Item: Spotfire
Rating: 10
Author: Hilly Menke

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tibco spotfire is used by our R&D department for the visualization of complex data. It is also used to create statistical workflows by staticians and make them available for all R&D members.

Pros and Cons

Visualizations are very good.
Makes analysis and explaining to others easy.
Filtering of data to view details of your complex data.
Creation of workflows using R, matlab and others.

Nice box plots. It would be great if we can export the table as a table or text. At present it can be only exported as a picture.
It would be nice if not only maps but also biological pictures like pathways were be available.

Data Integration

You connect can several datasources. You can easily add more information to the analysis, like rows, columns or an extra table.

Collaboration and Sharing

We only share data via the library. It works ok.

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Desktop

I did not review Tableau well enough to say specific things. We were already using spotfire and liked it. My first impression was not good enough to change to Tableau.

Likelihood to Recommend

Spotfire can be used for a lot of data but the data should be organized in the correct way to answer specific questions. The format of your data is important!

SF from an R&D view

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire