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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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How Spotfire Differs From Its Competitors

TIBCO Platform Integration

We did not integrate other TIBCO products with Spotfire to enable additional functionality. We did not need any other products because Spotfire is very easy to use. Ultimately, Spotfire provides a full range of tools that let users accurately evaluate and visualize their data. Spotfire offers a …
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Ideal Data Sources

As a software engineer, I found the installation scripts and documentation for the product to be of great use. I was able to swiftly install TIBCO Spotfire Server and Microsoft SQL Server to provide all of the canceled clients with a prompt response. They appear to be quite happy with TIBCO's Data …
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TIBCO Platform Integration

Yes, we have integrated Spotfire with Tibco Cloud Events and we are getting good results. It helps us to identify meaningful patterns in your organization by using rule inferencing and contextual reasoning, helping you decide the next course of action. Collaborating features allow users to give …
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Ideal Data Sources

The program is excellent for working with large amounts of data and datasets that are grouped together. The software allows us for a lot of modification, which enables bespoke client components, something I don't find with other platforms. We now have a clear picture of the impact of quality …
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TIBCO Platform Integration

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

We are integrating 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 in …
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Ideal Data Sources

Mainly We are using 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 flexible …
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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 Spotfire 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 Spotfire 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 …
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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

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

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 Spotfire.
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Ideal Data Sources

We have connected 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 conduct data …
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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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TIBCO Platform Integration

We integrated Spotfire with Tibco TDV, Tibco Runtime for R, 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 enable …
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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 Spotfire and TIBCO products too, like Spotfire 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 …
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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 Spotfire with actions on a demo basis, which provides considerable flexibility on the ability to perform detailed database updates without leaving Spotfire.
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Cloud Benefits

The 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 was …
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Future Proofing

Spotfire 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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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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Awards

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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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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 Integrations

Spotfire Competitors

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

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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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March 06, 2023

Spotfire - data visualization made better

Verified User
Manager in Professional Services
Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Training Types Used
  • No Training
I learned Spotfire on my own. I was searching for user friendly analytics software to use. I was working on a project where I can display data in a more presentable format with limited colors. I came across Spotfire when a colleague introduced me to the software. I was able to use the software to customize reports and dashboards for senior stakeholders.
October 22, 2022

Powerful, Efficient and Customizable Data Analytcs

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Training Types Used
  • Online Training
  • In-Person Training
I was able to explore some untouched areas this platform like Expression Shortcuts, Mods Development, Data Functions tips and tricks etc.
Also, Spotfire training helped to save a lot development time by demonstrating the shortcuts present in system. I was able to understand some nice features like in-built predictive algorithms, classification and clustering approaches etc.
July 20, 2022

Powerful tool, makes me more efficient!

James Kim | TrustRadius Reviewer
James Kim
Senior Engineer
Rife Resources Ltd. (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Training Types Used
  • In-Person Training
I never took the formal training that was offered in our company, as it happened the month before I joined. However, I learned from colleagues and through various web searches/resources. There are a lot of resources out there (Dr. Spotfire, Spotfire Community, etc.) that I use similar to how I figured out advanced functions in Excel. Through this, I became one of the power users within the company.
July 19, 2022

Spotfire

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Training Types Used
  • 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.
March 04, 2022

Spotfire is Great

Verified User
Professional in Product Management
Mining & Metals Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Training Types Used
  • Online training
  • in-person training
In person training initially was great as it got us used to the software and able to ask questions. The online training post in person training worked great as we could go at our own pace and refer to the material later on when we ran into trouble once implemented
February 24, 2022

Flash up data visualization and interpretation with Spotfire

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Training Types Used
  • Online training
  • in-person training
Yes that's true to fetch the best results from the tool it is very much required to know the tool very well from a close perspective then only the knowledge we own can go well in terms. So we had online training sessions and a few sessions from the experts as well and after this, we have found our efficiency, productivity, and correct increased by manifold.
August 14, 2021

Spotfire - Better options available

Verified User
Analyst in Research & Development
Logistics & Supply Chain Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Training Types Used
  • no training
We had no training. I asked me colleagues for help. My manager offered to pay for a Udemy course, but nothing else. My team does conduct spotfire classes for other teams sometimes, but that was after I got comfortable with the tool. So I didn’t find it useful.
July 05, 2021

Spotfire is the best tool to empower analytics to produce visually rich results

JP
Jim Putnam
Director, Advanced Analytics and Data Science
GOJO, Inc. (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Training Types Used
  • no training
No formal training other than what could be accomplished via documentation (very thorough) and online sources such as YouTube. Tableau has a much larger user community and hence more freely available resources.
June 25, 2021

Great "all in one" platform

Gilberto Henriquez M. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gilberto Henriquez M.
Gerente de Desarrollo de Negocios Retail
Dichter & Neira (Market Research, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Training Types Used
  • Online training
  • in-person training
Personally, I got in person training seven or eight years ago, but after that everything has been under online youtube training, reading version control features and so on.
It is a very fast learning curve, you can do simple stuff immediately, and complicated stuff in a week. It introduces you to several worlds that are optional. For example, you can make calculations from the database using data direct database connection (like most of the visualization tools on this segment), or you can do it on the application itself, or send it to a R server using python script. In my personal case, maybe 90% is done on the visualization itself, so it´s faster for the user. The side part is that this way requires [you] to load all data on the visualization and not only aggregated columns.
May 13, 2021

Spotfire in the Oil and Gas Business Development Space

Thomas Plumridge P.Geo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Thomas Plumridge P.Geo
Senior Geologist
Rife Resources Ltd. (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Training Types Used
  • in-person training
There was a one day course we took through a TIBCO partner (CADEON), which walked through the basics of TIBCO Spotfire and how to use it. I found this helpful, but not nearly comprehensive enough for my purposes. I have leveraged the online community of users to help me find solutions to most of my roadblocks
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