TIBCO Spotfire Reviews

ability to quickly identify outliers in the datasets

support documentation for external domain authentication is lacking for advanced infrastructure

* User friendly interface and ease of access.
* Good design and functionality for graphs.
* Low cost.
* Ability to embed Python, HTML, and JavaScript.
* Plenty of data source options.

* Hard to customize some visualization objects.
* Few default functionality for computations especially on cross tables
* Sometimes the text editor is auto changing the code layout once saved.

Dashboards are used to make business decisions which are data driven and are very powerful , intuitive in nature. Data can extracted from any format almost.

You got to spend years to fully utilize the tool. It is such a powerful tool.

Allows you to group and visualize data in many different ways.

Requires some trainings to use the software.

Spotfire allows you to quickly identify outliers and explore data with high performance. Along with this is easy to use and has a convenient platform to identify trends and patterns. Spotfire is such a powerful tool that allows you to visualize data in an easy manner.

Although it is easy to pick up, you will need to look online or consult training manuals for advanced features. It takes a long time to master this program.

Spotfire can do just about anything you want it to, it's fairly simple to learn to both set up and use.

Better integration with google sheets would be nice.

If is a strong tool for reporting and business intelligence, allows many data sources with a hugh potential.

The visualization is not the strongest thing, charts and graph are not too customizable and easy to read.

There are lots of different features available and lots of customizations you can make to your reports. I like that I can apply transformations to the data in there without having to modify my queries. I like how much I can do with my charts, and I really love the feature that highlights the rows of my data table that went into a particular part of my chart when I click on it.

It isn't as user friendly as what I'm used to (I'm used to Microsoft programs like Excel or Word, where everything is very straightforward). There was a longer learning period with this software before I was able to feel comfortable with it. The help guide here is kind of general. It doesn't have explicit instructions for everything, so I'm just experimenting a lot of the time to figure out how to do what I want to my report or chart. Also, it doesn't seem to have a feature that can automatically email you excel files. You have to log in and export the report yourself.

Graphs and charts available helps to analyze the data. Integration with Python also helps to analyze and manipulate the data as per the requirement. Documentation is very detailed. User community very supportive.

Integration with R is also required for statistical analysis and prediction using the data.

This product is easy to use. The start up is fast, and the visuals are great to work with. I like the front end design elements. Everyone I have demoed Spotfire for has been impressed by the visuals, details on demand, filters, highlighting functions etc. I enjoy developing in Spotfire and learning more and more about it.

Modifying custom SQL is very finicky in the information services library. For example, after optimizing the SQL in SQL Server, Teradata, etc, you still have to fix the individual elements and joins, which is frustrating because, in my opinion, getting the code correct should be more difficult than jamming it back into the Information Services.

Multiple data formats supported, strong analytical background heavy duty statistical chops, ability to produce strong data visualizations

Less than stellar customer support, price higher than most competitors (offset somewhat by evaluation capabilities)

Very user friendly and user can manage without IT assistance
Easy to use with dynamic dashboards and interactive visualization

Lacking embedded BI and production reporting. A bit expensive and less practical than Qlik for quick report. Spotfire is not the best BI Tool for analytics reporting.

Connects to all of your data points, and makes it fairly easy to generate reports. Lots of functionality included in the software to meet pretty much all your demands.

Not always able to fully customize the reports in the manor in which we would like. Sometimes we had issues with connecting separate databases on common fields.

Dashboards help to make data driven decisions for the business. Spotfire is really a very powerful tool to play with data and generate value out of it. Not very expensive and helps to save millions.

Needs training to utilize the power of spotfire. Takes a lot of time to get used to wide variety of graphs.

Excellent software that does a ton of visualizations for you.

Cost to purchase is at server-level, which is too expensive for firms introducing analytics.

I love that Spotfire is able to process large file sizes extremely quickly, which means filtering millions of rows in seconds and making it easy to find and sort filter options. In addition, the visualizations in the tool are practically limitless and allow users to make incredibly complex but extremely useful and informative reports.

Spotfire is not easy to use and requires training from an experienced person to use. It is not nearly as user friendly as its competitors.

Easy to use and create visual reports, more exciting design and layout for analysis.

Need more manuals training for the advance features.

Once you learn how to use the software it is very helpful. It is extremely helpful when using CSV files that are too big (too many rows) to use in excel.

The biggest drawback is that the software has so many functions and buttons, that it is very hard to know how to use all of the buttons. It is kind of overwhelming. It may be helpful if they make the look more simple and consolidate buttons by type (kind f like how has all its functionalities sorted by tabs).

It was not hard to get stared and create some visualizations and analysis which is the main purpose of a BI interface.

Maybe is because I'm comparing it with another BI tools like Qlik or Tableau and that is why I think is an inferior product and just don't quite like it.

It was so straightforward to learn and apply to basic applications. To learn, I recreated a file that a colleague had already made in order to teach myself the basics. This took about an hour. Then, I was able to play around and make beautiful visualizations!

There were a few features that were hard for me to figure out -- such as, applying a formula to change what an axis is measuring. This was never intuitive for me, so I would just mess around with the axes until it looked like I wanted it to. Occasionally, this would become frustrating.

I like the variety of visualizations, such as pie charts, line graphs, heat maps, cross bars. This helps because some visualizations make more sense to me than others at displaying my data.

The trainings are free and online and review basics. To understand some of the cooler features, you have to dig a bit with your IT team, online, or colleagues.

I like this tool's in Memory visualization functionality.

Metadata management. it should have been more robust. Also building report logic is bit confusing

1. Easy to use interface for building dashboards
2.Tight Integration and connector for popular databases

1.Tighter cloud integration
2.Need more Training material
3.New features and functionalities compare to Qlik or Tableau

Spotfire is a powerful data visualization tool and surpassed my original expectations. They have plenty of self service capabilities as well.

If not using the templates, it can be tough to achieve the visualization you desire. Although, for simple and quick analysis, this fits my needs