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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
Reviews
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April 08, 2023
Spotfire for the Energy Industry
It's used across the company for visualization and analytics.
- Easy integration with open source R and Tibco's R.
- Web and mobile capable.
- Interactivity between visualizations is well designed.
- Integration with open source Python.
- Built-in visualization variety falls behind competitors.
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70%
7.0
85%
8.5
86.66666666666666%
8.7
55%
5.5
62.5%
6.3
70%
7.0
48.33333333333333%
4.8
- Ease of data exploration.
- Ease of integrating in-house models.
- Ease of deploying end to end projects.
Spotfire Streaming. The integration hasn't been valuable when compared when in-house solution due to customization needs.
CouchbaseDB.
Neo4j.
Neo4j.
No. Spotfire's other products are too inflexible for some of our needs and require dedicated support.
Ease of integration with open source R and mapping feature are positive.
8
Data analysis and reporting.
2
Windows/Linux server and database administrator for the backend and Spotfire expertise for the frontend.
- Asset evaluation
- Scheduling
- Geospatial analysis
- Report delivery to client
No
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
Used by most peers within the energy industry, thus easily sharable.
Built-in integration with R and Python expand analytics capabilities.
Built-in integration with R and Python expand analytics capabilities.
Nothing.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Have a back-up plan when roll-up fails!
- Security certificates not recognized
- Some data connections broke
- Online training
- Self-taught
DIY is the best way to learn.
Yes. The drag and drop capability is intuitive for beginners.
No. Regular support suffice.
Yes
No. It goes to their Ideas portal, which is an abyss.
- Python
- R
- Geospatial
- Window function by group
- Custom visualization
Yes, but I don't use it
December 12, 2019
Spotfire - One of the best BI and Analytical tool
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
We are currently using Spotfire in life sciences, energy, banking and retail domain and it has always given the best results to the business users.
- Data Loading from multiple datasources and data connectors especially Information Links.
- Drill Down, Sharing and collaborating analysis.
- Support to IronPython, Statistical programming like R-Script, S+, MATLAB and analytical cababilities
- GeoMapping - WMS layes, TMS Layers, Recommendation Engine, Theme based dashboarding
- User Interface can be improved.
- Scope to add new charts like area chart, bubble chart.
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90%
9.0
85%
8.5
87.5%
8.8
90%
9.0
96.66666666666666%
9.7
86.66666666666666%
8.7
N/A
N/A
Spotfire is widely used in the company across all the domains and used by thousands of users.
- Since the architecture is changed in Spotfire v7.5 and above so it's easy to manage all the things from Spotfire Server.
- Got new features like Waterfall Chart, KPI chart, annotations etc which will help in user experience.
- New Functions, data connectors
300
Life Sciences, Clinical analysis, Finance, Sales
5
System Knowledge, Database, SQL Queries, Logical thinking, Data Analysis, Programming
- Sales Analysis, Clinical research
- Data Prediction
- Statistical Analysis
Yes
Yes, Spotfire has replaced other projects like excel based reporting, BO reports etc where lot of time is consumed in the designing and they can't hold huge volume of data.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Vendor Reputation
- Analyst Reports
- Third-party Reviews
- Vendor implemented
- Implemented in-house
Yes
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
- Implementing Single Sign-On
Always follow the Installation & Configuration document before doing any configuration.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
Some - we have added small pieces of custom code
Yes
- Loading Data from multiple data sources and combing them together.
- Creating different types of visualizations to get the trends and patterns.
- Drilling down the data to a lower level to get bottom line impact.
Yes
You can access you Spotfire dashboards on iPad and iPhone, this gives you mobility to access the reports on the go anytime.
- File import/export
- Single Signon
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- Javascript widgets
- ETL tools
Yes
I have upgraded Spotfire environment 10's of times and process was always completed smoothly.
No
No
Spotfire is being used for creating multiple Department Dashboards, such as Pharmacy, Oncology, Geriatrics. All these Dept. are working with 2 or more dedicated software with transactional databases providing partial information about their work. They are not able to get enough information. We use Spotfire to unify information and present summarise information in a graphical and comprehensive way, in order to give a global view to stakeholders.
- Very fast to create new dashboards, system provides automatically options to make fine reports
- Very good filters, easy to use for non-analysts, good graphics and a lot of possibilities to create reports
- Very good technical support
- Very good price with top performance
- Sometimes difficult to know what product and package fits your products
- Confusing documentation
- Not very comprehensive user access rights
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100%
10.0
82.5%
8.3
93.33333333333334%
9.3
90%
9.0
90%
9.0
86.66666666666666%
8.7
N/A
N/A
Way less intuitive to use, slower to deploy reports, more expensive
- Spotfire is allowing to get comprehensive information from databases at a real competitive price, with great customer support.
- Self-taught
Very little specific training is needed to get first results out of Spotfire, and this was very important as we are really overloaded
We have not integrated Spotfire with other products from TIBCO or Spotfire
10
Hospital's Executive Staff, Departmental Staff (Chief Pharmacist, Chief Oncologist, Chief Radiologist)
3
Analyst, programming and architecture engineer
- Integrating in More Departments to help them to have better information
- Pharmacy cost control, Oncology actvity (patients taken care, quality control), Geriatrics activity report
- We are still in deployment phase but doctors are beginning to see that they can take profit of the date they create everyday
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- Analyst Reports
- Third-party Reviews
We have another BI tool but too rigid to give easy answers to new requirements. It was necessary to test a not very expensive, yet powerful for a little group of users. We needed to make difficult reports very fast, Spotfire excels in this
No, the decision was very good
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- Although documentation is vast, it's very difficult to know what add-on or package you need to deploy. We install 2 times products not needed loosing a lot of time. Anyway, support is good and helping
- It was not easy to know what product and options we needed
Yes
Although documentation is not very clear, as it's difficult to know what packages or update suit your product, Support is perfect
Needed to use forecast predictions but didn't work on server. After providing logs and screenshots, Support engineer gave me the solution in 1 step
- Fast and easy creation of new reports, powerful and fast filters.
- Easy-to-use time series graphic forecasting
- Some add-ons are not included and not easy to integrate
- Time series Forecasting is only available on a graphic basis, not number
- Possible to integrate with R, but need to spend a lot of time to use scripts
Yes, but I don't use it
October 30, 2017
Honest and Fair
Spotfire is being used across the whole organization, and it encompasses several departments. The product allows us to utilize our current databases to create visualizations to easily depict data.
- Allows for easy creation and utilization of data visualizations.
- Easy to setup folders and permissions to allow several users to access data.
- The ease of use allows for users to access and utilize data to make strategic decisions throughout the organization.
- Understanding the full benefits of the program takes time and experience.
- Some SQL language requires different setting/filters/statements than Teradata.
- Some of the options that are used are too buried to easily locate.
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40%
4.0
70%
7.0
90%
9.0
60%
6.0
100%
10.0
30%
3.0
N/A
N/A
I have not used any others products that closely compare to Spotfire.
- Online training
- In-person training
Our organization used in person training, and it was very useful for our staff. This allowed us to walk through scenarios with a trainer to easily identify and resolve issues that came up.
The users represent multiple functions within our organization. (Transportation, Customer Service, Transportation Planning, Locomotive Utilization, etc)
20
Spotfire users typically require being savvy using programs that handle large data, and our users also have a strong background in data analytics.
- Data Integration.
- Marketing and Sales.
- Large Data Visualization.
- Displaying data results and trends.
- Creating Dashboards for users that encompass different and multiple data points.
- Displaying Data for non-traditional data users.
- Integrating data sets from different departments data.
Mapping
10Not Sure
- Product Features
- Product Usability
The product features and usability of Spotfire provided a very useful tool that our organization had not yet had access to.
I would not have changed a thing! Great product that offers wonderful support and features!
- Vendor implemented
- Implemented in-house
Yes
The implementation was broken into phases that brought in the right people within our organization to seamlessly integrate the product into our daily working lives.
- Identifying the correct users as initial users.
- Training the identified users.
Not at this time.
I created customized themes.
No
Spotfire software went above and beyond during our initial training exercises. The trainers provided very detailed steps that have proven to be a great success.
- General Data Visualizations.
- Integrated SQL Feature.
- Creating multiple visualizations on a single page.
- The geographic mapping feature (although it is my favorite featured offered).
- The SQL language used has discrepancies with typical Teradata SQL language.
September 11, 2017
Spotfire Meets Our Needs, Across the Organization
Spotfire is being used by several departments across the organization. Spotfire provides us with the ability to create visualizations and dashboards from the data that we have collected. In addition, it allows us to build and deploy complex predictive models. The business problems that it solves are: 1) what are the characteristics of our device performance and can we see/understand aberrations in that activity, and; 2) what do our financials look like and how are we as an organization performing, what are the issues we face, and, can we project/forecast upcoming performance and issues.
- Easy to get data into Spotfire, and to combine data from many sources.
- Easy to create and edit visualizations to meet the needs of the issue and/or end user.
- Dashboards can be built that deliver insight along with flexibility to allow end users some capabilities to explore the visualizations or customize the inquiry.
- Can provide or deploy advanced analytical models.
- There is a need for additional graph types. The visualization set that comes with Spotfire is becoming rather limited.
- Working with R is rather difficult.
- There is no ability for text display visualization; a word cloud or similar would be useful.
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56.66666666666667%
5.7
87.5%
8.8
67.5%
6.8
80%
8.0
90%
9.0
26.666666666666664%
2.7
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Our analysis suggested that Spotfire stacked up very well against all of the other vendors. When we looked at our evaluations, Spotfire did not win in any particular category. However, it did very well in all of the categories. Our evaluation also involved a pan-enterprise committee of potential users and we took into consideration their feedback, which was all positive. We also considered price and price flexibility and Spotfire did very well in this category. The choice between Spotfire and Information Builders was difficult, and the two scored very similarly on most categories. In the end Spotfire was preferred by a larger number of our user community.
Yes, our sales engineer is terrific. We have, on a couple of occasions, asked about the ability to do something in Spotfire, and, in a very short period of time, he has come back to us with a solution, or, just as importantly, come back to us with an explanation of why our request will not work or cannot be done. This has also saved us time "going down a black hole" in our analysis and/or visualization.
- Understand and analyze failure data
- Trend analysis
- Analysis and projections related to financial forecasting
25
Product management, development and marketing.
3
There are a range of skills needed. For most work, basic knowledge of the product, combined with some knowledge of visualization and computing functionality is what is required. For a few of our users, knowledge of R integration functionality and skills are needed. The integration of R is non-trivial, and may also involve some knowledge of statistics, data mining and/or predictive analytics.
- General visualization of data
- Financial reporting and analysis
- Marketing visualization
- Analysis and visualization of trends within customer usage data
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- Analyst Reports
- Third-party Reviews
The single most important factor was usability. Can the product work with our data and deliver the range of visualizations and analytics that we need in order to satisfy our internal stakeholders and our user community. We looked at a number of products leading to this requirement and took feedback from across our organization.
I think that if we had to do it again, I would try and involve an even broader set of people from across the organization. Additionally, I think that we would probably create some scenarios for product vendors to solve. In this evaluation we asked our vendors to take a set of our data and to create interesting dashboards with visualizations and at least one statistical model. I think that if we did it again we would probably look to more concrete scenarios.
Yes
We had a scoping exercise, a sizing exercise for our environment, installation, testing, configuration, testing and then a handover.
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
- Ensuring the appropriate environment setup
- Configuring Spotfire to work with our data in our environment
Not Sure
No