The initial setup of this solution takes between one to five days, and requires a lot of information to be captured for it's configuration depending on the OS being used.

The setup also has a lot of steps to be followed precisely, which are provided in a manual, but means that any incorrect changes will have to be undone in a specific manner that can be quite tedious.

The product's initial setup phase was simple.

The product's installation deployment phase

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

In my company, we are upgrading the solution, which should take around two weeks due to some security issues. With TIBCO products, there is a need to make some adjustments before a person plans to upgrade the tool.

The initial setup of TIBCO Spotfire is in the middle range of difficulty. The initial setup of Power BI is easier.

The initial setup is easy. It’s very straightforward. It’s not overly complex.

How many people you need for deployment and maintenance depends on the project, including what kind of reporting you're implementing. When you're implementing a reporting like very complex dashboards, you need two people, maybe. It depends on how many reports you're implementing. If you are implementing 100 reports, then it will take maybe five to six months maximum, with two people.

It also depends on the backing system and the testing and UIT also. That might take two engineers or consultants.

The initial part is the analytics setup, which is setting up the whole part and designing the whole thing. After that, it's the consultant's job and they can actually do it quickly.

I used to handle maintenance for the Spotfire solution, both individually and with a technical team from the company. When developing, implementing, and conducting quality checks, the product consistently showed no issues.

The initial setup of this solution is simple, and uniform, regardless of whether it is installed on-premises or via the cloud.

The initial setup is pretty simple. All we have to do is request a license, download it, and start using it. You can start bringing spreadsheets in, for example.

We are a small group within the company and we have dedicated groups within our organization for Spotfire support. We just tell them that we need a place on a server and they set it up. For the most part, deployment is straightforward.

There were problems with the initial setup. There is not a lot of documentation for implementation. If you have any problems, you cannot easily find documentation for issues either. The community is okay, however, there is not enough information for solving problems. There are not really any tutorials to help you.

It's not user-friendly and pretty hard to deal with system settings. 

It depends how you deploy it and the use case. If you just want to install it on your computer and get going for self-service usage, that's a matter of five minutes, so that's extremely easy. If you want to deploy it at the corporate level with the web server, that can be more complex. For a corporate analysis solution or corporate dashboarding solution, it's more complex, but also not unexpected.

When you've installed or deployed the software in your company, you're still nowhere; that's probably the IT department's problem generally speaking: Is the product installed? Is someone doing something with it? Is there the necessary skillset around it? Are your engineering and technical personnel able to operate it on their own? That seems to be the least of their worries, but this is why you pay for the software. 

I would say that in terms of a deployment strategy, everyone will do the ITPs. If you have an IT person in your company that knows half of what they're doing, there's no problem. You manage. 

Nevertheless, putting a correct strategy around the use of business intelligence tools in the organization, it's relevant to ask: What will we use it for? What kind of training will we provide? What kind of algorithm will we develop on top of that? I told you that as an integration with the RNG, for example,which is extremely powerful, I think these are big questions that people often forget.

They think that just by a data science or dashboarding tool, results will come out of it miraculously, but no results come out of the software. Results come out of people using the software, so I would say the challenge in terms of a deployment strategy and the time it takes is a complete function of the ambition level that you have. We can deploy it in one night, but then it has no impact on the company and if you really want to make an impact on the company, then I believe that you are looking at deployment activities, which are much longer. Particularly after the deployment, you should probably do something to maintain the life cycle of the product. So I would say an ideal deployment is deployment that never ends.

To summarize, I would say from a technical point of view, deployment should be the least of your problems. It can be easy. Nevertheless, using a quick strategy around the use of business intelligence, that's something different. I believe that all decision makers should really focus their attention on this and not on something as silly as whether the solution is easy to install.

The desktop product installation is straightforward. Don’t know about the server.

The initial setup is quite easy, made easier if you’re blessed with a good DW. Only when you start adding administrative features and distributed user bases with different security requirements does the solution become a pain to administer.

It's generally straightforward except for when custom applications, e.g. in-house developed software, are to be configured with Spotfire.

The installation itself was fairly straightforward, but building up the database connection infrastructure has been an ongoing process. Although it is not problematic in the sense of having issues or bugs, it requires someone with good relational database skills to optimize the Information Model.

There are many tool configuration options that can be set during installation. Most of the default options appear to work well, although we have found a few that required modification in order to optimize the platform to our specific IT infrastructure and user preferences.

The initial setup is complicated and needs experience and knowledge.

I wasn't there when they set it up, but I did perform two upgrades myself while I was there, and it was fairly easy. It's changed a lot over the years and it's actually become quite easy to install and to get up and running. Roughly 10 years ago, when I did the first implementation, it was really difficult. There were five of us sitting around a table with a 300-page PDF that we had printed out — it took us an entire weekend to figure it out. Now, if you wanted to, you could actually install Spotfire in the cloud and actually have it up and running, connecting with data, in an hour or less. To me, that's pretty impressive.

We don't know about the initial setup.

I wasn't involved with the setup as our IT team did this. They didn't complain about it afterwards.

Initial setup is very simple and works as documented.

The initial setup was easy. It took roughly a couple of days.

Initial setup was somewhat complex on the client’s system. I am not familiar with the server installation.

The initial setup was simple, but that was 15 years ago. We are now at >10,000 users.

The initial setup is straightforward. We had a few drag-and-drop items and some recommendations. Depending on the data sets the deployment can be completed within two days.

Our requirements were simple (only at the department level in a large organization). So the initial setup of the Spotfire server was straightforward and was done within a few days. The main issue was obtaining security credentials from the IT department to access database servers we need to generate reports.

A less-straightforward step is when we needed to design our analytical reports that meet the requirements of our executives. Here, it is nothing to do with Spotfire or any other software but more about good communication with the stakeholders.

The server setup and all remaining installations are very easy. There are many sources in Google to get solutions for our queries and also many docs exist from TIBCO.

Initial setup was straightforward and a guide is available.

With the right technical skills, especially in reading and following instructions, you should not have any issues installing and configuring the Spotfire Server. For the client, it is straightforward.

It was straightforward to setup the Spotfire environment provided you have some knowledge how the thing works in system but few things need lot of time and expertise.

Setup was simple.

The initial setup of this solution was very simple, and straightforward.

Yes, we had challenges with the firewall, but those were internal. Expect the rest of the setup to be quite straightforward.

Initial setup is straightforward; there are downloads that you perform in order that make it easier than it used to be, but it is not quite plug and play for an enterprise implementation.

I am no real technical consultant, but I found the initial setup pretty straightforward. After installing the software, no enormous or complex configuration is needed.

I didn't see the initial setup, but from administering and upgrading it, it seems a more complicated process than necessary.

Initial setup was straightforward as you can start small and build the platform as you go.

It is simple in my opinion. If you find any issue: Read the installation manual!!

Setup was straightforward. Users can use the product straight out of box.

The inital setup can be complex if you have to install and configure the server.

The initial setup is quite easy, a few steps to perform before the application is ready.

A little bit more complex is the configuration of SSO, but the documentation is covering all the scenarios in a very clear way.

I’ve never been part of the original setup of Spotfire. I’ve worked for four different companies, all of which already had their own server installed. I can say that there hasn’t been much of an issue moving from company to company, other than general organization methodology.

We have a very easy and straightforward way of installing Spotfire at our company. Since it is a self-service tool, it is available for everyone via our IT store.

Initial setup was a straightforward process.

Initial setup was simple.

The initial setup is supposed to be straightforward, but I found that there is often some glitch in the setup that requires thought.

I can't say; I’ve never had an opportunity to install & configure the server.

The initial setup is complex when you use Spotfire Server.

I believe the admin/installation was not as straightforward as other software. However, I wasn’t directly involved in that.

Initial setup was complex, as we had to integrate it with a secured Hadoop cluster.

Initial setup is straightforward: Just downloaded it from their website (not applicable for large organizations).

Initial setup was complex: report creation, installation, automation, report changes...

Initial setup with version 3.5 was very difficult, partly because we were embedding the Spotfire Web Player API and using custom authentication.