TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Platform is an open analytic platform. It can be automated, integrated, and extended to meet business process challenges and custom application needs. It is used by thousands of customers to gain an information advantage over their competitors.
The visual and interactive experience of the Spotfire Analytic Clients helps business professionals and analysts rapidly reveal previously unseen insights in their data.
What distinguishes the Spotfire Analytics Platform from the previous generation of business intelligence platforms is the speed in which it can be adapted to specific business challenges.
The Spotfire Analytics Platform is made up of three major pieces, each of which contributes to the speed of adaptability in its own way:
Analytics
In its simplest form, an analytic application could be a single visualization saved as a .dxp file. Each and every analytic application is tied to and customized around a specific process within an organization.
Spotfire analytic applications navigate users to known places of insight and discovery, while simultaneously leaving downstream users free to explore the data and pursue their own questions on demand. In turn, as those users uncover new findings and insights, they can publish and share their resulting guided applications with a single click.
Spotfire's unique ability to eliminate the barrier between authors and recipients of analysis means that business users can ask and answer their own questions on demand. This model of self-service removes the latency that currently exists when front line business professionals are forced to call in over-burdened support teams of analysts and IT specialists. The direct result is faster and better data-driven decisions being made throughout an organization.
Competing on Analytics
In order for analytics to have their maximum impact on an organization their use must permeate throughout:
- All available data and systems that can aid decision-making,
- All functions and processes within an organization, and
- All roles and skill sets that are involved in the process.
As analytic applications shift the power to answer their own questions to the business users, analysts and IT professionals are freed up to focus on the higher value tasks of expanding the reach and impact of analytics in improving decision making within their organizations.
IT and analysts need to focus on:
- Capturing and developing standard operating procedures and best practices for each of the processes within your organization,
- Managing information models and access,
- Integrating existing business and analytic systems,
- Broadly deploying applications, and
- Administering configurations for different user groups.
Enterprise Analytics with Spotfire
- Configuring the Spotfire Analysis
TIBCO Spotfire makes it easy for you to access, analyze and create dynamic reports on your data. It allows you to visualize and interact with your data to ask the questions needed to draw the right conclusions from your data.
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From Platform to Empowered User
- Extending the Spotfire Platform
The Spotfire platform can be extended programmatically. It provides concepts and APIs to solve analytic problems by adding custom capabilities.
- Architecture
The purpose of the TIBCO Spotfire product stack is to provide visual and computational analytics in one platform.
- Runtime Structure
The runtime comprises client and programming concepts not directly related to the features of Spotfire. Particularly the Document Model Framework must be mastered.
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Developer Challenges and Means
- Extensions
A Spotfire extension is the smallest functional unit added to the platform. It is developed in Visual Studio® and is included in a Spotfire add-in, enabling versioning, licensing, deployment and loading.
- Creating Extensions to the Spotfire Platform
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.
- 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.
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