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Spotfire for the Energy Industry
Updated April 08, 2023

Spotfire for the Energy Industry

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

Software Version

Spotfire Platform

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

It's used across the company for visualization and analytics.
  • Easy integration with open source R and Tibco's R.
  • Web and mobile capable.
  • Interactivity between visualizations is well designed.
  • Integration with open source Python.
  • Built-in visualization variety falls behind competitors.
  • Ease of data exploration.
  • Ease of integrating in-house models.
  • Ease of deploying end to end projects.
Spotfire Streaming. The integration hasn't been valuable when compared when in-house solution due to customization needs.
CouchbaseDB.
Neo4j.
No. Spotfire's other products are too inflexible for some of our needs and require dedicated support.
Ease of integration with open source R and mapping feature are positive.

Do you think Spotfire delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Spotfire's feature set?

Yes

Did Spotfire live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Spotfire go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Spotfire again?

Yes

Microsoft BI (MSBI), Posit
For those looking to blend custom analytics and useful variety of off the shelf visualizations.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
7.0
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
6
8.5
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
9
8.7
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
7.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
7
Predictive Analytics
6
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Not Rated
8.3
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
Report-Level Access Control
Not Rated
7.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
7
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
7
5.8
REST API
5
Javascript API
6
iFrames
6
Java API
Not Rated
Themeable User Interface (UI)
6
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
6

Using Spotfire

8 - Data analysis and reporting.
2 - Windows/Linux server and database administrator for the backend and Spotfire expertise for the frontend.
  • Asset evaluation
  • Scheduling
  • Geospatial analysis
  • Report delivery to client
Logic built into recommendation engine is not useful - hit and miss.
Spotfire has a strong presence in the energy industry and change is gradual.
Intuitive data transformation steps available to cover 80% of analysis needs.
It's only updated once every year, which means bugs may not be fixed in reasonable time. Run time is slower than open-source R.
Great for visualizing data sets under 1 MM rows; beyond that it's not as performant as other tools such as Mapbox

Evaluating Spotfire and Competitors

  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
Used by most peers within the energy industry, thus easily sharable.

Built-in integration with R and Python expand analytics capabilities.

Nothing.

Spotfire Implementation

Involved as a UAT tester and process went smoothly.
  • Implemented in-house
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled - Have a back-up plan when roll-up fails!
  • Security certificates not recognized
  • Some data connections broke

Spotfire Training

  • Online training
  • Self-taught
DIY is the best way to learn.
Online, self-guided/paced tutorials are very useful for beginners and intermediates.
Yes. The drag and drop capability is intuitive for beginners.

Spotfire Support

ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
Immediate help available
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
No. Regular support suffice.
Prompt and knowledgeable in 80% of the cases.
Yes - No. It goes to their Ideas portal, which is an abyss.

Using Spotfire

ProsCons
Like to use
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Feel confident using
None
  • Python
  • R
  • Geospatial
  • Window function by group
  • Custom visualization
Great for what it's marketed for, but cumbersome/impossible for more customized analytics and visualization.
Yes, but I don't use it