Why Spotfire?
Updated February 14, 2019

Why Spotfire?

Rajiv Besant | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

TIBCO Cloud Spotfire

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...
It is one of the better BI tools in the market. It is a great tool for descriptive and diagnostics analytics.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

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