Spotfire has been a small company delivering Business Intelligence solutions when it got taken over by TIBCO. And after that company TIBCO's main product is named. TIBCO Spotfire Platform, being the most representative and thorough product, is simultaneously responsible for company's success. Providing different capabilities in the name of data analyzing, Spotfire distinguishes itself with powerful in-memory processes support and integrality.

Easy to control with an intuitive interface, Spotfire platform significantly enhances the comfort of decision making. Thank to almost immediate processing capabilities, it's ready for answering all Business Intelligence questions. And the most important Spotfire's feature cover the areas of data analyzing and operating, access to data, Web applications, statistics, and non-standard data types.

Spotfire platform is ready for all types of visualization that are needed, including different charts, plots, tree maps, and many others what lets users present data in the most understandable way. This diversification doesn't impact the performance negatively. Thank to in-memory architecture, required speed and flexibility of data operating can be ensured.

The high number of supported formats is another advantage of TIBCO's platform. It works well enough with Excel spreadsheets, CSV files, and different types of flat data files. There are also SAP BW, SAP R/3, Salesforce.com, ODBC, and Oracle eBusiness Suite among many other data sources compatible with Spotfire. If supplied with complex analytic applications developing capabilities and event driven and real time data analyzing support, the platform turns into a universal BI solution able to meet most of today's BI requirements.

Spotfire tools

In general, TIBCO Spotfire platform consists of multiple tools. To point out only the most interesting ones:

• TIBCO Spotfire Professional is a multitask data analyzing combine working within a fully interactive, visual environment.
• TIBCO Spotfire Server is placed somehow behind the whole platform and is responsible for all its technical aspects. Allows users to control and configure the settings, integration, and administration.
• TIBCO Spotfire Enterprise Player is a tool dedicated to reports and analysis end users. An interactive environment with multiple capabilities for easy information consumption.
• TIBCO Spotfire Developer allows IT users to influence on the platform's shape and build its extensions.
• TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Server is somehow a Business Intelligence center providing all users with timely and integral data what enhances decision making process performance.
• TIBCO Spotfire Clinical Graphics supports visualization and other forms of more effective information spreading.
• TIBCO Spotfire S+ is made for supporting all statistical uses, from analyzing, to programming. Works well within Linux, UNIX, and Windows.

TIBCO Spotfire resources

http://spotfire.tibco.com/ - vendor's website always is the best source of technical information. Here's where all needed data is stored, all tools which the Spotfire platform consists of are described, and it's possible to watch numerous and differentiated demos. It's also the very best place to get professional support or training on platform's complexities.

http://jtonedm.com/2011/02/15/first-look-tibco-spotfire/ - here is what usual users might have looked for. Practical information on TIBCO Spotfire platform, presented in a simple way, from user's point of view. Supplying the article with example scenario, author explains step by step what the strengths of Spotfire are, and how it distinguishes itself from other Business Intelligence suites.

http://www.xmarter.com/tibco-training-center/tibco-spotfire/Xmarter-TIBCO-Spotfire-Overview.pdf - is a document about how to work with TIBCO Spotfire platform. Illustrated with multiple screenshots, provides all information which beginning users could consider useful. Moreover, all the elements of the interface are clearly described what helps saving a lot of time on learning how the platform works on one's own.