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.

Pros

  • It is very easy to use.
  • It is interactive.
  • It is a robust tool.
  • It manages large amounts of data well.

Cons

  • 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.

Using Spotfire

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.

Comments

  • Arnaud Varin | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Arnaud Varin
    commented 8 years ago
    Thank you for your review! I noticed you mentioned "Spotfire does not have a robust user-driven community". Did you know about Spotfire Community (community.spotfire.com) ? Spotfire Community enables you to ask questions to our users community, learn through wikis, extend Spotfire with Exchange content, suggest Ideas to enhance our product(s). Thanks again, Arnaud

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