Item: Spotfire
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire is being used across several divisions in the organizations. In the 'unconventionals' division that deals with hundreds of rigs and tens of thousands of wells. It uses Spotfire as its go-to analytics tool. The users range from Technicians, Engineers, Geologist, Scientists, to Business Analysts. The business problems range from corporate benchmarking analyses to engineering & operations efficiency work-flows.

Pros and Cons

Pros

It makes it easy for everyone to access data from a centrally managed location.
It is able to handle and visualize very large data sets in memory
By leveraging its scripting capabilities, authors to create very sophisticated and complex work-flows to easy-to-use solutions.
It reduces the need for larger IT organization to support business needs, by allowing business users to become self supporting.

Cons

Additional out-of-the-box visualizations.
Repository/source control.
Library to support storing other (non-Spotfire) files in order to have one repository.

Alternatives Considered

TIBCO Data Virtualization

Very easy to use and scales for the enterprise.

Return on Investment

It allowed user to become exponentially more efficient
It has become the benchmark of analytical technology by which all other new analytical technology offerings is measured against

Training Types Used

Online training
in-person training

Likelihood to Recommend

If the need to analyze large datasets where users would like to interact with the data and interact with the visualization, Spotfire is the tool of choice. If you want to quickly simplify analytical work-flows to be used by others and have the option to use them on the web, Spotfire is the tool.

If you just want to create simple graphs from data, any tool (including Spotfire) can be used.

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Spotfire is the 'go-to' tool for any and all data analysis.

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