Spotfire - A valuable and flexible analytics tool for positive business growth
Updated March 14, 2023

Spotfire - A valuable and flexible analytics tool for positive business growth

Trevor Harley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Spotfire Platform

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire

We use Spotfire for staff as a cross section of users across the organization. It enables faster, simpler, and more timely reporting and analysis information sharing to those that need it daily and weekly.
  • Easy template spreadsheet reports and charting for daily consumption
  • Easy deployment of new features to users
  • Easy application updating to users when addressing bugs in the app
  • Ability to leverage emailing reports automatically for staff in office and away
  • Upgrading the product is still clunky.
  • Support website to search is poor. Google is friendlier to find what I need
  • More granularity for permissions to the library
  • Improve web player design to current web standards
  • More user adoption
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Streamlines business processes
We integrated Spotfire with Tibco TDV, Tibco Runtime for R, Spotfire Statistical Services and several internal custom applications to generate the operational reporting, data analysis, and forecasting reporting we want and need to adapt to changing economic conditions. Daily dashboards enable users created on top of the above enable further drill through analysis per user needs.
Automation services, statistics services, data virtualization tdv, statistical services
Cheaper, easy Office integration, faster deployment, but more complex to develop, since it's newer, to create robust high-efficiency reporting and analytics.

Do you think Spotfire delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Spotfire's feature set?

Yes

Did Spotfire live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Spotfire go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Spotfire again?

Yes

Microsoft R (formerly Revolution R)
For small companies, Spotfire is expensive to get into. Other players are more cost-conscious. There is a huge learning curve to start, if it's new to you.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
7
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
9
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
8
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
7
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Responsive Design for Web Access
8
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
8
REST API
8
Javascript API
8
iFrames
7
Java API
8
Themeable User Interface (UI)
8
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
8

Evaluating TIBCO Spotfire and Competitors

  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Prior Experience with the Product
  • Analyst Reports
Product features and its ability to data mine from databases and data we have within our business.
Would not change our mind. The software does what we want and need it to. It is flexible enough that it improves as we advance in our data mining requirements.

TIBCO Spotfire Training

  • Online training
  • in-person training
Faster analytics development, better report decision making

TIBCO Spotfire Support

Some support requests are easy to get the help and answers needed. Some times support takes weeks to figure out how to resolve the issue or get us the necessary info required.

Using TIBCO Spotfire

Pretty easy to use once you get to 10.x platform. We are evaluating 11.x that just came out this week to see what improvements are in it for users.