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By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:52:50 +0000

We have both tools experience, Tableau is a nice excel on steroids for non statistical background people that belive a any forecaste or trend is equals to a quadratic regression (tableau speech), whe we used with a lot of users (for instance with Teradata or Oracle) you need to create views to accelerate the results otherwise the core license does not performs, even when you haver basic dashboard; so yes, you are a Mac user you may get nice dashboarding for basic experience, but if you need to use any non basic analytics does not works as they mention and the support has no answer my customer has 1 year old request for support still unanswered; regardind spotfire, yes it is little less intuitive, but much more stable and when using analytics or other products it really scales and performs, much of the data integration and analytics on the fly works perfectly without using “views”, then makes it faster and cheaper for total cost of ownership; so it depends in our experience : basic dashboarding using mac go for tableau, want better analytics scope and performance ( you need to think a little, unless you only want regression or other basic stuff) definitely go for Spotfire. Actually Birst performs better than tableau and it is free…

By: Junjappa

Junjappa — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 05:23:27 +0000

Having worked with both the tools, I have a difference of opinion, I felt Tableau show me feature is much better than Spotfire’s recommendation wizard
in Spotfire you do not get WYSIWYG, when developing dashboard in Spotfire Desktop ( Analyst ) it looks perfect but when you publish the dashboard you get the scroll bar, that’s not the case with tableau
in spotfire due to tool bar in the Tableau server the length of the dashboard gets adjusted as a result, as a result you will see scroll bar which is not the case in Tableau
biggest draw back with Spotfire is its inability to create floating objects, example if we have limited space in the dashboard i want to create the color legends as floating objects to that it does not impact my visualization its not possible in spotfire we have to purchase additional 3rd party plugin
tho we could use scripting, it limits the purpose of catering to self service BI

By: Aleks Peterson

Aleks Peterson — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:28:24 +0000

In reply to Mark. Mark, Thanks for taking the time to comment. We'll take a look and update the post next week!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 09:40:18 +0000

Working at Tibco Spotfire, we responded to this and we now have even more connections and are very much aligned with connecting into Salesforce.com.
This is a very comprehensive account of what we’ve improved or added in our latest Spotfire release (March 2016).
https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire/general/Whats_New_in_TIBCO_Spotfire_7.5.pdf

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