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Spotfire in Industry!
Updated May 10, 2017

Spotfire in Industry!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

Spotfire is used across the organisation in a number of departments. It is used on a variety of platforms including self-service and managed IT platforms. It is used largely as a reporting tool. It is used to create dashboards, applications and it is used for forecasting.
  • It is very easy to use.
  • It is interactive.
  • It is a robust tool.
  • It manages large amounts of data well.
  • In the creation of information links - this needs to be made more robust to allow for more complex SQL queries.
  • In Data Preparation - Ability to stage data.
  • How Document Properties are organised can be improved.
Spotfire is perfect for large organisations. It ticks many boxes for user authentication, on-premise offering, completeness of product, ease of use, and publishing. Tableau comes near but it is more difficult to learn and it is nowhere as interactive as Spotfire.
Spotfire is well suited for rapid development. It is fantastic as a managed platform. It has a great interface for managing users and permissions. It does version control brilliantly. You can also track or log users' usage. It is a self-contained tool. On the flip side, Spotfire is expensive and takes a while to set up. Upgrading requires system downtime. Spotfire does not have a robust user-driven community.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.5
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
7
8.8
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
9
7.7
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
7
8.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
8
9.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
8.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

Using Spotfire

I use the mapping visualizations a lot as client like to see the geographical spread of their business. I have also used it to show seating plans. It's a very flexible visualization. It also can be connected to Esri shape files to produce custom shapes on a the visualization.

Spotfire Training

  • Online training
  • Self-taught
It was quite comprehensive. It did not show what you could with Iron Python scripts or R scripts.
Yes, it was easy to learn and I will recommend this approach. Get training - it's a bonus.