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Spotfire - Better options available
August 14, 2021

Spotfire - Better options available

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Spotfire Platform

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

We use Spotfire to create a dashboard for our end-user. We run several simulation and ML models on other tools like SAS, store the outputs on a SQL database and present the results on a Spotfire dashboard for our internal customers. We also use Spotfire for several spot checks and quick analyses.
  • Enterprise-wide license
  • A lot of options to connect to many databases
  • Help tools
  • The UI can be simpler. Tableau is a lot simpler and neater.
  • Options for animations. Sheets like Tableau have it.
  • Options for geospatial mapping.
  • Good access for customers
  • Decent tools
  • Does the job fairly well
  • Not a lot of training options available for new users
We haven’t. We use other tools for this.
  • AspenONE Asset Performance Management (APM)
I haven’t tried any other tools by TIBCO. The only tool we use in our company is Spotfire, so my analysis is limited to Spotfire.

Do you think Spotfire delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Spotfire's feature set?

No

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Spotfire again?

No

I think Spotfire would be very useful for a new user who is getting into data visualization. But it’s not a great tool if you want to do [anything] really complicated - need visualization experiments or dashboards. I think Tableau is a lot better. It is a lot easier and more visually appealing.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
3.5
Customizable dashboards
4
Report Formatting Templates
3
4.8
Drill-down analysis
4
Formatting capabilities
4
Integration with R or other statistical packages
4
Report sharing and collaboration
7
7.7
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
2.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
4
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
2
Predictive Analytics
2
7.3
Multi-User Support (named login)
6
Role-Based Security Model
8
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
8
6.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
6
Mobile Application
6
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
6
6.2
REST API
7
Javascript API
7
iFrames
5
Java API
5
Themeable User Interface (UI)
8
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
5

Spotfire Training

  • no training
We had no training. I asked me colleagues for help. My manager offered to pay for a Udemy course, but nothing else. My team does conduct spotfire classes for other teams sometimes, but that was after I got comfortable with the tool. So I didn’t find it useful.