Spotfire
February 08, 2019

Spotfire

Brandon Doss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

TIBCO Cloud Spotfire

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire

Departmental use for analyzing biotech research data.

Pros

  • Cloud deployment makes data accessible anywhere.
  • Ability to customize and save visualization formats/templates is very useful.
  • Joining data from multiple tables is simplified in Spotfire vs other platforms.

Cons

  • Initial setup of our Team account was very painful.
In the end, Spotfire makes visualization easier and prettier, but makes number crunching more difficult. We don't find Spotfire to be a complete replacement for traditional data tools like Excel.
  • Slightly negative ROI . Our users prefer the visualization of Spotfire, but are generating only basic charts and graphs. Given the premium pricing of Spotfire, we are paying more per chart on this platform.
  • Self-taught
Likely detrimental.
Spotfire is good for visualizing complete data sets and for joining incomplete data sets for visualization. However, we struggle when mathematical manipulations are required prior to visualizing the data. We find ourselves going to Excel, crunching the numbers, and sending a CSV back to Spotfire.

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