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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

Integrations with other TIBCO products

We have integrated it with the TIBCO Jasper report. As we need to generate a few reports that need to be put on scheduled deliveries so that people who take market decisions can have a better understanding and act accordingly. So it actually helped the organization to automate this whole process …
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Integrations with other TIBCO products

We use Spotfire Data Science as well as Spotfire. But the integrated capabilities of Spotfire to run R data functions makes much of the capabilities of Data Science redundant. The Spotfire Data Science interface and output are not contemporary, although the power is obvious. Integration is …
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Integrations with other TIBCO products

We mainly integrate Spotfire with our SQL servers. We have used Spotfire to use our custom data services via Spotfire calls and IronPython API. The feedback loop between data engineering and data analysis and visualization has been key to the success of Enverus. Then to quickly publish the outputs …
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Integrations with other TIBCO products

We did not make integration with any platform itself, all integration is done on backend using database tools. However, we did use some tools inside Spotfire to make our life easier. It wasn't so hard compared to other platforms and even with the Spotfire version update, that are quite often, we …
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Integrations with other TIBCO products

We have not specifically purchased any other add-on products to Spotfire. With that said, we are considering looking at Spotfire X. In addition, we are thinking of using Spotfire for more data wrangling, location analytics, real-time graphics, and real-time streaming of data. Of these, I think the …
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Integrations with other TIBCO products

Automation services and statistics services. We strongly benefited from such integrations, since they gave us the opportunity of automating a lot of formerly manually-operated tasks, therefore reducing our operational costs and use of advanced R scripts in many reports accessed via a web player.
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Integrations with other TIBCO products

We use Tibco's Data Virtualization, Automation Services, and Statistical Services products. We've been trialing the Statistica product for advanced analytics and it works really well with Spotfire. When you mark/filter data in Spotfire, that dataset is feed into Statistica for one or more …
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Integrations with other TIBCO products

We have integrated with several data warehouse and analytics backends, some of these include:
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Apache Hive
  • Apache Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • MS SQL
  • MySQL
This has been a huge benefit and we enjoy this capability to allow future system changes the ability to work with Spotfire on the fly.
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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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Reviews and Ratings

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October 10, 2022

Spotfire is leading the pack when it comes to highly scalable and capable visual analytics and data modeling

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Professional Services
Oil & Energy Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Spotfire works well for handling everything from simple to highly complex and large datasets. Geospatial data works especially well, as the geospatial analytics capability afforded by Spotfire is second to none. We have migrated many workflows that were previously performed in Excel using pivot tables to within Spotfire. This has enabled us to increase efficiently and capability when analyzing new data.
July 20, 2022

Powerful tool, makes me more efficient!

James Kim | TrustRadius Reviewer
James Kim
Senior Engineer
Rife Resources Ltd. (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In my work, the ability to combine engineering, geology, and economics into one platform is powerful. In my role in A&D, I use existing dashboards that I've created to quickly get up to speed in a new basin or play as I can quickly look at where the best wells are, the best operators, and also why (completions, economies of scale, concentrated land base, own facilities, etc.). If I were to do this the "old" way, it would take weeks rather than hours or days.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
Suitable Key questions to buy/use Spotfire: Do you have an enterprise data warehouse ready and are looking for a BI tool which can get you results fast with less development? Do you have a group of analyst who are good at Excel type reporting and can learn a new tool and do better reporting? Do you have a group of data analysts who want to study data to identify patterns in it? Are you looking for a tool/technology company which takes customer feedback and incorporates them into the tool quickly? Are you looking for a tool whose tech forum is increasing? Apart from the above questions, if your team has basic programming skills , they can utilize the power of Java Script/Iron Python and R language to make wonders in spotfire. Ideally any scenario is possible in Spotfire, but do not consider this as data Transformation tool, basic transformations are possible ,but typically its a reporting tool which can tell the story of your data effectively. My purpose to use the software is short development cycles sometimes overnight if data is there.
March 05, 2022

Spotfire an excellent software for data analysis

EDUARDO GRUBER | TrustRadius Reviewer
EDUARDO GRUBER
Office Support Supervisor
SoftCode (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is recommended for any size, as it can be a recipient of data usage for better decision-making. Spotfire is independent of the industry these companies serve. It is extremely easy to build a new Spotfire dashboard being a powerful development platform to create reports and dashboards. With the features it offers, developers can implement highly customized dashboards.
March 04, 2022

Spotfire is Great

Verified User
Professional in Product Management
Mining & Metals Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We use Spotfire to display data for management. Management often needs information presented in different forms. In meetings with them, they will often ask for data to be arranged in contrasting modes and Spotfire allows for this to be done seamlessly and on the fly.
March 01, 2022

Spotfire for data virtualisation

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We use it more for data virtualization areas, it is less appropriate for Business analytical purposes. We are highly using the Spotfire’s contextual collaboration capabilities which uniquely support our natural decision-making process—from spontaneous. A formalized workflow through a new level
February 24, 2022

Flash up data visualization and interpretation with Spotfire

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Airlines/Aviation Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Scenarios, where Spotfire is well sited, are 1. Data visualization at the enterprise level, to generate in-depth insights 2. Generate reports, charts, or graphs to represent insights in the most efficient way. 3. Plethora of apps are bundled to get analyzed results. 4. Supports a lot of languages so no need to be restricted by language boundary. 5. It supports a variety of users for example end-users, Statisticians or developers, or just business personnel to get an insight into the ecosystem. Places where Spotfire seems to be less appropriate: 1. It's quite cumbersome if the data feed is from a vast number of regions. 2. When a lot of customization seems to be a frequent call.
August 20, 2021

Spotfire is a capable albeit expensive system and other options may be better suited based on your needs

Alan Peterson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alan Peterson
Director Of Information Technology
Integrated Petroleum Technologies (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees)
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Spotfire is well suited for data analysis and visualization - importing data and making it available to others on the team. It's a fine product, it's just more expensive and harder to manage than its competitors.
August 14, 2021

Spotfire - Better options available

Verified User
Analyst in Research & Development
Logistics & Supply Chain Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Spotfire would be very useful for a new user who is getting into data visualization. But it’s not a great tool if you want to do [anything] really complicated - need visualization experiments or dashboards. I think Tableau is a lot better. It is a lot easier and more visually appealing.
July 05, 2021

Spotfire is the best tool to empower analytics to produce visually rich results

JP
Jim Putnam
Director, Advanced Analytics and Data Science
GOJO, Inc. (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Spotfire is a more capable analytics tool than Tableau or PowerBI, for example. It makes analysis accessible to non-analytics users and augments Excel well. It also blends data very well. The learning curve is a little steeper but otherwise it best suited for analytics professionals looking to provide visualizations to their work.
June 29, 2021

Teaching Graduage Visual Analytics and Visualization with Spotfire Cloud

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Cindy Corritore
Professor, Business Analytics
Creighton University (E-Learning, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As I described in the first question, I am a long friend of Spotfire. I believe that the user experience is excellent, and that students pick it up quickly. The students in our program are all working professionals in various business and health care fields and often have experience with other visualization tools. After using Spotfire in several assignments, the comments are always positive and generally ask for more time in the course with Spotfire. Many of the charts that they had difficulty creating in with other tools, such as a Parallel Coordinate Chart, are straightforward in Spotfire. This makes a big impression.
June 28, 2021

Spotfire is an essential data analysis tool.

Braeden Gilchrist | TrustRadius Reviewer
Braeden Gilchrist
Senior Analyst, Energy Analytics Group
Enverus (Oil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Spotfire is great for sharing data analysis internally between power users and report viewers. It is my go-to tool for data exploration. It might be less appropriate for multiple users working on the same project at the same time. There may be better tools for supporting external users, as deployment can take effort.
June 25, 2021

Great "all in one" platform

Gilberto Henriquez M. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gilberto Henriquez M.
Gerente de Desarrollo de Negocios Retail
Dichter & Neira (Market Research, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's less appropriate if data is not set for performance. If the data table is not set to be rows, but more columns, it is a pain to use it on Spotfire. It behaves excellently if data load fast enough. It can manage itself as a stand-alone platform but can also be integrated with others. One visualization of one variable to analyze, this is the rule on Spotfire visualizations. More than that, most of the time, is not possible.
May 13, 2021

Spotfire in the Oil and Gas Business Development Space

Thomas Plumridge P.Geo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Thomas Plumridge P.Geo
Senior Geologist
Rife Resources Ltd. (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is ideal for situations where you are pulling together multiple datasets and integrating them into one visualization. It does fall a bit flat for working with more than two Y-Axis sets on combination tables, where Excel is better at displaying that type of information.

It also should allow users to manually adjust the vertical axis scale as there may be reasoning in modifying it to a smaller or larger range but maintaining the same data step.

It would be ideal to enhance the ability to sort data. For example, there are instances where you want to sort data in a stacked bar chart by something other than count or alphabetically.
December 09, 2020

Spotfire requires some effort, but offers the best combination of advanced analytics with data visualization

Thomas Young | TrustRadius Reviewer
Thomas Young
Senior Economist
Utah Legislature (Financial Services, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Spotfire is perfectly suited for the data scientist and the financial analyst who is willing to go beyond simple accounting visuals. The data scientists get the entire range of job responsibilities, from data exploration to final model building to visualization. The financial analyst with a more technical background gets the ability to present financial data in a more unique way.
November 04, 2020

A Strong Tool to Visualize your Data

Jenna Montgomery | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jenna Montgomery
Communications Manager
International Relief Teams (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
For mapping and geospatial analysis, Spotfire is top-notch. While it does not have all of the capabilities of a complete GIS program, it does allow you to create beautiful looking maps from your data without much time or effort. It is easy to share and publish these maps so that we can use them in our reporting, marketing, etc.
October 30, 2020

Easy to use!

Verified User
Analyst in Professional Services
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The tool is well suited for data analysts or business analysts who only have been using Excel or VBA for data analysis. On the other hand, the tool is not as good as R or Python which have much better analysis capabilities.
October 27, 2020

Great product!

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for the following scenarios: KPI dashboard design -- It is very helpful in designing dashboards which highlight KPIs showing data in different forms and visualizations. Multi-page layout -- For scenarios where the data is supposed to be viewed in different pages, Spotfire can help. Slicing and dicing data to view different pivots -- Spotfire can show the data in various ways which helps in creating custom KPIs and visualization. Not well suited for the following scenarios: Flashy UI -- Spotfire does not have the design features or customization to use complex or flashy UI features. Larger datasets -- Spotfire has lagged performance when used with extremely large datasets.
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