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Spotfire

Score8.1 out of 10

824 Reviews and Ratings

What is Spotfire?

Spotfire, formerly known as TIBCO Spotfire, is a visual data science platform that combines visual analytics, data science, and data wrangling, so users can analyze data at-rest and at-scale to solve complex industry-specific problems.

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Spotfire Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Spotfire has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 824 ratings of Spotfire's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Interactive Data Analysis

    Ability to analyze data interactively using Python or R Notebooks

    Category average: 8.8

  • Visualization

    The product’s support and tooling for analysis and visualization of data.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Automated Machine Learning

    Tools to help automate algorithm development

    Category average: 8.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Security, Governance, and Cost Controls

    Built-in controls to mitigate compliance and audit risk with user activity tracking

    Category average: 8.6

  • Self-Service Model Delivery

    Multiple model delivery modes to comply with existing workflows

    Category average: 8.3

  • MDM Integration

    Integration with MDM and metadata dictionaries

    Category average: 7.8

Who Buys & Uses Spotfire

Spotfire Reviews

What users are saying about Spotfire.
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Survey on Spotfire Visualization

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Research & Development (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Spotfire for data visualizations including but not limit to business metrics report as well as patient profile and safety data review in clinical studies. It adresses the user requirement that have interactive visualizations and support drill down analysis with the study data, allow users to have in-depth understanding about the contributed data points behind the visulizations and tables, etc. Some kind of standard reports and visualization / tables have been developed that could be reused for different purpose.

Pros

  • Support diversified visualizations and tables with multiple filters panels
  • Built-in drill down analysis and tooltips support with additional information presented as needed
  • Support expanded data analysis with external programming language like R, SAS when necessary
  • Support multiple data sources and file formats

Cons

  • The interface could be further beutified and optimized, adapt to the modern front-end UI design
  • The performance enhancement when proceed huge datasets in published web player working mode
  • Simplify the call function of external language R, SAS, even with API, etc.

Return on Investment

  • Enable the trend analysis about pre-defined key indicators from the standard metrics report and faciliatate the decision making
  • Facilatate the data review activities especially for safety review, including lab test data, adverse events, etc.
  • Less investment in both development side and user side, easy to learn for new users, support quick solution for common tasks.

Other Software Used

Shiny

Visuals redifined

Incentivized
Guada GibbsView profile
Global Client Services Director in Professional Services at Cielo Talent (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Spotfire cloud to create and share visual analysis across our departments. This product addresses our previously lack of alignment and internal communities when it comes to company goals, impact from the different segments of our company. We have been using this tool for a while now and it quickly became the go to tool for our QBRs.

Pros

  • Easily create visual analysis
  • Access to basic dashboards
  • Dynamic visuals

Cons

  • Needs longer than usual user training
  • Lacking templates
  • Difficult to print (dimensions)

Return on Investment

  • Improved internal and external progress visualisation
  • Faster turn around for clients
  • Better data analysis

Alternatives Considered

Tableau Cloud

Better and faster analytics on your finger tips.

Incentivized
James Fairley
Software Engineer in Information Technology at Sage Solutions (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We heavily rely on Spotfire in our organization for business intelligence requirements. It has been verified that this is an incredibly intuitive and user-friendly technology, which makes it easy for our staff to assess and utilize effectively. Given how frequently we deal with location-based data in our firm, its analytics capabilities have also proven to be quite helpful. The need for efficient and effective commercial enterprise intelligence is one of the primary issues it resolves. It offers every essential feature needed to gather, examine, and present data, enabling businesses to make wise decisions and gain priceless insights. Moreover, Spotfire's extensive range of connectors to various records resources ensures that businesses may easily access and incorporate their records for analysis.

Pros

  • The ability of Spotfire to handle large and complex datasets is one of its strongest points. Spotfire excels in the area of dynamic and interactive visualizations as well.
  • Numerous visualization options, including bar charts, scatter plots, warmth maps, and more, are provided by the software.
  • It's also important to highlight Spotfire's sophisticated analytical capabilities. Users are empowered to conduct intricate analyses and arrive at informed judgments by use of the software's support for multiple statistical functions and predictive modeling techniques.

Cons

  • While Spotfire offers a lot of features, navigating through them can sometimes be confusing and overwhelming.
  • Another area of improvement for Spotfire is in terms of data manipulation and transformation capabilities. While the tool offers basic data cleaning and wrangling functionalities, there is room for more advanced features.
  • Lastly, an area where Spotfire could improve is in its support for advanced statistical analysis. While the tool has some basic statistical functions, it lacks more advanced capabilities such as multivariate analysis or time series forecasting.

Return on Investment

  • We were able to increase productivity among our records analysts and streamline our fact analysis procedures by implementing Spotfire. They now have sophisticated skills for exploring and visualizing data thanks to the technology, which makes it possible for them to quickly and effectively examine large datasets.
  • Because of our teams' increased ability to make impulsive, fact-driven decisions, our services and products have reached the market faster. Furthermore, Spotfire has reduced our expenses on various tools by providing full capability, eliminating the need for many specialized pieces of equipment.
  • All things considered, the return on investment (ROI) of implementing Spotfire has been incredibly beneficial, with increased productivity and cost reductions helping to positively influence our business objectives.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Power BI

Other Software Used

Slack, Yext, ClickUp

Flexible, fast and effective data analytics tool.

Incentivized
Simran Verma
Software Developer in Information Technology at Webhelpzap (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Spotfire is a kind of data visualization source, where multiple data sources can be connected including databases, cloud services, and spreadsheets. It supports advanced levels of analytics with the integration of R and Python, and data scientists can perform complex analyses within it. Inbuilt with features of predictive analytics tools, allowing users to create predictive models and create data-driven predictions.

Pros

  • With the help of this, a large volume of data can be handled and offered and has advanced data visualization.
  • Powerful data visualization capabilities allow users to build interactive charts, graphs, and dashboards.
  • This helps to analyze and present data effectively.

Cons

  • High cost required for licensing and maintenance, especially for smaller organizations.
  • I have realized, that it takes a lot of time to get used to a wide variety of graphs.
  • Limited data connectors.

Return on Investment

  • User-friendly interface is designed with Spotfire, it contains numerous levels of technical expertise which makes it accessible to business users.
  • Spotfire is BI tool performant software used to create and deploy data products and complete functional and scalable data science.
  • It also represents AI solutions that can be used by business organizations.

Alternatives Considered

Looker

Other Software Used

Notion, Pandora FMS, PlayPlay

Spotfire is a powerful Visualization Tool.

Incentivized
Mark EdralinView profile
Marketing Database Analyst in Marketing at Frontier Communications (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We Spotfire in our Marketing Tech Dashboard. We build dashboards to help users understand data and come up with insights. Insights that help them take actions to help company manage their revenue and manage the churn. The Spotfire is very powerful tool especially it's ability to use simple scripting to be able to use complicated calculations like forecast, rate difference, % of Total, running % changes, etc.

Pros

  • Matrix Table or CrossTable
  • Scripting to build some complicated calculations
  • User Friendly Visualizations configurations

Cons

  • The donut chart is I guess a powerful illustrations but I hope it should be done quite simple in Spotfire. But in Spotfire there are lots of steps involve just to build a simple donut chart.
  • Table calculation (like Row or Column Differences) should be made simple or there should be drag and drop function for Table Calculation. No need for scripting.
  • Information Link should be changed. If new columns are added to the table just refreshing the data should be able to capture the new column. No need extra step to add column

Return on Investment

  • Spotfire really helped a lot of people in terms of analysis. It eliminates data analysis in excel. Because even underlying data you can explore it in Spotfire.
  • Spotfire helps data analysts to investigate data and also help analysts solve inconsistency of data.
  • Spotfire helps data analysts in building great dashboard that provide insights to users to make decisions to drive revenue and manage the churn.

Other Software Used

Alteryx, Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

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