TIBCO Spotfire DXP 2.0 Does the Mash

Leverages Web 2.0 capabilities to make business analytics more interactive

By David Worthington

August 2, 2007 — Static reports may soon become a thing of the past, thanks to the evolution of business intelligence tools. The Web 2.0 era has advanced collaboration and information sharing to a degree that was unfathomable just a few years ago.

TIBCO Software’s recently acquired Spotfire division is the latest to embrace the Web 2.0 paradigm, with Spotfire DXP 2.0, an enterprise analytics platform that allows users to broadcast and share data across the enterprise. Complementary interactive reporting and integration capabilities were also added to the DXP update, which was released in mid-July.

The Spotfire DXP Web Player is an AJAX Web client that allows users to view and navigate configured analysis workflows, filter and mark records interactively, and see visualizations and dashboards update dynamically. It can operate from a Web browser or as a component embedded in a corporate portal.

Spotfire DXP Web Player interactive reports are automatically generated when business users save analyses to the Spotfire Analytics Library. Shared analysis templates can be used to keep all users up to date with changing data.

Beyond Traditional BI
According to Spotfire division executive vice president Christopher Ahlberg, the real-time analytics that Spotfire DXP provides greatly benefit the productivity of business users.

A software development kit enables developers to extend the Spotfire platform with compiled extensions that appear to end users as part of the core product. A client and server API supports business process integrations, including mash-ups, and custom application development. The SDK provides assemblies to compile and debug custom extensions in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and example code written in C#.

“For many organizations, traditional BI falls short because it just can’t reach enough data and it isn’t user-friendly enough.

TIBCO Spotfire DXP’s enterprise analytics goes beyond traditional BI by getting at more data and giving it to end users in a highly interactive and visually intuitive format,” David O’Connell, senior analyst at research services firm Nucleus Research, wrote in a prepared statement.

“This means that line-of-business managers can more rapidly find actionable information in their data, seize opportunities, and achieve competitive advantage,” O’Connell added.

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TIBCO Spotfire DXP 2.0 Does the Mash

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