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- 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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- 7Product Scalability
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November 01, 2017
Spotfire Eats Excel for Lunch
Nexen is using Spotfire across the whole organization. We primarily use it to handle large volumes of data and to build visualizations and dashboards. I have also used it extensively in the past to analyze large data sets, build out custom expressions, and use the statistical engines within the software to better understand data relationships.
- Building data visualizations is infinitely easier with Spotfire compared to Excel.
- Manipulating data in charts is another huge strength of Spotfire. Trellising data, removing data on the fly and coloring data trends based on different variables is incredibly easy.
- The mapping feature allows you to build dynamic dashboards. I barely use IHS Accumap anymore now that I have built out my own visual dashboards using the GIS mapping feature.
- Custom expressions can be cumbersome to learn and are not entirely intuitive.
- Some simple coding tasks in Excel are a lot harder to do in Spotfire.
- Not having the ability to set y axis intervals like you can in Excel for charts can be a bit frustrating at times.
November 01, 2017
Enhancing Spotfire Capabilities
It is predominately used for signal decision for regulator needs (GPVE) and for medical monitoring for Clinical Review for early assets and registration of new compounds.
It addresses the need for exploration of clinical data for early dose adjustment, early signal of unexpected AE's, issues related treatment and dose response/non-response etc.
It allows us to quickly take a look at what-if scenarios, and closing drill down subject, and perform 360 degree reviews.
It addresses the need for exploration of clinical data for early dose adjustment, early signal of unexpected AE's, issues related treatment and dose response/non-response etc.
It allows us to quickly take a look at what-if scenarios, and closing drill down subject, and perform 360 degree reviews.
- Graphs are rendered perfectly
- Very customizable
- User friendly
- Share the results across the group very effectively
- Data Loading capability instead of one dataset at a time
- Horizontal box plot with data points overlay able
- Filter Organization to be collapsed as default
- Radar plot, traffic light, area graph
- Should be able to use any variable from any dataset effortlessly on X-axis and Y-axis
- Able to create an answer set or specific dataset from different datasets available for a specific exploration.
November 01, 2017
Awesome data visualization tool
Spotfire is currently being used to replace adhoc reports from legacy applications. We also use it to build useful visualizations about utilization, performance metrics, etc. It is currently being adopted across the entire organization and about 5-6 departments use it now. It has allowed the company to have a tool that's interactive and doesn't require using another program to manipulate data.
- Helps users build advanced visualizations and does a great job of allowing users to make changes as needed.
- Offers powerful data transformation tools which allows users to make changes to the data as needed without affecting the source data.
- Provides automation services to eliminate having to export/email a daily report manually.
- Its a powerful tool but often lacks some very basic things like responsiveness when viewing visualizations on a different platform/resolution. This should be a feature included within the tool.
- The export options are minimal the pdf export leaves much to be desired. It requires reformatting or switching the page layout until you find the right format for your visualization.
- Spotfire chart features/functions are sometimes over complicated.
October 31, 2017
Spotfire Interview
We are using it as a used vehicles rating tool. I integrate and parameter data which are based on Excel files and 14 other colleagues are using it only to see data online, they manipulate a few filters to refine their search.
- The best part of Spotfire is that we can integrate different kinds of files in order to complete every table
- Spotfire provides a better view of the inconsistent data and gives us many possibilities to hide or to treat only the correct data
- Besides displaying classical and representative graphics, we can also configure the project as an online app by adding buttons, by giving the consumers the possibility to switch between different tabs, as with a classical website.
- It misses the possibility to enter or fill new data manually. We can display new fields but it's not possible to save the information that we fill and that we generate..
My organization uses Spotfire to create visualizations for customers using our software.
- Visualizations can be created in a reasonable amount of time.
- Customers can create their own unique visualizations.
- Visualizations can be shared with other users.
- Our analysis is made up of multiple DXPs. It would be nice if there was an easy way to set a date filter and have it apply to all DXPs. It can be updated on one DXP and shared to the others so customers do not have to constantly change the date. The same applies to filters, but need to have an indicator if a filter is being applied.
- Very difficult to trouble shoot when I have an issue. Probably will get better the more experience I get with using Spotfire.
- Enhance the Print (Export to HTML) like the Export to PDF was enhanced.
October 31, 2017
On-line Training experience
We use Spotfire to analyze patient data from different sources including all phases of clinical trials and marketed data. We develop visualizations and explore the data for analysis.
- Analyzing the data is very quick.
- We can easily identify the areas which we are interested in through visualizations.
- We can automate the process by developing the visualization so it reduces repeated work.
- Handling huge amount of data.
- More online videos for understanding the critical topics.
- Help button in Spotfire with detailed explanations regarding programming topics.
October 31, 2017
Efficiency and Analytical Powerhouse in One Tool
Spotfire is used by several technical teams and across all asset divisions to quickly and efficiently conduct data analysis and visualizations.
- The speed with which the tool can be used to create presentation-grade visuals.
- Quickly being able to provide insight and derive correlations from large data sets while being able to filter/manipulate data on the fly.
- Providing a spatial to graphical interface.
- I think from my team's perspective, trying to find a better means of data storage has been a major issue. Creating databases that include all necessary data yet don't slow the application down so much that it is essentially unusable has been a challenge.
The software is very powerful and useful for in depth analysis of large volumes of data. It has multiple ways of visualizing and filtering data that helps to identify trends which are not visible in raw data. Spotfire is somewhat similar to MS Excel and compatible with it but has much greater flexibility and data visualizing power.
- Data filtering is useful for customizing data sets.
- Multiple types of flexible visualizations help to discover important trends.
- Flexible data export function helps efficiently express the results.
- Learning curve is rather steep.
- Some mutually-related functions and features can be grouped to make the software more intuitive.
- Pop-up hints may be useful especially for beginner users.
October 30, 2017
Why Spotfire
Spotfire is being used across the organization for its analytical capabilities. It helps in doing predictive analysis, self-service BI and is an effective geo-analytical tool. Its near to real-time reporting helps do operational activities effectively.
- Its recommendation engine for generating quick visual views and providing dashboard design & flow ideas
- Geo Analytics - Its Geo Analytical capabilities used in the Natural Resources industry are very helpful.
- Self-Service BI over the thin client.
- Their training videos and online community sites are the best!
- Its built-in support to scripting - Iron Python, TERR, JavaScript. Its basic ease of filter configurations and data mashups.
- Its Server Administration! The node manager and server architecture is really good and makes sense. But when it comes to an administrator managing or building the environments, it becomes a nightmare. The logs need to be more descriptive and terms used should be user-friendly.
- While the KPI chart and Waterfall charts are a good addition to the visualisation stack, there is a lot of scope to add new visualisations in the kitty. Visuals that are available with jsViz - can be made a part of default visualization list or provide a template for those jsvis where users just need to feed in dimensions and measures.
- Images are limited to labels, tooltips or text area objects. Probably, object overlapping would give it a jazzy look. For example a background image for the whole page, currently we can only apply a background color via themes.
October 30, 2017
We use Spotfire
We are using Spotfire to create a product for our customers that gives them insight into their business operations, on both the clinical and financial perspective. Our use-case is different, because we create and deliver generic dashboards; then when the customer logs in, the information link obtains the data specific to that customer, based on their login. This prevents the wrong customer seeing the wrong data. Given our use-case, I'm not convinced that Spotfire was the right choice as a solution, but we have been able to make it work and I have been impressed with the functionality and flexibility that Spotfire provides.
- Flexibility - the ability to modify the HTML of text areas and the use of JavaScript and Iron Python
- Visualization - the number of options available
- Lack of QA of documentation. Sometimes, the documentation appears to have been written by an engineer, without the end user in mind. Steps are assumed/missing so it makes it difficult to follow and frustrating.
October 30, 2017
Spotfire is a very handy software program
Spotfire is being used to analyze data sets. The graphs and tables created in Spotfire are then used to improve the efficiency of our drilling rigs and the crews running them.
- Compare a data set using multiple variables.
- Ease of use much better than other, similar products.
- Limiting and selecting specific data sets or variable types is very simple.
- While it is very easy to understand the basics, some advanced options are difficult.
- Limited on the amount of ways you can compare different data points.
- Cannot bring two or more data sets into a single visualization easily.
October 30, 2017
Honest and Fair
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.
October 30, 2017
Spotfire-land
Spotfire was used by analytic team to give end users the capability to compare the performance of the healthcare system at a district level, subdistrict level and facility level. End users were able to analyze the different programs/activities used in their healthcare system having an immediate feedback, with data continuously updated. The solution implemented helped to improve the quality standards.
- Easy to use
- Geocoding features
- R integration based on an enterprise engine (TERR)
- Data Wrangling
- Look & feel
October 27, 2017
Spotfire
It's used to analize KPI coming from several departments. It allows us to show every KPI of interest coming from several source systems.
- Allow to analize KPI coming from several source systems
- Allows us to create easy to read and interactive analysis
- Different dashboards can be set up to have a single access point
- More ways to customize charts might be needed
- Better integration with javascript might be needed
- Customizable lable for values in chart might be needed
October 27, 2017
Visual smorgasbord - feel like you're a savvy tech startup without the Seattle prices.
It is used across the whole organization. Our department uses it primarily for productivity reports and for auditing purposes. Our transportation department uses it for real time reports that support transportation decisions and to track key areas. The accounting department uses it to track staff productivity and as an auditing tool. It gives clear visibility to the end users in our department on various issues.
- On demand visualization with deep customization options.
- User friendly report builder that allows for novice users to build dashboards.
- Modern UI that produces usable reports relevant to the data.
- Difficult to easily join 3+ tables without inputting SQL.
- Strange limitations on pivot tables; Ex: Hard to rename columns on pivot table to customize for the end user.
- Limitations on filtering for something not based on the data set. Ex: If I have 50k rows and want to filter a specific number range, it pulls that range from the data set rather than allowing manual input. This can cause performance issues with large data sets.
October 27, 2017
Luc
We are using Spotfire for technical semiconductor analysis and for high avenged analysis company wide.
- Their strength is in their flexibility
- Spotfire has a very nice full color presentations
- It's fast
- It doesn't know engineering's format. Like pico, nano, Kilo, Giga ect
- It can't calculate with binary data (Octal, Hex ect) . SF knows only the decimal range.
October 27, 2017
Great product with more great potential!
Spotfire is a great tool. I didn't use it in my previous role, but I started using it almost 3 years ago when I moved into my current role. All the teams in this organization heavily rely on Spotfire on a daily basis and, from what I hear, it is spreading to more of the organization. We use it from production analysis to research projects.
- I love that we can connect it straight to our database so that the data is continuously updated.
- I have used Spotfire to automate some of my repetitive weekly responsibilities and it has given me hours back in my week.
- There are so many functions that Spotfire can do that I haven't even been able to learn all of them. There are endless possibilities.
- I wish that there was a way to put a background color to the visualizations. I take screen shots and put them in reports, but it's white on white which doesn't make for a very interesting report.
- I have tried to do an automated weekly email of visualizations that I put on a report, but I have to open the report and take screen shots because they don't have the same formatting when it comes in the email. Disappointing when you spend a lot of time getting the formatting just right.
- I wish that there were stacked area charts. That is the only visualization that I have wished to use and been unable to.
October 27, 2017
Opinion about Spotfire
Used by some departments who seem to really like it, and not by others who really do not because it doesn't truly "analyze" it just draws pretty pictures and takes a lot of time to get data cleaned up so Spotfire can use it. Used to visualize data geographically (mapping), by performance indicators, and data from various and different sources.
- Makes pretty pictures out of data
- The training modules need work. The audio goes way too fast. For most trainees, keeping up with what they are trying to do themselves on the screen while listening and watching a module that is now 5 steps ahead, means having to stop every 15 seconds to back up, and it gets exhausting and annoying after much time.
- Spotfire has lots of capabilities, and the redundancy built in means there are several ways to do the same thing. However, it also means the screen is so cluttered, and the icons so small, that it strains the eyes to see and use. Seems like the redundancy could be reduced to make the screen shot more user friendly and less eye straining.
October 27, 2017
Spotfire Desktop Review
Spotfire is being used by our company. We have tested this product for over a few years now and educated others on Spotfire as well. It assists all groups to create a dashboard in a quick manner even if an employee is lacking the SQL ability they have learned to use Spotfire for a data visualization for current spreadsheets.
- Data Visualization Recommendations
- Pulls in data quickly
- User-friendly interface
- The scheduling needs improvement
- Better Predictive Analytics
- More interactive visualizations built in
October 27, 2017
Amazing tool to discover hidden stories in your data
We use Spotfire for ongoing clinical data review. It makes it much easier compared to static patient profiles
- Very user intuitive
- You can select specific data points and dive deep
- Visually pleasing
- Very presentable and story telling
- Data loading is slow
- If data is not embedded, I am seeing issues with a few visualizations
Spotfire is being used throughout the organization by various teams to analyze data, create workflow and performance management dashboards for leadership, and create easier solutions for regular reporting by the analysts. It addresses Excel's limitations with handling large data sets, performing calculations on those large data sets (quickly), and creating drill-down, interactive charts.
- Spotfire can ingest extremely large data sets very quickly. We use Spotfire to analyze data sets of 5 million + rows - a feat Excel 2010 cannot handle.
- It is very easy to join tables and insert columns (VLOOKUP) in Spotfire.
- Spotfire is very user-friendly, and management loves to see the big picture, but then having the option to drill-down to the granular level of data as well.
- We would like to be able to automatically reload data for Spotfire Library files for our Consumers, who do not have access to reload the data, without having to purchase another "module" or license.
October 27, 2017
I recommend Spotfire
As a preferred BI tool for analyzing and reporting data. Spotfire has made a steep change in the quality and quickness of making data available at all levels in the organization
- Connecting to sources.
- Visualizing data.
- Dashboards.
- Filter/mark data to see trends.
- Exporting charts to reports.
- More control on visualization features.
- Iron Python scripts & training.
October 27, 2017
Spotfire lets me get my job done.
Spotfire is used across my organization for data visualization and, I believe, very little for data analytics purposes. Spotfire makes it easy to tell a story behind the messy data in a much cleaner and more understandable way, through its great visualization graphs and charts which are very responsive to any data changes.
- Data visualization through a variety of charts and graphs.
- Data updates, data drill-down and data selections
- Web-based report sharing is very cool
- Using JavaScripts/R scripts is not very easy or intuitive.
- Analytical full statistical functionality such as linear/non-linear regression, factor analysis, PCA, etc. could be more valuable.
October 27, 2017
BI
We use Spotfire as a workplace standard where every employee in our department is using it daily for their routine. It meets our needs around visualization and decision making.
- I like Spotfire for mostly unsupervised learning.
- We can easily build up charts and insights without applying stats of the data.
- In simple terms, " Spotfire is what - Technology overcome Strategy".
- It cant be edited by the end user in web application part.
- Dynamic Scripting for visualization is missing part.
- Focusing more on the Statistics building algorithm part will be more useful.
October 27, 2017
Spotfire-- freedom to "play" with data and visualizations
Spotfire is currently only used by my department. We are using the software to bring in data from all of our assets, sort through the data, and create summaries about machinery running conditions. With the ability to compare parameters between similar pieces of equipment, my department can assess equipment health and drive future capital prioritization.
- Spotfire gives you the ability to toggle between different visualizations easily, which helps the user see the data in new ways.
- Spotfire is a great tool for bringing in huge amounts of data and summarizing it in an easy way. I particularly like the tool's ability to un-pivot tables, which makes it easier to bring in data from sources that would typically need to be re-formatted.
- Spotfire allows you to trellis visualizations, which is an easy way to report the same type of metric for several distinct groups. For example, it's easy to pull engine utilization by month for every station, and generate a large report which this information, within a few clicks.
- Sometimes the filtering schemes are confusing when moving from tab to tab within the program.
- It can be difficult to format everything to be presentable for the printable format. It's completely do-able to do this formatting, but it's not completely intuitive.
- I wish Spotfire had the ability to trellis data tables, so you could show the same information for different groups.