Item: Spotfire
Rating: 7
Author: Alvaro Calle Cordon

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire is being used by a specific department in the company on a daily basis to do BI and analytics, mostly descriptive statistics and dashboards across big data sets. We have it connected with a Cloudera cluster on premise

Pros and Cons

Easy usage, fast in creating typical dashboarding
Good connection with big data bases

We have found problems in native connections with Amazon Athena in order to use data directly stored in S3. We had to migrate some hot data to Redshift where we experienced no problems at all
As a user of graphical programming libraries like Matplotlib, ggplot, and d3.js, I find limitations in creating highly customized dashboards.

Alternatives Considered

I think Spotfire outperforms its competitors in the market

Training Types Used

Online training
In-person training
Self-taught

It was crucial

Integrations with other TIBCO products

We have not used these complements

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need to do exploratory data analysis on big data, this tool is a way to go. However, you will lack some freedom if you come from programming libraries like Matplotlib, ggplot or d3.js. One of the most amazing things is the load-on-demand characteristic of Spotfire

Spotfire for big data visualization

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire