Good tool with decent analytic capabilities
February 13, 2019

Good tool with decent analytic capabilities

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire

Spotfire was used as an analytics tool for one of my clients. The data source/back end was an older oracle datamart.

Pros

  • Drag and drop, ease of use for end users.
  • Deployments to production environments are relatively straight forward.
  • Flexible capabilities on getting data from multiple data sources, however this can be a double edged sword if your enterprise does not have proper governance in place.

Cons

  • Datasets can get muddy, architecture wise there needs to be governance in place to identify where the real source of truth is. Otherwise you end up with a spaghetti implementation that has very poor data lineage.
  • It is not as intuitive as other dashboard/visualization tools such as Tableau.
  • Not particularly a problem with Spotfire alone, but lots of analytics tools require you to push specific aggregations and measurements to the data model versus having a citizen developer creating them on the fly.
  • I wouldn't know, I am just a developer
  • In-person training
One of the lead's trained the organization on the software capabilities.
Licensing and costs aside this is a great tool. Although with Microsoft coming up with their analytic capabilities, it will become increasingly difficult to convince decision-makers to have to pay extra for a tool like this.

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