Overview
This page has information about the capabilities, architecture, and administration of Spotfire products.
Spotfire for the Enterprise: An Overview for IT Administrators (download from Resources below): This whitepaper is intended for those wanting information on Spotfire® administration and deployment capabilities: its architecture, data connection, security, scalability, administration, and performance.
Spotfire in the Cloud
Spotfire® is available in the following editions:
- Spotfire® platform.
- TIBCO Cloud™ Spotfire® (TCS).
- TIBCO Cloud™ Spotfire® Enterprise (TCSE), formerly called TIBCO Spotfire® Cloud Enterprise (TSCE).
- Spotfire for Amazon Web Services (SAWS).
What is provided in each edition? How to compare them? How do they work?
Check out our TIBCO Spotfire Cloud FAQ for an overview of the Spotfire® Editions so you can choose the right one for you.
If you want to know more about TIBCO Cloud Spotfire TIBCO Spotfire Cloud Overview.
Spotfire Documentation
Where to find all the latest user guides, admin guides, and developer guides for Spotfire?
- Spotfire® Documentation provides quick access to all the latest official documents from a single place.
Spotfire Deployment
Automatic deployment
Do you want to automate the deployment of your Spotfire environments?
Check out our quickstart for Spotfire using the 2 most used agnostic configuration management tools: Terraform and Ansible:
You can also use custom scripts and information for silent, scripted installation of the Spotfire server components. Here you have an example:
Deploy in the Cloud
Do you wonder how to manually deploy Spotfire in the major Cloud Service Providers?
Containerization
Do you want to deploy Spotfire using containers?
- For Spotfire 12.0 and later, use the Cloud Deployment Kit for Spotfire which has recipes for containerization and Kubernetes deployments.
- For Spotfire 11.8 and below you can use the Spotfire docker container recipes
Advanced Administration Procedures
Our community is constantly contributing with many articles on advanced administration tasks. Here you have some of the most relevant ones:
Security
- Spotfire Server and Authentication Supported
- External Authentication in Spotfire - Many customers want to embed Spotfire Web Player into a portal or other web application and secure access by passing authentication information from the portal to Spotfire. Customers also have internal Web application security standards that require Single-Sign-On to all web applications which would include Spotfire Web Player. Spotfire supports these scenarios via custom and external authentication. With Spotfire 7.5, the architecture has changed such that the support for these scenarios has moved from the Spotfire Web Player to the Spotfire Server.
- Configuring Anonymous Access to Analysis Files in Spotfire - Many customers want to embed Spotfire Web Player into a portal or other web application and have these analysis files available to users who are not authenticated. In Spotfire 7.5, since the Spotfire Server is handling all client requests and authentication, there is a set of options that allow anonymous access to certain analysis files within the Spotfire Library.
- Spotfire Server Disaster Recovery Options - Discuss various options for handling disaster recovery in a Spotfire environment.
Logging
- Analyst Spotfire Server SQL Logs in Spotfire - Provides a Spotfire analysis file with an IronPython script for processing Spotfire Server SQL Log files into a Spotfire data table.
Performance and Diagnostics
- Spotfire Application Profiler Information - The Spotfire Application Profiler is a diagnostic tool that is available in the Spotfire Analyst client given the appropriate access. The Application Profiler is a diagnostic utility that allows a Spotfire administrator or a superuser to scan the Spotfire Library and acquire an overview of all the analysis files. It can be run manually or from the command line. Please see the referenced article and Spotfire Application Profiler Tech Note (download from Resources below) for details.
- Spotfire Server Tomcat Network Settings to Improve WAN Performance - Provides some settings that can be helpful to Spotfire Analyst users when the Analyst clients are some distance away on the network from the Spotfire Server.
Managing Spotfire's third-party software
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Upgrade Java:
- for Spotfire Server 11.3 and later:
- for previous versions:
- Upgrade Apache Tomcat for Spotfire Server 7.5 and later
- Upgrade Spring for Spotfire Server 7.5 and later
Spotfire Mobile
Mobile Capabilities - Spotfire represents the state of the art in visual data discovery, analytic applications, and self-service dashboard creation - and also extends its capabilities into Mobile dashboards/apps.
Data Access
Data Administrators support users in connecting to their enterprise data sources
- Spotfire Data Access article- This page covers getting your data it into a form convenient for visualization or analysis. That includes accessing, cleaning, joining, limiting, summarizing, and transforming data.
- The Spotfire Data Access FAQ provides answers to general data access questions from best practices to performance to prompting, etc.
- The Spotfire JDBC Data Access Connectivity Details article provides data source templates and other details regarding various data sources that have JDBC drivers. This a wide range of data sources including Impala, Hive, HBase, Drill, Access DB, Redshift, SAP HANA, etc. Please visit the page to see the entire list of data sources since additional ones are continually being added.
- How to load data from a simple URL or Web Service in Spotfire Analyst - Using Add Data from File in Spotfire Analyst, one can add data from a simple URL or Web Service just by pasting the URL into the File name text box.
Learn More
The Spotfire Products page has links to documentation and trial versions of the software
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