Business intelligence: Spotfire brings Web 2.0 to the BI desktop
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 4/2/2008 12:11:00 PM
Spotfire, a division of TIBCO Software Inc., says the newest version of its flagship software, TIBCO Spotfire 2.1, will help customers and partners more easily create highly visual, interactive, and extremely fast business mashups adapted to their needs. This latest release, unveiled Tuesday, also includes new application programming interfaces that enable richer analytic and pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) application development, the company says.
While consumers in a Web 2.0 world can visually explore everything from maps to music, business professionals still rely too much on cumbersome spreadsheets and static reports.
The business mashup capabilities in Spotfire 2.1 merge Web 2.0 and BI into business applications that solve specific business problems.
Spotfire 2.1 brings the interactive, visual nature of innovative Web 2.0 applications to enterprise users, allowing subject matter experts to leverage standard interfaces and BI data to create user experiences—from rich analytic applications for a particular business problem to next-generation dashboards and reports—that speed insights and prompt better business decisions. This type of speed and flexibility is difficult to achieve quickly with traditional BI solutions.
Spotfire 2.1 enables everyone in the enterprise to benefit from the power of analytics. With this release, Spotfire is offering training for all users—from developer to business analyst to everyday business front-line user. Spotfire has expanded its training options by offering regional and on-site training, as well as expanding its comprehensive on-line offerings, including on-demand, Web-based training and user communities.
Christopher Ahlberg, president of TIBCO’s Spotfire division, said, “Traditional BI dashboards and reports are now commoditized. Companies must derive information advantage by leveraging data interactivity and web innovations into daily decision-making processes. Spotfire speaks to these user needs—interactivity, speed, and flexibility.”
