Excellent way to slice and dice your data and answer your questions!
Updated December 07, 2017

Excellent way to slice and dice your data and answer your questions!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

We are using Spotfire across our business as a default analytics tool to make decisions across all functions in our business from Finance to engineering. The capabilities Spotfire provides us with has been very helpful and powerful for our users to be able to help ask relevant questions and be able to answer them with a few clicks of a button.
  • Merge data from disparate data sources into a single tool.
  • Visualize data of all kind
  • I would like to see some capabilities around emailing static reports.
I have used a number of reporting tools, and Spotfire has been very good at data delivery/visualization. It does what most of the tools do, plus more.

Spotfire is very well suited in situations where there is large amounts of data and a wide variety of users need to access it in different depths.

It is less suited for static/daily reports that need to mailed out to users.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
7
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
10
Publish to PDF
6
Report Delivery Scheduling
1
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
8
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
7
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7

TIBCO Cloud Capabilities

  • Used as part of an anaysis process
  • Used to cache data
  • Used in conjunction web applications as reporting layer

Using Spotfire

2000 - Engineering, supply chain, IT, land, drill and completions, operations
10 - Administration, development
  • Historics data analysis
  • Data access
  • Trending
  • Geographic visualization
Not very much used by anyone in our organization. Users typically know what they want.
Very easy to use and helpful to transform and massage data
Very simple to implement and begin using, given that the user knows R.
Very powerful and simple to use for end users who want to quickly plot data and geographically visualize. Spotfire enables non-technical users to easily build data analytics with little involvement from IT, allowing IT to focus on critical business solutions.

Evaluating Spotfire and Competitors

  • Price
  • Product Features
Something powerful to allow users to access data

Spotfire Training

  • Online training
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught
It taught users basic skills on how to use the tool and how to get started.
I believe it is easy to use without training for IT professionals who are acclimated to reporting software. For business users, it is a different story. They generally need some basic training on how to get started.