TIBCO Spotfire Enterprise 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 Enterprise 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 Enterprise Analytics Platform is made up of three major pieces, each
of which contributes to the speed of adaptability in its own way:
- Configure
Spotfire Analytics Clients allow you to configure
Guided Analytics Applications.
- Administer
The Spotfire Server provides a centralized
point of administration and integration into existing corporate IT and data infrastructure.
- Extend
The Spotfire Analytic Developer Kits are unique
in their ability to extend the capabilities of the Spotfire Enterprise Analytics
Platform.
Guided Analytics
In its simplest form, a Guided Analytics™ application could be a single visualization
saved as a .dxp file. Each and every Guided Analytics application is
tied to and customized around a specific process within an organization.
Spotfire Guided Analytics 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 Guided 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
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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
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Extending the Spotfire Platform
The Spotfire platform can be extended programmatically. It provides concepts and APIs to solve analytic problems by adding custom capabilities.
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Architecture
The purpose of the TIBCO Spotfire product stack is to provide visual and computational analytics in one platform.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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