Item: Spotfire
Rating: 8
Author: Mark Edralin

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We Spotfire in our Marketing Tech Dashboard. We build dashboards to help users understand data and come up with insights. Insights that help them take actions to help company manage their revenue and manage the churn. The Spotfire is very powerful tool especially it's ability to use simple scripting to be able to use complicated calculations like forecast, rate difference, % of Total, running % changes, etc.

Pros and Cons

Matrix Table or CrossTable
Scripting to build some complicated calculations
User Friendly Visualizations configurations

The donut chart is I guess a powerful illustrations but I hope it should be done quite simple in Spotfire. But in Spotfire there are lots of steps involve just to build a simple donut chart.
Table calculation (like Row or Column Differences) should be made simple or there should be drag and drop function for Table Calculation. No need for scripting.
Information Link should be changed. If new columns are added to the table just refreshing the data should be able to capture the new column. No need extra step to add column

Return on Investment

Spotfire really helped a lot of people in terms of analysis. It eliminates data analysis in excel. Because even underlying data you can explore it in Spotfire.
Spotfire helps data analysts to investigate data and also help analysts solve inconsistency of data.
Spotfire helps data analysts in building great dashboard that provide insights to users to make decisions to drive revenue and manage the churn.

TIBCO Platform Integration

Ideal Data Sources

SQL Server, Oracle, API

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

Alteryx, Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Likelihood to Recommend

Spotfire is really a powerful visualization tool because it is very user friendly. The way it manages the data and allows users to build visualizations are very intuitive. So I can say Spotfire can really be used even by non-technical people like the Marketing folks. But some complex functionalities, some technical knowledge is required like coding so it becomes less appropriate for those who has zero knowledge in programming. So I guess what Spotfire has to work on is to enhance the tool in a way that those other calculations can be done by using drag-and-drop approach.

Spotfire is a powerful Visualization Tool.

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire