Overview
What is Spotfire?
Spotfire® is a data visualization platform that utilizes predictive analytics. In addition to data viz, it includes data wrangling capabilities, predictive analytics, location analytics, and real-time streaming analytics. Spotfire® is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, formerly known…
Flexible, fast and effective data analytics tool.
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Fast and Accurate Market decision making
Insightful Manufacturing Process Interogation
Feels like a BI-Tool on Steroids
Spotfire is a powerful Visualization Tool.
Spotifire is spot-on!
Very good with visualizations
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Spotfire for the Energy Industry
Very good interactive inmersive analytics for predictive maintenance
Powerful BI Platform, but Requires IT Support
Reliable and always available SaaS BI tool to handle easily massive amount of data
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Popular Features
- Customizable dashboards (294)9.191%
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (306)8.787%
- Drill-down analysis (289)8.383%
- Formatting capabilities (302)7.878%
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Pricing
TIBCO Spotfire for Amazon Web Services
$0.99
TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Consumer
$250/yr
TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Business Author
$650/yr
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 8Pixel Perfect reports(30) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 9.1Customizable dashboards(294) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 7.9Report Formatting Templates(258) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 8.3Drill-down analysis(289) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 7.8Formatting capabilities(302) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 8.3Integration with R or other statistical packages(224) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 8.5Report sharing and collaboration(274) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 8.2Publish to Web(228) Ratings
- 8.6Publish to PDF(267) Ratings
- 8Report Versioning(18) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 8.4Report Delivery Scheduling(178) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
Data Discovery and Visualization
Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.
- 8.7Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(306) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 8.4Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(271) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 8.1Predictive Analytics(234) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
- 7.6Pattern Recognition and Data Mining(8) Ratings
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 8.7Multi-User Support (named login)(241) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 8.5Role-Based Security Model(206) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 7.8Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(228) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
- 7.4Report-Level Access Control(8) Ratings
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 7.9Responsive Design for Web Access(177) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 7.6Mobile Application(126) Ratings
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
- 7.5Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(148) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another
- 8.3REST API(71) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
- 8.3Javascript API(70) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
- 8.4iFrames(54) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
- 8.2Java API(57) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
- 8.2Themeable User Interface (UI)(69) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
- 8.5Customizable Platform (Open Source)(60) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Product Details
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What is 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)
Spotfire Screenshots
Spotfire Videos
Spotfire Integrations
Spotfire Competitors
Spotfire Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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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 |
Spotfire Downloadables
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Reviews and Ratings
(813)Attribute Ratings
- 8.2Likelihood to Renew29 ratings
- 9Availability14 ratings
- 7.1Performance14 ratings
- 8Usability27 ratings
- 8.7Support Rating27 ratings
- 8.8Online Training55 ratings
- 7.3In-Person Training52 ratings
- 8Implementation Rating17 ratings
- 7.1Configurability3 ratings
- 7Product Scalability4 ratings
- 7Ease of integration2 ratings
- 5Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 5Vendor post-sale1 rating
- 8Data Visualization4 ratings
- 9.3Data Sources36 ratings
- 8.2Data Sharing and Collaboration36 ratings
- 4Tibco Spotfire Smart Recommendations9 ratings
- 8Tibco Spotfire Data Wrangling8 ratings
- 6Tibco Spotfire R Engine7 ratings
- 8.1Tibco Spotfire Mapping30 ratings
Reviews
(251-275 of 335)Spotfire in the Spotlight
- Visualizations: clear, user-friendly, multiple options.
- Web player: great to share information across company, especially with those that don't use the desktop version.
- Layout: lots of options, you can personalize the page to look however you need it to.
- Bookmarks: it can be difficult to use bookmarks, and sometimes hard to keep track of which ones I have worked and which I haven't (even though it gives me a time update).
- Formatting between a desktop screen and a laptop screen: the view always is more condensed on our laptops, and I'm not really sure why - it would be great if it looked the same!
- Well suited when there is a lot of data or you want to show a variety of visualizations.
- Not well suited with a little bit of data or if you don't have time to set up the visualizations how you want them to look. Sometimes if you have a lot of different data sources, it can also be confusing. Be sure that calculated columns are how you want them to be!
My thoughts on Spotfire
- Ease of use and you can change filters on the fly. I've created visualizations in a few seconds during presentations based on feedback from the audience
- It's more stable and doesn't crash my computer like Excel does.
- Add more visual themes
- Make the visualizations look more refined
Spotfire
- Ease of use. I can quickly build a prototype to show business users what their data will look like.
- General training. When I was new to Spotfire I took a few of their training classes. They were very good and covered a lot of information.
- Flexibility in reporting. The ability to filter and mark your data allows any user the ability to start at a high level and quickly and easily drill down to a small data set.
- HTML content. I would like to be able to easily insert visualizations into a text area.
- Filtering dialog content across multiple tables. This is always hard to set up across multiple tabs and tables.
- Report templates. You can start from another report or apply styles now but there is no way to start a new report with a group of setting already applied.
- Visualization. Spotfire is behind some of the other vendors in the number of charts available to use in a report. There are no gages or area charts.
The tool was designed for interactive access and does not have the ability to burst custom reports out to a large number of users.
Data Analytics in a Click
- The ability to import and analyze very large amounts of data very quickly.
- The ease of creating professional looking charts and reports.
- A simple user interface that makes it easy for new users to pick up using the basics, but still offers experienced users almost endless possibilities.
- The mapping capabilities are lacking. I would like to have a greater ability to manipulate the appearance of the data on the map.
- I have also noticed that some functions are limited in their use if using data linked to a SQL database. This is referring to actual functions like if one is trying to create a calculated column.
- It would be nice to be able to create an additional data table within Spotfire based on linked data from multiple sources.
Strong Software, Support could be better
- Allows exploration of multiple datasets that are connected in different ways.
- Allows fast preliminary exploration of a dataset.
- Allows for the exploration of the results of large simulations and experiments.
- Hard to integrate with scripting languages, for example python, matlab, R.
- Not clear how to handle in-memory and out-of-memory processing for large scale data.
- Documentation could be better.
- Providing multiple different avenues to connect to structured data and providing the option to sit on top of the data or embedding data into the analysis.
- Location analytics (maps) have been greatly improved in the latest versions of Spotfire.
- Very steep learning curve.
- Although I am an advanced user, it can be daunting for a new user. Almost too much functionality. Too bad there is not a Spotfire basic for the new user.
- Area charts like in Excel are missing.
- Any analysis that utilizes more than a few hundred data points will benefit from Spotfire.
- Any analysis that you don't know what you are looking for. You can easily create multiple different views to analyze data.
- Any analysis using structured data currently residing in databases
- Advanced users can do on-the-fly analysis of data which is very impressive
- Not useful for basic graphs. Leave that to Excel.
A great software for data visualization
- It's flexible for visualizing the data and saves you a lot of time.
- Allows you to make complex plots that would be difficult to make using other tools.
- Making moving average plots is too difficult, and I have not found any helpful information through the "help" option in Spotfire.
- There are no 'basic' tutorials for the main functions, or at least I have not found them.
- When I export a figure, the resolution is not good, regardless of the format used. This has created some problems when generating high-resolution figures for publication.
- Connecting to various data sets, the ability to have the data connections in the information designer is a huge plus.
- The ability to set up and manipulate the query in information designer and use it over and over.
- The ability to add columns and/or rows from data sources.
- It could be more flexible with the formatting of the analytics.
- I do not like that if a mistake is made in the path of a file, you must replace the data and do all the transformations over. Seems it would make more sense to provide a place to just correct the path.
- The ability to do more than one transformation at a time would be nice. For example, changing column names.
Best data discovery/analytics software on the market
- Data Discovery
- Big data analytics
- Forecasting
- Statistics
- Real-time modeling
- Some changes in formatting
Spotfire Newbie
- Dashboards
- Data Visualizations
- Mapping
- More user workshops, webinars and complimentary classes. Specifically on data visualization and tips and tricks.
Unique tool for rapid visualization in high dimensions
- Rapid visualization of data: Very little setup from data to visualization (even compared with Excel).
- Extremely flexible visualization capabilities: Drag and drop features alone easily provide for visualization beyond 3-dimensions. Together with custom functions, Spotfire offers rapid high dimensional visualization capabilities.
- Steep learning curve for the extremely rich drag-and-drop features that are not always obvious.
- Steep learning curve for custom function capabilities that are not intuitive at all. TIBCO trainings are almost a must in order to take full advantage of these capabilities.
Business analytics made simple!
- Advanced visualization.
- It can connect to all a variety of data sources and also integrate with other software like R, Python, Matlab etc., to enhance the usability.
- Easy to publish for any user to view through a web player without any need to install software.
- Some features or visualization demand that the data be embedded and it cannot work for external data.
- Axis scale adjustments for multiple scales are not that great.
- Exported visualizations to PDF or others don't look that good.
Your data needs Spotfire!
- Spotfire can advance very well on the mature analytics curve. We can diagnose, measure and predict using OOB functions or extend the power of Spotfire developing application in R to be processed by TERR.
- The interface is very clean is much easier to understand for endpoint clients, like a business user. They can start analysing data very fast!
- Spotfire can publish and share users insights very fast. It provides some nice collaboration tools to work together with your colleagues and make nice and beautiful results.
- Would be nice if mapchart were able to use custom images instead of default shapes. Most of customers ask for this.
- The interface could be more flexible instead of the "window like" arrangement. I mean, it will be nice if we can overlap some components.
- The transformations need some easier way to edit. I know it's not easy to implement but many customers ask for this, indeed.
New User of Spotfire Review
- Automated reports/dashboards with the ability to save to a PowerPoint.
- Customizable visualizations.
- Allows senior leadership to modify reports as they desire.
- We are still learning more about this product and haven't seen many cons. More information on Information Links may be needed.
- Data integration with teh vast number of data sources.
- Fast data rendering - no delay in data loading.
- API for customization.
- API is not well documented.
- Licensing fees too high.
- Client is heavy on the desktop hardware.
Spotfire is pretty intuitive, user friendly data analysis and visualization software
- Ease of data raw data import for analysis, accepts variety of data files.
- Visualization, useful for presentations.
- Access to custom calculations to add new columns
- Better access to visualization feature, better graphical interface
- Could make calculations easier to use, simplify the syntax for people with non-programming background
- Application load times could be improved. Very often Spotfire hangs after 24 hours of use.
- Intuitive visualization
- Support numerous visualization method
- Can incorporate other programming language, such as R, to make the development more versatile.
- Provide internet access to end users.
- The language about how to use marking sometimes is confusing
- Statistical analysis more depends on external language.
- Information link sometimes doesn't behave as expected.
Spotfire - a great data visualization tool
- Spotfire is excellent at taking multiple data sources and combining them into a single space where they can be viewed through various charts, tables, and other visualizations.
- Filtering allows the user to drill down to exactly the data that needs to be used for a specific analysis.
- The ability to add calculated columns in Spotfire allows users to combine data sets quickly and easily without having to change the source data.
- The ability to use complex formatting in certain visualizations is lacking. For example, on a line chart you can choose to make all lines solid, or all lines dashed, but not a combination of the two.
- Novice users may not realize that certain data is being filtered out of their analysis. A large symbol somewhere on the page indicating that filters are being applied may prevent incorrect analysis.
Struggling first time Spotfire user
- Handles working with large amounts of data. I access a relative small database with about 5000 records. I have to chart multiple features of the data and use Spotfire together with Access to accomplish this.
- Filter and groups data. Grouping and filtering data in charts on the fly helps make sense of data.
- Easy to update data.
- I have yet to get into using vba and programming with Spotfire. My company is a version or two behind the latest version of Spotfire and I find the training material on line for Spotfire is focused on the current version of Spotfire, so getting the examples of work with our version has been challenging.
Quick Review of Spotfire
It addresses cost analysis, production surveillance, data management and exploration.
- As an agnostic platform it gives you the ability to connect to many different data sources so that you can maximize your analysis through hosting all necessary avenues of data in one location.
- Gives you the ability to drill down to uncover hidden insights within the data.
- Uses R which gives the user the ability to create models using advanced data functions to tackle complicated business problems.
- The main thing I hear [about] is the aesthetics on some of the charts because they are used to seeing it a certain way in Excel and having more control.
- Being able to modify the details that are involved in the source information.
- Multiple scales on the line chart.
Spotfire For Automotive Manufacturing
- Integration of different data sources.
- Great user experience - easy to implement and use.
- Interactivity.
- I would like to have more ability to calculate things (not just trough calculated columns).
- Ability to somehow implement hard inputs for visualizations.
Spotfire - a solid BI application
- When designing reports it is easy to change between the different the visual diagrams.
- The formatting capabilities are extremely detailed, which makes the visual appearances the best in the business.
- The export to PowerPoint feature works, but doesn't have the same visual appearance as the visuals in the report. Would be great if you could hand-pick or mark which visuals to include in the PowerPoint before actually exporting. This would keep the consistency of the PowerPoint reporting.
- One feature which I have been missing is the ability to only show part of some data in a visualization, without using the zoom feature. Using the zoom shows the zoomslider, and limiting data or filtering data away changes the statistics which I would like to keep. So what I am looking for is something that doesn't have the zoom slider displayed, but works in the same way. This will for example make it possible to show 2015 and 2016, but not 2014 and 2017. If you could also enter a offset you could make it only look at two and one year back in time relative to the current year, without hardcoding which years to not show.
Spotfire is a great BI tool and the company is very happy with the results given by this tool
- Give us a fancy way to present information
- Give us a quick way to detect issues
- Give us the possibility to drill down inside the information as needed
- In the inventory side to detect materials with inventory days more that expected according the type of each material
- In the billing side, give us the visibility to know the amount to be finalized and detect the areas with more opportunities
- In the financial side, is important to know how the company (and each department) is doing against the budget and YAGO
Is well suited to analyze information and drill down the information as needed, to detect areas with issues or gains. It is user-friendly, users prefer to use this tool once they can be more productive.
Is less appropriate in the case when presented in different devices automatically (we need work on the development side).
Spotfire: Easy to Dive in, A Little Harder to Master
- Creating aesthetically pleasing visualizations is immensely easier than Excel. Also, the Spotfire interface is similar enough to Excel that our engineers did not have any trouble learning the new software.
- Slicing the data to perform different aggregations is one of the most elegant aspects of Spotfire. The GUI that drives the underlying SQL server is designed and implemented very well. It appears like a normal "What You See Is What You Get", but all of the commands performed using the mouse can be found as properties within the analysis file, allowing easy modifications of the default properties.
- Spotfire is very fast. It utilizes multi-threading to perform calculations on and rendering of hundreds of thousands of records in seconds and never interrupts the GUI, allowing the user to merrily continue working on the analysis.
- Several of the visualizations are visually similar to what a user would be familiar with if they have used Microsoft Office charts. However, the Spotfire versions do not allow for the customization of some of the basic appearance properties. For example, there is a visualization that looks like a table, but you are not able to change the text alignment within the cells (I believe the latest version of Spotfire has added this feature).
Spotfire is worth it!
- Quick to use/high visibility.
- Easy to filter out any unnecessary data.
- Easy to present data to other groups such as maintenance to resolve issues.
- Graphs are superb!
- If possible use some of Excel's formulas in the cells.
- The ability to monitor input data and if data is added, Spotfire would recognize it and alert that data is now modified.