Item: Spotfire
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire Platform is being used to find relationships between seemingly unrelated data. Currently, Spotfire is only being used by a specific department. Spotfire allows my team to provide our clients with great visuals that make the data mean something.

Pros and Cons

Simplicity. Spotfire is very user friendly and easy to navigate.
Create Details Visualization. This button is used tremendously. It allows for controlling one graph from another.
Manipulation. The charts and tables can be filtered and manipulated to get at the exact information you're looking for.

A filter ability where the date will stay current and update another filter date to always be X amount of days before.
The coding language isn't the easiest. I don't know if using a more well known computer language is possible.
The modeling features could have more notes about them.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Desktop

Spotfire was chosen over Tableau originally because Spotfire is a lot less expensive. I prefer Spotfire over Power BI because of the create details visualization button and the entire Spotfire interface is easy to navigate.

Other Software Used

Tableau Desktop, Microsoft Power BI

Data Integration

I've connected to SQL, Access and Excel and they are all very easy to connect to. Spotfire is able to handle large data sets and also updates in real-time. I don't know if my data table was too large or I didn't have enough indexes but Spotfire did get slow at some points.

Collaboration and Sharing

I like Spotfire because it is easily publishable to the web to give our clients their necessary dashboards and can be updated in real-time. This is helpful because we don't have to constantly send our client a dashboard each week, rather they can just refresh the data and get exactly what they are looking for.

Likelihood to Recommend

The create details visualization button makes Spotfire well suited. It may be less suited when having to perform a lot of equations - in this case Excel may be preferred.

Spotfire, Simple and Visually Aesthetic

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire Platform