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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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- 8.8Online Training
- 7.3In-Person Training
- 8Implementation Rating
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- 7Product Scalability
- 7Ease of integration
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October 26, 2017
Handly Tool for Data Visualization and Analysis
We have been using Spotfire quite extensively in our company to address the data analytics and visualization needs. Primarily it has come across as a handy tool across the department to represent data in a more easy and reliable way. We use it to run some very quick analysis on huge data sets.
- Getting data through multiple modes is one of the key strengths of Spotfire.
- Embedded option to code analysis through R/python/SQl makes the tool quite useful and handy.
- Geographical tagging is also quite useful & unique.
- Some easy to use features is missing and/or unhighlighted.
October 26, 2017
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Spotfire is used in my company for different clients (energy mostly at the moment) and to develop business for other companies. It's focused on geo-localization data for the client. We use Spotfire to monitor the activity of the customers and we help the users to be confident with this tool in self-service BI scenarios.
- Geo-localization is one of the strengths of this tool.
- Easy to use.
- Dashboard always available (linked to the source or embedded)
- It is not possibile to load XML files.
- In pie chart should be easier to set the category grouped as "Others".
- It would be helpful to insert a "fuel/liquid" chart to show the percentage of total as liquid.
October 26, 2017
Excellent Dashboard Tool
It is being used by multiple departments across Norfolk Southern. We have been developing dashboard type front ends for users using other tools for over a year now. Spotfire has provided us with a tool that will allow us to deploy our dashboards to many users at one time utilizing the web client.
- Great visualizations
- Easy to use once data connection/information links are established
- Scalable to multiple users via web client
- Difficult to create data connections using custom SQL
- Limited support of DB2 connections (DB2 on the mainframe)
- Limited support of network connected documents on a shared drive
October 26, 2017
Spotfire - complex and customized
We implement it for our clients, it's one of the most popular technologies we currently offer.
- Possibility of introducing custom functionality is much better than any other BI tool
- Able to do complex calculations
- Some performance issues with large amounts of data
- Many simple or annoying little things that remain unsolved for years, even though regularly posted on Spotfire Community
- Even with the latest version, the look and feel is a bit outdated
October 26, 2017
Spotfire - Practical Outlook
We use Spotfire to design Enterprise-wide dynamic end-to-end automated reporting and analytics solutions. We were able to significantly reduce the TCO and eliminate bottlenecks associated with the use of some legacy tools like Excel, PowerPoint, etc. On the other hand, Spotfire lacks some esthetics, doesn't offer all modern chart types, and could be difficult and expensive to learn.
- Data input automation
- Automated data transformation procedures
- Relatively easy to implement
- Types of charts and tables
- Availability of basic statistical functions
- Lack of good documentation and examples beyond basic
Spotfire is used extensively at our organisation and by our clients to leverage and gain insights into large quantities of data. We primarily use it for data exploration, reporting, predictive analytics and data segmentation. With Spotfire we are able to build comprehensive dashboards quickly and efficiently without the need for specialist BI developers.
- Quickly build reports from large quantities of data and then publish those reports via the web player.
- Ability to work with data sets in different formats, i.e. data aggregation or SQL queries are not required.
- Out of the box analytics that makes it easy for business users to gain insights into their data.
- Ability to leverage R scripts in Spotfire.
- Easier functionality of Python scripts.
- Stability improvements are required, software has a tendency to crash.
- Easier optimisation of reports for the web player especially where large data sets are involved.
October 26, 2017
Spotfire is an exceptional new analytics tool
Currently Spotfire is being used by the Global Sourcing organization with the aim of it being expanded throughout the organization. If it becomes popular enough, it will likely be implemented throughout the company on a more holistic basis. It is used currently for analysis, reporting and strategizing as far as indirect procurement.
- Easily reads in multiple data formats
- GUI to alter and customize visualizations is user friendly
- Having the data cached in memory makes the application very fast
- Integration with external data analysis tools/languages like R and Python
- Predictive analytics features like decision trees and Bayesian networks
- Ability to set up data pipelines to Hadoop clusters
October 26, 2017
A week with Spotfire - so WORTH it!
Spotfire is the supported tool for accessing an Oracle data warehouse. The data stored in the warehouse is all of our historical human resources data from across the enterprise (we have several operating companies under our brand umbrella) and the warehouse is "fed" every day with new transactions coming from each company's HCM system. We do ad-hoc reporting with Spotfire, build dashboards for analysis, and generally use it to answer any business question that may come up where we need the employee data.
- Visualizations - it isn't just a data extraction tool but charts and tables can be easily built.
- Dashboards - I've put together sample dashboards in just a few hours.
- External Data - very easy to pull in data from different data sources - Oracle tables, Excel, etc..
- Visualizations - while it is a strength it is also a weakness. We currently use another tool for dashboarding and we will move to Spotfire because it is more powerful but the actual charts in the other product are more appealing.
- Set up - we are responsible for setting up our own joins, information links, elements, etc. This is overwhelming for beginning users.
- SQL - It is hard to debug issues with the SQL. I often find myself copying the SQL into another tool to decode and build and then will copy it back to Spotfire.
October 26, 2017
Great program
It is being used for reporting and creating meaningful visualizations.
- Recommends visualizations for you
- Mapping capabilities - though having pre-set coordinates would be nice
- Filtering on historical dates and timelines
- Mapping capabilities - coordinates, additional layers
- Calculations and formulas to be more user-friendly, like Excel
October 26, 2017
1st Year of Spotfire
We use it for both ad-hoc analysis and for creating dashboards that are used at various levels.
- Pulls in data from a variety of sources
- Quick and nice looking visualizations
- Filtering and slicing up data to see different metrics
- Limited variety of specializations
- Limited ability to set some preferences (lines on tables, how labels appear, etc.)
- Some features are buried in non-intuitive places
October 09, 2017
Spotfire from a developer's perspective.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Spotfire is an analytical tool more than a reporting tool. It is highly customizable via its API but it has enough out-of-the-box features to get the job done.
- It does some data management, but it is recommended to have the backend data clean and in place for great and reliable output. It has many statistical functions so adding columns on the fly is a breeze.
- Spotfire is referred to within the analytics community as "Excel on steroids".
- It is a great tool for highly interactive visualizations and drill down.
- Many features are hidden and hard to find, but like the new version of MS Office with the ribbon replacing menus and toolbars, it's all about experience and learning the interface.
October 05, 2017
Spotfire - Analytical Tool
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- We are an energy consulting firm and we use Spotfire to analyze streams of real-time energy trading data for deal analytics, forecasting and risk management.
- Spotfire is an amazing analytical tool which will help you pick up data from multiple databases and spreadsheets and create graphical and analytical diagrams that will help businesses in several ways to understand their systems throughput, number of exceptions, etc.
- One of the big advantages offered by the product is real-time analysis. There is no time lag between availability of trading data and analysis. The systems allows us to analyze large amounts of trading data in real-time.
- It is restricted to input from databases and spreadsheets
September 11, 2017
Spotfire Meets Our Needs, Across the Organization
Spotfire is being used by several departments across the organization. Spotfire provides us with the ability to create visualizations and dashboards from the data that we have collected. In addition, it allows us to build and deploy complex predictive models. The business problems that it solves are: 1) what are the characteristics of our device performance and can we see/understand aberrations in that activity, and; 2) what do our financials look like and how are we as an organization performing, what are the issues we face, and, can we project/forecast upcoming performance and issues.
- Easy to get data into Spotfire, and to combine data from many sources.
- Easy to create and edit visualizations to meet the needs of the issue and/or end user.
- Dashboards can be built that deliver insight along with flexibility to allow end users some capabilities to explore the visualizations or customize the inquiry.
- Can provide or deploy advanced analytical models.
- There is a need for additional graph types. The visualization set that comes with Spotfire is becoming rather limited.
- Working with R is rather difficult.
- There is no ability for text display visualization; a word cloud or similar would be useful.
August 29, 2017
Spotfire Review
Only a small portion of the organization has system access. The analytics team uses Spotfire to analyze product data and support manufacturing investigations.
- It's really easy to create interactive visualizations
- Can quickly merge different data tables and manipulate the data using pivots and other transformations
- Great design and aesthetics
- Sometimes runs slowly when working with large data sets
- It's difficult to add additional files after you've already performed a transformation on the data
August 18, 2017
Love the Spotfire.
We are using the Spotfire Platform in support of several of our government customers. One customer already had the software available and we showed them how they could use it effectively, while another customer is only using the software because we recommended it. We use it to help the customer see and explore their data in different ways. This software will help our customers make decisions that will affect their entire organizations.
- It is fast to go from data to visualizations, whether you are using the Cloud Work Group environment or the full Spotfire Server implementation.
- The visualizations are easy to configure and generally can explain the same data in different ways, which is appealing.
- Being able to mashup different disparate data sources has been the saving grace for us. We don't need to house the same data in a single database. We can pull what we need from each to create a useful decision support visualization.
- Scripting support is lacking in documentation and features.
- More charting types and integration with things like D3.js.
- More control over the underlying HTML, CSS and JavaScript would be fantastic. Customers want this integrated into their existing sites.
August 03, 2017
Best tool on the market for data mining and data analysis!
Currently I am in progress of implementing the Spotfire globally in OMV E&P due to the fact that the product brings flexibility in visualization and data mining. The product will be used to create visualizations/analysis which will support decision makers to make the right decision at the right time. It adresses the entire OMV E&P investment portfolio.
- Main strengths are easy configurable graphs/visualizations
- Fast filtering and accessible data mining
- Easy deployment on web for users' access
- Easy configurable user access levels
- Preconfigured creaming curves graphs (at the moment you need to build several formulas in order to build such a graph)
- Preconfigured waterfall graphs
- Drill up and down functionalities on all graphs allowing the user to drill from one tab to the other (currently partially available)
July 10, 2017
Satisfied with Spotfire
At Tapstone, Spotfire is primarily used to quickly visualize and amalgamate data used by other programs or from Excel documents that is stored in bulky table formats that are not optimally useful in their raw state. Spotfire aids in our ability to quickly summarize data into useful information, and point us in the direction of a useful drill down.
- Spotfire's marking capibilities on line charts make it very easy to identify associated points on cluttered line graphs.
- Spotfire's filtering makes it very easy to boil analyses down to specific subsets of data, and then build them back up to whole again.
- Spotfire has the capability to link to many different data sources, making it relatively easy to keep an analysis up to date by linking to a live data source.
- As an Excel user, it is an odd transition to shift from thinking in terms of cells to thinking in terms of tables and columns. Some things that would be intuitively easy with Excel (adding 4 random cells from a document by clicking on each of the 4 cells) become much more complicated when you have to think in terms rows and tables only.
- When linking multiple live data sources together, then adding calculated columns to those data sources, then moving columns from one data table to another in one project, Spotfire can take a long time to open a project. It is also relatively easy to end up with a document that does not calculate the intended results in the most efficient way, and methods to troubleshoot inefficiencies are not always immediately obvious.
- Scatter plot line formatting could be more customizable. By default, Spotfire wants to use the same line type for each series in a scatter plot, and it is not easy for this user to figure out if there is a way to change line types per series on a chart.
June 30, 2017
Spotfire is outstanding
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Spotfire is used in the whole organization for every kind of analysis (from sales to supply) and replaced all other solutions we had.
- Predictive Analytics for trading and pricing
- Visual Analytics
- OLAP
- More visual alternatives
June 27, 2017
Spotfire Review
We use Spotfire to create dashboards and visualize the available data. Before Spotfire we used Cognos. The company recently started using Spotfire. After a review of our project they will decide to go further with the software and possibly create more dashboards with the application.
- Nice colors
- Customize a table with scripting
- Multiple tabs
- The HTML isn't working that well
- More information about scripting would be nice
- Exporting a visualization to Excel with color coding would be nice. The colors in your table visualization are lost after an export to Excel
May 20, 2017
Spotfire - Data Analysis for Data Users
We use Spotfire as an internal tool (within our business group) for analysis and integration of large energy industry data sets. As we add new types of data to these data sets, we can easily create new data visualizations in Spotfire.
We also use Spotfire to deliver self-service data visualization to our clients.
We also use Spotfire to deliver self-service data visualization to our clients.
- Spotfire is very good at combining data from multiple sources, such as from database queries, files, and web-based data sources. We make use of data from all of these sources, and this is a key feature.
- Spotfire provides a good expression language for performing calculations using the data that has been loaded into a Spotfire document. The expression language makes it easy to write calculations that can be reused. Additionally, expressions can be stored in document properties, providing a centralized set of calculations for easy (and error free) reuse throughout a Spotfire document.
- The IronPython scripting language makes it possible to create fully-automated work flows, automate the creation of standard visualizations, and provide user-specific Spotfire documents.
- Although the IronPython scripting language is very useful, you need to understand the Spotfire API to make full use of the scripting language. The API documentation could be improved to be more readable and understandable.
- The scatter plots need to be able to support multiple data sets on both the X and Y axes, and the axes labels should have more options, such as which side of the plot the labels appear on.
May 10, 2017
Spotfire in Industry!
Spotfire is used across the organisation in a number of departments. It is used on a variety of platforms including self-service and managed IT platforms. It is used largely as a reporting tool. It is used to create dashboards, applications and it is used for forecasting.
- It is very easy to use.
- It is interactive.
- It is a robust tool.
- It manages large amounts of data well.
- In the creation of information links - this needs to be made more robust to allow for more complex SQL queries.
- In Data Preparation - Ability to stage data.
- How Document Properties are organised can be improved.
April 24, 2017
Spotfire is a very powerful and useful tool
[it's] used for analysis of oil and gas properties and wells. It manages very large datasets (hundreds of thousands of wells.)
- Used to visualize information in a specific manner.
- Used to help make business decisions on the fly by showing dynamic information.
- Managing massive datasets
- Dynamically allowing analysis of information
- Visualizing data
- Pane sizing can be difficult
- Formatting of fonts/info/data types is limited
April 19, 2017
Amazing tool for analyzing data
Spotfire is used by the exploration team at our small exploration and production company. It simplifies our data analysis and creates more in-depth opportunities for data that previously seemed useless. We can easily keep track of large amounts of data and visually display results in a useful way. The mapping component is a huge help in focusing our exploration efforts where we have the best understanding of the geology.
- Easily plot data and edit graphs - much more capable than Excel.
- Mapping is a key feature.
- The support is outstanding, great customer service.
- The software is not intuitive. Finding menus can be a challenge.
- Help options are limited.
Spotfire is being used by a specific department, namely Procurement. It is used to raise visibility of performance metrics as well as historical data housed in SAP BW HANA. An example of historical data is volume and price information. Spotfire enables us to quickly drill down into a specific material and understand how much product we have purchased and at what price.
- Spotfire is oriented to the design of dashboards, not single visualizations. There is no need to design visualizations and then take them to a different "worksheet" where the layout needs to be further designed. I like the ability to design visualizations in the same place where these will be consumed, i.e., as dashboard elements.
- Markings and Bookmarks are two powerful elements of Spotfire. Markings make the sharing of filters across visualizations intuitive and flexible. Bookmarks are extremely powerful, allowing you to create stories and share insights based on custom views.
- The in-memory engine is super fast. As long as the data is loaded in the workbook, calculations are extremely fast.
- Cross-tables are very easy and powerful in Spotfire.
- The calculations syntax is not very intuitive and in some cases, very complicated. The calculation editor does not give you good feedback as to why your calculation syntax is off.
- Designing dashboards for multiple devices is a headache. There is no built-in way to design for different layouts and ensure dashboards can be consumed seamlessly on monitors, laptos, and portable devices.
April 10, 2017
Spotfire a great data discovery starting place
We are using Spotfire across the organization to visualize diverse oil and gas datasets together to enable performance-based analytics across multiple functions (drilling and completions, base business/operations, finance, asset development, and procurement/supply chain management).
- Quickly visualizing large data sets
- Excellent data discovery platform
- Quick drill down capabilites
- Python knowledge required even for basic functional utilization