Spotfire-ood and bad
November 13, 2017

Spotfire-ood and bad

Chelsea Philpot | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Desktop

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire

Spotfire is used throughout out the company for metrics and KPIS, etc. Spotfire is very helpful, because it can correlate and pull in many data sources to be able to analyze.
  • Providing information on Spotfire training.
  • Examples of ways you can use Spotfire with analytical data.
  • Hard to use for people, because it is not intuitive.
  • Expressions, IF statements, etc. are hard for people to grasp, because they are not like Access, or SQL.
I have been using Spotfire for a while, so I like it and really dont want to change. But I think it is hard to understand for others, and Power BI would be something I might consider since it is similar to the same language as Microsoft Access and SQL.
  • Online training
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught
Online training to me was the best. I did not like the in-person training, as I feel like I did not learn as much.
Spotfire is great when pulling data from many different sources, and being able to review and compare together. Spotfire works well with certain data sources, but if you are using Microsoft Access, you have to use an alternative because it does not work well. Also, calculations are somewhat hard to create.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
5
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
10
Multi-User Support (named login)
Not Rated
Role-Based Security Model
Not Rated
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
REST API
Not Rated
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated