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SpotFire is highly recommended for organizations to gain efficiency and analytics
June 19, 2018

SpotFire is highly recommended for organizations to gain efficiency and analytics

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Spotfire Platform

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

Spotfire is available for all of the employees in my organization, but only about 10% of them use it. I believe the relatively low percentage of users is due to the individual’s need for it, the learning curve, and lack of training available. For the users who do utilize Spotfire in my organization, we have been able to leverage amazing dashboards to gain efficiency and an in-depth understanding of key analytics.
  • Customization
  • Speed
  • Level of Detail
  • Learning curve
  • Difficult to export charts into PPT
  • Screen size effects dashboard appearance
We integrate it with Access, Excel, Nintex, and a few more. I am going to look into How to use it with AdWords.
Spotfire is always the analytical tool I recommend and use. Its features and ability to analyze bit data makes it much more useful than Excel. I also prefer it over Tableau products, due to its user interface and ability to share dashboards.
It is well suited for users who work heavily with large data sets, and who want to showcase important KPI’s at a high level of the large data sets to other individuals. It is an amazing tool to streamline reporting, analyzing, and measuring data.

It is not well suited for very small data sets, nor individuals who are not capable of spending 10-15 hours learning how to Use it.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.5
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
5
9.8
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
10
Report sharing and collaboration
10
6.0
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
3
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
9.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
10
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
6.5
Responsive Design for Web Access
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
8.0
REST API
10
Javascript API
10
iFrames
9
Themeable User Interface (UI)
3

Spotfire Training

  • No Training
I think a huge area where Spotfire can improve is to offer more training to organizations, both in-person and online. I consider myself to be an expert in Spotfire, but I had to train myself through practice, YouTube, etc.