Item: TIBCO Spotfire
Rating: 9
Author: Taras Gorishnyy

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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 and Cons

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

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.

Other Software Used

Tableau Desktop

Training Types Used

In-person training

In-Person Training

Very useful training to get up-to-speed quickly, was customized to our needs

Online Training

Likelihood to Recommend

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

Very good visualization tool

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire