Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire
The use of Spotfire is increasing throughout the organization. The reason being, it is a platform that engages both IT savvy and non-IT savvy users. Within the organization, Spotfire is used is various ways, right from basic reporting to complex advanced analytics, everything is done using Spotfire.
- Root Cause Analysis - You are able to guide your end users through the analysis in an intuitive manner
- Fairly Complex visualizations can be easily created without any programming skills
- Spotfire has amazing ETL capabilities, I have used multiple BI tools and in my opinion Spotfire is leading
- Cascading Filters --> the newer BI tools in the market make cascading much easier
- The responsiveness in text areas --> If you have pictures in your dashboard, currently the developers have to keep all sorts of screen sizes in mind otherwise the users will experience a 'distorted dashboard'
- Tableau - Does not have the best ETL capabilities.
- SAC - Although it is on the cloud, speed seems to be an issue most times.
- Power BI - Data modeling is key to a good dashboard. Not a tool non-IT savvy people can easily use.
- Online training
The training's give you the ability to use the basic functionality available on Spotfire. However, I strongly believe if you want to tap into the 'full potential' of Spotfire you need to be inquisitive...