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needs of its users. Its customer base is broad but focused, he says:“ It’ s really the areas where there are engineers, scientists, quants – people who want combined visual analytics with data science. That’ s Spotfire.”
Competitors include the likes of American big data analytics company Palantir, as well as industry specialists such as Seek, Corver and Minitab in manufacturing. But Spotfire distinguishes itself by embedding deeper data science rather than focusing solely on business intelligence dashboards.
“ We are much more data science than BI,” Michael says.
Breaking down data silos A critical issue across energy and sustainability is data fragmentation – where data lives in different systems, formats and scales. Spotfire’ s approach is to provide flexible data access, regardless of infrastructure.
The company’ s hybrid in-memory architecture means it can connect with and ingest enormous datasets.
“ Our fifth-generation hybrid in-memory data engine allows you to do that on very, very big data,” Michael says. This enables users to prepare and transform their data interactively.
Spotfire connects directly to cloud data warehouse leaders such as Snowflake and Databricks, as well as legacy systems like Google BigQuery, Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Redshift. The platform also supports industry-specific formats – including well log data – vital for oil and gas workflows.
54 November 2025