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Spotfire

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What is Spotfire?

Spotfire® is a data visualization platform that utilizes predictive analytics. In addition to data viz, it includes data wrangling capabilities, predictive analytics, location analytics, and real-time streaming analytics. Spotfire® is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, formerly known…

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TIBCO Spotfire Review: Translates Data To Be Visualized For More Effective Understanding
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Pricing

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Spotfire for Amazon Web Services

$0.99

Cloud
Per Hour (Starting)

Spotfire Cloud - Consumer

$250/yr

Cloud
per seat

Spotfire Cloud - Business Author

$650/yr

Cloud
per seat

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Spotfire?

Spotfire® is a data visualization platform that aims to speed individual time to insight and spur analytics adoption across the organization. According to the vendor, Spotfire helps users quickly and easily generate insights with three new ways to support their analytical preferences: NLQ powered search, AI-driven recommendations, and direct manipulation. Users can add context with native streaming for integrated analyses of real-time and historical data, best-in-class geoanalytics, and one-click predictive analytics to go beyond basic visualizations and understand the factors driving trends and what will happen next.

The vendor states Spotfire's differentiating hybrid in-memory/in-database analytics architecture supports the most demanding enterprise needs, scaling to thousands of users and limitless rows of data.

Spotfire is deployed in companies in financial services, energy, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, government, travel & logistics, helathcare, and life sciences.

Spotfire® is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, formerly known as TIBCO Spotfire.

Spotfire Screenshots

Screenshot of Smart Visual AnalyticsScreenshot of Geospatial AnalyticsScreenshot of Intelligent Data WranglingScreenshot of Point-and-click Data ScienceScreenshot of Real-time Streaming Analytics

Spotfire Videos

Intro to Visualizations in Spotfire
Creating a Dashboard in 5 Minutes
Spotfire Application Walkthrough
Advanced Analytics Scripting with Python and R

Spotfire Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAvailable in all regions
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, French, German, Portugese, Chinese, Italian

Frequently Asked Questions

Spotfire® is a data visualization platform that utilizes predictive analytics. In addition to data viz, it includes data wrangling capabilities, predictive analytics, location analytics, and real-time streaming analytics. Spotfire® is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, formerly known as TIBCO Spotfire.

Tableau Desktop, QlikView, and Microsoft Power BI are common alternatives for Spotfire.

Reviewers rate Connect to Multiple Data Sources and Extend Existing Data Sources and Automatic Data Format Detection highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Spotfire are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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James Fairley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Because of Spotfire's robust features and capabilities, I chose it as my preferred software. Spotfire's greater overall performance and scalability set it apart from other software solutions. It can handle massive volumes of records without sacrificing speed or effectiveness. Moreover, Spotfire has an extensive array of record connections, enabling me to easily integrate data from multiple sources. Spotfire's extensive customizability is another reason I chose it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire is appropriate for every organization of any size because it can be a recipient of data for better decision-making. Being a robust development platform for creating reports and dashboards, creating a new Spotfire dashboard is relatively simple. Developers can create highly customized dashboards using the tools it provides. I will recommend this software to others.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire is more suited for manufacturing industries with regards the huge data to process to make relevant decision that use big data for making decisions, besides this Spotfire supports more and excels at Availability & Scalability, Data Sources Connectivity and Deployment Options, which turn to be a game changer compared to other tools
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We select Spotfire because of its connectors, Big data capabilities, Drill down and inmersive analytics and capacita to manage miliseconds information
March 17, 2023

Entry level user

Marco J. Morelli | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We tried Asana but was too difficult to personalise and did not help us in analysing the data. We are now using Redmine as a time and workflow tracker as our group grew larger, and we are satisfied with it, although it needed some customization that was performed by external professionals.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • SAP Business Objects
See previous answers. Business Objects is better in static reports and better in nicely printable reports. Spotfire is better for dynamic reports, also with the 'tag'-possibility, I think we can better exchange knowledge.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have been using Spotfire; it is free and I was able to play around a lot more with the features. The best part of using Spotfire is the heat map signatures for my data. It provides a better visualization of your target demographic.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I choose Spotfire because of the following - custom visual using JavaScript - on the fly chart property update using iron python - easy report Deployment and update -easy to manage user access via so or ldap - best report data Extraction -mix data sources -custom data load schedule per data sources
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Spotfire's key strength les in extent of customization possible and it's inherent Data Analytics capabilities. With in-memory and in-database analysis capabilities, it comes out as a high performance and high efficiency BI solution.
Adding to it, Spotfire integrates the Python and TERR engines very effectively to implement out of the box solutions seamlessly. Unlike Power BI and Tableau ; you don't need any separate Python/R instance configured to play with these Data Science technologies.
it is more like a Visual Data Science Platform.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Spotfire is significantly ahead of both products from an ETL and data ingestion capability. Spotfire also has substantially better visualizations than Power BI, and although the native visualizations aren't as flexible in Tableau, Spotfire enables users to create completely custom javascript visaualizations, which neither Tableau or Power BI has. Tableau and Power BI are likely only superior to Spotfire with respect to embedded analysis on a website.
July 19, 2022

Spotfire

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used Tableau & Qlikview. I felt QlikView is very IT & Developer friendly with great customizable options and a great scope of scalability. Tableau with the limited use i did, I felt was very easy to use for simpler operations but for a larger complex operations I felt Spotfire & QlikView were more appropriate. But honestly, at the ease of use level, I felt Tableau was quite a bit more user friendly than Spotfire & QlikView.
EDUARDO GRUBER | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Easy to use and is a very flexible tool. Great to have multiple services. Find it to be a trusted platform. The ability to add Iron Python scripts and include code snippets is very useful. Like the style of the created views.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Augmented AI with Spotfire is very useful for data virtualization. Since data visualization is a quick and very easy way to convey our information. This software makes it easier with its interactive way of presenting data in charts, graphs, and 3D forms.
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