Very good visualization tool
December 09, 2016

Very good visualization tool

Taras Gorishnyy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire

We use Spotfire to rapidly visualize data and build interactive dashboards in connection of other data science tools such as R. It is useful in many use cases in analytics.

Pros

  • Visualization is very quick and interactive
  • Connection to modeling tools such as R and SAS is very important. We need functionality to run R code out of Spotfire dashboards and read a wide range of native format files
  • Server client and cloud options are very important for easy sharing of end products

Cons

  • I would like better data management capabilities, e.g. ability to do joints, selection, variable transformations in a more streamlined way. Some functionality exists, but it is still somewhat limited and cumbersome.
Tableau is the alternative we use. Spotfire is preferable due to integration with R and modeling packages, but Tableau has a wider range of users, so sometimes [we] have to use it too if information needs to be shared with a different organization.
  • In-person training
Very useful training to get up-to-speed quickly, was customized to our needs
  • Ideal tool for visualization of both data and models
  • Less good as standalone analytics tool; does not have powerful functionality that data scientists will need for model development

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