TIBCO Spotfire Reviews

• Best in class in visual and advanced analytics
• Enterprise scalability

• Massive process improvement and time savings in life science research, as well as clinical data analytics

Cloud infrastructure could be improved. The cloud market is rapidly evolving and TIBCO is at the forefront of development here. With Hadoop connectivity, there is also a link to data lake environments. I think that a turnkey offering with a smart data lake and analytics layer on top is where the market is heading.

I have used this for 15 years.

If you use recommended hardware sizing, you should not encounter any stability issues.

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

Technical support was excellent.

We did not previously use a different solution.

Initial setup was straightforward as you can start small and build the platform as you go.

You can choose between subscription and perpetual licenses based on your needs.

We did not evaluate alternatives.

I would recommend this product because it is intuitive with a fast learning curve and very powerful. In my opinion, it exceeds competitors' capabilities in enterprise scalability and advanced analytics support.

The ability to create different types of analyses with ease is the product’s most valuable feature.

It gave business insights by exploring their data.

Exporting to Excel, PDF, and PowerPoint should be easier.

I have used it for five years.

The server can become overloaded and cause it to crash.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Tibco is always helpful with problems.

I did not previously use a different solution.

The inital setup can be complex if you have to install and configure the server.

Spotfire might be expensive, but it brings many tools to the table.

The best features are its malleability; it can be manipulated using IronPython, JavaScript, HTML/CSS & jQuery, etc.

It is being used in a number of ways within the organisation, from internal financial analysis to products and services we sell to our clients.

I have used it for ~18 months.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

I have not had to use technical support that much, save for when I first started learning the software. The service I got then was very good/positive.

We have used a number of solutions (as the product is used in many areas of the company). In my previous role, we replaced Cognos with Spotfire and the benefits were plentiful, including but not limited to:

• Improved types of reporting/visualisations
• Significantly more malleable than Cognos
• Advanced analysis features

I believe the admin/installation was not as straightforward as other software. However, I wasn’t directly involved in that.

Many other software products were reviewed; the decision to proceed with Spotfire was made at executive level.

Find experts in Spotfire; perhaps get some consultancy to fast-track your knowledge. We are lucky enough to have internal expertise to fulfill that requirement.

It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts. This leads to faster and better decision making, as well as identifying areas to save costs, increase revenue, optimize, etc.

• Intuitive interface: Easy to get started and use features.
• Filtering: Quickly filters to a level of detail that you are interested in.
• Marking: Drills into data, seeing the same data in other charts.
• Data connections: Having the ability to quickly connect to just about any data source.

The Text Area feature needs to be more user-friendly. It is a little clunky to use, and it is difficult to consistently format text. Here are a few suggestions:

• Don't make it pop out when editing the text area.
• Add a feature to easily add tables (without HTML).
• Overall, make it more user-friendly.

It is prone to crashing every now and then for seemingly arbitrary reasons.

Initial setup is straightforward: Just downloaded it from their website (not applicable for large organizations).

The ROI is nearly impossible to calculate. 

The pricing seems competitive and reasonable. The value delivered by the product far exceeds the cost.

I have tried Tableau, but haven't spent much time working with it because my previous organization and current clients use Spotfire. Excel is also a competitor, but Spotfire is significantly better than Excel for data visualization.

I recommend watching some Spotfire demo videos on YouTube, and also downloading the free trial to get a feel for the software.

The product’s most valuable feature is its integration with HTML, JavaScript and R, because the integration makes all impossible stuff possible with Spotfire.

Many reports which were tabular in form are now very intuitive after being converted to Spotfire. Also, they are automated, so it saves a lot of effort, time & money.

I would like to have "event-based" automation (without integrating with other tools), e.g., send an email only if some event has occurred.

Even though we can cascade the drop down property control, having a drop down filter would help a lot.

I have been using it for 3.5 years.

Technical support is good.

I have also used Tableau, which is another wonderful tool for creating reports. But Tibco comes with a complete suite of products. Spotfire can be integrated with other tools in the Tibco suite.

I can't say; I’ve never had an opportunity to install & configure the server.

I can't say.

It is worth investing in Spotfire.

I’m not very sure if there is any, but there should be a product with no licensing cost - such as Tableau Reader - that can be used for reading the Spotfire files.

Spotfire is a wonderful product with vast reporting and analytical capability. You must try this solution if you are looking for a tool for developing reports.

The feature most valuable to me is the incorporation of analytical techniques such as K-Means and ETL.

Reporting and dashboarding became quite easy. It is much faster and more robust than other BI or visualisation tools.

I would like to see the following improvements:

• Multiple Interactive Layers
• More Built-In Visualisations.
• Dropdown and Hierarchy Filtering

I have used the solution for two years.

We did not encounter any issues with deployment, stability, or scalability.

Customer service and technical support are good.

I have used Tableau for the same amount of time. Spotfire has its own advantages in transforming data and analytical functions.

The initial setup is complex when you use Spotfire Server.

A vendor team implemented the solution.

It provides a great ROI.

Pricing is just fine.

Interactive Visualizations, allowing us to write scripts to change the outlook of the tool and statistics are the key to this product.

This has allowed us to see real time operational analytics helping us to take timely decisions in correcting the defects and repositioning them in correct mode.

Story Telling features aren't intuitive as much as Tableau and some of the features are segregated

2+ years.

Deployment issues were very minimal.

So far, not any noticed issue on stability.

Few times when the data size got increased , it shuts automatically and restarts in the thick client environment.

It’s good, at least the Tibco Community is active and very helpful.

9/10

I haven’t used any other reporting tool as my present organization using Spotfire exclusively for it.

It was implemented in-house.

I know that other products were evaluated but I don't know what they were.

Know the complete tool by going through all the help files available. Feel free to play with this product with no limitations to the imagination. It makes it possible to give us factual insights, helps us to take a right decisions transforming our business.

• Easy data transformations before loading data into Spotfire e.g., pivoting, unpivoting, etc.
• Simplicity of customizing data expressions

Better UX/UI design to make the product look “sexier”. It’s somewhat difficult to add formatting to Spotfire dashboards to make them look nice (e.g. coloring backgrounds of charts, adding floating texts, etc.). This is a bit easier and more customizable in Tableau, and even more customizable in MicroStrategy.

I have been using it for two years.

I have not encountered any deployment, stability or scalability issues.

Personally, I have never had to use technical support.

I was not involved in the evaluation.

Compared to Tableau, it is much more powerful in terms of statistics and analytics, but Tableau is more popular, so there is more support for it online. Spotfire is easier to use for an advanced user, while Tableau is easier to use for a beginner user.