Business analytics made simple!
February 24, 2017

Business analytics made simple!

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

Software Version

Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire

Spotfire was deployed a year ago in my organisation as the one single tool to replace various web applications, tools, software and other stuff for data analytics and advanced visualization. We started with one part of our value chain and it is now being deployed across the entire value chain namely sales, service, engineering and also the support functions.
  • Advanced visualization.
  • It can connect to all a variety of data sources and also integrate with other software like R, Python, Matlab etc., to enhance the usability.
  • Easy to publish for any user to view through a web player without any need to install software.
  • Some features or visualization demand that the data be embedded and it cannot work for external data.
  • Axis scale adjustments for multiple scales are not that great.
  • Exported visualizations to PDF or others don't look that good.
I have used Tableau Desktop which is almost similar to Spotfire! Both Spotfire and Tableau have their own pros and cons, which depending on various data connectivity options and other tool integrations, Spotfire stands better and while Tableau has some good advanced visualization with more intuitiveness and formatting.
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  • In-person training
In-person training was very focused on only predefined data sets and wasn't ready to show some examples of live data connection. It could be more interesting and effective if they used a data set from the participants and could show the capabilities on the specific requirements and live data stories through it.
Spotfire is really well suited for handling any large amount of data or "big data" and it allows high customization with so many data connecting options or inbuilt data analysis and calculation. It may not be appropriate if you're looking for just a simple visualization tool given the cost of licensing!

Spotfire Feature Ratings

Customizable dashboards
7
Report Formatting Templates
5
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
5
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
6
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
4
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
6
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
7
Responsive Design for Web Access
6
Mobile Application
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
6