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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…

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How Spotfire Differs From Its Competitors

TIBCO Platform Integration

We did not integrate other TIBCO products with Spotfire to enable additional functionality. We did not need any other products because Spotfire is very easy to use. Ultimately, Spotfire provides a full range of tools that let users accurately evaluate and visualize their data. Spotfire offers a …
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Ideal Data Sources

As a software engineer, I found the installation scripts and documentation for the product to be of great use. I was able to swiftly install TIBCO Spotfire Server and Microsoft SQL Server to provide all of the canceled clients with a prompt response. They appear to be quite happy with TIBCO's Data …
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TIBCO Platform Integration

Yes, we have integrated Spotfire with Tibco Cloud Events and we are getting good results. It helps us to identify meaningful patterns in your organization by using rule inferencing and contextual reasoning, helping you decide the next course of action. Collaborating features allow users to give …
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Ideal Data Sources

The program is excellent for working with large amounts of data and datasets that are grouped together. The software allows us for a lot of modification, which enables bespoke client components, something I don't find with other platforms. We now have a clear picture of the impact of quality …
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TIBCO Platform Integration

Yes, we integrated Spotfire with Spotfire Data Science. This integration boosted our analytics capabilities and improved collaboration among teams, enhancing our overall data-driven insights and decision-making.
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Ideal Data Sources

We'd like to connect our sales database to Spotfire. This would help us analyze sales trends in real-time, optimize strategies, and make data-driven decisions for improved sales performance and customer satisfaction.
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TIBCO Platform Integration

We are integrating Spotfire with other components allowing to have real time data. this help a lot the management to make decisions in a fastly manner. The tool is powerfull enough to customize dashboard using python scripts and R allowing to process and transform data before exploitaition in …
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Ideal Data Sources

Mainly We are using Spotfire drivers to connect to various plate forms, starting with Oracle, Mysql, MariaDB, Microsoft Excel, flat files, ETL for data transformation to make data ready before injection in Dashboards and so on so forth. The impact we would like to see is to have Tibco flexible …
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Ideal Data Sources

terra data and microsoft sequal server. the impact is to have fast reliazlbe accurate and quick data in real time that is constantly updating to be able to make fast decisions and see a holistic view of your market
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TIBCO Platform Integration

Our organization started to integrate and connected Spotfire Streaming with Spotfire. Compared to almost all competitors, I believe it is frustrating to need a separate tool for this capability.
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TIBCO Platform Integration

Our organization does not integrate any additional Spotfire tools. It would be nice to see Jaspersoft or Statistica implemented into the standard process of flow. However, the speed of evolution of these tools outpaces the funding available for software upgrades. You buy a tool only for it to …
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Ideal Data Sources

Our current set up uses MSSQL databases for all raw data on Windows OS. However, the backend uses python scripts to pull data from outdated Excel files and other formats, then update into the database. There are issues with lost data, broken scripts, and unreadable data. It would greatly help this …
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TIBCO Platform Integration

We have integrated spotfire with our reporting took to push data directly into custom templates used to monitor data on a daily basis.<br>This makes it quick to find outliers and rectify the problem in an efficient manner. With this integration we can use spotfire on any machine and have login …
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Ideal Data Sources

Infor EAM CMMS, IBM Maximo, SAP, Databricks, AWS S3, AWS Cloud Watch, AWS fargate, AWS We are already impacting the business automating activities, opening automatically working orders, validating insights back from CMMS to Spotfire.
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Ideal Data Sources

We have connected Spotfire to many of our operational systems, including operations databases, CRM systems, Marketing databases. The power of Spotfire is that it makes it easy to manage large sets of data, to conduct data transforms on those datasets, to join and append data, and then conduct data …
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Ideal Data Sources

We Connect diferent computer maintenance management solutions, CMMS, like Infor EAM and IBM maximo. We Connect to databricks, S3 in AWS, Azure, aura quantic business process management BPM, … We connect in a bidirectional way so that we extract information starting with the CMMS data and intégrate …
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TIBCO Platform Integration

We integrated Spotfire with Tibco TDV, Tibco Runtime for R, Spotfire Statistical Services and several internal custom applications to generate the operational reporting, data analysis, and forecasting reporting we want and need to adapt to changing economic conditions. Daily dashboards enable …
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Ideal Data Sources

We use Ms msql and MySQL server. It is easy to establish connections with spotfire to these servers. It provide stable connectivity during data refresh even on direct connection or import data. Spotfire offers flexibility on pulling data like parameterized queries.
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Integrations with other TIBCO products

I have been using Spotfire with some of other Spotfire and TIBCO products too, like Spotfire Data Science and TIBCO Data virtualization. These products are well supported by Spotfire and they come with native integration. For example, TDV needs no specific setup before starting with Spotfire as …
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Cloud Benefits

TIBCO Spotfire Cloud Analyst approach is definitely something great for small and mid sized organizations. To start with any kind of on-premises setup, the organization spend a lot of time and money in achieving economies of scale. They make actual benefits only when they scale at large. However, …
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Cloud Migration

Honestly, as an end user - there will not be much difference. For developers, only a slight changes were there to deal with. We migrated from on-premises structure to hybrid cloud and experience was not much different for usage and performance.
However, the real impact was on availability part. The …
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TIBCO Investment Preservation

Yes, we were able to do so. Challenging part was adaptation of newer cost model.
In on-premises approach, we needed to incur a heavy investment in initial phase of establishment only and needed to spend time to achieve economies . Also, the operations was difficult because regardless of analysis …
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Future Proofing

I would say, they were mostly there; not completely. When we adapt to the new structure, the costs do shoot up with usage at scale. Whatever we were saving on hardware, we ended up investing in services.
Functionality wise, Cloud delivered access and availability; but we had to sacrifice some …
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Customer Feedback

Though there were lot of recommendations were taken up, but not the all required. For example, version for IronPython is still set to 2.7 which is based on Python 2 paradigm. This involves a learning curve for script developers. Need was to adopt a unified standard for all tech in bracket e.g. …
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Integrations with other TIBCO products

We have integrated Spotfire with actions on a demo basis, which provides considerable flexibility on the ability to perform detailed database updates without leaving Spotfire.
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Cloud Benefits

The Spotfire cloud is beneficial for business users who need a lightweight solution to access various reports. It also helps to keep loading times relatively quick, even for those with slower connection speeds. There are some occasional performance issues with vague errors. The only reason I was …
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Future Proofing

Spotfire has continued to investment significantly into their cloud capabilities. I have found these solutions to diversify Spotfire's usage away from just the traditional analytics front and allow improved enterprise reporting for non-technical personnel. The lightweight client makes it easy to …
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Customer Feedback

The times where I've provided feedback, they have usually mentioned that I was not the first to make a request for a specific feature. Usually those features are already in development and I see them in 6-12 months.
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Customizable dashboards (294)
    9.1
    91%
  • Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.) (306)
    8.6
    86%
  • Drill-down analysis (289)
    8.3
    83%
  • Formatting capabilities (302)
    7.8
    78%

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Pricing

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Spotfire for Amazon Web Services

$0.99

Cloud
Per Hour (Starting)

Spotfire Cloud - Consumer

$250/yr

Cloud
per seat

Spotfire Cloud - Business Author

$650/yr

Cloud
per seat

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

8.3
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

8.2
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

8.3
Avg 8.4

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.

8.2
Avg 8.1

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.1
Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

7.3
Avg 8.0

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

8.3
Avg 7.9
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Product Details

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.

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

Screenshot of Smart Visual AnalyticsScreenshot of Geospatial AnalyticsScreenshot of Intelligent Data WranglingScreenshot of Point-and-click Data ScienceScreenshot of Real-time Streaming Analytics

Spotfire Videos

Intro to Visualizations in Spotfire
Creating a Dashboard in 5 Minutes
Spotfire Application Walkthrough
Advanced Analytics Scripting with Python and R

Spotfire Integrations

Spotfire Competitors

Spotfire Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAvailable in all regions
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, French, German, Portugese, Chinese, Italian

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Tableau Desktop, QlikView, and Microsoft Power BI are common alternatives for 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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July 19, 2022

Spotfire

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
4
Spotfire does have collaboration, but our users could not adapt to it very easily. probably its a training gap or the tools features are not intuitive. We do not use much of the collaboration facilities
October 30, 2017

Spotfire is a very handy software program

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Oil & Energy Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
8
I have only shared Spotfire visualizations a couple times with other Spotfire users, because not many of my peers have the software. But when I did share, it was very simple. It is also very simple to convert a visualization to a PDF or into a PowerPoint. I have done both of these many times.
October 26, 2017

Spotfire - All in one tool for reporting, analytics and dashboards

Verified User
Consultant in Other
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
10
Using the Spotfire Web Player it is very quick and easy to create and share reports, insights, etc. with many different users inside and outside the organisation. Using Tibco automation servces reports can be distributed to many different users in different formats.
September 11, 2017

Spotfire Meets Our Needs, Across the Organization

Tim Daciuk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tim Daciuk
Product Manager - Mobile Computing Analytics Cloud Platform
Zebra Technologies (Computer Hardware, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
9
We have a need to share a lot of reports and dashboard access. Spotfire has met these needs and gives us the ability to flexibly create and distribute shared resources across teams. Spotfire has worked with us to support our security model for access to the reports and dashboards that we have created. We are currently moving to Single Sign On and it would appear that this will be no issue with Spotfire.
August 03, 2017

Best tool on the market for data mining and data analysis!

Razvan Bulgariu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Razvan Bulgariu
Senior Portfolio Planner
OMV (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
10
From an access perspective the tool is great, easy deployment on the web, and easy setup of the user access levels. It has a user friendly interface. Anyone can do it with minimal or no training. It's very intuitive.
July 10, 2017

Satisfied with Spotfire

Brock Robertson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brock Robertson
Reservoir Engineer
Tapstone Energy (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
7
I have collaborated on only a handful of projects so my experience is minimal. From what I have experienced I have two noteworthy comments. First, I have worked side by side with a coworker taking turns making changes in a project, and this worked fine. We were both able to make and save changes without issue. Second, I wanted a few coworkers with no Spotfire experience to interact with an analysis I had put together, but they did not have any Spotfire license, and thus were not able to do so - which is a minor annoyance with an obvious solution.
December 09, 2016

Spotfire

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
7
The IT [team] did create a single sign on feature for each client. And Spotfire has its own platform to share a dashboard to users; it is very customizable.
September 03, 2016

Spotfire - the best kept secret in Business Intelligence & Analytics!

Verified User
Manager in Corporate
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
8
It isn't as good as Qlik in session sharing and the print functionalities of the web client are terrible to the point we will build our own printing engine (probably worst thing I can say about Spotfire - web player printing) for the distribution of hard copies. The bookmarking is excellent but without good printing and session sharing it comes in a distant second to Qlik. Access control is excellent however it's permissions structure is not adequate if you need a user to be a member of multiple groups to access an analysis. We would like to be able to set the permissions to be either AND or OR for the attached security groups at the bare minimum (e.g. must be in AD-GROUP-CORPORATE AND AD-GROUP-DOCTORS) to see what is in that folder. Currently membership of only 1 group gets you in and you have to use nested folder layers. We have built our own ad hoc analysis functionality that helps somewhat to get around this limitation... but it still needs to be addressed.
April 15, 2016

Spotfire, Simple and Visually Aesthetic

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
9
I like Spotfire because it is easily publishable to the web to give our clients their necessary dashboards and can be updated in real-time. This is helpful because we don't have to constantly send our client a dashboard each week, rather they can just refresh the data and get exactly what they are looking for.
April 07, 2016

Spotfire keeps up the heat on readily accessible analytics for business users.

Willy Nunn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Willy Nunn
Technical Director
Toray Plastics (America), Inc. (Plastics, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
9
Spotfire provides multiple ways to share data across multiple user groups. It's simple to publish any analytics file to the library to allow other users to interact with the data. Multiple platforms (web application, mobile applications, and desktop) all provide similar amounts of capability to interact with the data. Bookmarking allows sharing of individual views with filters, marking, and formatting.
April 06, 2016

Highly visual proximity to the data for an advanced analyst

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Chemicals Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
6
Most of our people wanted Excel spreadsheets in an e-mail, and we're small enough that I didn't have analysts to collaborate with. There is a "Bookmark" feature, but not much space to describe what you bookmarked and why. The Bookmark also had a tendency to crash my reports. Also, there is no way to write an annotation directly on, or hover a textbox, on top of or next to a visualization to point out the interesting thing you were looking at. You could create a text field, where I'd keep a running log of the things you'd see on that page, but it wasn't really collaborative.
April 01, 2016

Very robust visualization system!

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Industrial Automation Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Collaboration and Sharing
10
We use this a lot. Different users consume the data via the web browser. We have different level access for managers, and project managers to see different visualizations that affect their business units. The ability to have named users is great to manage the access. Also, having different creators is useful for us.
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