Spotfire Analytic Clients allow you to configure Guided Analytic Applications.
Overview
Spotfire Analytic Clients equip every employee to quickly discover
new insights in the information they work with every day. Spotfire
software shifts the power to ask and answer virtually unconstrained
questions to front-line users -- the people who make decisions
every day-- without requiring countless new reports or custom
queries from IT. Spotfire’s interactive, visual capabilities
for data analysis empower individuals to easily see trends,
patterns outliers and unanticipated relationships in data with
unprecedented speed and adaptability.
The Spotfire Analytic Clients are built on two different technology
platforms:
Spotfire
and
DecisionSite.
Spotfire is a next generation BI solution that is applicable
to a broad array of analytic application throughout an enterprise.
DecisionSite is the premier analytic client in technical markets
such as pharmaceutical research, energy exploration and high-tech
manufacturing.
Both are built around highly interactive, easy to use data visualizations.
The key to both are their extremely fast in-memory data engines
that enable data to be filtered and transformed as rapidly as
the user can think of new questions of their data.
They are used by line of business users to quickly author Guided
Analytic Applications. Guided Analytic Applications can be as
easy to create as a PowerPoint presentation, while offering
a lot of powerful, configurable features available just below
the surface that allows non-developers to build highly customized
applications in minutes to hours that would take months for
specialized IT resources to develop on top of other platforms.
By enabling business analysts to configure their own applications,
IT is released from its current mundane tasks of specialized
data pulls and report creation. Instead it can get back to the
task of build the infrastructure required to give their company
an information advantage over their competitors.
Configured end-user applications
All users have slightly different domain backgrounds, expertise
areas, perspectives and skill sets—they require different sets
of analysis capabilities. There is no single solution that fits
everyone. Experienced project managers can testify that static
predefined applications will not fulfill the needs of all their
end users.
Spotfire DecisionSite is based on fundamental research in information
visualization and human/computer interaction. The system allows
developers to set up an open environment where the users can
dynamically explore, analyze and understand the information
using:
- Tightly coupled, interactive visualizations
- Dynamic querying of the data
- Instant drilldown to details
- Analysis workflow configurations
- Ad hoc data import and data enrichment capabilities
- Interactive reporting and integrated analysis distribution mechanisms
- Binning and mathematical expressions
- Basic statistics and algorithms
Guided Analytic Applications
To enable your users to understand the information buried in
your databases, an analytical application must provide access
to all relevant data, be able to support data visualization
capabilities, and provide a toolbox of metrics and functionality
specific to your business—such as the standard quality thresholds,
particular statistical algorithms, or integrations with internal
geospatial or chemical structure systems.
Projects that provide their users with only a toolbox of data
sources and analysis capabilities will typically only reach
a small percentage of their intended audience. Most users that
need to perform analyses do not have the time or the skills
to become experts on every software application within their
domain. For end-user success across all skill levels, the analysis
application must be problem and process focused, intuitive and
self-explanatory. The solution needs to provide one-click access
to data and guide the users in how to understand, analyze and
explore the information.
To enable your users to utilize their domain expertise to analyze
the data, gain insights and draw conclusions, the solution must
also enable your expert users to dynamically explore, interact,
filter, and drill down into the information.
For an analysis application to be used it must be easily accessible
from within the environments most common for the user base—utilizing
existing logical entry points such as the Intranet, emails,
or in-house query builders.
A Guided Analytic Application in Spotfire addresses the above
issues. It combines visual, interactive analysis capabilities
with domain- and problem-specific processes, resulting in a
highly usable, relevant and effective data analysis application.
When building a Spotfire solution, these capabilities are included
out-of-the-box. As a developer, all you’ll need to set up are
the following business-specific components from your organization:
- Configure access to relevant data sources
- Provide business-specific integrations, metrics and algorithms
- Set up recommended analysis views, workflows, and starting points
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