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Spotfire is a capable albeit expensive system and other options may be better suited based on your needs
August 20, 2021

Spotfire is a capable albeit expensive system and other options may be better suited based on your needs

Alan Peterson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Spotfire Platform

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

We have migrated away from Spotfire to Tableau and found that it does everything we needed from Spotfire at a substantially lower price and increased ease of use.
  • Ad-hoc data analysis.
  • Visualizations.
  • Data management / sharing.
  • Simplicity of installation.
  • Frequency of updates.
  • Complication of use.
  • It was able to produce all of the analysis required of it.
  • It was burdensome with frequent updates.
We did not integrate it with any other products.
We ultimately switched to Tableau Desktop as we realized it was able to do all of the things we required of Spotfire.

Do you think Spotfire delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Spotfire's feature set?

Yes

Did Spotfire live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Spotfire go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Spotfire again?

No

Spotfire is well suited for data analysis and visualization - importing data and making it available to others on the team. It's a fine product, it's just more expensive and harder to manage than its competitors.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
8.0
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
8
8.3
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Integration with R or other statistical packages
Not Rated
Report sharing and collaboration
7
7.7
Publish to Web
7
Publish to PDF
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
8
9.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
9
9.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
Not Rated
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
Not Rated
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

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