Geospatial data specialist
September 11, 2018

Geospatial data specialist

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

Software Version

TIBCO Cloud Spotfire Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire

We currently use Spotfire to do data analytics for some of our clients.

Only a select few employees currently are using Spotfire.

We tend to use Spotfire when we want to create dashboards for our clients that primarily deal with visualizing geographic data. We deemed this product to be the best fit for this niche need, and it is not our primary data analytics or business intelligence application of choice.

Pros

  • GIS or any geographic dashboarding
  • Concise and clean visualizations
  • Basic data discovery

Cons

  • Custom made visualizations and dashboards are not very intuitive
  • Drill-down functions and LOD are good but not quick on par with industry leaders
  • Relatively expensive to implement for smaller teams
Spotfire lacks in availability, predictive analytics, and visualization capabilities compared to most of the other industry standards; however, we believe it is specifically very powerful in visualizing geospatial data. So Spotfire is a useful addition in our toolkit but more of a hex key than a Philips screwdriver in general usage.
  • Great in developing deliverables with geospatial data. Creates clear visualizations the clients enjoy to look at.
  • Expensive to implement, especially for smaller companies with the initial threshold of investment needed
  • Self-taught
Utilized videos and other subject matter experts to learn with on-hands deliverable work. Did feel at some points that certain functionalities were difficult to locate or implement but still adequate in what we needed to create.
No, we have not used any other Spotfire products.
We use Spotfire in instances where we believe the data requires heavier use of geographic information to visualize.

In all other instances, we would pick Tableau or Power BI as our visualization tool of choice. Spotfire is not quite as leading edge as Tableau or as widely available as Power BI to be useful for us to take to our clients on a regular basis.

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