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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

By : Michael Phillips
Book Image

TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer

By: Michael Phillips

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
TIBCO Spotfire – A Comprehensive Primer
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


This chapter has provided a whistle-stop tour of the Spotfire landscape, giving you a sense of the different parts of the system and how they work together. We looked briefly at the main Spotfire components and took quick tours of Administration Manager, Library Administration, Information Designer, Spotfire Analyst (formerly known as Professional Client), Spotfire Consumer (formerly known as Web Player), Spotfire Business Author (new with Version 6.5), Automation Services, and system monitoring tools.

Many of the items we looked at require some level of admin or specialist access, and many of you will not be Spotfire administrators. Nevertheless, I think it's useful for you to have a good sense of how the platform is administered and, more importantly, how best to use the Spotfire architecture to deliver a good analysis to your customers. The inline help files in the Spotfire client are always the best starting place for information about the product's tools and features, and the...