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- Drill-down analysis (289)8.383%
- Formatting capabilities (302)7.878%
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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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Spotfire Technical Details
| 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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- 8.3Likelihood to Renew
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- 7.3In-Person Training
- 8Implementation Rating
- 7.1Configurability
- 7Product Scalability
- 7Ease of integration
- 5Vendor pre-sale
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July 19, 2018
Spotfire in Precision Ag
I am doing a Ph.D. working with precision agriculture and variable rate technology. Since response patterns are variable and change by field, year, genotype, I use Spotfire to dynamically graph the response and detect those patterns. It's a powerful tool for data exploration.
- Explore data and detect patterns
- Provide suggestions for different types of graphs that could be done
- Many times I want to use the same data but show different years in different tabs and I would like to have the option of applying different filters by a tab.
- Fitting curves could have more options for differential equations and show the parameters with more decimals (or at least give the possibility to the user)
July 02, 2018
Very nice quality for a small price!
Spotfire was used by the management (myself) on 2 levels: implementation for marketing/finance departments, internal use for any data mining. The purpose was to ensure to know what is in the data, of both internal and external clients, to then explain them the output of analyses and finally help them with making decisions, creating plans, etc.
- Getting info from several data sources
- Unlimited quantity of data
- Interactive dashboarding
- Available on Windows only
- Mobile application not that well developed - let's say this is not really adaptative to the screen size
- Sometimes it is a bit too long to sync data sources
- Geo data were quite complicated to implement and configure
The main case for using Spotfire is to publish reports across the organization.I sometimes use it to create visualizations for presentations, as to provide a more dynamic way of presenting a case, being able to drill down the data to answer questions on the fly.
- Harmonization of concepts: often it is the case that more than one department needs similar kinds of reports, but produce them independently in Excel, access, through sql queries, etc.
- As a result, the management has trouble reconciling the values presented by the departments.
- Analysts are pressed to explain the differences and spend hours from trying to understand and reproduce the steps each department has taken to arrive at the discussed value, just to learn their selected data, categorization of variables and data treatment was different based on each department specific needs.
- With Spotfire, one department can become responsible to produce the analysis, while adjusting some visualizations to suit the second department specifications. As a result, less work and more transparence on the concepts used by each part of the organization.
- Easy access to data: instead of Excel spreadsheets or even some more sophisticated sql treated analysis which are made into PDFs and sent by email, the analysis access through browser is more stable.
- Interactive data analysis: its often the case that you show an indicator and someone asks, what are the contracts behind that total? How much of this is due to interest income, etc. With the drill down capabilities and sub analysis these questions are easily answered.
- The difference sum is sometimes painful, because it does not set consider an initial 0 value.
- For example, using the difference sum to de-accumulate a running sum observations for the year, will set January as 0 and the first significant value only in January. There should be an easy option to just define a difference sum between the months introducing an initial 0 observation so that the first January of the series also appear correctly.
- The so called "Sankey Diagrams" are also not so simple to implement
June 22, 2018
A Young Engineer's Perspective on Spotfire
Traditionally, Spotfire was only used at my company to analyze completions optimization from excel spreadsheets. However, we are currently transitioning to linking Spotfire without a database to use for up-to-date dashboards across the company. Some of these dashboards include (but are not limited to): - Extensive work-over analysis & looking at how a work-over may have affected the projected life of a well - Layering different geological maps while simultaneously plotting wells & sizing them by normalized production - A 3-dimensional plot of our well path colored by corrosion data to analyze how geometry/location can play a role in wear or corrosion
- Visualizations made easy with just a few clicks
- Able to handle large amounts of data to create extensive plots
- Very user-friendly, with a large community of users who also share ideas
- Perhaps providing more samples of utilizing R in Spotfire (for users who started learning Spotfire with no experience in R)
June 21, 2018
Spotfire: the Wild West of BI Tools
We are converting from one tool to Spotfire. We need to match functionality from the other tool into Spotfire. It helps business users spend less time creating reports and more time making decisions
- Highly Customize able with HTML, Python, R and others. If you can think of something and know the code, it is open format for you to deliver those results.
- Good amount of charts to display information to tell stories better about your data.
- Easy to connect to multiple data sources, regardless of if its in database or flat file.
- Our user base is missing functionality in Spotfire that causes our users to export Spotfire data into Excel, which causes more headaches. Spotfire could do a much better job providing self service functionality.
- Development beyond basic charts requires knowledge of programming languages
- Several times I have completed the creation of a report and later I had to make a small change. This change requires me to go through the entire report creation process again.
June 20, 2018
Transfom different format data sets and external sources data to dashboards in a blink of an eye.
Currently, there are multiple departments from different divisions and directorates that are using Spotfire. Most of them are using the product mainly for aggregating data and visualizing them into dashboards. Next major use case of Spotfire is for displaying Geographical Information such as building heatmaps and mobility patterns. However, we are also exploring Spotfire's analytical capabilities for descriptive and predictive analytics.
- Aggregating data and presents them in dynamic charts.
- Descriptive analytics and patterns discovery.
- High-dimensionality data source
- Near real-time analytics
Spotfire is available for all of the employees in my organization, but only about 10% of them use it. I believe the relatively low percentage of users is due to the individual’s need for it, the learning curve, and lack of training available. For the users who do utilize Spotfire in my organization, we have been able to leverage amazing dashboards to gain efficiency and an in-depth understanding of key analytics.
- Customization
- Speed
- Level of Detail
- Learning curve
- Difficult to export charts into PPT
- Screen size effects dashboard appearance
February 06, 2018
Spotfire - Great tool for data visualization and data analysis
We used Spotfire to develop dashboards for audit-related projects. We also used the product to perform exploratory data analyses on a variety of internal investigations in connection with malicious insider activities.
- Spotfire does a great job helping its users build advanced visualizations with little to no programming involved.
- It offers a large variety of visualizations and does a good job of letting its users tweak the visualizations to their specific needs.
- It also offers powerful data transformation tools that improve the usefulness of a user's data without having to modify the source data.
- Its very strength can sometimes be a weakness. Although it is easy to develop visualizations with this platform, it is often difficult to customize when needed. This is symptomatic of all such dashboarding applications, though.
- Not an application builder, insanely hard to create a layout that is appealing or to create user controls - possible with some Python but far too hard to create say a button to change the data plotted on an axis etc.
- Not designed to create end user applications.
January 12, 2018
Spotfire :The great BI tool for Non-IT Guru
Spotfire was introduced as part of the Spotfire corporate license into Fedex IT and BI world around 2 years ago. In EMEA region, we typically use Spotfire to visualize various data, covering many business domains. It helps our business to better apply the data analysis and quickly understand the trend as well as gap, improving our procedure to reduce the operational cost and increase the revenue. It also provides one easy platform for different type of users (non technical) to build KPI reports and sharing those reports easily
- It offers a large variety of visualizations possibilities and lets the user tweak the visualizations to their specific needs if required.
- It also offers powerful data transformation tools that improve the usefulness of a user's data without having to modify the source data.
- It supports various data aggregation from various data sources.
- Spotfire is still kind of "data pulling" strategy based application, the user defines SQL like data fetching command, and also the refresh rate, the Spotfire tries to periodically re-run those "queries", although it does have some data cache mechanism, for rapidly changing data, this strategy's performance sometimes is bad, especially when the data source is not well designed but with large amount of data (an Oracle Database with big table without too much index while those columns needs be queried). The Spotfire should improve to better connect with the other data stream /data pushing based API/Systems, also allowing the end user to define "basic data query" and the "delta data query" and "what mechanism is used to determine the delta"
January 02, 2018
Spotfire Review
We are using Spotfire to create an analytics platform for our software that we give access to our customers.
- Great analytics tool
- Self service BI
- Custom HTML/JavaScript/Python
- More visually dynamic
- Ease of use
December 28, 2017
Spotfire review
We are testing Spotfire to become a Spotfire partner and offer their products to our customers.
- Very easy to use charts and modify its properties.
- A lot of different types of charts.
- An interface very visual and intuitive.
- Using of marked records is a little bit confusing.
- Legends in chart has too many options and could be confusing to read for the user.
- Sometimes is a little bit difficult and not intuitive to find an option in the main menu.
December 22, 2017
Spotfire Pros and Cons
Spotfire is being used by the whole Technology business unit. The main problem I have with Spotfire is that I use version 6.5.2 with a flex server and I cannot upgrade to version 7.0 or 7.5 so as not to use my flex Spotfire server. Reporting using a link es one of the best advantages the tool has but version 6.5.2 does not allow you to change the back color of the charts and pivots and using HTML. The look & feel of the pivots and charts is not that good and the creation of calculated columns is hard to develop since it does not use excel logic. E.G. a simple date expression of "Last Month" in excel has to be generated as Month([Date]) = Month(dateadd('mm',-1,DateTime now())) and Year([Date]) = Year(dateadd('mm',-1,DateTime now()))
On the other hand is an excellent tool to manipulate and report when you have more than 200.000 rows since excel collapses and Spotfire is still running
- Spotfire is excellent to manipulate data sources with more than 200.000 rows of data. Excel collapses with more than 200.000
- All courses of Spotfire are excellent and easy to follow.
- Spotfire has an excellent functionality at the "details-on-demand" section where you can click in any number of the pivot and you'll see all details in the already mentioned section
- The charts and graphics are not as good as the one in excell
- the "expressions" to create calculated columns are not easy as the ones in excel. E.G. a simple excel expression for "last month" in Spotfire is Month([Date]) = Month(dateadd('mm',-1,DateTimeNow())) and Year([Date]) = Year(dateadd('mm',-1,DateTimeNow()))
- If you have a mistake creating expressions for calculated collumns the only help Spotfire gives you is the number of character that has the error.
- the distinct count option is not available
December 11, 2017
Good overall product.
We are using Spotfire to build an integrated solution with our product suite.
- Good visual Analytics
- Good integration API.
- Better documentation.
- Adding more chart types.
December 08, 2017
Forget about charting in Excel when you have this amazingly intuitive and easy to use analytics tool!
Spotfire was used in my department for dashboarding in obtaining data insight from a large monthly variable dataset. There are many groups relying on Spotfire for daily investment decision making. It really made a difference in pulling analytics in a very user-friendly and intuitive way from large amounts of data from all types of sources.
- Intuitive, easy to use and build analytics platform
- Save dashboard - reuse it with different data
- Easily exportable to ppt, pdf etc
- More online training would be great (similar to what Tableau has on LinkedIn or Youtube)
- Identify SMEs, certify them, have a forum for brainstorming
- "Did you know" mini-videos of how to do certain things in Spotfire
December 07, 2017
Excellent way to slice and dice your data and answer your questions!
We are using Spotfire across our business as a default analytics tool to make decisions across all functions in our business from Finance to engineering. The capabilities Spotfire provides us with has been very helpful and powerful for our users to be able to help ask relevant questions and be able to answer them with a few clicks of a button.
- Merge data from disparate data sources into a single tool.
- Visualize data of all kind
- I would like to see some capabilities around emailing static reports.
December 05, 2017
Business Transforming Product
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- I am able to quickly gain access to data of all types. It is able to dynamically develop visualizations that are both visually appealing and drive business decision making.
- I have developed many reports and dashboards that display operations performance to operators, managers, and leaders.
- The variety of available visualizations is vast, and it can satisfy most needs.
- There are some visualizations that it is incapable of rendering including circular genome maps.
November 21, 2017
Awesome
Different departments, including (HR, OM, etc..). Each department has their own unique KPIs. At the moment we've encountered no problems, although it would be nice to allow the user (developer) more "freedom" when it comes to modify and generate custom analysis.
- Data Visualization
- Summarize Data
- Decision Making
- Analyzing different KPIs
- Trends across time
- Categorical Analysis of our KPIs
- Customization on Visualizations
- Give more freedom to developer
- The user is unable to customize certain parameters (such as fonts, colors, ect)
November 13, 2017
Spotfire-ood and bad
Spotfire is used throughout out the company for metrics and KPIS, etc. Spotfire is very helpful, because it can correlate and pull in many data sources to be able to analyze.
- Providing information on Spotfire training.
- Examples of ways you can use Spotfire with analytical data.
- Hard to use for people, because it is not intuitive.
- Expressions, IF statements, etc. are hard for people to grasp, because they are not like Access, or SQL.
November 08, 2017
Spotfire feedback
Spotfire is used as a dashboard construction tool. Dashboard report is fixed and responsibility is shared with business counterparts. As far as they can access to modifications if needed and they are able to drive any variants of each report. Spotfire allows this strategy of reporting management and avoids any specific developments like previous coded solutions.
- Spotfire accepts information from either an Excel Table or a database
- Spotfire allows rapid design of a report sheet with pre-organised forms and views
- Spotfire is equipped with filters , easy to manage, in case of dynamic analysis as a sample.
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November 03, 2017
Spotfire is the best product I've ever used
It is being used for reporting purposes by reporting team. it addresses several business problems like crunching numbers and making sense with the data easily and in a better way
- crunching numbers
- calculations
- customization
- printing option is currently missing and the reports through spotfire are not printer friendly
- instead of using code for customization, we would like to see easy to use built in functions and drag and drop interface for performing difficult tasks
- exporting to different sources without losing the formatting
November 02, 2017
Spotfire is Great For Data Visuals!
We use Spotfire for holistic business analysis. While we lack a centralized system database, Spotfire allows us to connect the right data points for comprehension in ways we would not have otherwise.
- It helps us visualize and connect data into meaningful relationships quickly.
- Has the abilities to implement quite complex statistical models or down to just simple charts to help review connected or manually loaded data.
- Easy to use and learn. Great help topics and training tools available from Spotfire.
- Could help to have better mobile support for on the go analysis of visualizations.
- Cloud architect support would be helpful to be able to manipulate and create new visuals when away from my desktop.
- Would be helpful at times to be able to connect more one-on-one with an individual vs. videos and help documentation.
November 02, 2017
Powerful but needs to be prettier
The tool is being used in my department to show market trends in the commercial aviation space. This helps us look for emerging trends in the market that we may not be aware of.
- The tool handles large data sets very well with its caching ability
- The tool can export large sets of data for further analysis by our subject matter experts
- The tool loads and saves work in the developer tool relatively fast
- The tool does not have a very friendly user interface for development.
- The tool does not allow you to customize the UI of the analytics very easily to use your own font, style, color, etc.
- The tool cannot do some things that other tools, like Wave or Tabluea can. Drill down capability isn't always intuitive.
November 02, 2017
Spotfire
It was used by my previous organization for translational research. It addressed the problem of data analytics and visualization. I recently used a paper (which is accepted) where I also used Spotfire 6.5 and other analytics and programming took for data analytics to create a visualization and do data analytics.
- Visualization
- Analytics
- Data management
- Images to put
- Legends to visualize
- API uses iron python instead of python which is different and complex
November 02, 2017
Versatile Tool
I'm working in the commercial excellence department and we use Spotfire sales and activity reports across 6 different affiliates, we also use the tool to create our own calculation engine of some targeting processes.
- Dynamic tool
- Implementation of different data sources
- Multi environment options
- Resolution depends of the environment used
- Friendly use of dimensions
November 01, 2017
Spotfire Review
Spotfire is being used to implement BI solutions for our clients working across departments. It allows us to show every KPI of interest coming from different source systems.
- It allows us to access data from different source systems.
- It gives the user the possibility to access different analysis from a single access point.
- Spotfire needs to be more customizable.
- Labels are not resizable and often don't show in charts.
- JavaScript is not fully supported.