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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…
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- Customizable dashboards (294)9.191%
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (306)8.686%
- 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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- 7Product Scalability
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August 14, 2021
Spotfire - Better options available
Score 5 out of 10
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- AspenONE Asset Performance Management (APM)
I haven’t tried any other tools by TIBCO. The only tool we use in our company is Spotfire, so my analysis is limited to Spotfire.
July 18, 2021
Spotfire Usage and Functionality Review
Spotfire stacks well in comparison to other BI products and provides a simplified way to manage reporting and visualization requirements.
Spotfire is the best application for power users by virtue of its wide variety of visualizations, incorporated analytics, superior data canvas, and ability to integrate code such as R or Python. The learning curve is steeper and the menus are Windows 7 once you are past some superficial visual improvements. But the power is unmatched.
Tableau has a smoother web publishing platform and user access management. And to create reporting tables, as one might create in Excel, are easier. But it falls down in flexibility and overall analytics power. Power BI is a disaster all around, but it has tight integration with other Microsoft applications.
The only other tool we use in my course is Tableau. Tableau is very popular regionally (Omaha, NE), runs locally on Mac and PC, is free for students and faculty, and has a web outlet for sharing. It also plays well with AWS. For these reasons, we use it as the primary visualization tool in the course. As I mentioned earlier, we use Spotfire as an example of another tool that is popular and excellent. I have found that Spotfire is easier for them to use for many tasks, such as quickly building a visual, adjusting variables and data, and synchronizing charts.
June 28, 2021
Spotfire is an essential data analysis tool.
Spotfire is much more powerful in terms of data visualization and data connections compared to Microsoft Power BI. Mapping and geographic analysis is another area where Spotfire is strong. Perhaps Power BI is the cost effective option. I see both being equally easy to use to onboard new users and clients.
June 25, 2021
Great "all in one" platform
- Microsoft BI
Microsoft learning curve is too high compared to Spotfire.
I have only briefly used Power BI and I found the interface more familiar as it leverages a lot of familiar aspects that come from Excel. However, I did not find it was a clean an interface for visualizations as Spotfire was.
May 13, 2021
Spotfire Review By Beginner User
I've used Verdazo/Visage extensively at my last job. I find it to be a more user friendly software. Though the thing that makes Spotfire potentially far superior is its customization ability, and ability to work on the back end by the user. For example being able to tie data sources, put in formulas for analytics.
January 17, 2021
Basic review
We used Spotfire to look at the software package from Q Engineering.
December 09, 2020
Spotfire requires some effort, but offers the best combination of advanced analytics with data visualization
The advantage of Spotfire over Tableau or Domo is the advanced modeling capabilities. Although Tableau and Domo have created interfaces with R, they are nowhere near as easy to implement as they are in Spotfire. The advantage of Spotfire over SAS Enterprise Miner is the broader range of easily created visualizations that don't require an experienced data scientist. Spotfire, of course, does not have some of the advanced modeling capabilities of say a SAS Enterprise Miner nor the zooming ability that Qlick Sense offers. Overall, it stacks up well.
November 04, 2020
A Strong Tool to Visualize your Data
Although I don't have an extensive history with Tableau, from what I understand, Spotfire offers an overall more complete package of data analysis and data visualization. It's the best of both worlds, if you will. Tableau stands out with its data visualization but is behind Spotfire in terms of data analysis capabilities.
October 30, 2020
Easy to use!
The latest version of Spotfire enables users to join data without any friction. For example, if the column in one table has different prefixes and/or postfixes, the tool would automatically join the two tables together without causing any potential debugging alarm or issues which makes a business analyst's work easy.
October 28, 2020
Advanced and user-friendly business intelligence software
It looks more complete, configurable, and easy to use compared to those.
It is also expandable thanks to the other tools in the Spotfire Suite.
October 27, 2020
Great product!
Spotfire is a very good product and stacks up well against the competition for creating customized dashboards. It also has intuitive capabilities to create visualizations that could help the user see their data. Moreover, it also has a lot of options for customization in terms of data slicing, integrations with statistical languages like R, creating multi-page dashboard views, etc. The reason we selected Spotfire was because of all the features mentioned above and also the pricing which was very competitive compared to its competitors in the market.
July 15, 2020
Spotfire is a great visualization platform and a good first step for a data analytics ecosystem
Found Spotfire more customizable though not as pretty as Tableau when we evaluated in 2016.
We evaluated Power BI and Tableau 4 years ago. Power BI at that time was in its infancy, but over the last 4 years have made huge leaps of improvements. At that time, the two products weren't comparable. Tableau 4 years ago was a very strong product and the acquisition from Salesforce will probably make it even stronger. At that time, Spotfire had more data connectors that were specific to our use case, ie, the ability to connect to OSIsoft PI out of the box and Oracle Essbase. Spotfire also has really good GeoSpatail mapping capability which I think Power BI and Tableau are still lacking. Today, I think the field is very competitive and all are good products when it comes to basic slicing and dicing of data and filtering. I always say whatever I know today about the products is completely different a month or two from now, as they all keep coming out with new functionality.
Spotfire is much user-friendly and able to handle many million rows seamlessly. Automation is so easy. Connecting to various data sources is easy. Upgrade from one version to the latest version is easy.
March 02, 2020
Spotfire is incredibly useful!
They are similar but don't offer some of the specific client login portal capabilities. We needed a centralized platform that allows customization and sign-ins from multiple clients. Additionally, they did not quite have the diverse data source support capabilities that we get from the Spotfire product, which greatly benefits us and allows flexibility in the future.
February 27, 2020
Spotfire will help you Spot that Fire
A few that are not listed are Metabase and ReDash--they are both open source. I like Spotfire the best by far. I was surprised how far behind it Tableau is. I could just never get the feel for Tableau, while I really enjoyed working in Spotfire. The open-source ones are nice too but just not as full-featured as Spotfire. I did not like Power BI by Microsoft, and Knime was just a little clunky and just not what I was looking for.
December 02, 2019
A Good Tool For Advanced Data Visualizations
November 22, 2019
Spotfire makes data life simple
November 18, 2019
Spotfire is the 'go-to' tool for any and all data analysis.
Very easy to use and scales for the enterprise.
October 19, 2019
An intermediate Spotfire user saving our organization $$ and optimizing business processes.
Spotfire has intuitive coding formulae that seem easy to implement and very similar to excel formulae commands. Adding a table and creating visitations/tables is very easy and also intuitive.
October 19, 2019
Spotfire for easy (spatial) data analysis
October 07, 2019
Spotfire fits most
Well, Spotfire was the only tool which could handle our data, we had over 100 Mio rows of data and with Spotfire you could navigate through the dashboard very fast. This was our killer feature. It also makes very nice and modern charts.