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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.
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)
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| 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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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.
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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As part of the global enterprise team, we used Spotfire to gain insights into key strategic areas such as medical affairs, HR and finance.
- Powerful transformation functions
- Feature rich user interface
- API offers endless bold on functionality
- Better online community support like Tableau Public
- Refresh of case study dashboard examples
February 22, 2019
Spotfire
It is being used by engineering to develop type curves and data tracking tools.
- Moves data very quickly.
- Manipulates data easily.
- Very attractive visualizations.
- Steep learning curve.
- More restrictive than Excel.
- Cost.
February 20, 2019
Spotfire is a very flexible data visualisation and analysis tool, that supports large datasets.
We use Spotfire for data visualisation and data analysis, especially in cleaning data sets, to find outliers and focus on specific parts of the data to spot trends.
- Visualisation of data and manipulation of the visualisations
- Fast way to create dashboards and share these with others
- Ease of use, also for staff that is new to the product, very self learning GUI
- No cons, at the moment, it provides the requirements that I need to do my job.
February 20, 2019
Spotfire Cloud - a product with serious limitations.
We use Spotfire for creating an interactive and visual dashboard to present our organization performance for various KPIs. The aim is to create a view where users can see trends over time and apply various filters to drill down to detailed level information. Also, the dashboard is presented at executive level meetings to answer any questions raised regarding our performance. Currently, Spotfire is used by 100 or so users in various departments such as HR, Accounting, Performance etc.
- Spotfire is good in enabling users to drill down data by applying various data filters by simply highlighting a particular area in a chart or toggling the filters on the side.
- After the initial data upload, the speed at which Spotfire refreshes the data is quite impressive.
- The ability to link charts with each other is also handy as you can change filters on one chart and all charts change to show the relevant data. That is the key feature that allows drilling down data.
- The cloud version of Spotfire is very limited in its capabilities. Users have to pay a lot more for the desktop version which has a lot more features.
- There are some serious limitations in Spotfire Cloud, like not being able to put a simple text Label on top of your visualization, or importing an image to go with your visualization. These things are a must and should be added to the cloud version
- I mostly use Spotfire Cloud and it's very limiting in terms of types of data connections that it supports. Compared to Spotfire desktop version Spotfire Cloud is so limiting that it's almost not worth paying for it.
February 14, 2019
Why Spotfire?
The use of Spotfire is increasing throughout the organization. The reason being, it is a platform that engages both IT savvy and non-IT savvy users. Within the organization, Spotfire is used is various ways, right from basic reporting to complex advanced analytics, everything is done using Spotfire.
- Root Cause Analysis - You are able to guide your end users through the analysis in an intuitive manner
- Fairly Complex visualizations can be easily created without any programming skills
- Spotfire has amazing ETL capabilities, I have used multiple BI tools and in my opinion Spotfire is leading
- Cascading Filters --> the newer BI tools in the market make cascading much easier
- The responsiveness in text areas --> If you have pictures in your dashboard, currently the developers have to keep all sorts of screen sizes in mind otherwise the users will experience a 'distorted dashboard'
February 13, 2019
Good tool with decent analytic capabilities
Spotfire was used as an analytics tool for one of my clients. The data source/back end was an older oracle datamart.
- Drag and drop, ease of use for end users.
- Deployments to production environments are relatively straight forward.
- Flexible capabilities on getting data from multiple data sources, however this can be a double edged sword if your enterprise does not have proper governance in place.
- Datasets can get muddy, architecture wise there needs to be governance in place to identify where the real source of truth is. Otherwise you end up with a spaghetti implementation that has very poor data lineage.
- It is not as intuitive as other dashboard/visualization tools such as Tableau.
- Not particularly a problem with Spotfire alone, but lots of analytics tools require you to push specific aggregations and measurements to the data model versus having a citizen developer creating them on the fly.
February 11, 2019
Spotfire for Accelerated Analytics
Spotfire is used by our clients as part of software solutions providing embedded analytics to the end users.
Other companies use Spotfire for self-service analytics, combining data sources.
We also have users from hardware companies where validation engineers use Spotfire for ad hoc data analysis.
Other companies use Spotfire for self-service analytics, combining data sources.
We also have users from hardware companies where validation engineers use Spotfire for ad hoc data analysis.
- Data Preparation in Spotfire 10 is combined with an AI engine and makes it very easy for business users to combine data from diverse data sources.
- Dashboard creation in Spotfire 10 can be done with help of searching without deep knowledge of the tool.
- Creating analytical applications can be done without scripting or writing code.
- Ad-hoc data analysis can be done by the untrained user.
- Embedding new Visualizations can be done with JsVIZ framework but the process is not easy.
- Integration of community add-ons. The community does not provide add-ons that can be embedded in Spotfire.
- Marketing of the product. The market is not aware of Spotfire capabilities.
February 08, 2019
Spotfire
Departmental use for analyzing biotech research data.
- Cloud deployment makes data accessible anywhere.
- Ability to customize and save visualization formats/templates is very useful.
- Joining data from multiple tables is simplified in Spotfire vs other platforms.
- Initial setup of our Team account was very painful.
February 01, 2019
Spotfire for rapid drill-down collaborative data visualisation
Spotfire is used by Trading Analysts for data visualization globally across all Oil and Gas trading teams. It is used for Trade Analytics to support data scientists in modeling fundamentals such as supply and demand, crack spread, dark spread, etc and to perform Energy Trading Risk Management. At another Retail client, it was used for data visualization for customer analytics.
- Easy to use - can click on any data element to drill down.
- Quick to annotate and share comments with other users through the toolbar and export/publish.
- Easy to connect to a wide range of data sources including Hadoop/Hive and SQL RDBMS like SQL Server and Oracle.
- Self-service business intelligence.
- Online documentation could be improved.
- Some licensing options have a subset of features.
- The alternative Microsoft PowerBI is often free to add to Office licenses.
February 01, 2019
Spotfire 10 is amazing!
It is primarily used to build dashboards that allow functional managers to monitor KPIs and drill down as needed. It is used across the whole organization.
Spotfire is the first BI tool our company has used for self-service BI. It allows faster decision making and insights provided by the dashboards are very valuable.
Spotfire is the first BI tool our company has used for self-service BI. It allows faster decision making and insights provided by the dashboards are very valuable.
- Ability to quickly build visualization using drag and drop, and the ability to connect with multiple data sources.
- Ability to document and review the model workflow using Data Canvas.
- Comprehensive statistical functions library and support for R integration.
- Axis expression syntax is difficult to master. The documentation is not very helpful and it requires a lot of trial and error. The Power BI DAX is much more straight forward and well documented.
- I do not see an easy way to customize the query used for a report. All visualizations drop the data source when making a single change to the query that did not even change the number of columns. Besides, changing the query itself is so difficult. I can go to the data table properties > Source Information tab and see the SQl but I cannot modify it there.
- There is a bit of learning curve for users who recently upgraded to Spotfire version 10.
- Export visualization to PowerPoint reduces the resolution a lot and they do not look professional.
February 01, 2019
Spotfire has powerful visualizations and data analytics capabilities
Spotfire is used to perform analytics and process tracking of our pipeline data. Currently, the microscopy department uses Spotfire for all of our data visualization needs. I use it on a yearly subscription basis and find it to be a very useful data visualization product.
- It provides a great platform to connect to our databases.
- It has a good suite of data graph options.
- It has a relatively intuitive user interface.
- Critical functionality such as image display from scatterplot was disabled in cloud version which broke our main use case.
- More work needs to be done to help provide more examples of how to better use all that Spotfire has to offer.
- A more clear delineation of Spotfire cloud vs local install feature differences needs to be available so one can choose the most appropriate license for their use case.
January 30, 2019
Small guy utilizing a big guy software and getting ahead
Spotfire is used in all departments within my company. The ultimate goal is to utilize the power of the analysis of Spotfire -- as the current software utilized cannot handle the vast data sets that are continually utilized. As well, the ability to add different techniques in the analysis has assisted in making this software indispensable for the analyst we have here. The biggest problems are the vast data sets (10,000+ rows with an excess of 52 columns regularly.
- Importing data, recognizing the headers, and sorting the data efficiently.
- Allowing multiple data sets to be layered and analyzed at the same instance
- Showcasing examples of analysis that may have been left out, as well as the addition of new modules (AI) that help with future analysis.
- When applying formulas I would like a little easier build of the formulas
- I might be missing this key feature, but adjusting the display color choices, maybe allowing company colors to be imported in.
- Setting up models needs a little bit easier application.
January 22, 2019
Needs more user-friendliness and better support structure.
Spotfire is used mostly for data visualization, for example when it is necessary to find some correlation between multiple data arrays. Spotfire in the organization is used mostly by engineers.
- Quick data visualization for big datasets.
- Smart data arrangement.
- Very hard to set up visualization features (fonts, colors, etc- deeply hidden in the menu). Needs to be interactive-- right on the visualization itself.
- Not always consistent report printing (axes names did not fit, missing axes labels).
- Needs to have an option to set up each page individually (filters, fonts, etc).
January 22, 2019
Great results in a short time.
We started last year looking for a tool to present huge amounts of data in a meaningful way to our investors. As electricity markets generate a lot of data, having a tool that helps to simplify part of the processing of information was one KPI. On the other hand, having a way to create visually appealing reports that are easy to follow and understand was the second main goal. With Spotfire, you can create dashboards that plug into the data sources making live reports that update automatically. These can be online for everyone to see or sent via private links with the report of interest. The visuals are stunning and clear to our investors so they can follow up from one report to another. We thought that the price was high at first, but having tried and used the software, we can say it’s worth the price and for a data-intensive job it is a great companion.
- Easy to use.
- Great visuals.
- Data source direct connection.
- Online services.
- Mobile device friendly view.
- The learning curve to be able to use every aspect can be a few months.
- If you are an academic or non-profit it can be taxing to have a monthly fee.
January 22, 2019
Great Trial Experience
It currently isn't being used by the entire company, and we don't have a purchased version of it. I knew of its capabilities and thought it would be a good tool for a project I was working on, so I got a trial version to see if I was correct. And I was! It makes data consolidation and manipulation so easy and just takes a lot of leg work out of certain projects. I was very happy with my trial.
- Data consolidation and manipulation.
- Mapping with data.
- Makes presenting data visually appetizing, so the audience can easily understand and interpret.
- It worked great for what I used it for.
- Changing the data on the flags in the mapping tool could be easier. I remember that being difficult to figure out.
January 22, 2019
One of the Best Data Visualization Softwares
Spotfire is being used by multiple departments within FedEx companies. It is an easy tool to analyze data, and slice and dice it in multiple ways. We perform statistical analysis for both strategic and tactical projects. We analyze in memory live data for tactical analysis, historical data for trend and strategic analysis.
- Easy to connect multiple sources and visualize data. Slice and dice as you go.
- Lack of easy language to customize reports. You have to use python and java which are not easy to learn for someone new to Spotfire.
- Hard to change sources, reports. Very easy for initial development but maintenance is cumbersome.
January 19, 2019
Spotfire: a great product to get out of the Excel RUT!
Spotfire is used extensively to do both (1) dashboards of a broad range of challenges (safety, volume and cost performance) as well as (2) large database analysis.
It addresses the problems of
(1) Reporting complex data quickly and consistently
(2) Enabling fluid report changes, as required, without recreating data searches
(3) An analysis bench for large data sets that would be inefficient or impossible in spreadsheeting programs
(4) Bringing together multiple sources of data for better understanding of organization performance.
It addresses the problems of
(1) Reporting complex data quickly and consistently
(2) Enabling fluid report changes, as required, without recreating data searches
(3) An analysis bench for large data sets that would be inefficient or impossible in spreadsheeting programs
(4) Bringing together multiple sources of data for better understanding of organization performance.
- Beautiful plots
- Ease of building and modifying visual representations
- Linking plot data to visual presentations to enable deep diving
- Bringing together disparate sources of data
- Fault finding data queries with more informative error reporting to improve query coding (particularly database related). This often means having to form queries in external programs, such as SQL Server, to fault find and optimize the query
- Transparent data cleaning. A lot of Spotfire developers have been observed to use filters and other data cleaning that is not visible to Spotfire general users which can deliver inappropriate analysis because the data is cleaned incorrectly
- Opportunities to improve query performance. Spotfire does not provide guidance to new users on how to improve the speed of the dashboard or provide opportunities to expand/ contract data ranges of interest to improve speed
- IronPython does not have sufficient support. Need to improve learning of ironpython, possibly with a tutorial and better alignment to Python and/or R.
We use it to analyze well performance in multiple oil and gas basins. A large part of my job is figuring out how much to pay for mineral acres (since we are in the minerals space) and the work done in Spotfire has been crucial to our business. Building type curves hinges heavily on my process within Spotfire.
- The mapping feature is excellent, with the ability to layer on many shapefiles, marker layers, etc.. It's been a great way for us to save money on mapping programs.
- I love the cross table visualization for aggregating large amounts of data.
- It has more than enough canned visualizations and data analytics usage with just the right amount of openness to where the user can create anything from simple calculated columns and custom expressions all the way to writing R script for more complex projects.
- It would be great to be able to link values created through the cross table back into an original data table. Currently I export cross table values into Excel and then reimport them back into Spotfire.
- Adding columns to existing data tables could be streamlined a bit more. The workflow is a little too buried given it's simplicity.
- Add more detail on the various matching selections when bringing in new columns or rows. Even for someone who has been using Spotfire a lot, it's not that intuitive what the user is exactly doing.
January 16, 2019
Spotfire Review
We use Spotfire as part of our solution for Digital Oil Fields. It is used for our clients as a visualization and data analysis tool. We connect to different data sources, do some analysis and visualize results on web dashboards. It is very convenient because we can create customized dashboards for every asset and case.
- Connect to different data sources
- Visualized data in different forms
- Can be inserted into web pages
- Allow scripting to add customized functionality
January 12, 2019
Powerful Data Analytics Tool
Spotfire was used by my organization mainly to analyze geological and oil production data and gain insight in order to address current challenges and make future decisions. It is used across the whole organization on an as-needed basis.
- Spotfire allows me to integrate multiple sources of data into a single database.
- Spotfire plotting allows me to look at five variables at the same time.
- Spotfire allows me to instantly switch between different variables and visualize them.
- Ternary diagrams are missing, and it currently requires some awkward manipulation of two dimensions using trigonometry to display such a diagram.
- Displaying photos associated with data points, besides the tooltip, is currently beyond the skills of regular users.
January 07, 2019
Spotfire for Mid to Large Enterprises
Spotfire is used by most departments in our company to access enterprise and local data sources. It is connected to over 30 enterprise data sources. It began as a tool for engineers, but anyone who wants to access data may work with the application to create dashboards, workflows, and other tools to aid in decision making and visualization.
- Users get a better understanding of data when they see it in Spotfire, as opposed to Excel. Spotfire visualizations also have several functions like zoom sliders and hierarchies that are a significant improvement over charting in Excel.
- Spotfire integrates with coding languages like IronPython, HTML, CSS and R in order to dramatically expand the out of the box functionality.
- Features like property controls make the application dynamic and interactive in ways that Excel is not. These same features also make the application more efficient.
- The application is not efficient when building large projects. There are many small features that could make building large projects faster like the ability to add more than one filter or property control at a time. Also, users shouldn't have to expand and collapse every single table in the Filter panel or in the Add filters dialog (when adding filters in a Text Area).
- Spotfire has been slow to add in features that users have requested for years, like the ability to edit join operations. It's there now, but we waited years for that feature. The information designer hasn't seen an overhaul (or even any new features) in over 5 years.
- Increasing the release frequency has resulted in a lower quality product. Spotfire lauded the "completely redesigned" user interface of Spotfire 10, but it's not a complete redesign and looks sloppy.
December 21, 2018
Smoke the competition with Spotfire!
Spotfire is used to perform data analytics that can’t easily be done with other spreadsheet programs. Currently, the department that I work in does not use Spotfire. I used it on a trial basis and found it to be applicable and very effective. I am certain that other departments within Halliburton do use Spotfire.
- Spotfire works very well as a central point for access to all data that could be used to analyze a subject and multiple types of spreadsheets and/or databases can be accessed with the same dashboard.
- Multiple plots, graphs, charts, maps, and other analytic tools are simple to apply to easily-filtered data. Don’t be fooled by the simplicity of the user interface, as Spotfire is a very, very customizable and powerful tool.
- Excellent support and educational resources are available to help decrease the learning curve and strengthen one's data analytic ability.
- The use of Spotfire ultimately helps to better understand the relationships and patterns that are or could be significant in building value for a company.
- It is not glitchy and has an intuitive user interface.
- The code required to make customized commands could be improved by placing more focus on its usability for non-coders. This would greatly improve the use of Spotfire’s real power for many non-coder users.
- Maybe the ability drag and drop a spreadsheet or multiple files to a “Spotfire Analysis Bucket” to initiate a new dashboard would be handy.
- Easier access to download data from a particular graph to other spreadsheets.
December 21, 2018
Simplicity and effectiveness are crucial to data organization!
We used the Spotfire platform to analyze our Summer Learning Academy testing scores to identify areas of growth and deficit within the program. Spotfire allowed for simplicity in data visualization that were difficult to create through Excel or PowerPoint. The easy-to-understand tables allowed for us to easily identify our progress and help secure funding from grants. Data visualization in education is vital and the simpler it is to understand, the easier it is to explain to those that are unfamiliar with academic testing scores.
- The user-friendly platform is easy to navigate.
- Excellent customer service and support as well as tutorials.
- Easy-to-understand tables that allow you to easily organize complex data sets into something more understandable.
- Professional development opportunities for education professionals and the capabilities of using TIBCO for improvement.
December 13, 2018
Spotfire for supply chain
I used Spotfire to solve the problem of displaying supply chain flow in a network. It very easy and quick to learn and get introduced with its capabilities, but currently, we are not using it, as we could find much more efficient similar tools to address the same problem. Along with network display, we were also looking for tools with graph database capabilities, which was the reason to park it aside and move forward with other options on the market.
- I used Spotfire for network flow visualization. I used Tableau for the same thing, but the directional edges, and the different ways to show connections and directional flow edges without much effort, saved a lot more time for me.
- As I wanted to do some calculation and forecasting based network visualization using R, it was very much possible with the use of Spotfire Enterprise Runtime for R.
- Demo version works for a reasonable number of days without a key, and it's easy to install, learn, and very quick to start using.
- Few analytics capabilities are much faster than R
- Cost is less than the other similar tools on the market
- Need to add graph database capabilities as the visualization and graph DB combination will give more strength to it.
- Community is not so strong and finding solutions and getting technical help is a bit time consuming.
Spotfire is being used for creating multiple Department Dashboards, such as Pharmacy, Oncology, Geriatrics. All these Dept. are working with 2 or more dedicated software with transactional databases providing partial information about their work. They are not able to get enough information. We use Spotfire to unify information and present summarise information in a graphical and comprehensive way, in order to give a global view to stakeholders.
- Very fast to create new dashboards, system provides automatically options to make fine reports
- Very good filters, easy to use for non-analysts, good graphics and a lot of possibilities to create reports
- Very good technical support
- Very good price with top performance
- Sometimes difficult to know what product and package fits your products
- Confusing documentation
- Not very comprehensive user access rights