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Spotfire is incredibly useful!
March 02, 2020

Spotfire is incredibly useful!

Drew McMinn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Spotfire Platform

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

The Spotfire product is being used by a specific department to provide clients with insights into the data that we collect for them. The collected data is customer feedback about their service, we then provide interactive reports via Spotfire to allow our clients to slice and dice the data and compare themselves to competitors.
  • User experience
  • Simplicity
  • Feature abundance
  • Automated report refreshing
  • More intuitive cluster performance information
  • Further administrative/API capabilities
  • Client retention improved.
  • Efficiencies in analyzing data.
  • Effectiveness in decision making.
We have integrated with several data warehouse and analytics backends, some of these include:
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Apache Hive
  • Apache Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • MS SQL
  • MySQL
This has been a huge benefit and we enjoy this capability to allow future system changes the ability to work with Spotfire on the fly.
They are similar but don't offer some of the specific client login portal capabilities. We needed a centralized platform that allows customization and sign-ins from multiple clients. Additionally, they did not quite have the diverse data source support capabilities that we get from the Spotfire product, which greatly benefits us and allows flexibility in the future.
Given the cons, I cannot quite give it a top rating. We've had issues with the cluster that have shown instabilities and no resolution or concrete solutions from Spotfire. Otherwise, it's a great product that our company and our clients enjoy using on a regular basis. It has come a long way since we started using it.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
10.0
Customizable dashboards
10
Report Formatting Templates
10
9.8
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
10
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
10
9.7
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
10.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
10
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
10
Predictive Analytics
10
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
9.3
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
6.8
REST API
7
Javascript API
7
iFrames
7
Java API
7
Themeable User Interface (UI)
6
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
7

Spotfire Training

  • Online training
  • no training
Early on we did some online training. Since then it has been hands-on experience and trial/error. The documentation can be cumbersome but allows us to figure things out.