Powerful BI Platform, but Requires IT Support
March 23, 2023

Powerful BI Platform, but Requires IT Support

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

Software Version

Spotfire Platform

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire

Spotfire is used to conduct exploratory data analysis and advanced analytics. It allows us to visualize large sets of data easily with a significant speed advantage over some of its competitors (e.g. Power BI & Tableau). This tool is used across the organization by our analysts to support various organizational reporting needs.
  • Spotfire is a powerful BI Platform
  • Spotfire can easily perform data operations (ETL) within the platform and leverage existing code from R and Python
  • the suite of visualization options is extensive
  • Spotfire requires IT support for implementation
  • Spotfire requires IT support for ongoing maintenance
  • The tool navigation can be difficult to navigate
  • Improved productivity from data analysts
  • Tapped into data that was challenging to access with prior tools
  • Allowed for rapid data exploration
We explored TIBCO Virtualization, as a tool to bring in Marketing web based data. However, we ultimately did not implement it.
We have connected Spotfire to many of our operational systems, including operations databases, CRM systems, Marketing databases. The power of Spotfire is that it makes it easy to manage large sets of data, to conduct data transforms on those datasets, to join and append data, and then conduct data analysis on those datasets. We expect that this connectivity will drive grater insights for our organization and help to illuminate more of the business.

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?

No

Would you buy Spotfire again?

Yes

Spotfire is powerful BI tool, with strong data operations (i.e. ETL) and powerful visualizations. If you are working with a large datasets or streaming datasets, Spotfire is a great option. Spotfire also supports the ability to bring your own code from R or Python. This allows the tool to be quite versatile. This is a tool designed for Enterprises.

Spotfire Feature Ratings

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