Item: Spotfire
Rating: 9
Author: Elisa Westlund

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire is being used to deliver information to the sales organization and insights to the daily business.

Pros and Cons

Predictive analytic capabilities that are simple to execute.
Self guided analytics for all levels of users.
Cloud based platform simplifies delivery process, provides overall seamless insight across many departments with excellent data integration.

Need to have Excel output options for table and cross table charts.
Increased label options on the tree maps allowing customized series of informational display options.
Area charts and more visual art options.

Data Integration

Simple blending of multiple data sources.

Collaboration and Sharing

Easy to share across multiple team members.

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Online, Qlik Sense, QlikView and MicroStrategy Analytics

Simpler platform administration and execution. Due to cloud deliverable there was not a need for viewer for end users; superior predictive modeling.

Other Software Used

Nielsen Digital Ads Ratings, Tableau Desktop

Likelihood to Recommend

Spotfire is uniquely suited for mid size companies or departments that do not have sufficient internal IT departments capable of executing an entire ERP system.

Spotfire is Spot on with easy to use BI

Overall Satisfaction with Spotfire