This book has focused on what most people would understand as the core implementation of TIBCO Spotfire: analysts working in a professional client (Spotfire Analyst) to build analysis files and then publishing those files to a wider audience through the web player (Spotfire Consumer) and the Spotfire library. The Spotfire server manages authentication, functional licensing, and access to the library content.

We delved quite deeply into what the Spotfire client can do, including the advanced functionality of IronPython scripting. In this chapter, we'll take a short tour of some additional components that add even further power to the platform. We'll start with TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR), which is an essential tool for advanced and predictive analytics, and progress to consider some of the advanced data handling capabilities of Spotfire. Along the way, we'll look at some new mobility options.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: