Spotfire 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Spotfire

4.4

(60)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Spotfire

Spotfire is a visual data science platform that combines advanced analytics and industry-specific visualizations to solve complex business problems.

Scientists, engineers, quants, and analysts can rapidly build sophisticated and interactive visual data science applications in a point-click user experience—then deploy these solutions to thousands of end users for business-critical operations and daily decision making.

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Spotfire Pricing and Plans

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Spotfire Features

Popular features found in Data Analysis
Data Discovery
Data Visualization
Natural Language Search
Predictive Analytics
Query Builder
Storytelling
More features of Spotfire
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Ad hoc Analysis
Ad hoc Query
Ad hoc Reporting
AI/Machine Learning
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
API
Benchmarking
Big Data Analytics
Charting
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Management
Customizable Dashboard
Customizable Fields
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Dashboard
Dashboard Creation
Data Analysis Tools
Data Blending
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Cleansing
Data Connectors
Data Extraction
Data Import/Export
Data Mapping
Data Security
Data Synchronization
Data Transformation
Drag & Drop
Forecasting
High Volume Processing
Historical Reporting
Interactive Reports
Key Performance Indicators
KPI Monitoring
Metadata Management
Mobile Access
Monitoring
Monte Carlo Simulation
Multi-Device Support
Multiple Data Sources
Natural Language Processing
No-Code
Performance Metrics
Profitability Analysis
Publishing/Sharing
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Sales Trend Analysis
Search/Filter
Secure Data Storage
Self-service Analytics
Self Service Data Preparation
Sentiment Analysis
Statistical Analysis
Strategic Planning
Templates
Trend Analysis
Trend/Problem Indicators
User Management
Visual Analytics
Visual Discovery

Spotfire User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

48%

45%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.9

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

4.4

AMIT B.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2023

Spotfire - A Great Analytics Tool

Overall Spotfire is a really good tool, that can be used daily to make sure as a organization we can showcase best possible version of data in a good understandable visuals without the highly complex things like vast formulae's or terminologies in the background.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The various features associated with designs, complex data tables usage, ability to generate good info links to get desired data for visualization helps a lot of our clients .

Cons:

We haven't come across any issues over the past 2 years of usage.

Tyler K.

Verified reviewer

Retail

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2024

Spotfire: Setting the Gold Standard in Data Analytics Platforms

Overall I'm extremely happy with Spotfire. They continue to listen to analyst on how to improve the platform and turn out new versions frequently. I would pick Spotfire over any BI platform on the market.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Flexibility, Data prep and data wrangling abilities within the platform. Spotfire will allow any end user to enhance their data discovery which will allow for faster decision making.

Cons:

More customers should be using Spotfire. More capabilities than the two leading BI platforms on the market but they unfortunately own the market share. I've never met anyone that has used Spotfire that hasn't agreed Spotfire is a better tool. Spotfire's marketing strategy could use some work.

Reasons for switching to Spotfire

Tableau wasn't an all in one tool like Spotfire is. I've found that Spotfire is easier to work with over Tableau.

Shane B.

Verified reviewer

Research

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Spotfire

Decent software, however with some improvements with the interface could be excellent. Would recommend when dealing with large amounts of data.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The range of different data analysis paths and visualisations available for use. Useful with large amounts of data.

Cons:

Learning curve is very steep and sometimes the written help isn't as accessible. Very confusing interface and sometimes can crash.

Verified

Reviewer

Biotechnology

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2020

Great visualization tool for large data sets!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It is extremely customizable so we have been able to create efficient templates that fit many of our process development engineering workflows. It links well with other systems to aggregate the data, and then using the tools we have created, we are able to easily line by/color by/trellis by a number of different experimental parameters to understand complex studies and DOEs with ease. It is a huge step up from our old workflow of graphing using Excel.

Cons:

It can be difficult to learn how to customize complex templates with our giant data sets, so we had to specialize a small team of admins to create templates and troubleshoot issues. However, as an end user, it is very straightforward.

Reasons for switching to Spotfire

Data entry was too manual for our growing company and data sets.

Verified

Reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

1001-5000 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2020

Comprehensive Analytics Tool

Once I had some training on Spotfire, I never looked back and use it frequently when processing large amounts of data.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I love that Spotfire is able to process large file sizes extremely quickly, which means filtering millions of rows in seconds and making it easy to find and sort filter options. In addition, the visualizations in the tool are practically limitless and allow users to make incredibly complex but extremely useful and informative reports.

Cons:

Spotfire is not easy to use and requires training from an experienced person to use. It is not nearly as user friendly as its competitors.

Reasons for switching to Spotfire

Excel can't handle the large amounts of data that Spotfire can.

Tina L.

Verified reviewer

Information Services

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2021

Higher Learning Curve But Great Software

It has a steeper learning curve than I'm used to in software, but once I got more comfortable, I was able to really enjoy it. There are tons of things I can do with with the data here that don't require editing the query. I'm able to create a variety charts, including pivot tables, and there are options to filter and un-filter things from my data table.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

There are lots of different features available and lots of customizations you can make to your reports. I like that I can apply transformations to the data in there without having to modify my queries. I like how much I can do with my charts, and I really love the feature that highlights the rows of my data table that went into a particular part of my chart when I click on it.

Cons:

It isn't as user friendly as what I'm used to (I'm used to Microsoft programs like Excel or Word, where everything is very straightforward). There was a longer learning period with this software before I was able to feel comfortable with it. The help guide here is kind of general. It doesn't have explicit instructions for everything, so I'm just experimenting a lot of the time to figure out how to do what I want to my report or chart. Also, it doesn't seem to have a feature that can automatically email you excel files. You have to log in and export the report yourself.

Reasons for switching to Spotfire

It was a decision from the higher ups to save money

Thomas Y.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Spotfire is perhaps the best big data and data visualization software to work with R

I find that this software is the easiest to work with R, and the visualization/analytical capabilities make it generally worth the cost.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Spotfire has a nice user interface that is easy to figure out and set up automated tasks. Perhaps the biggest advantage of Spotfire over other data visualization tools is its connection with R and the ease in which one can connect R scripts with Spotfire visualizations. The beginning process of visualizing data and the suggested visualizations that Spotfire offers is nice, although it does require a few more clicks if you don't like the suggestions Spotfire suggests.

Cons:

Spotfire is more expensive than other data visualization software, although I can see why. Spotfire has a host of additional graphical capabilities and analytical capabilities that I think justify the extra cost. It took me a little while to figure out how to set up the analytical models, but once set up, things run smoothly.

Jonathan S.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Electronics

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Tibco Spotfire Review

Very nice to use Business Intelligence tool, have user friendly interface and the basic functionality is easy to self-study. At a low cost and not so customized Dashboarding requirements Tibco Spotfire is very efficient.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

* User friendly interface and ease of access. * Good design and functionality for graphs. * Low cost. * Ability to embed Python, HTML, and JavaScript. * Plenty of data source options.

Cons:

* Hard to customize some visualization objects. * Few default functionality for computations especially on cross tables * Sometimes the text editor is auto changing the code layout once saved.