TIBCO Spotfire Analytics

Question 1

What type of analytics platform is TIBCO Spotfire?

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A self-service visual analytics and business intelligence platform with in-memory data processing, predictive analytics, and embedding capabilities

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A relational database management system optimised for OLAP workloads

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A real-time CEP engine for detecting patterns in event streams

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A master data management platform for governing enterprise reference data

Question 2

What is a Spotfire Information Link and what is its purpose?

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A reusable, parameterised query definition that data administrators create against a data source, allowing business users to load data into Spotfire without writing SQL

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A hyperlink embedded in a Spotfire visualisation that opens an external web page

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A REST endpoint exposed by Spotfire for embedding dashboards in external applications

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A file system path pointing to the Spotfire server's shared data directory

Question 3

What is the TIBCO Spotfire TERR engine and how is it used?

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TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R — an embedded R execution engine within Spotfire that runs R scripts for statistical analysis and predictive modelling directly within dashboards

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A TIBCO-proprietary rule language for defining data transformation logic in BW

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A GPU-accelerated rendering engine for 3D data visualisations in Spotfire

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A C++ numerical library used internally by Spotfire's chart rendering layer

Question 4

What is the purpose of Spotfire Mods?

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Custom visualisation types or analytical components developed in JavaScript/TypeScript by partners or developers that can be embedded into Spotfire analyses like native chart types

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TIBCO-approved hardware modifications to servers running Spotfire for performance tuning

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Database driver extensions for connecting Spotfire to unsupported data sources

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Admin plugins for adding custom authentication providers to the Spotfire server

Question 5

How does Spotfire's marking feature support interactive data exploration?

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Marking allows users to select data points across multiple linked visualisations simultaneously; all charts that display the same data update to highlight the marked subset, enabling multi-chart cross-filtering

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Marking bookmarks a dashboard page for easy navigation back to a specific view

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Marking inserts a physical marker annotation into the underlying source database

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Marking increases the display priority of a specific chart on the dashboard

Question 6

How does TIBCO Spotfire connect to TIBCO Data Virtualization for live analytics?

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Using a JDBC/ODBC connection to TDV's published data layer, treating TDV as a database and querying virtual views directly without requiring data extraction to Spotfire's in-memory store

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By exporting TDV results as CSV files that Spotfire imports on a schedule

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Via a custom TIBCO binary protocol that only works when both products are on the same server

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Spotfire cannot connect to TDV — they are separate product lines with no integration