Very robust visualization system!
April 01, 2016

Very robust visualization system!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire

We had problem with sharing data between the management team. Usually financial statements were sent monthly via email and that was it. We decided to use Spotfire's platform to streamline the data sharing, and see more metrics that were getting lost in our systems. We basically design various visualizations in Spotfire, and run reports in our systems, save it to a shared location, and Spotfire does the rest when updating the data. Users consume the data via the Spotfire Cloud.

Pros

  • Visualizations are very nice looking and sleek.
  • A lot of different kinds of ways to import data.
  • Very nice web interface to create visualizations on the go.

Cons

  • Limited functionality on the "graphical table" visualization.
  • Hard to rename columns. It often shows the name of the column that comes on the report (Ex: Avg (Planned Hours))
  • When data is updated, sometimes it loses the formatting.
We didn't really evaluate other alternatives. Spotfire met our expectations after the demo session.
It is well suited when displaying trending data, and comparing values. You can also build very complex formulas to accomplish difficult calculations. It is not well suited to display single values, or form type of visuals. If you need to display a single value, it must be on every single row of your data set, and then take the average of that column.

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