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Spotfire is a great visualization platform and a good first step for a data analytics ecosystem
July 15, 2020

Spotfire is a great visualization platform and a good first step for a data analytics ecosystem

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

Software Version

Spotfire Platform

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

Organization usage: focused in development and operations departments.

Business Problems:
  • Visualization of operations metrics such as production tracking.
  • Data QC.
  • Prototype advanced analytical approaches.
  • Interactive visualizations ("Brush UI").
  • Data wrangling interface.
  • Search function for Spotfire features.
  • Steep learning curve.
  • Self help options confusing - online help is convoluted; inline help is mediocre.
  • Trellis by a hierarchy or custom grouping of categories.
  • Facilitates more complex but timely operational decisions with revenue impacts in the order of $100K-plus such as oil blending optimization or well workover prioritization.
  • Replacing some of our very expensive niche software applications with internally developed dashboards that we can much more easily customize as we wish.
  • Much greater awareness of the state of our data and helping to promote a more data-driven work culture.
Integrated with TIBCO Data Virtualization (TDV) and recently Data Science Workbench (DSW). TDV has been critical as the backbone to standardizing our data views and providing ready to use infolinks for users. Early days with DSW though our current expectations and early experience indicate this will be a very useful way of encapsulating more complex workflows in a friendly UI and publish via data functions.
Found Spotfire more customizable though not as pretty as Tableau when we evaluated in 2016.
Well Suited:
  • Data exploration including with the recommendation engine - these are useful reminders of perhaps hidden configurations of the base plots.
  • Distributing custom code via data functions.
  • Builds very nicely off a standard data platform such as TDV.
Poorly suited:
  • Not fully multi-user: risks in active collaboration on a Spotfire project and potential saving over each other's work.
  • Standalone not a strong data analytics tool - we've had to customize/augment with custom code or statistica.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.0
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
7
7.5
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
6
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7
Report sharing and collaboration
7
6.7
Publish to Web
6
Publish to PDF
7
Report Delivery Scheduling
7
5.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
8
Predictive Analytics
2
6.3
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
5
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
5
7.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
7
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
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

Spotfire Training

  • in-person training
Impact was limited and really only provided awareness. Training was more useful to power users who were able to pickup a few additional tips or workflows. Our current training is more one on one now with new users having a chance to try it out first. We have access to online training but usage has been little.