JMP vs Spotfire

[#1]

Hello,

I’m curious if anyone here has experience using both JMP and Spotfire for data analysis and visualization. I’ve been using JMP extensively and was wondering how it compares to Spotfire, especially in terms of performance and features for tasks like interactive analytics or handling large datasets.Not sure if this type of discussion is allowed here, but I thought it’d be helpful to get some perspectives from others who’ve worked with both tools.

Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts! 

[#2]

I was not familiar with Spotfire at all, so thanks for the reference.  It does look interesting, but one thing that puts me off from such products is that there is no mention at all regarding pricing.  I have a hard time with software companies that don't even mention pricing - if you want to buy the product, you have to fill out a form and they will contact you.  There is a 30 day free trial, however.

[#3]

I've had experience with Spotfire (although rebranded by a semiconductor analytics company) a couple of product generations back. My feeling is that it's a strong product with good interactive analysis features, that does many things as well as JMP, a very few things better (I preferred it's implementation of dynamically linked tables) but some things not so well. It's probably best to "suck it and see" if you're interested, although it has a steep learning curve.

However, I much prefer JMP overall because I find the scripting and automation of JSL is so much better. Trying to automate complex analysis flows in Spotfire was difficult to create, debug and maintain, and dealing with user input was also clumsy. It also didn't (IIRC) have anything similar to Graph Builder, which is so handy for quick visualisations.

And of course the JMP Community is an amazing and invaluable resource, which has helped me enormously!

[#4]

Spotfire and Tableau are great products if all you want to do is visualize and filter/filter/filter data.  But if you want to write something back to a database it's much more difficult.