Preferred application for all data presentation and of low to medium complexity data analysis
September 04, 2018

Preferred application for all data presentation and of low to medium complexity data analysis

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

Software Version

TIBCO Cloud Spotfire Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

Our company has started using Spotfire across the organization to address problems with reporting, data access, dashboarding, and information consolidation.
  • Spotfire is great at creating visuals which are easily understood and interacted with.
  • Spotfire is expandable with a strong community of Java, Python, and HTML codes available to expand capability.
  • Spotfire makes updating visuals and data models a background process.
  • Spotfire's statistical visual standards aren't inline with manufacturing standards by default.
  • Spotifre is not a data entry interface without much background coding.
  • Spotfire implement quickly elemenated non-value added repetition of data processing for customer reports.
  • Using the mapping plot to present data over an image is an underappreciated engineering application.
  • For predictive analytics I'd recommend digging into other programs, preferably one that can integrate iwth Spotfire such as R or Statistica.
During the first implementation of Spotfire we did not do any integrations. With an upcoming version of Spotfire we are preparing to integrate it with Statistica to cover the predictive analytics weaknesses.
If you have graphs which are regularly published or reviewed Spotfire will quickly show its value. As an engineer, the ease of plotting data on an image, i.e. a ternary phase diagram, greatly improves communication across the company.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
6
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
3
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
6
Publish to PDF
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
4
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Javascript API
Not Rated
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated

Spotfire Training

  • Online Training
  • No Training
The Spotfire online training was a good start although people prefer to play with their own data. Therefore our company's own in-person training has been the biggest lever in encouraging employees to want to climb the learning curve. The Spotfire online training and other web-based material are satisfactory at bringing people up the learning curve.