TIBCO Spotfireの評判・口コミ 全2件

What do you dislike?

it is very difficult to write and understand the spotfire coding. If you want to add calculated columns you have to set new coding of dependencies between existing columns and the available codes are not the same as excel. It takes some time to upload heavy data bases (40 min for 250 mb).

What do you like best?

It is an excelent tool. I used is as a complement of excel. It has very nice and complete chart options and alouds the user to run complex pivot tables of long and heavy data tables. I work a lot with pivots and excel crashes if you use pivots of more than 70 columns and 250 mb.
The web option es also great. You can send the attendees of a meeging a link with the report and they access to a "read-only " version of the report. It is not necesarry to attach a file to an email, with the link itself is enough.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I think it is very important to pay for the "TIBCO" servers to work using an stablished library. Excel has the same functionalities but Spotfire is better in graphical options and it does not crash with pivots of heavy and long data bases

What do you dislike?

I do not like that this tool has to use local users to connect to the server to check the reports. I would prefer other authentication method. That is the only item I can consider as "room for improvement".
Other topic that could be considered for improvement is the way it codes the queries that it runs.

What do you like best?

I really enjoy using this tool. I can easily put in graphics all the information I gather with Excel. This tool is very easy to setup and use. I consider that Spotfire is one of the best analytics software. My organization had the Spotfire platform service. There is also other option that is Spotfire Cloud. Don't know how that one works, but looks like another good option.
Other item that is very valuable is the processing time it takes to generate the report considering the amount of data. Maybe if I run a macro in excel with the multiple files the PC could collapse or crash, but with Spotfire the server makes it really fast.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Please consider that the tool uses local users.

What do you dislike?

Expensive. Need seamless integration with all the ERP applications and unix systems as well. Report performance with increase in data volume depends on ram available on the machine.

What do you like best?

TIBCO spotfire is one of the best BI analytics reporting tool in market. In memory visualization and build once and publish all users are best. Users can use the existing report and build their own visualizations. It can integrate well with matlab and can be enahnced with R scripting.

What do you dislike?

Calculating custom fields in Spotfire is definitely not as intuitive as it is in more common programs, such as Microsoft Excel. Often times my team and I need to manually calculate the data in our Spotfire tool and writing expressions in Spotfire in order to plug those formulas is much harder than typical formula-writing. Spotfire uses a different set of indicators for it's formula language that is more in line with SQL writing, which can be difficult for beginners or those not familiar with coding. Additionally, Spotfire data sheets require each column of data to be categorized into a certain "type" of data so that the program can read the field values correctly and thus, calculate them correctly when needed. For example, a number field value must be listed as an "integer" data type, an alpha field value must be listed as a "string" data type, etc. The tool will initially "guess" what type of data each column has in it, but it is up to the user to manually change any that are not categorized correctly. If you do not change them, they may not calculate correctly in any of the subsequent analyses you do with that data in the tool.

What do you like best?

My company relies heavily on data analytics to provide our clients with comprehensive evaluations of their financial performance. In the past, we were restricted to using canned report templates built from our workdriver software or any existing software reporting our clients may have already had. However, once implementing Spotfire analytics into our workdriver tool, my team has been able to pull large amounts of financial data and present it in a plethora of beneficial ways for our clients. Spotfire analytics offers a user-friendly platform for analyzing, presenting, and researching hundreds of thousands of client accounts in mere seconds, and provides data visuals that are easy-to-read and meaningful for our client to better manage their organization's revenue and costs. My favorite feature is the sheer amount of data this software can handle - Spotfire can load and calculate a year's worth of my client's patient records (on average, 900,000 records) without a problem. Any other tools I've used (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Access) would instantly freeze or shut down when trying to process that much data.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I highly recommend familiarizing yourself with case writing before you dive into this tool. When you understand the nuances of Spotfire's formulaic language, the data testing benefits of this tool are endless. You can customize data testing templates in Spotfire and configure them to automatically update every time you feed a new data file into it, so that you can test multiple iterations of files against the same template with ease. For example, my team built a Spotfire template to identify which departments in my client's organization were writing off revenue to the company's debt vendor (i.e., writing off money that will never get collected or paid) by setting the formulas up to identify a certain transaction code, and tie it back to which department in the organization had used that code. We were then able to load multiple files into the same template (e.g., financial reports from April, May, June) and analyze which departments wrote off the most debt for each month. We immediately saw a trend for a specific department, identified that risk, and were able to help our client save hundred of thousands of dollars by preventing those write-offs in the future.

What do you dislike?

Too many third party tools needs to be licensed to achive basic things

What do you like best?

I like the Statistical services charts and map chart, The way intract with data.

What do you dislike?

For advanced users, it is not as easy as it looks to design robust dashboards.
Information Links need to evolve a lot as a semantic layer. More user friendliness is required to design Business- Logical-Physical layers. Defining complex joins, complex filters is quite cumbersome.

For me, managing real estate is a disappointment. Free floating text areas should have come in handy whenever they are only needed for some code based controls etc.

Gauges, traffic lights & scorecard visualizations are not part of standard list.

Each IronPython script need to be authenticated individually every time when the dashboard is promoted between environments (Dev -> QA-> Prod).

User & content management through desktop client. It needs to hop between Library administration, Administration Manager windows. This could be great if handled through web client (imagine CMC of SAP-BO or IBM's Cognos Connection )

No straight forward way to implement row-level data security (data access restrictions based on column values).

What do you like best?

In-memory analytics, Enterprise architecture, Data discovery, intuitive graphs, highly customizable elements with IronPython scripting support, Easy integration of R (TERR) are the features that really impressed me. Look & feel of the dashboards, easy filtration for slicing & dicing the datasets are other mentionable features.

Information Links are good for multiple data sources if the columns are required to be pulled in single set. Bookmarks for personal as well as for team(s) increases the usability of the dashboard with more personalization of the information.

The tool is very easy to learn for basic operations. i.e. for end users very less training is required.

What do you dislike?

I think the place where other tools (especially Tableau, Qlik) have more of a leg up on Spotfire is really more from a visual output formatting / layout perspective. What I mean by this is that have I free control in Tableau to arrange a page of visualizations and drag and drop worksheets (visualizations) any which way I want on a dashboard (which in Tableau is different class of objects) so I can create some very interesting mashups of content. What I wind up with output from Tableau I can print to PDF and send it off. With Spotfire, I typically have to take each of the visualizations and finalize dressing it up Powerpoint. Though, Spotfire has made leaps and bounds of improvements especially with mapping capabilities, I believe Tableau facilitates a higher degree of custom formatting visuals needed for dashboards.

What do you like best?

I have been using Spotfire since version 2.1 and recently started using Tableau 9.0 heavily which is a direct competitor. I believe Spotfire's integration capabilities give it that unique edge over other tools in the market place in facilitating the creation of self-contained analytical applications. If I want to get insight fast and understand patterns in a data set that I am analyzing, I think Spotfire is the fastest way to get the data into a tool for quick analysis and explore. I find the expression language and pivoting capabilities very convenient to use and so I will lean on Spotfire more to help shape the data, add calculated columns, and draw up visuals to get something done quickly and out the door to collaborate with colleagues.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Spotfire is an entire analytics platform where there are features that may be tucked away in their Integration Services package or their Advanced Data Connector package. When you are evaluating Spotfire for your company, I recommend to explore the entire feature set that is available and licensing so that what you purchase from Tibco when the solution is implemented meets your organization's current needs with room to grow as the use of this product quickly takes off to replace existing or is leveraged to meet a much needed gap.

What do you dislike?

I dislike to amount of time it takes to load data when populating data from information links. Perhaps this is a data source issue, I am not sure.

What do you like best?

I like Spotfire's ability to provide information links to multiple data sources. I also like using the trellis and filter bar functions to populate different types of modifications to reports.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I would highly recommend taking full advantage of this tool, especially datalinks.

What do you dislike?

On larger cross tables with many columns, naming the columns and then losing the columns names when you modify the cross table and have to rename them.

What do you like best?

The self-service data exploration that report viewers can do.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

It was very quick to learn the software for both report creators and the report views. We have seen a huge growth in the number of people that have their hands on data on a daily basis and are now using data more frequently to make decisions.