TIBCO Spotfire
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Plans and prices
From TIBCO Spotfire's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Spotfire Industry Pro trial | Free | Spotfire and Statistica included · installer access through trial account · 30 days |
| Spotfire Analytics | $3,000 a year | Visual analytics · interactive analyses · advanced analytics · per user per year excluding tax |
| Spotfire Enterprise | Priced on request | Organization-wide deployment · publishing and sharing · enterprise governance |
| Spotfire Industry Pro | Priced on request | Includes Spotfire Analytics · industrial analytics · industry-specific visualizations · advanced time-series analytics · Spotfire Statistica · not available via webstore |
The facts
Each one read from TIBCO Spotfire's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Acquisition
- TIBCO announced its acquisition of Spotfire in May 2007 for approximately $195 million and completed it in June 2007.checked 15 Oct 2026
- AI assistance
- Visual AI and Insight Agents provide AI-assisted recommendations for patterns, anomalies and next steps while keeping users in control.checked 15 Oct 2026
- AI features
- Spotfire 15.0 includes Visual AI and Insight Agents that recommend patterns, anomalies, and next steps during exploration.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Cloud Software Group formation
- Cloud Software Group was formed from the combination of Citrix and TIBCO, announced as completed in January 2023.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Connectors
- Native connectors cover databases and services including BigQuery, Databricks, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, SAP HANA, Snowflake, SQL Server and Teradata.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Spotfire Enterprise supports deployment across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Developer extensibility
- Official documentation covers a Spotfire application C# API, developer documentation, Mods development and public GitHub resources.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation hub includes user guides, installation, administration, system requirements, sizing, release notes, APIs, security and service guides.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Extensions and APIs
- Spotfire documentation describes custom extensions, visualization and action mods, Python and R data functions, and several developer APIs.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Industry analytics
- Spotfire Industry Pro adds industry-specific capabilities for energy and manufacturing, advanced time-series analytics, and specialized geoanalytics.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- The Spotfire energy data sheet lists integrations including Snowflake, AVEVA PI, ESRI, Cognite, SQL Server, Apache Spark SQL, and SharePoint, plus JDBC or ODBC data sources.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- Spotfire describes its audience as engineers, scientists, operators, and domain experts working in complex, data-rich environments.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Interactive exploration
- Spotfire supports filtering, drill-down, scenario comparison and exploration of time-series, spatial and multivariate data.checked 15 Oct 2026
- ISO security claim
- A Spotfire product-family white paper states that its information-security management system is certified to ISO 27001.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: learning curve
- Independent reviewers report that learning Spotfire can be difficult and that advanced use requires skilled resources or training.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: performance and scale
- Reviewers report slower performance or crashes with very large datasets, and Gartner reviewers criticize in-memory-only analytics limitations for some workloads.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: pricing
- Software Advice reviewers describe Spotfire as expensive, while Capterra lists pricing as contact vendor outside the public webstore offer.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Mobile
- Spotfire documentation links to applications for Apple iOS and Android.checked 30 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Cloud data platforms
- Spotfire 15.0 Push Compute runs analytics and transformations inside Snowflake and Databricks.checked 30 Sep 2026
The company
- Company history
- Spotfire says it launched commercially in 1996 and was acquired by TIBCO Software in 2007.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Company identity
- Spotfire is a business unit of Cloud Software Group, which also owns the TIBCO software portfolio.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Spotfire in the 1,001–5,000 employee company-size range and shows 118 associated employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1996checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Spotfire lists Fort Lauderdale, Florida as a location and gives 851 Cypress Creek Road as its United States address.checked 15 Oct 2026
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