Spotfire - versatile BI tool for corporate reporting on data insights
October 17, 2016
Spotfire - versatile BI tool for corporate reporting on data insights
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Cloud
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire
If you consider the most recent version, then I have used a trial version of 7.5 to compare with a Tableau implementation. The earlier Spotfire version used on a detailed project level was 6.5. Version 7.5 in the cloud is easy to handle and provides an impressive quick dashboard that I like in terms of quick development and clarity in the design of a dashboard. This tool is good for corporate people in particular for KPI reports and dashboards. This is used to provide business solutions e.g., certain KPIs that are heavily dependent on data and insights generated out of data. We used it in a metric design for various pharma business milestones: trends, volume, speed, etc.
- Easy to build dashboard instead of creating a metalayer unlike a universe design in Business Objects.
- This tool can be handled by various types of users (not only by developers of Spotfire), to design a few quick analytic reports.
- Analytics can be good with visualizations.
- If you know SQL you can create any db query and put it into an information link then design the dashboard upfront in Spotfire desktop.
- The server supports different databases and big data I guess.
- What I could not find here is any specific dimension or measure being defined in a Spotfire layer.
- Not sure yet - Does do the dimensional model internally or just consider the numeric as a measure and the non numeric as a dimension?
- It would be nice if this tool could generate a design of a data model after the developer has created or defined the data points in the report.