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Extending the Spotfire Platform

Spotfire is an open analytic platform. It can be automated, integrated, and extended to meet business process challenges and custom application needs.

Enterprise Analytics with Spotfire

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  • The Spotfire Enterprise Analytics Platform
    Spotfire’s Enterprise Analytics Platform is used by thousands of customers to gain an information advantage over their competitors.
  • Configuring the Spotfire Analysis
    Spotfire end users can configure their analyses in many ways. The Spotfire developer automate these configurations using the API. This section describes Spotfire configuring options and provides the corresponding code.

From Platform to Empowered User

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  • What to Know to Develop Spotfire Solutions
    The Spotfire platform can be extended programmatically. It provides concepts and APIs to solve analytic problems by adding custom capabilities.
    • Architecture
      The Spotfire architecture is conceptually divided. The Automation APIs control Spotfire, and the Extension APIs enable developers to add functionality.
    • Infrastructure
      The infrastructure comprises client runtime and programming concepts not directly related to the features of Spotfire. Particularly the Document Model Framework must be mastered.

Developer Challenges and Means

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  • What to Create for Spotfire and How to Do It
    A Spotfire solution to a complex problem may require a design with several specialized extensions. Still, a single extension based on an SDK example project will often do. The examples are fully functional solutions to common problems, and there are many ways to combine them.
    • Creating a Spotfire Extension
      A Spotfire extension is the smallest functional unit added to the platform. It is developed in Visual Studio® and is included in a Spotfire AddIn, enabling versioning, licensing, deployment and loading.
    • Spotfire SDK
      The SDK provides required Spotfire developer resources: the Spotfire Extension Project Template, development assemblies, example projects, and the Package Builder application wrapping the extensions for deployment.