TIBCO Spotfire 7 Launched 

TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in infrastructure and business intelligence software, today announced the general availability of TIBCO Spotfire 7, the most powerful version of its industry-leading analytics and data visualization platform. Every aspect of Spotfire 7 was designed for ease of use, empowering users of all skill levels to gain insights faster and easier than ever before. Leveraging built-in “smart” analytics, even novice users can instantly start analyzing data with Recommendations, a new and easy way to create visualizations and dashboards. Multiple streamlined features have been added to speed up the data-exploration experience, plus users now have the flexibility to customize the look and feel of their dashboards to match applications or style guidelines.

“Our goal with Spotfire 7 is to make analytics software easier to use and to drive insights for everyday users faster than ever before,” said Brian Gentile, senior vice president and general manager, TIBCO Analytics. “Spotfire 7 puts best practices at your fingertips, helping everybody who needs to work with data to be more productive and to more quickly uncover the answers hidden within. Our Spotfire analytics platform now addresses all the needs of an organization, ranging from simple data exploration to the most advanced analytics, all on the same platform.  Our platform-focused approach and focus on power with ease-of-use takes analytics out of the tool and puts it into the conversation, enabling business users and data scientists to become even more capable.”

Key features of Spotfire 7 include:

• Automated Guidance – Spotfire 7 enables a fast and intuitive jumpstart for your analysis. Recommendations, an intelligent wizard, guides the selection of best-practice analytics, empowering experts and non-experts alike. Beginners benefit from Recommendations’ instant suggestions of best-practice visualizations; data experts appreciate the speed with which they can create an entire dashboard of interconnected visualizations in just a few seconds.
• Beautiful Design – New, custom styling features let you create beautiful dashboards that suit your style and design requirements. New style options for your visualizations enable you to adjust the look and feel of a Spotfire workspace depending on your audience, type of data consumed, and more.
• Faster Data Exploration – Streamlined user interface elements are designed to facilitate fast, fluid data discovery. With Spotfire 7, you can explore your data more easily and precisely than ever before, helping you get to your ultimate insights in seconds.