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Spotfire

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4.4
Market Presence: Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms (Transitioning to AI Platforms For Data Science and Machine Learning)

Overview

Product Information on Spotfire

Updated 17th June 2024

What is Spotfire?

Spotfire is the visual data science platform that uniquely combines visual analytics, data science and in-line data wrangling for analyzing data. Spotfire provides a point-and-click user experience that enables users to rapidly build and interact with visual data science applications, and allows them to deploy these apps to thousands of users with just one-click for business-critical operations and daily decision making. Low-code and no-code capabilities, empower business users and data scientists to build more powerful domain-specific applications. Optimized for scaled and secure deployments, combined with a wealth of knowledge and extensions through the Spotfire Community Exchange, provides users with even more extensibility. Spotfire helps you tap into an ever-growing ecosystem of industrial knowledge that houses hundreds of vertical implementations across Energy, Manufacturing, and many more, empowering users to solve the world’s most complex industry-specific challenges.

Spotfire Pricing

Spotfire uses named user licensing and provides tiers of functionality and prices for different types of users.

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Overall experience with Spotfire

Sales And Marketing Specialist
3B - 10B USD, Manufacturing
FAVORABLE

“Leveraging Highly Effective Predictive Machine Learning for Complex Datasets Insight”

5.0
Feb 3, 2025
The predictive machine learning features are very effective and help us quickly gain more insights on complex large datasets of sales records.
DATA ANALYST
500M - 1B USD, Hardware
CRITICAL

“Great BI w/ lots of old-school analytics but struggling w/ big data (in-DB) and ML/AI”

3.0
Nov 27, 2023
The named user license model with growing numbers of user gets extremely expensive and Spotfire is not giving enough discount for larger user numbers forcing us to have a cheaper 2nd BI tool in use for less advanced use cases. The support with regular technical calls and a dedicated support team is great!

About Company

Company Description

Updated 18th June 2024

Spotfire, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, offering a single visual data science platform, for a unified data science and business intelligence experience, bringing together interactive visualizations and advanced analytics. Backed by point-and-click, no-code data science, Spotfire offers a unified solution that empowers domain experts to leverage advanced analytical techniques without requiring extensive coding or technical expertise.

Company Details

Updated 18th June 2024
Company type
Private
Year Founded
1996
Head office location
United States
Number of employees
501 - 1000
Website
https://www.spotfire.com/

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Spotfire Likes & Dislikes

Like

The intuitive interface allows us to easily consolidate our organic and paid channels into one user-friendly dashboard giving us an easy way to automate reports.

Like

1) Analytic capabilities (statistics): It has more built-in analytics than other BI tools. 2) Visualizations: It has some unique visualization capabilities with geometry based mulit-layer map charts. 3) Customization: It has an outstanding API allowing better and more professional customizations than other BI tools.

Like

I Most likely support Mobile Access, Real-time sharing, Reporting and data discovery.

Dislike

What I like least is the frequency at which our integrations require reconnections.

Dislike

1) Big Data Readiness: Spotfire's outstanding built-in analytics are all disabled when working with in-DB data, Spotfire's expression language for calculations is not translated into the various data source's dialects but needs to be modified when going from in-memory to in-DB and temp tables (a must have for some big data queries with exploding IN clauses) is only supported for in-memory analyses. 2) Analytic capabilities (AI/ML): Spotfire's built-in analytics are do not scale (in-memory only) and are a bit outdated. Using in-house products like Team Studio as an in-DB and up-to-date extension to Spotfire fails due to insufficient integration. 3) Data Sources: when it comes to data sources and streaming there seems to be no way around an additional Streaming product from Tibco (Streambase) to connect to the de-facto standard Kafka. So if you have Kafka you need to buy and maintain yet another product to allow consuming the Kafka streams in Spotfire rather than having a direct Kafka connector.

Dislike

Limited Service and feature on Free Version, Advanced features require technical expertise.

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Spotfire Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(643 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
43%
4 Star
46%
3 Star
10%
2 Star
1%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.2

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

4.3

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • Sales And Marketing Specialist
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Leveraging Highly Effective Predictive Machine Learning for Complex Datasets Insight

    5.0
    Feb 3, 2025
    The predictive machine learning features are very effective and help us quickly gain more insights on complex large datasets of sales records.
  • IT HELPDESK
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Real-time Sharing and Reporting Features with Mobile Access

    4.0
    Jan 7, 2025
    Overall Visualization of Data Very Intuitive and Support Mobile like iOS, Android, and web-based.
  • STRATEGY ASSOCIATE
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    A great modern tool for large data processing which the excel is not capable of

    5.0
    Nov 18, 2024
    Great tool, makes the life easier when we have to process a large amount of data
  • Lead Data Architect
    10B+ USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Spotfire: An IronPython Solution for Customized Features

    4.0
    Oct 15, 2024
    Spotfire is a versatile and reliable tool for predictive analytics. It has powerful data visualizations and advanced features to analyze and interpret complex data sets. It also provides IronPython to create customized features.
  • Associate
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Spotfire: A User-Friendly Interface for Complex Data Processing

    5.0
    Sep 10, 2024
    My overall experience with spotfire was quite amazing. It helped me analyze large data which excel could not handle with ease and the output was quite accurate
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