Item: Spotfire
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our products are built in Spotfire leveraging the TERR and Python engines that are natively supported by Spotfire. We utilize Spotfire for not only our product development, but consult on the implementation and analytics for a variety of clients using the product internally within their organizations. Business problems include analytics, machine learning, accounting/finance, and petroleum engineering workflows.

Pros and Cons

Machine learning
Advanced modeling
Data visualization
Data ingestion & ETL

Levels of customization for certain elements
HTML sanitation removal
Handling replacement data and the downstream impacts on data functions

Return on Investment

We can attribute all product development to Spotfire
Quicker deployments
Flexible deployment options for desktop and web

Integrations with other TIBCO products

We have integrated Spotfire with actions on a demo basis, which provides considerable flexibility on the ability to perform detailed database updates without leaving Spotfire.

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop and Microsoft Power BI

Spotfire is significantly ahead of both products from an ETL and data ingestion capability. Spotfire also has substantially better visualizations than Power BI, and although the native visualizations aren't as flexible in Tableau, Spotfire enables users to create completely custom javascript visaualizations, which neither Tableau or Power BI has. Tableau and Power BI are likely only superior to Spotfire with respect to embedded analysis on a website.

Key Insights

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Spotfire go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Spotfire again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Slack, RStudio, Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Likelihood to Recommend

Spotfire works well for handling everything from simple to highly complex and large datasets. Geospatial data works especially well, as the geospatial analytics capability afforded by Spotfire is second to none. We have migrated many workflows that were previously performed in Excel using pivot tables to within Spotfire. This has enabled us to increase efficiently and capability when analyzing new data.

Training Types Used

No Training

Spotfire is leading the pack when it comes to highly scalable and capable visual analytics and data modeling

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire