Item: Spotfire
Rating: 10
Author: Germán Mandrini

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am doing a Ph.D. working with precision agriculture and variable rate technology. Since response patterns are variable and change by field, year, genotype, I use Spotfire to dynamically graph the response and detect those patterns. It's a powerful tool for data exploration.

Pros and Cons

Explore data and detect patterns
Provide suggestions for different types of graphs that could be done

Many times I want to use the same data but show different years in different tabs and I would like to have the option of applying different filters by a tab.
Fitting curves could have more options for differential equations and show the parameters with more decimals (or at least give the possibility to the user)

Training Types Used

Self-taught

Integrations with other TIBCO products

I'm more an independent user of Spotfire now. I used it in my previous work in Pioneer and I like it that's why I use it at my actual work at the university. But it is not being used by the organization. I am starting to teach people how to use it and hopefully, they will get better at it. Now they ask me to do maps and plots for them.

Other Software Used

QGIS

Likelihood to Recommend

I used this software when I worked in Pioneer Hi-bred. I like it so much that now I'm using it in my Ph.D. and recommending it to my professors and people on my team. They are starting to use the map options, to map all the trials we are conducting in different parts of the world and filter them according to different options like crop, year, country, state, etc.

Spotfire in Precision Ag

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire