What Most Don't Know About Spotfire
Software Version
7.0
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire
Spotfire is used to create internal reports for sales and marketing efforts. It is also presented as a potential BI solution for clients.
Pros
- Not only does Spotfire provide recommended visualizations based upon the data you want to look at, it will then build those visualizations for you, taking half the clicks as other BI tools.
- Spotifire allows you to create detailed visualizations from multiple data sources and tables on the same page. You cannot do this with Tableau.
- Spotfire automatically creates and populates a filter panel based on the columns of the tables you import. With Tableau you have to build each filter panel from scratch.
Cons
- Spotire could advertise it's user community more so that more customers are aware of it.
Spotfire isn't based on Cores, Nodes, or RAM, therefore you only pay for what you need, and can easily add additional users or functionality at any point in the future without affecting performance. This is a big differentiator. With competitors like Tableau, you have to guesstimate future load and demand and then pay for it before you need it.
Spotfire automatically creates and populates a filter panel based upon the columns in the loaded data tables; Tableau doesn't. Spotfire allows you to create detailed visualizations from multiple data sets to view and interact with on the same page; Tableau doesn't. Spotfire not only recommends visualizations based on the data you want to look at, it builds those visualizations for you. The competition doesn't do this. And of course, the powerful predictive analytics engine can't be beat.
Spotfire automatically creates and populates a filter panel based upon the columns in the loaded data tables; Tableau doesn't. Spotfire allows you to create detailed visualizations from multiple data sets to view and interact with on the same page; Tableau doesn't. Spotfire not only recommends visualizations based on the data you want to look at, it builds those visualizations for you. The competition doesn't do this. And of course, the powerful predictive analytics engine can't be beat.
Using TIBCO Spotfire
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Multiple visualizations on the same page
- Drill down and predictive analytic capabilities
- filtering
- data mash up and manipulation
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