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Spotfire - Simple, but Advanced.
August 10, 2018

Spotfire - Simple, but Advanced.

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

Software Version

Spotfire Platform

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

Spotfire is used widely in our company as a platform for creating reports not only for a single use, but also as large projects with scheduled updates. In our company, a colossal emphasis is made on data analytics and Spotfire is a significant wire in this large system.
  • Bulding interactive dashboards.
  • Wide range of connection options both JDBC and ODBC.
  • Building custom extensions (C#, IronPython ...)
  • The documentation some times needs more details, because on average I found answers on Spotfire Community pages, but not directly at the documentation.
  • Administration panel could be improved in a way, so that fewer direct interactions with servers are needed (by that I mean connecting to the server and making changes manually).
We integrate Spotfire mostly with PerkinElmer's products who are in agreement with Spotfire. Their extensions help a lot with clinical and chemical analysis in our company.
IBM Cognos plays a bigger role at our company and Spotfire is still catching up to it in terms of automation, security, etc.
Appropriate: build a reporting system for your company based on some project data.

Less appropriate: if your data set is somewhat small, then I wouldn't recommend using something as advanced as Spotfire.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.5
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
9
7.5
Drill-down analysis
7
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7
Report sharing and collaboration
9
7.7
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
6
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
8.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
9
7.7
Multi-User Support (named login)
7
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
7.3
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
6
7.0
REST API
7
Javascript API
7
Java API
7

Spotfire Training

  • Online Training
  • No Training
Online courses from Spotfire helped a lot, they have a wide range of videos devoted for different types of audience (Developer, Administrator, Regular User). However, the most significant part of training was self-study: going through Spotfire's documentation, reading people's questions on forums and trying out things for myself.