New TIBCO Spotfire Release Scales to Reach New Users, New Applications Across the Enterprise Lowering Cost
Simplified Connectivity to Popular Business Applications, Innovative Visualizations and Increased Scalability Lower Technical and Cost Barriers to Enterprise Deployments
| Source: TIBCO Software Inc.
SOMERVILLE, MA--(Marketwire - May 18, 2009) - TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ : TIBX ) today
announced the launch of TIBCO Spotfire® 3.0, the latest version of the
company's industry-leading, in-memory analytics platform that equips people
to make better decisions. This release allows customers to expand their
Spotfire applications into new business-critical areas, bringing the speed
and flexibility of the Spotfire experience to new users. Spotfire® 3.0
introduces simplified connectivity to popular business applications such as
SAP and Oracle, load balancing and enhanced in-memory performance to better
enable IT organizations to scale Spotfire throughout the enterprise.
"Traditional business intelligence is predominantly optimized for reporting
while specialty analysis tools are too hard to use and prohibitively
expensive for broad communities of users," said Lars Bauerle, vice
president, product strategy at TIBCO Spotfire. "With Spotfire 3.0 we are
offering a scalable platform that is closer to real time needs of business
processes and lowers the average cost per user so everyone in the
enterprise can be equipped with their own high-powered analytic
experience."
Spotfire 3.0 is the latest release in a steady stream of product
enhancements and industry firsts, following on a long history of
innovation. Recent product releases brought to market support business
mashups, real-time data and business process integration, new visualization
methods and predictive analytics. The introduction of Spotfire 3.0 now
makes it possible to analyze data from enterprise data sources, including
SAP, Oracle, Siebel, Salesforce.com and more. Improvements to scalability
and performance in this release also enable IT organizations to deliver a
standardized, yet highly adaptable, analytics platform to the entire
organization at a reasonable cost.
Simplified Application Integration
Spotfire 3.0 is designed to leverage existing enterprise IT assets and
infrastructure, minimizing application complexity while delivering improved
access to data. Working in tandem with TIBCO Spotfire® Application Data
Services, a new integration product, Spotfire 3.0 enables simplified
integration to SAP NetWeaver BI, SAP ERP, Salesforce.com, Siebel eBusiness
Applications, and Oracle E-Business Suite.
A robust Web Services connector enables organizations to integrate with
countless additional applications and data sources. An integrated caching
layer also dramatically speeds up data access from slow data sources by
pre-loading common views and eliminating or reducing the need to create
data warehouses or data marts. With this release, the limitations that
had often led IT to adopt multiple applications in order to satisfy the
information needs of different user groups no longer apply.
Enterprise Performance & Scalability
Designed for enterprise-level deployment, Spotfire 3.0 offers proven
scalability across the enterprise through a reliable multi-tiered
architecture. This design supports full failover recovery and dynamic load
balancing, centralized management of enterprise deployments and improved
application migration methods. These enhancements make deployments across
mission critical applications possible and allow IT to continually respond
more quickly to growing business needs.
Jörg Neumann, manager at Customer Intelligence at Cortal Consors, a leading
European broker in personal investing and online trading, is excited about
the new version of TIBCO Spotfire. "Over more than four years, the
interactive TIBCO Spotfire analytics platform has played a key role in our
BI activities. Initially our management team benefited most by discovering
trends and risks early through Spotfire's interactive and flexible
analytics capabilities, leveraging business opportunities as they occurred.
Today, our user community has grown: CRM Sales, Wealth Management, and
Sales Controlling as well as our Online Marketing department all use
Spotfire. This enterprise platform allows us to integrate external data
very quickly, increasing our agility and effectiveness in many areas."
Real-time Analysis & Reporting
Spotfire 3.0 also includes enhancements to its industry-leading data
visualization. Improvements to the dynamic data engine now also enable
visualizations and analyses to be automatically updated based on external
events and real-time data.
Improved mapping allows for better data analysis of patterns, clusters,
correlations among pairs of variables, gaps, and outliers. Spotfire 3.0
also offers tree maps that allow for the analysis of hierarchical and
multi-dimensional data to identify structural properties, as well as error
bars that instantly illuminate outliers and visually depict standard
deviations on existing visualizations. This added visualization
extensibility provides rapid overviews of data and the ability to instantly
spot trends from many variables.
TIBCO Spotfire 3.0 is available now. For more information visit:
http://spotfire.tibco.com/Products/Whatsnew-Spotfire.aspx
About TIBCO
TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ : TIBX ) is a leading provider of enterprise
analytics software for next generation business intelligence. TIBCO
Spotfire products offer a visual and interactive experience that helps
professionals quickly discover new and actionable insights in information.
Distinguished by its speed to insight and adaptability to specific business
challenges, Spotfire rapidly reveals unseen threats and new opportunities,
creating significant economic value. Spotfire customers include industry
leaders among the Global 2000 that have deployed Spotfire analytics to gain
an information advantage over their competitors. For more information,
visit http://spotfire.tibco.com.
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