Item: Spotfire
Rating: 9
Author: Franklin Jiménez

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spitfire is being used by my department and it addresses all our internal customer requests by installing and configuring the application for upcoming demos for potential customers.

Pros and Cons

Easy to install.
Great user interface.
Easy to administer from a technical perspective.
Great support team and response time when you need to get answers to questions.

At times the node manager installation needs to be reinstalled as the message "no node to trust" comes up the first time. Especially on newer versions.
The database updates are sometimes hard to find and you are not sure where these are located, I guess it is on the analyst package but it is annoying to get it.
Sometimes Spotfire analyst or portable fails to load because some Microsoft C++ component is missing, Spotfire should list what specific MS C++ component is required to save you time troubleshooting.

Return on Investment

Easy way to create dashboard forecasting coming sales.
Easy way to demonstrate team capabilities and pending sales order of the quarter.
Great tool to upload Excel or other data file formats to enhance visualizations.