Some new features will be showcased at TUCON® 2013, TIBCO's annual user conference, October 14-17, 2013, and more details will be shown in webcasts and webinars (I personally prefer detailed articles, blogposts, slides, PDFs and Demos, but TIBCO's corporate culture ignores my preferences for years) on 10/30/13 by Steve Farr
- here: http://lp.spotfire.tibco.com/Global_Webcast_2013Spotfire6OctoberAM.html and
- here: http://lp.spotfire.tibco.com/Global_Webcast_2013Spotfire6OctoberPM.html
TIBCO bought the Extended Results and will presumably will show the integration with PSUHBI product, see it here: http://www.pushbi.com/ ; TIBCO called it as Delivery of personal KPIs and Metrics on any mobile phone, tablet or laptop, online or offline (new name for it will be TIBCO Spotfire® Consumer):
Another TIBCO's Purchase is MAPORAMA and integration with it TIBCO called (very appropriately) as the Location Analytics with promise to
- Visualize, explore and analyze data in the context of location
- Expand situational understanding with multi-layered geo-analytics
Spotfire Location Services is the Agnostic Platform and supports (I guess this needs to be verified, because sounds too good to be true) any map service, including own TIBCO, ESRI (Spotfire integrates with ESRI previously), Google:
TIBCO has Event processing capabilities (e.g StreamBase, they bought a few months ago, see it here: http://www.streambase.com/news-and-events/press-releases/pr-2013/tibco-software-acquires-streambase-systems/#axzz2hiEjnr9X) and it will be interesting to see the new Events Analytics product (see also: http://www.streambase.com/products/streambasecep ) integrated with Spotfire 6:
For business user Spotfire 6 has new web-based authoring (Spotfire has a few "Clients", one called Web Player and another called Enterprise Player, both are not free unlike Tableau Free Reader or Tableau Public). Bridging the gap between simple dashboards and advanced analytic applications, Spotfire 6.0 provides a new client "tailored to meet the needs of the everyday business user, who typically has struggled to manipulate pivot tables and charts to address their data discovery needs".
With this new web application, known as TIBCO Spotfire® Business Author, business users can visually explore and interact with data, whether residing in a simple spreadsheet or dashboard, a database, or a predefined analytic application. It will definitely compete with Web Authoring in Tableau 8.1 and incoming Qlikview.Next.
For me personally the most interesting new feature is new Spotfire Cloud Services (supposedly the continuation of Spotfire SIlver, which I like but it is overpriced and non-competitive storage-wise vs. Tableau Public and Tableau Online cloud services). Here is the quote from yesterday's Press Release: "TIBCO Spotfire® Cloud is a new set of cloud services for enterprises, work groups, and personal use (see some preliminary info here: https://marketplace.cloud.tibco.com/marketplace/marketplace/apps#/sc :
Spotfire 6 has enterprise-class, R-compatible statistical engine: TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR) which is the part of excellent TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services (TSSS). TSSS allows Integration of R (including TERR), Spotfire's own S+ (SPlus is Spotfire's commercial version of R), SAS® and MATLAB® into Spotfire and custom applications. TERR, see http://spotfire.tibco.com/en/discover-spotfire/what-does-spotfire-do/predictive-analytics/tibco-enterprise-runtime-for-r-terr.aspx supports:
General note: I maintain my opinion that the best way for TIBCO to capitalize on tremendous hidden market value of Spotfire is to spin-it off as EMC did with VMWare. My other concern is too many offices involved with Spotfire: (Parental) TIBCO's HQ in California, R&D office in Sweden and Main marketing, sales and consulting office in Massachusetts. My advise to have only one main office in MA, which is compatible with spin-off idea. Tableau has advantage here with concentrating their main office in Seattle.
TIBCO has Event processing capabilities (e.g StreamBase, they bought a few months ago, see it here: http://www.streambase.com/news-and-events/press-releases/pr-2013/tibco-software-acquires-streambase-systems/#axzz2hiEjnr9X) and it will be interesting to see the new Events Analytics product (see also: http://www.streambase.com/products/streambasecep ) integrated with Spotfire 6:
- Identify new trends and outliers with continuous process monitoring
- Automate the delivery of analytics applications based on trends
- Operationalize analytics to support continuous process improvement:
With this new web application, known as TIBCO Spotfire® Business Author, business users can visually explore and interact with data, whether residing in a simple spreadsheet or dashboard, a database, or a predefined analytic application. It will definitely compete with Web Authoring in Tableau 8.1 and incoming Qlikview.Next.
For me personally the most interesting new feature is new Spotfire Cloud Services (supposedly the continuation of Spotfire SIlver, which I like but it is overpriced and non-competitive storage-wise vs. Tableau Public and Tableau Online cloud services). Here is the quote from yesterday's Press Release: "TIBCO Spotfire® Cloud is a new set of cloud services for enterprises, work groups, and personal use (see some preliminary info here: https://marketplace.cloud.tibco.com/marketplace/marketplace/apps#/sc :
- Personal: Web-based product, Upload Excel, .csv and .txt data, 12 visualization types, 100 GB of data storage
- Workgroup: Web-based and desktop product, Connect and integrate multiple data sources, All visualization types, 250 GB of data storage
- Enterprise: Web-based and desktop product, Connect to 40+ data sources, All visualization types, Advanced statistics services, 500 GB of data storage
Spotfire 6 has enterprise-class, R-compatible statistical engine: TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR) which is the part of excellent TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services (TSSS). TSSS allows Integration of R (including TERR), Spotfire's own S+ (SPlus is Spotfire's commercial version of R), SAS® and MATLAB® into Spotfire and custom applications. TERR, see http://spotfire.tibco.com/en/discover-spotfire/what-does-spotfire-do/predictive-analytics/tibco-enterprise-runtime-for-r-terr.aspx supports:
- Support for paralelized R-language scripts in TERR
- Support for call outs to open source R from TERR
- Use RStudio – the most popular IDE in the R Community-to develop your TERR scripts
- Over a thousand TERR compatible CRAN packages
General note: I maintain my opinion that the best way for TIBCO to capitalize on tremendous hidden market value of Spotfire is to spin-it off as EMC did with VMWare. My other concern is too many offices involved with Spotfire: (Parental) TIBCO's HQ in California, R&D office in Sweden and Main marketing, sales and consulting office in Massachusetts. My advise to have only one main office in MA, which is compatible with spin-off idea. Tableau has advantage here with concentrating their main office in Seattle.
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