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Spotfire in the Oil and Gas Business Development Space
May 13, 2021

Spotfire in the Oil and Gas Business Development Space

Thomas Plumridge P.Geo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Spotfire Platform

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

Spotfire is used across the company for a variety of data analytics and corporate KPI tracking. I have leveraged it extensively to help me process large volumes of data and create visualizations which can then be presented to our executive team to inform business decisions. It is also used to track our ongoing activity in our business in a series of dashboards, allowing for us to compare across the organization and be informed about where performance is exceeding or underperforming our expectations.
  • Functional dashboards which can be understood quickly by those who use them
  • Great visualizations for disparate data sets
  • Ease of integration of multiple data sets into one consolidated data table
  • Linking of standalone data tables with data pulled from an API link through information links
  • Easier mapping integration with data, especially with data of different geospatial projections
  • More functionality in spatial sampling
  • Allows for much quicker visualizations used in my presentations to management, especially in being able to thematically map shapefile and database information.
  • Our internal Spotfire dashboard for activity tracking across Canada has been instrumental in improving the weekly reporting I do.
We have not integrated with other Spotfire products.
I have only briefly used Power BI and I found the interface more familiar as it leverages a lot of familiar aspects that come from Excel. However, I did not find it was a clean an interface for visualizations as Spotfire was.

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

It is ideal for situations where you are pulling together multiple datasets and integrating them into one visualization. It does fall a bit flat for working with more than two Y-Axis sets on combination tables, where Excel is better at displaying that type of information.

It also should allow users to manually adjust the vertical axis scale as there may be reasoning in modifying it to a smaller or larger range but maintaining the same data step.

It would be ideal to enhance the ability to sort data. For example, there are instances where you want to sort data in a stacked bar chart by something other than count or alphabetically.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
6.7
Drill-down analysis
Not Rated
Formatting capabilities
3
Integration with R or other statistical packages
7
Report sharing and collaboration
10
6.3
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
4
Report Delivery Scheduling
7
Data Discovery and Visualization ()
Not Rated
9.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
Not Rated
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
9.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
9
Mobile Application
Not Rated
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
8.8
REST API
8
Javascript API
9
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
9
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
9

Spotfire Training

  • in-person training
There was a one day course we took through a TIBCO partner (CADEON), which walked through the basics of TIBCO Spotfire and how to use it. I found this helpful, but not nearly comprehensive enough for my purposes. I have leveraged the online community of users to help me find solutions to most of my roadblocks