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TIBCO Reveals Industry's Most Flexible Statistics-Driven Analytic Platform
New Statistical Methods and Expanded Deployment Options in TIBCO Spotfire S+(R) 8.1 Allow Customers to Apply Powerful Analyses to a Wider Range of Business Challenges
| Source: TIBCO Software Inc.
SOMERVILLE, MA--(Marketwire - December 8, 2008) - TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ : TIBX ) is
providing a new and powerful weapon to scientists and statisticians with
the release of TIBCO Spotfire S+® version 8.1, the first S-PLUS®
language product release from TIBCO. Spotfire S+® is the only
statistical programming platform that delivers a fully integrated
development environment, a commercially supported analytic packaging
system, and the ability to scale a desktop to manipulate gigabyte class
data sets.
Spotfire S+ enables statisticians and business analysts to prototype, test,
and deploy analytics much faster than with alternative statistical modeling
environments. It delivers a wider range of robust statistics tools, as
well as improved deployment and integration capabilities that help business
analysts and researchers make informed and reliable decisions at critical
points across the organization. By adding the advanced predictive
analytics of Spotfire S+ products to the Spotfire Enterprise Analytics
platform, TIBCO is empowering customers to gain deeper insights into
their critical information and speeding the deployment of advanced
analytics throughout the enterprise.
"TIBCO's vision is that analytics will drive competitive advantage and
greater predictability for its customers and partners," said Lou
Bajuk-Yorgan, Senior Director, Product Management, TIBCO Spotfire. "By
evolving statistical applications based on the S-PLUS language as part of
the Spotfire enterprise analytics product line, TIBCO is strengthening the
S+ product line and helping statistical experts, and business analysts
speed insights into complex data through the combination of these leading
technologies."
Powerful New Statistics
The S-PLUS statistical programming language offers the most comprehensive
library of statistical and mathematical algorithms available. Statistical
enhancements in this release include the ability to:
-- Create better clinical trial designs, improve portfolio management, and enhance many other
business process applications by applying Bayesian statistical methods
-- Understand and predict customer behavior with Association
Rules/Market Basket Analysis
-- Gain better insights from small data sets with resampling
techniques
This release also makes methods which were formerly available only in
separate modules part of core Spotfire S+, and available to all users.
These enhancements include the ability to:
-- Better analyze environmental data using graphical and statistical
methods from the EnvironmentalStats package
-- Perform advanced image, signal and timeseries analysis using the
Wavelets package
-- Explore and model spatially correlated data from many different
fields using the SpatialStats package.
Deployment and Integration
TIBCO continues to advance the
industry's most flexible platform for deploying analytics to the
enterprise. With the enhanced Spotfire S+ Eclipse Workbench, users can
create reliable statistical applications for deployment across the
enterprise with greater speed than ever before. In addition, Spotfire S+
8.1 offers compatibility enhancements with the open-source R environment
that allow scientists and statisticians to more easily port and use
existing R packages in Spotfire S+, and to develop new packages that can be
used in both Spotfire S+ and R.
Spotfire S+
8.1 offers an integrated development environment for the S-PLUS
language and an open architecture, allowing clinicians, biostatisticians,
quantitative analysts, market analysts and analytic developers to quickly
model and test new analytic applications that seamlessly integrate with
existing enterprise applications. The new release enables greater access to
data than ever before, including data access via JDBC, and remote script
execution to access data that can't be downloaded from the server due to
security restrictions.
Spotfire Enterprise Analytics Platform
By combining the power of S-PLUS-based statistical tools with the Spotfire
Enterprise Analytics platform, customers get a rapid prototyping
environment for analytic applications that combines highly interactive,
exploratory analysis with the power of statistical and predictive
modeling. Statistical experts can visualize and explore model results in
TIBCO
Spotfire® Professional, and collaborate more easily through the
creation of reusable analytical applications that can be easily shared and
used by business users.
TIBCO Spotfire S+ 8.1 is available now. For more information, visit:
http://spotfire.tibco.com/whatsnew_splus
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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