A week with Spotfire - so WORTH it!
October 26, 2017
A week with Spotfire - so WORTH it!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
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.
- 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..
- 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.