A week with Spotfire - so WORTH it!
October 26, 2017

A week with Spotfire - so WORTH it!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Software Version

Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

Spotfire is the supported tool for accessing an Oracle data warehouse. The data stored in the warehouse is all of our historical human resources data from across the enterprise (we have several operating companies under our brand umbrella) and the warehouse is "fed" every day with new transactions coming from each company's HCM system. We do ad-hoc reporting with Spotfire, build dashboards for analysis, and generally use it to answer any business question that may come up where we need the employee data.

Pros

  • Visualizations - it isn't just a data extraction tool but charts and tables can be easily built.
  • Dashboards - I've put together sample dashboards in just a few hours.
  • External Data - very easy to pull in data from different data sources - Oracle tables, Excel, etc..

Cons

  • Visualizations - while it is a strength it is also a weakness. We currently use another tool for dashboarding and we will move to Spotfire because it is more powerful but the actual charts in the other product are more appealing.
  • Set up - we are responsible for setting up our own joins, information links, elements, etc. This is overwhelming for beginning users.
  • SQL - It is hard to debug issues with the SQL. I often find myself copying the SQL into another tool to decode and build and then will copy it back to Spotfire.
  • None
It may not be suited for the inexperienced user simply because of the complexity of the setup. But that is more likely due to the way our company supports the product (that everyone is on their own). But once all of the setup is complete, creating reports and charts is pretty easy and quick.

Spotfire Training

  • In-person training
This was well worth the time and expense. We had a Spotfire instructor come to our facility and had 12 people attend. It was 4 1/2 days of training and I would recommend it hands down for anyone starting out with Spotfire.

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