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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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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.
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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(812)Attribute Ratings
- 8.3Likelihood to Renew
- 9Availability
- 7.1Performance
- 8Usability
- 8.7Support Rating
- 8.8Online Training
- 7.3In-Person Training
- 8Implementation Rating
- 7.1Configurability
- 7Product Scalability
- 7Ease of integration
- 5Vendor pre-sale
- 5Vendor post-sale
- 8Data Visualization
- 9.3Data Sources
- 8.2Data Sharing and Collaboration
- 4Tibco Spotfire Smart Recommendations
- 8Tibco Spotfire Data Wrangling
- 6Tibco Spotfire R Engine
- 8.1Tibco Spotfire Mapping
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July 19, 2022
Spotfire
Spotfire is being used as an Enterprise level Business Intelligence Platform.Our data is being fed from various different ERP's and a ETL team is transforming the data in a way it can be consumed by spotfire. During the design phase the spotfire and ETL teams come together and create a model where certain things will be handled in spotfire and most of them in the warehouse. Spotfire is a very robust tool, pulling lots of data with less columns ,makes no harm and gives ideal results.
- Spotfire has a great Geo Analytics platform where Geo-coding is automatically performed from version 6.0 and complex geoanalytics problems can be solved in combination with the Tibco Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR) engine, if the company has R language expertise
- Spotfire has some cool inbuilt functions available through which we do not have to do manual calculations like Total,%Cumulative Sum,YOY,MOM QOQ kind of stuff, and lots other functions which make life simpler
- Iron python scripting is an advantage but, of course, tricky initially if you do not have experience, but it can simplify users' lives if used properly
- Scheduled updates and caching. If we are trying to get the dashboards up in a flash , this feature is useful
- One more important thing in the latest version, is the business author piece on the web player where business users can develop their own stuff on Web, this is a good start and hope to see this developed further
- Spotfire is coming up with new Mobile Metrics platform, i.e. it is responsive on mobile devices
- Also there is a new KPI chart which can be very useful for Executive reporting.
- Customizability on the Analyst end: Spotfire is a good tool, but there are a few points where it should improve. I cannot hide an object like a tab or visualization r
- Data Load speed at the analyst level, I somehow feel when i try to load data in the analyst level it loads slow and while using at webplayer because of the schedule updates it runs fast. I know there is the caching concept, but it is unlike QlikView whichgives a great performance with the desktop version as well. I would expect the same to happen here
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I have used Tableau & Qlikview. I felt QlikView is very IT & Developer friendly with great customizable options and a great scope of scalability. Tableau with the limited use i did, I felt was very easy to use for simpler operations but for a larger complex operations I felt Spotfire & QlikView were more appropriate. But honestly, at the ease of use level, I felt Tableau was quite a bit more user friendly than Spotfire & QlikView.
We have more than 800 users and user types mainly include Analysts who develop the dashboards, CIO Office, Metric Managers, and field executives.
- Positive: Business uses these tools for day to day operations, saving time
- Negative: Usability can be little more intuitive
- No Training
The only training was from the developers, there was no official training for users...The impact was huge..we spent a lot of time explaining users each area of the tool, this was very cumbersome.
yes it was easy to learn, but the advantage of working with a different BI tool, you can get hold of this too fast, over a period of time there were hurdles but we used to have intermediate sessions from the company (which stopped now) on the new features and releases, there is also a lot of webinar series organized by the company, joining them once a month solves many technical problems(but nothing specific for our organization). Ofcourse there is the Spotfire forum, where most of your encountered problems are already discussed. If its a new problem we need to get creative and read the documentation which is good.
We definitely evaluated few products , but the existing range of products what we had in our organization met our business needs and real reason to adopt another Spotfire product did not arise in our case.
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- Prior Experience with the Product
With the same data set, would like to build dashboards on multiple tools and see the usability and customer xperieince.
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- Track weekly progress
- Actionable insights from the data
- Predict the future outcomes
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.
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Spotfire is used company wide by approximately 30 consultants. We have a few data scientists that makes use of the more advanced features.
I found Spotfire easier to use.
November 10, 2014
Insight into Spotfire
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have helped Oil & Gas clients in implementing several Drilling, Completions, Production, Surveillance, Reserves and O & G Accounting Use Cases. Some of these analyses help users analyze near real-time data; others are previous day or weekly/Quarterly/Annual data. Data Relationships and Statistical analysis is another popular areas amongst Geologists, Engineers and Engineering Techs.
- Enables you to visualize and analyze data.
- Perform predictive analytics based on statiscal models.
- Interaction with the data which enables slicing & dicing of the data based on specific requirements which can be very fluid and change from hour to hour
- Share analyses with other team members, partners and vendors.
- Connect to disparate data sources for analysis.
- Run more interactive sessions/meetings without having to say, "I'll get back to you on that".
- It's an interactive visualization and BI tool, so if you are looking to generate static formatted reports or invoices then this is probably not the tool you need.
I work with several different clients so I have seen it being implemented for 20-30 users and I have also seen it being implemented for thousands of users. But one thing is fairly consistent, the user-base grows very rapidly.
The usual suspects:
- Microsoft
- Tableau
- Qlickview
- Microstrategy
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We are a consulting company, so our primary use of the product is to provide consulting and training services to clients.
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Consultants, trainers and installers. Apart from the dedicated resources, we are growing the team with in-house training to support our growing client-base.
- General business intelligence; more specifically, data interaction and visualization.
- Identifying hidden trends, slicing & dicing the data without having to depend on IT or other developers.
- Depending on industry: Predictive Analytics, optimizing production, cost & process efficiencies.
As a part of a consulting company, I have used several products but most recently I have been working on the Microsoft BI stack.
- Implemented in-house
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
It is very easy to use, and a lot of users got started without any formal training. But a formal structured training course definitely compresses the learning period.
Yes
Spotfire is a very important and an intrinsic part of most our clients' core businesses. They cannot afford to not have the backing of qualified individuals to help keep it up and running (even if the product is very robust and doesn't need a great deal of support).
- Several Oil & Gas specific products.
- Microsoft SQL Server.
- Oracle database.
- SAP
- Web Services.
Some integrations are very simple, out-of-the-box. Others require add-ons provided by Spotfire called Advance Data Services and OpenSpirit.
- None that I didn't already mention.
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September 10, 2014
Spotfire
Spotfire is scalable, flexible, intuitive and extremely fast. We were having issues with Tableau performance and decided to trial Spotfire. We noticed the difference right away, and then when I played with the analytical abilities of Spotfire, we decided that Spotfire was the way to go. It's not as eye catching as Tableau but definitely more functional. It is probably the best and fastest data discovery tool in the market.
- Analytics
- Data Discovery since it's fast
- Visualization
Company-wide, but we're a small company of 10-15.
Tableau user for 5 years. While Tableau is excellent for visualization, it falls short with analytics and performance. but if you would have given me both Spotfire and Tableau at the start, I would have chosen Tableau as it is so eye catching and easier to consume. But in a thorough evaluation, Spotfire would win.