Item: Spotfire
Rating: 10
Author: Jose Leviaguirre

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire

Pros and Cons

Pros

Spotfire is an analytical tool more than a reporting tool. It is highly customizable via its API but it has enough out-of-the-box features to get the job done.
It does some data management, but it is recommended to have the backend data clean and in place for great and reliable output. It has many statistical functions so adding columns on the fly is a breeze.
Spotfire is referred to within the analytics community as "Excel on steroids".
It is a great tool for highly interactive visualizations and drill down.

Cons

Many features are hidden and hard to find, but like the new version of MS Office with the ribbon replacing menus and toolbars, it's all about experience and learning the interface.

Likelihood to Renew

Frequent updates. There are about two new versions every year.

Spotfire is not just a tool. It's a Framework. The product is highly customizable. As a .NET product, it can be easily customized using either the .NET framework or IronPython. R is also easily integrated for statistical computational features that require more than the out of the box functionality.

Using TIBCO Spotfire

Upgrading TIBCO Spotfire

Upgrade Process

Yes - 7.5 is a little bit different than 7.0 and previous versions. Admin interface is all new and easier to manage! No need to rely on IE anymore regarding the client. Seems that webplayer, automation services are now 'nodes' and everything is centrally managed now.

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Arnaud Varin
(Vendor Representative) commented 7 years ago
Thanks for the good review! We take your feedback seriously as we are continuously improving Spotfire. I'll pass along the feedback about ease of use (hard to find features).

Spotfire from a developer's perspective.