Compare TIBCO Spotfire vs. Tableau
 | Anonymous User Manager at a financial services firm |
| Anonymous User Specialist Geosciences Data Consultant at a energy/utilities company |
Find out what your peers are saying about TIBCO Spotfire vs. Tableau and other solutions. Updated: March 2021.
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
"One of the most valuable features is that the solution allows users to build interactive dashboards. This allows the end user to modify the criteria or the filtering if need be. As far as for my personal use as a QA Engineer, I really value how extensive their API document support has been."
"Scheduled extract and the multiple connectors are fantastic!"
"It has been the best tool to work with from a self-service point of view."
"The most valuable features are data discovery and fine visualizations."
"This solution has transformed us from an Excel reporting environment to one of visual exploration."
"Good data flow and management."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is user-friendly and intuitive."
"The action feature which Tableau has is very useful for us. If we click on one visualization, it will pass the value to another visualization. That interactivity within different visualizations is the most valuable feature of Tableau."
"From a scalability standpoint, I would say it's pretty fantastic."
"The two features that I have found most valuable are its ability to customize the dashboards when it comes to the evaluation. The second feature is its ability to handle a large amount of data, which is also something very unique about it."
"The out-of-the-box features are simple and easy to use across the board."
Cons
"Improvements can be made in template support. The workbook file structure is really hard to version control. If there was some sort of version control support offered particularly for workbooks, that would help big time."
"The performance could be better."
"Licensing and pricing options could be made better so that more users would be able to use it."
"The SQL programming functionality needs to be improved."
"I would like Tableau to handle geospatial data better in terms of multiple layers and shapefiles."
"Requires a lot of user training."
"The charts in Tableau are quite limited."
"The pricing is a bit higher than the competition. They'll need to lower it to stay competitive."
"The design of the UI could be improved."
"When it comes to data manipulation, there are features which are good, but one of the features which has really been missing in Spotfire is an offline ability for data manipulation."
"Personalising Spotfire, as a whole, is painful and is something that could be made easier."
"The initial cost that is set according to CPU cores is expensive."
"Be careful with the Tableau Viewer's licenses, and stay with the right number of users."
"The company chose to purchase a creator license for me, which was $70. With that license, you can also be an administrator. We also have 20-25 extra licenses and they cost around $20-$35 each. Those are for normal users who will be viewing the dashboards. Those are monthly charges."
"Tableau's licensing is pretty straightforward and simple."
"ROI is very high, but it requires a data preparation/blending tool."
"The cost of the solution should be improved."
"It is reasonable and cheap as compared to other major tools. It has a good price, and people go for it because of its pricing."
"Pricing is not bad. It's competitive."
"The cost is a few hundred dollars per user per year."
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 | Guillermo (Bill) Cabiro Director of Development at Strat-Wise Consulting |
I do use both Tableau and QlikView. Although very different, I really like both solutions. They belong to the new BI generation known as Interactive Visual Analytics.
In my opinion, QlikView has a more intuitive interface for regular users or executives that are not technical experts but the development side is a little more complex. Up to version 12 QlikView did not provide drag & drop features.
If a user wanted to see something not included in the application the new object had to be created by a power user or developer because Qlikview's scripting has somewhat of a learning curve.
On the positive side, QlikView's scripting is a great asset as it functions as an ETL allowing the integration of hundreds of different data sources into the same visual app.
Another feature that’s extremely useful is Qlik’s proprietary Associative Model that allows the users to visualize data relationships that exist as well as those that do not.
Tableau on the other hand is a lot easier to use for developers, analysts or power users who need to connect, manipulate and visualize data rather quickly. While this makes Tableau a better fit for the more analytical crowd, it may not be as appealing or intuitive to the regular or casual business users as QlikView is.
Tableau has full pivot, drag & drop and drill down capabilities that are great for developers or power users. They can rotate measures and dimensions and graph them instantly using visualization best practices as suggested by… Read more »
Top Answer: It depends on the Data architecture and the complexity of your requirement. Some great tools in the market are Qlik sense, Power BI, OBIEE, Tableau etc. I have recently started using Cognos Enterprise… more »
Top Answer: If doing a technical comparison, Lumira (SAP's visual tool) isn't bad but the market share in this space is going to Tableau and Qlik both of which are strong in the visual side of BI.
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Top Answer: There are platforms available that enable bridge between technologies. Tableau/Qlik is great visualization from performance and user interface as compared to SAS - #askginie.ai
Top Answer: The out-of-the-box features are simple and easy to use across the board.
Top Answer: The cost is a few hundred dollars per user per year.
Top Answer: Personalising Spotfire, as a whole, is painful and is something that could be made easier. As a result, I'm not doing much coding. The background process is something that I find difficult to work… more »
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Financial Services Firm15%
University9%
Healthcare Company8%
Energy/Utilities Company7%
Computer Software Company27%
Comms Service Provider14%
Financial Services Firm8%
Media Company7%
Energy/Utilities Company22%
Financial Services Firm15%
Pharma/Biotech Company11%
Manufacturing Company11%
Computer Software Company22%
Comms Service Provider13%
Energy/Utilities Company9%
Pharma/Biotech Company9%
Small Business27%
Midsize Enterprise20%
Large Enterprise53%
Small Business18%
Midsize Enterprise17%
Large Enterprise65%
Small Business25%
Midsize Enterprise14%
Large Enterprise61%
Find out what your peers are saying about TIBCO Spotfire vs. Tableau and other solutions. Updated: March 2021.
475,208 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Tableau is ranked 2nd in Business Intelligence (BI) Tools with 41 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in Business Intelligence (BI) Tools with 3 reviews. Tableau is rated 8.2, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Tableau writes "Lets me train new users quickly, easily, and intuitively". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO Spotfire writes "A scalable and secure, enterprise-grade analytical platform". Tableau is most compared with Microsoft BI, ELK Kibana, Oracle OBIEE, SAS Visual Analytics and SAP Analytics Cloud, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Microsoft BI, Alteryx, Qlik Sense, QlikView and Oracle OBIEE. See our TIBCO Spotfire vs. Tableau report.
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