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The companies of today face innumerable market challenges due to the ferocious competition of a globalized economy. Hence, providing excellent service and having customer loyalty are the priorities for their survival.
In order to best achieve both goals and have a competitive edge, companies can resort to the information generated by their digitalized systems, their IT. All the recorded events from Human Resources (HR) to Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Billing, and so on, can be leveraged to better understand the health of a business.
The purpose of this article is to present a tool that behaves as a digital event analysis enabler, the TIBCO Spotfire platform. In this article, we will list the main characteristics of this platform, while also presenting its architecture and describing its components.
Spotfire is a visual analytics and business intelligence platform from TIBCO software. It is a part of new breed of tools created to bridge the gap between the massive amount of data that the corporations produce today and the business users who need to interpret this data in order to have the best foundation for the decisions they make.
In my opinion, there is no better description of what TIBCO Spotfire delivers than the definition of visual analytics made in the publication named Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics.
“Visual analytics is the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces”.
–Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics, James J. Thomas and Kristin A. Cook, IEEE Computer Society Press
The TIBCO Spotfire platform offers the possibility of creating very powerful (yet easy to interpret and interact) data visualizations. From real-time Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to Big Data, data-based decision making becomes easy – the what, the why, and the how becomes evident.
Spotfire definitely allowed TIBCO to establish itself in an area where until recently it had very little experience and no sought-after products.
The main features of this platform are:
The platform is composed of several intercommunicating components, each one with its own responsibilities (with clear separation of concerns) enabling a clustered deployment. As this is an introductory article, we will not dive deep into all the components, but we will identify the main ones and the underlying architecture.
A depiction the platform’s components is shown in the following diagram:
The descriptions of each of the components in the preceding diagram are as follows:
The Server component is available for several operating systems, such as Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
For more details on the iPad client application, please navigate to: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/spotfire-analytics/id417436823?mt=8
In this article, we introduced the main attributes of the Spotfire platform in the scope of visual analytics, and we detailed the platform’s underlying architecture.
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