TIBCO Spotfire vs Tableau

Tableau is ranked 1st in Business Intelligence Tools with 121 reviews vs TIBCO Spotfire which is ranked 9th in Business Intelligence Tools with 41 reviews. The top reviewer of Tableau writes "The visualizations bring out patterns buried under a mountain of data. I’d like to see a speedometer chart template". The top reviewer of TIBCO Spotfire writes "No row/column limitations. Many of our datasets of interest have tens of millions of rows and hundreds to thousands of columns". Tableau is most compared with Microsoft BI, SAS Visual Analytics and Oracle OBIEE. TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Microsoft BI, SAP BusinessObjects and SAS Visual Analytics. See our TIBCO Spotfire vs Tableau report.
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Yali Pollak
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Three years ago, Viber didn't have any visualization tool to present its massive data inside the company. One month after implementing Tableau,... Read more »
Aditya Singh
One of the best data analytical tool for your business which gives insight into our data along predictive analytics.
It is one of the best BI tools that gives deep insights into our data along with analytical exposure and statistical services.
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
​Data is easily understood at all levels of the company.Business insights are shared across various departments.Its ease of use and ability to convert drag and drop gestures into queries.The ability to create complex calculations.​Its ease of use and ability to convert drag and drop gestures into queries.Tableau's support could improve.Partner support is very good.The most valuable feature is the drag and drop, then the simplicity to build dashboards which allows us to provide more usable data to our customers.

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The ability to connect to many different data sources is one of the key features. The other would then be the different ways in which that data can be visualized.R and automation services.One of the main features is integrated statistical analysis.Data discovery is very simple.It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts.

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Cons
​Conditional formatting could be an interesting feature to provide to final users.The data preparation/blending options are very basic. They could be improved.Tableau is a company that does not respect partners.I would like them to include the Italian language, as I can see there are other foreign language in the product.They need to improve the bar chart position and width.The use of this service in the desktop version is annoying due to the constant updates which lead to reinstalling the application. If they could give support with updates on the same downloaded version, it would be great.It needs a little bit more advanced modeling. I would like to see functionality like Cognos has in the Framework Manager.Bursting email is needed to deliver the reports to many people in their inboxes and this functionality is not provided by Tableau.

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I would like more easy-to-implement analytical algorithms. At the moment they include things like forecasts and regressions. They need to add a lot more of these types of things to the product because not everyone is a data scientist.Print capability and trigger-based events.Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated.The number of charts available out of the box in Spotfire can be enhanced.The Text Area feature needs to be more user-friendly. It is a little clunky to use, and it is difficult to consistently format text.

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Pricing and Cost Advice
Tableau's licensing is pretty straightforward and simple.ROI is very high, but it requires a data preparation/blending tool.The price could be higher for the quality of software, so they revised the pricing in this version, and I agree with the price for top version. The top version costs about $70 per month, and the price is cheap for the quality.I like the payment model. For the people who need to create, they buy their licenses. Everyone else can use the free Tableau Viewer. This is much better than some of the competitor products, which require full licences for everything.The cost is high.Deployment of dashboards to viewers and unit supervisors can be prohibitively expensive.I wish there was more of a subscription model with the pricing when it comes to Tableau, so you can get all the latest version upgrades/features if you pay monthly/annually.Tableau can be costly (but this can be indefinable, such as user experience vs. cheaper etc.)

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The Tibco sales teams have been very difficult to work with - ignoring requests, misrepresenting level of demand, etc.The ROI is nearly impossible to calculate.The pricing seems competitive and reasonable. The value delivered by the product far exceeds the cost.

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Answers from the Community
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Question: A journalist is writing a story about which Data Visualization software product to choose. Can you help him?
Prasun MitraConsultant

I work in the area of data analytics and data management from a solutions standpoint.
From my experience on Data Visualization Tools and the their utilities from the customers standpoint I would like to mention the following key criteria not in the order of importance which varies from customer to customer(these are not necessarily all the criteria but are certainly among the important ones):
1.  Ease of use, ie does not require an IT guy to help operate all the time 2. Easy to deploy 3. Integration with portals or standalone 4. The user profiles: Who are the users in terms of their hierarchy in the org and their roles/responsibilities within the org? How do they best visualize their data? Where do they best visualize their data?-Mobile/desktop/conf room/tablets/ and so on. 5. How does the tool integrate with the data sources and how many different types of data sources do they support? Of course not all customers have a large number of data sources but the tool is likely to satisfy a majority of customers if it has good integration capability. 6. How does it work with cloud based apps of the customer? 7. Security of distributed reports/dashboards and data. 8. The tool's ability to support data "type" identification. 9. Speed 10. Types of reports/visualization/ etc

Regards, Prasun Mitra

09 January 15
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Followers
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9th
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In Business Intelligence Tools
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Compared 17% of the time.
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Compared 12% of the time.
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Overview
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Tableau is an enterprise analytics platform that enables your organization to explore trusted data in a secure and scalable environment. It gives people access to intuitive visual analytics, interactive dashboards, and limitless ad-hoc analyses that reveal hidden opportunities and eureka moments alike. Get the security, governance, and management you require to confidently integrate Tableau into your business—on-premises or in the cloud—and deliver the power of true self-service analytics at scale.

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Sample Customers
Sample CustomersAccenture, Adobe, Amazon.com, Bank of America, Charles Schwab Corp, Citigroup, Coca-Cola Company, Cornell University, Dell, Deloitte, Duke University, eBay, Exxon Mobil, Fannie Mae, Ferrari, French Red Cross, Goldman Sachs, Google, Government of Canada, HP, Intel, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Macy's, Merck, The New York Times, PayPal, Pfizer, US Army, US Air Force, Skype, and Walmart.Allergan, ASSS de Montreal, Avantium, Blue River, Bank of Montreal, Citibank, FrieslandCampina, Hellmann Logistics, Merck, Novartis
Top Industries
Top Industries
REVIEWERS
Financial Services Firm
16%
Healthcare Company
9%
University
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Financial Services Firm
19%
Healthcare Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
REVIEWERS
Energy/Utilities Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Healthcare Company
12%
Pharma/Biotech Company
12%
VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Financial Services Firm
17%
Energy/Utilities Company
12%
Pharma/Biotech Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Company Size
Company Size
REVIEWERS
Small Business
25%
Midsize Enterprise
20%
Large Enterprise
55%
VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Small Business
17%
Midsize Enterprise
24%
Large Enterprise
59%
REVIEWERS
Small Business
27%
Midsize Enterprise
14%
Large Enterprise
59%
VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Small Business
16%
Midsize Enterprise
23%
Large Enterprise
61%
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