Quintessential Visualization Tool – TIBCO Spotfire

TIBCO Spotfire is a true and best example of quality and class of Quintessential Visualization Tool. Quintessential Visualization Tool – TIBCO Spotfire helps in making informed decisions or decisions for the betterment of business in near future, predicts or forecasts business Key performance indicators(KPIs). Get the essential insights from complex data with never missed opportunities, to know where the business is leading and many more…

Compared to other visualization tools available in the market, TIBCO Spotfire provides more flexibility, scalability and is more viable for any size of an organization. It creates data analysis within no time and at the click of a button, one can see how does the data look in different dimensions and select the most impactful representation and share it with peers or business users organization-wide.

TIBCO Spotfire is best fit for future BI trends where user is going to be more interested in self-service BI than canned reports(Pixel perfect/fixed reports) and dashboards, Predictive analysis which tells user WHAT TO DO and not just what is going to happen, powerful, simple and cost-effective tools and BI for everyone (Democratized BI).

TIBCO Spotfire outperforms every other tool in a market in the following ways in terms of features:

• Capacity to handle the enormous amount of data and different data sets– Spotfire can handle right from tiny flat files to BIG data, HADOOP and can handle any amount of data which has no limit (provided powerful hardware support)
• In-Memory, In-Database analysis makes it unique and faster than any other visualization tool in the market
• Simple and Seamless UI lets data scientists and analysts build analytics application for end users or business users
• Deployment – From small to large corporations
• Automation Services can send reports at scheduled intervals, take and save snap of data/visualization when a certain event occurs or it can trigger an action based on a particular action/requirement
• Scalability factor makes it even more productive
• ‘Work offline’ allows the user to work and create visualization without having to connect to the server; when the server is up and running user can connect and deploy analysis on the server. This extraordinary feature comes in handy when the user is traveling and not able to connect to server or server itself is not up and running.
• Bookmarks and Collaboration – Bookmark allows the user to save dashboard instances and retrieve the same as and when required; this comes handy for comparing more than two scenarios and Collaboration enables the user to participate in communication thread
• The user can have simplified storytelling approach to their data analyses using complex data sets which do not have any dependence on structured or unstructured, historic or real-time, internal or external, on-premise or cloud
• More emphasis on Geo-location and predictive analytics which helps gain a competitive edge and make better decision making in the future
• TERR (TIBCO Enterprise Runtime R), R or S+ to write and create new data models
• User Authentication and authorization can easily be performed
• Connectivity to MS-AD (Microsoft Active Directory) and LDAP (Light Weight Directory Access Protocol) gives more security organization-wide so that only authenticated users are allowed to log-in and see what they have access to
• The dashboard can further be drilled down and rolled up using filters, sliders, Filters hierarchy and hyperlink (detailed visualization)
• The user can add more functionality to dashboard/visualization using PYTHON script and HTML. For example: Clicking on ‘Export’ button will take a snap of dashboard in PDF
• Highly Interactive visualization, customizable Charts, Maps with layers, Treemaps, Parallel Coordinate Chart and Heatmaps facilitate user to analyze more dimensions of data within no time and without using queries, OLAP cubes, indexes, functions, and formulas
• Share your insight to your peers, end users, business users through TIBCO server
• Recommended visualization – In case the user is not sure of which visualization to be used for data analysis or storytelling approach; Spotfire provides built-in intelligence ­­with best-fit visualizations for user data analysis
• Themes – Dashboards can be viewed in different in-built and customizable themes
• Cost effective – Organizations do not require to spend loads of money to train their employees or end users; with few hours of training users can build simple to complex dashboards

Undoubtedly TIBCO Spotfire is the best available Quintessential Visualization Tool and is going to capture a bigger market share. This is one which will meet the needs of the today’s CXO in their decision-making process.