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Spotfire - Great tool for data visualization and data analysis
Updated February 06, 2018

Spotfire - Great tool for data visualization and data analysis

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire

We used Spotfire to develop dashboards for audit-related projects. We also used the product to perform exploratory data analyses on a variety of internal investigations in connection with malicious insider activities.
  • Spotfire does a great job helping its users build advanced visualizations with little to no programming involved.
  • It offers a large variety of visualizations and does a good job of letting its users tweak the visualizations to their specific needs.
  • It also offers powerful data transformation tools that improve the usefulness of a user's data without having to modify the source data.
  • Its very strength can sometimes be a weakness. Although it is easy to develop visualizations with this platform, it is often difficult to customize when needed. This is symptomatic of all such dashboarding applications, though.
  • Not an application builder, insanely hard to create a layout that is appealing or to create user controls - possible with some Python but far too hard to create say a button to change the data plotted on an axis etc.
  • Not designed to create end user applications.
Spotfire is the [most] unique data visualisation tool I've ever used. And the tool used in our organization. We've selected it because we've selected Spotfire products for our needs. I really enjoy using this tool. I can easily put in graphics all the information I gather with Excel. This tool is very easy to set up and use. I consider that Spotfire is one of the best analytics software. My organization had the Spotfire platform service.
  • Self-taught
It is an excelent tool. I used it as a complement to Excel. It has very nice and complete chart options and allows the user to run complex pivot tables of long and heavy data tables. I work a lot with pivots and Excel crashes if you use pivots of more than 70 columns and 250 MB.

The web option is also great. You can send the attendees of a meeting a link with the report and they access to a "read-only " version of the report. It is not necesary to attach a file to an email, as the link itself is enough.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
9.0
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
8
9.0
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Report sharing and collaboration
7
8.0
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
7.5
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
8.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
8
Role-Based Security Model
7
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding ()
Not Rated

Using TIBCO Spotfire

The context was as follows: a large French football club, wanted to have a map locating the purchasers of the club ticket / product as well as other geolining information for a targeted advertising campaign. Spotfire helped us a lot and especially made it easier for us. Our client was very satisfied