Review of Spotfire from a reservoir engineering intern's perspective
September 28, 2018
Review of Spotfire from a reservoir engineering intern's perspective
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
TIBCO Cloud Spotfire
Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire
Spotfire is used for analyzing large volumes of reservoir engineering data and to create data visualizations for departmental meetings. It is particularly helpful for allowing us to understand and manage data interactively, and test preliminary hypotheses.
- Visually identifying clusters within data sets
- Using color effectively to convey relationships in the data
- Creating relatively complex visualizations (like heat maps and 3D scatter plots)
- Can be somewhat daunting to get going on the more complex analyses (I had to access technical support)
- Error messages are not very detailed.
- Can slow down when handling large amounts of data, or updating from a central data server
- Spotfire was useful for doing cost-benefit analyses for deciding which projects to pursue.
- Due to a limited number of organizational seats, this product could be used only sparingly.
We have only used Spotfire independently.
Spotfire Feature Ratings
Spotfire Training
- Online training
- Self-taught
Basics are easy to master, but in-person training is necessary to explore advanced options. I didn't have the luxury or time to schedule this for my purposes.