TIBCO Spotfire Reviews

I use TIBCO Spotfire in my company for finance-related purposes. Basically, we use TIBCO Spotfire to create dashboards for financial reporting, and with the dashboard, we manage data mining and similar kinds of activities in our company.

The way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik. The speed of creating reports or dashboards is slower in TIBCO Spotfire than in Qlik.

I have been using TIBCO Spotfire for three to four years. My company uses the product's enterprise version.

Downtime is usually related to how many servers are allocated to TIBCO Spotfire, but generally, it doesn't show any problems.

The solution's scalability aspect has never been a problem in my company.

My company's IT team provides us with technical support for the product whenever required.

I have experience with Qlik. Our company moved from Qlik to TIBCO, as the latter provided us with easier options to make dashboards. We consider TIBCO to be better for our company in some of the areas related to automation and analytics. The data monitoring team in our company prefers TIBCO.

The product's initial setup phase was simple.

The product's installation deployment phase

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

In my company, we are upgrading the solution, which should take around two weeks due to some security issues. With TIBCO products, there is a need to make some adjustments before a person plans to upgrade the tool.

My company's infrastructure team and TIBCO's team did the product's installation, so I am not knowledgeable enough to speak more about the product's setup phase.

I would describe TIBCO Spotfire as an averagely-priced product.

My company did consider Tableau against TIBCO. Due to the fact Tableau has its own language or set of commands, and it doesn't allow our company to use SQL, though it operates on something similar to SQL, we had to postpone our plans and choose TIBCO over Tableau.

As a BI tool, I rate the overall product a nine out of ten.

Spotfire is very powerful, especially for oil and gas, as it has a very intuitive and very strong UI. These are some of the use cases when you're doing normal analytics, reporting, or dashboarding.

Then you can talk about some of the predictive analyses. You can talk about forecasting, you talk about banking use cases, and you talk about data time. All of that gels very well into extreme use cases of streaming analytics. You have streaming data coming in, and then you can populate data from Spotfire.

The solution's most valuable aspect is the single pane for everything. Some customers have a predictive analysis of data science they want to do, so they have to acquire another tool to get the data science. However, in Spotfire, you can have one single tool to manage everything. You can have historical data, you can have real-time data, you can have predictive data, and all of that is available to you.

It is a highly customizable tool.

All the big giants, oil and gas companies, use TIBCO Spotfire heavily.

It’s stable and straightforward.

The solution is easy to set up.

There's one area I see that specifically needs improvement. That is when you do the data loading. It is slow. For historical data, when you talk about gigabytes of data, terabytes of data, then it becomes prolonged. Loading could be improved. That's one part. That is actually there with every tool.

I would not say that this is a specific problem with Spotfire. However, it is a problem with all the BI tools. That is one area which can be improved. When you are doing analytics, you see that the value has to come perfect.

There was a missing feature of alerting out of the box within Spotfire. However, they have released this in version 12.

I’ve used the solution for more than ten years.

The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn’t crash or freeze. It’s reliable.

The solution can scale.

We have about 25,000 users on the solution currently.

Technical support is very good. There are a few products in TIBCO. There’s the core streaming, master return management, then TIBCO Business Works. These are very strong products and very strong support. It’s bread and butter for TIBCO.

The initial setup is easy. It’s very straightforward. It’s not overly complex.

How many people you need for deployment and maintenance depends on the project, including what kind of reporting you're implementing. When you're implementing a reporting like very complex dashboards, you need two people, maybe. It depends on how many reports you're implementing. If you are implementing 100 reports, then it will take maybe five to six months maximum, with two people.

It also depends on the backing system and the testing and UIT also. That might take two engineers or consultants.

The initial part is the analytics setup, which is setting up the whole part and designing the whole thing. After that, it's the consultant's job and they can actually do it quickly.

We’ve seen an ROI. There is a solid ROI.

For example, if you're talking about a banking or small banking industry or FFA industry where you have a mortgage and you have a collection, you can implement use cases like route optimization. You can implement use cases like the customer first to customer 360 degrees, and all of these cases actually give you complete value.

The ROI is relatively high, to be honest, especially with one single pane for everything, so you really don't have to worry about opening a different type of dashboard and can handle time management and all these things, so it can really actually scale up and doesn't create any boundaries.

We are the exclusive partner for MENA in India. We’ve been a partner since 2016.

if you are looking for one single pane for managing all your analytics problems, then you should go for Spotfire. With Spotfire, there are some challenges. For example, the dashboards are not that fancy, and you do not have the 3D ones. However, when you do deep analytics, or you can say deep data wrangling, data management, all these things are very flexible in Spotfire.

When you're looking for one single pane for your historical analytics, streaming analytics, predictive analytics, data science, ML modeling, and managing everything from the one single pane, then you should go for Spotfire. This is the best tool in the market.

The visualization can be improved and could become a little fancier. Right now, it is 2D charts, yet it should make a 3D chart.

The dashboard is 2D. When you have 3D, then you really see the value. However, with the kind of options that Spotfire provides, nobody can provide what they offer. It's very extensive. If you migrate from TIBCO Spotfire to Power BI, maybe you'll take double the time, and you'll still not achieve the same features that Spotfire provides out of the box.

I’d rate the solution nine out of ten. The first thing is it is easy to implement and easy to manage. The second thing is it has excellent out-of-the-box connectors and out-the-box visualization. The third thing is the modes, so if you want to do deep analytics like a donor chart or a funnel chart and specifics like that. You can do that. The fourth thing is one single pane for everything, so you can manage all kinds of analytics in that single pane.

We use this solution to prepare dashboards to monitor our clients products and to capture, then track and monitor, adverse events in the system.

This solution allows for much easier navigation to specific pages of data making searches much more time-efficient.

This solution allows us to integrate data from across all client departments, for effective reporting via a single dashboard.

We would like to see some improvement in the default properties of the solution, so that there is less need for us to spend our time coding.

We would also appreciate proper API and a proper training solution to be developed for this product so that we can quickly implement changes. 

We have been working with this solution for around 10 years.

We have found this solution to be mostly stable, but we have experienced occasional lags due to server capacity.

The initial setup of this solution takes between one to five days, and requires a lot of information to be captured for it's configuration depending on the OS being used.

The setup also has a lot of steps to be followed precisely, which are provided in a manual, but means that any incorrect changes will have to be undone in a specific manner that can be quite tedious.

This solution was implemented using a combination of our client's in-house team, and a buyer support operative.

This product carries a monthly licensing charge, with the amount depending on the features that are to be included. This costs also covers the use of technical support.

We would recommend this solution if an organization is carrying out statistical analysis, and require role level security or visualization support.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

TIBCO Spotfire is a business intelligence tool.

I am only supporting the data to be used in the TIBCO Spotfire application. I'm not using it for my daily operation. However, my users use my data for their TIBCO Spotfire dashboard.

I collect a lot of data from our system and I provide good quality data for reports.  I've done checks on the speed of the queries, and integration with other information before the data is accessed by the users. I provide the speed, the quality, and the completeness of data to be consumed by TIBCO Spotfire.

The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good.

I have used TIBCO Spotfire within the last 12 years.

TIBCO Spotfire is stable.

The scalability of TIBCO Spotfire is good.

The operations, asset, and reservoir teams all use this solution in the oil company where it is used. The are approximately 300 users.

The support is not very good in Indonesia. They need to improve. The support is from a third party and I find we know more about the solution than they do. Their knowledge and responsiveness could improve.

I have used Power BI and TIBCO Spotfire is a similar solution in many ways. However, Power BI is easier to use. The time it takes for the deployment of TIBCO Spotfire is more than Power BI. It takes approximately one week to complete which involves the reports, setting up the data, and interface configuration.

The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier.

My advice to others is if their business case is supported then they can receive a return on investment by using TIBCO Spotfire. However, if revenue is not generated they should use a less expensive solution, such as Power BI.

The cost of TIBCO Spotfire could improve. It should be less expensive. It's the most expensive visualization tool in our company.

I rate TIBCO Spotfire an eight out of ten.

We provide services to other customers. We have multiple customers who are in the oil and gas industry. We use this software for managing clients' assets.  Creating analytical dashboards on different datasets from Wales and various other datasets they have from their enterprise software.  Everything is very well accumulated in one place using Spotfire.

There were a couple of issues with Spotfire. But in the new releases, they have they have covered them. We had some challenges with respect to what they will say, compatibility issues for formatting and importing. So but those were fixed and some performance related issues for bladder datasets. But now in the newer releases, it's it is it is working fine.

I have been using TIBCO Spotfire for 5 years. 

Fifty users are using the solution at present. 

The initial setup is complicated and needs experience and knowledge.

Five engineers are required for maintenance.

The solution is an affordable one. 

Overall, I rate the solution an 8 out of 10. 

I work with a big bank in Azerbaijan. We have created a data warehouse and use TIBCO Spotfire. I have implemented this application in three banks.

We primarily use it for processing. I have experience and I understand the technical requirements so that we can design any report or we can use SQL links, or Postgres, et cetera.

It's a dynamic solution. There's dynamic reporting in TIBCO. It's very easy to add Power BI. With Power BI, if you want to create dynamic reporting, and dynamic dashboards, in Power BI you must create a lot of code files, however. It's very useful or it's very easy to create the dynamic dashboard in TIBCO Spotfire.

The solution is stable. 

The pricing is good.

It's scalable. 

We'd like better dashboard integrations. 

The initial setup can be difficult. 

The design of the solution could be updated. 

I've worked with the solution for seven or eight years. I have a rather large background with the solution. 

It's quite stable and reliable. The performance is great. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. After working with the solution for seven years, I've never had any emergencies to contend with.

The scalability is good. It's not a problem to expand it. You can do all kinds of reporting, and as often as you want. It's very fast.

We have about 50 planned users on the product right now. 

At the present time, we don't have any plans to upgrade this system, however, we have a plan after the new year, or 2023, to look at everything. We might look at usage then.

The solution does not have good documentation or a strong community to help you.

That said, I' e never had issues that required me to directly reach out to technical support. We do have a partner in the region, and if we needed help, we would reach out to them to get assistance. We might need to reach out maybe once a year. It is never very often.

I also have experience with and am certified in Power BI. However, I've never used it in a banking environment. 

If we use Power BI, there are very good colors or a lot of dashboards and there are machine learning opportunities, et cetera. However, it is not easy to create dynamic dashboards. With TIBCO Spotfire, there are not very good color systems or nice UX designs. However, the reporting is very good. We only need reporting, which is why we choose to use TIBCO.

There were problems with the initial setup. There is not a lot of documentation for implementation. If you have any problems, you cannot easily find documentation for issues either. The community is okay, however, there is not enough information for solving problems. There are not really any tutorials to help you.

It's not user-friendly and pretty hard to deal with system settings. 

We do pay a yearly licensing fee. Three years ago, we paid for four years upfront. It's not overly expensive. 

We looked at Tableau, which is very good. I know Oracle BI is also a very strong system as well, as is QlikView.

I'm an end-user of the product. 

We are using both on-premises and cloud deployment of the product. We have a server, a TIBCO server, which we implemented. We have implemented several reports and have used the Spotfire design. 

I'd rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We use the solution to handle large datasets.

Live Query data on demand, R and Python integration, and the ability to write HTML and JavaScript text areas are all valuable features.

The data compression has room for improvement.

The usage of SPDF files can be improved.

I would like the ability to loop intellect queries the same way that I can with QVD data.

The UI has room for improvement.

I have been using the solution for nine years.

The solution is stable.

The technical support is responsive.

I give the solution a seven out of ten.

We utilize the solution for real-time analytics. We have some IoT devices connected to the dashboard, allowing us to view analytics related to the devices for our clients in the energy sectors.

TIBCO Spotfire can be connected to the cloud or deployed on-premise. TIBCO also offers cloud servers for cloud deployment.

The most valuable feature is the map visuals that help us connect to the geo-specialized data which is more advanced than other solutions.

We encountered difficulties connecting the special data sets, as the post data set did not contain any shared columns, making it difficult to establish a connection between the data sets. It would be beneficial if we had a feature to assist us in connecting to the pages of our special data, thus allowing us to the relationships easily.

I have been using the solution for five months.

TIBCO Spotfire is a stable solution that is able to handle a large data set and continue working efficiently.

The technical support is good. 

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward. We had a few drag-and-drop items and some recommendations. Depending on the data sets the deployment can be completed within two days.

In comparison to other solutions such as IBM Cognos, TIBCO Spotfire is more affordable.

I give the solution an eight out of ten.

I recommend TIBCO Spotfire.