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Spotfire

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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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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TIBCO Spotfire Review: Translates Data To Be Visualized For More Effective Understanding
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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 7.9

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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February 20, 2019

Spotfire Cloud - a product with serious limitations.

Verified User
Analyst in Quality Assurance
Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If someone is happy to pay for Spotfire desktop then it's a very good tool for data visualization. The Cloud version is so limiting that it's not worth considering. By offering such limited capabilities in the Spotfire Cloud version is almost putting users off from their products. They should seriously review what they offer in cloud vs desktop versions.
February 13, 2019

Good tool with decent analytic capabilities

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Licensing and costs aside this is a great tool. Although with Microsoft coming up with their analytic capabilities, it will become increasingly difficult to convince decision-makers to have to pay extra for a tool like this.
February 08, 2019

Spotfire

Brandon Doss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brandon Doss
Scientist
Calysta (Biotechnology, 51-200 employees)
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Spotfire is good for visualizing complete data sets and for joining incomplete data sets for visualization. However, we struggle when mathematical manipulations are required prior to visualizing the data. We find ourselves going to Excel, crunching the numbers, and sending a CSV back to Spotfire.
February 01, 2019

Spotfire for rapid drill-down collaborative data visualisation

James Spender | TrustRadius Reviewer
James Spender
Solution Architect
Fifty'Ten Ltd (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Good for a broad range of users who need to get started quickly with data visualization and collaborate and share their data. If they are already familiar with Excel or SAS, then they should find it easy to add data visualizations. If they are familiar with Tableau on the other hand, then they are probably better off sticking with that. It is also much more expensive than PowerBI.
February 01, 2019

Spotfire 10 is amazing!

Verified User
General Manager in Product Management
Oil & Energy Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If I need integration with R or need to use statistical functions, then Spotfire is an ideal tool. However, for a simple visualization dashboard with cross filter capabilities, there are cheaper alternatives out there (Power BI, Altryx etc.).
January 30, 2019

Small guy utilizing a big guy software and getting ahead

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Oil & Energy Company, 1-10 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Working with huge data sets is an awesome tool. This was the major reason I switched from excel to Spotfire and jumped over Microsoft BI. Seeing data loaded quickly without hesitating is awesome. It was a hard decision to add another software application (additional costs) but the results are now showcasing the ease of use.
January 22, 2019

Great results in a short time.

Ricardo Angel Granados López | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ricardo Angel Granados López
Operación de Mercercado Eléctrico Mayorista
Brio Suministro (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you create weekly reports with a lot of data, Spotfire helps you speed up the process and make it easier. If you have a lot of data sources and every one of them has different formatting, you will have to spend a lot of time cleaning the data so Spotfire can read every source and produce the reports.
January 22, 2019

Great Trial Experience

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Oil & Energy Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I found it great for taking in a lot of information about a certain thing geographically, putting it on a map, and allowing the map to be "interactive" in that the flags would show all the details of the item when clicked on, as well as auto-zooming to filtered sections of the map when others are eliminated.
January 22, 2019

One of the Best Data Visualization Softwares

Verified User
Professional in Sales
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Best scenarios - trend analysis, Pareto charts, outliers and a long list of analytic tools. The separation between development and usage with a web server. It is hard and slow to analyze big data because of hardware and software limitations. In any case, I have found Spotfire very useful in my professional career.
January 19, 2019

Spotfire: a great product to get out of the Excel RUT!

Verified User
Professional in Engineering
Mining & Metals Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Spotfire is excellent for delivering reports of data so the end-user can spend more time on data analysis and interpretation and less time on data gathering. It has sufficient capabilities to be able to evolve as the user gains an understanding of the data and explore further opportunities form the data. Spotfire, at this stage, has limitations in the maximum volume of data it can handle and does not do well to guide the general user in optimizing the data retrieval and cleaning that would facilitate better presentation speed. It is not yet well integrated into standard reporting tools. Microsoft Powerpoint and Word, for example, would allow it to replace Excel as a data analysis tool.
January 18, 2019

Spotfire - The Most Efficient Way for a Data Scientist to Fire on all Cylinders

Verified User
Partner in Engineering
Oil & Energy Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is perfect for handling large amounts of data and I have replaced 80% of my Excel usage with Spotfire, while vastly increasing the efficiency and accuracy of my workflow. I have been very pleased with Spotfire.
January 07, 2019

Spotfire for Mid to Large Enterprises

Julie Sebby | TrustRadius Reviewer
Julie Sebby
Data Associate for Advanced Analytics & Emerging Technology
SM Energy Company (Oil & Energy, 501-1000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Spotfire is a good product, and we'll continue to use it. It is expensive relative to other competitors, and a successful launch will require internal support (support from the company, not just support from Spotfire). Therefore, I don't think it's a good fit for smaller companies. However, it is a good tool for larger enterprises who have many data sources that users need to access to. The combination of Spotfire Server, Automation Services, and Web Player make it a powerful enterprise tool.
December 21, 2018

Simplicity and effectiveness are crucial to data organization!

Matthew Thadeio | TrustRadius Reviewer
Matthew Thadeio
Student and family support specialist
Thrive Behavioral Health (Education Management)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Sometimes data can be too much and the question has to be asked “why am I analyzing this”. Those in education sometimes prefer the “less is more” approach and Spotfire allows for both less and more. The capabilities of the program are amazing but can be overwhelming for some.
December 12, 2018

Fast and easy eye-catching advanced dashboards at a unbeateable price

David Baltar Boilève | TrustRadius Reviewer
David Baltar Boilève
Business Analytics - Data Analyst
HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LUCUS AUGUSTI - Ednon (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Spotfire is perfect when you need to make a fast deploy to provide information with very good reports. It's very cost effective and high - performance.
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