Just another review
March 18, 2016

Just another review

Luan Tran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire Platform

Spotfire is being used in R&D and Internal Audit to visualize data and enable our users to do data analysis.

Pros

  • Spptfore allows our users to 'discover' data patterns and to spot trends. We use it to perform financial fraud analytics
  • Spotfire allows our users to easily drill down on data across hierarchies.
  • Spotfire enables us to easily prototype a certain graph and data visualization for presentation.
  • Spotfire enables us to do data profiling when we don't understand the relationships between the data.

Cons

  • Product installation and product management is NOT as refined as some other enterprise tools
  • The 'programing interface' (e.g the formula screen, the user function screen) can be improve so that developers can easily program their code without having to strain their eyes to look for errors
  • At least with the version we are using, we need improvement on database connectivity and the entire data model organization. There is no obvious way to update the data model without throwing the entire thing out of the window.
We selected Spotfire for the data visualization capabilities, thus the shortcomings were not as important. However, it would have been nice to be able to consolidate reporting / analytics platforms into one product instead of having BI and Spotfire or Tableau.
Spotfire is not suited for 'canned' report and other more rigid visualization. Spotfire is also not very 'programmable' (as opposed to BI or Tableau).

Using TIBCO Spotfire Platform

30 - R&D and Finance
4 - DBA, BI, Admin
  • Data Visualization
  • Data Exploration
  • Report

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