import/export
  • Single Signon
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
  • Javascript widgets
  • ETL tools
Yes
I have upgraded Spotfire environment 10's of times and process was always completed smoothly.
No
No
October 30, 2017

Honest and Fair

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire is being used across the whole organization, and it encompasses several departments. The product allows us to utilize our current databases to create visualizations to easily depict data.
  • Allows for easy creation and utilization of data visualizations.
  • Easy to setup folders and permissions to allow several users to access data.
  • The ease of use allows for users to access and utilize data to make strategic decisions throughout the organization.
  • Understanding the full benefits of the program takes time and experience.
  • Some SQL language requires different setting/filters/statements than Teradata.
  • Some of the options that are used are too buried to easily locate.
Spotfire is well suited for use when using "big data" and multiple views of data are needed. Spotfire is not desired for simple data sets that are being used in a single graph.
BI Platform
N/A
N/A
Supported Data Sources
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (2)
40%
4.0
Customizable dashboards
80%
8.0
Report Formatting Templates
N/A
N/A
Ad-hoc Reporting (4)
70%
7.0
Drill-down analysis
90%
9.0
Formatting capabilities
100%
10.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages
N/A
N/A
Report sharing and collaboration
90%
9.0
Report Output and Scheduling (3)
90%
9.0
Publish to Web
90%
9.0
Publish to PDF
90%
9.0
Report Delivery Scheduling
90%
9.0
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
60%
6.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
80%
8.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
100%
10.0
Predictive Analytics
N/A
N/A
Access Control and Security (3)
100%
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
100%
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
100%
10.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
100%
10.0
Mobile Capabilities (3)
30%
3.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
90%
9.0
Mobile Application
N/A
N/A
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
N/A
N/A
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
N/A
N/A
I have not used any others products that closely compare to Spotfire.
  • Online training
  • In-person training
Our organization used in person training, and it was very useful for our staff. This allowed us to walk through scenarios with a trainer to easily identify and resolve issues that came up.
The users represent multiple functions within our organization. (Transportation, Customer Service, Transportation Planning, Locomotive Utilization, etc)
20
Spotfire users typically require being savvy using programs that handle large data, and our users also have a strong background in data analytics.
  • Data Integration.
  • Marketing and Sales.
  • Large Data Visualization.
  • Displaying data results and trends.
  • Creating Dashboards for users that encompass different and multiple data points.
  • Displaying Data for non-traditional data users.
  • Integrating data sets from different departments data.
The visualization recommendations provide a great starting point for visualizations that the user may not have initially thought to use.
This feature is specifically useful for the intent of making it more appropriate and valuable for a variety of downstream purposes such as analytics.
I do not have much experience with this feature.
This is probably my most enjoyed analytical feature the product offers. This has proved to be very useful for me and my team by using geographical points with data sets.
Not Sure
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
The product features and usability of Spotfire provided a very useful tool that our organization had not yet had access to.
I would not have changed a thing! Great product that offers wonderful support and features!
  • Vendor implemented
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
The implementation was broken into phases that brought in the right people within our organization to seamlessly integrate the product into our daily working lives.
  • Identifying the correct users as initial users.
  • Training the identified users.
The implementation seemed to be a smooth change.
The product's configurability is very extensive, and this can prove to be cumbersome at times. Once the user becomes more proficient with the product, the configurability is one of the more useful features.
Not at this time.
I created customized themes.
I have had great success with the support of the product.
No
Spotfire software went above and beyond during our initial training exercises. The trainers provided very detailed steps that have proven to be a great success.
  • General Data Visualizations.
  • Integrated SQL Feature.
  • Creating multiple visualizations on a single page.
  • The geographic mapping feature (although it is my favorite featured offered).
  • The SQL language used has discrepancies with typical Teradata SQL language.
This is a wonderful product that is easy to learn. The support of the company allows users to become experts of the product in no time.
The program has proved to be very useful and allows for analyzing various forms of data.
The only issue that I have encountered is if the program crashes, which is not often, or the laptop dies, there is not an auto save feature where the user can pick up where they left off.
This is a wonderful product that can and will transform how a user looks at data.
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