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Spotfire Self review
Updated December 22, 2016

Spotfire Self review

Deenadhayalan Jayaraman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

6.5

Modules Used

  • Spotfire Web
  • Server

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

  • Security : Here we can design the row level security based on the user who logs into the system. even row level security can be build for huge data set(millions of records), By keeping actual data-table in cache we can bring live data for security table and applying restriction on already cached data(no waiting time)
  • Using HTML & J-Script
  • Using of Python script: All the property can be controlled thru Python scripting. with single click event we can in-work python scripts which execute dynamically.
  • Doesn't support cube/Hyperion data source directly.
  • In-DB connection are not flexible, wont support embedding or adding calculated columns.
In the war of Tableau vs Spotfire, Spotfire gained lots of popularity with the help of flexible a UI representation.
Spotfire connects to multiple datasources, but once they have been implemented thru an information link are more powerful than using In-DB connections.
Spotfire API can be used to collaborate visualization with other Java/HTML pages.
Compared with Tableau, Spotfire is more stable with huge data sets.
Spotfire is overall stable and provides reliable visualization. More can be explored using R predictive language.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.3
Pixel Perfect reports
8
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
9
8.8
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
8
8.3
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
7.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
7
9.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
6.5
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
5
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

Using Spotfire

In all new releases, Spotfire comes up with new features. All those features are requested by end users. Spotfire's engineering team analyzes and tries to fulfill all end user enhancement requests.

Upgrading Spotfire

Yes - Yes, we have installed to Spotfire 7.0.. so for all dashboard worked fine without any issues.