In this section, now that we've had a brief explanation of scaling the Spotfire Server, we will be focusing on the Worker Service Tier. This is the part of the platform that contains the Spotfire Web Players, Automation Services, and Statistics Services:
The Spotfire Web Player and Automation Services can be scaled to support as many users as you need. Spotfire makes really efficient use of resources in order to scale as effectively as possible using the available hardware. Spotfire's intelligent routing and scaling algorithms make it unique in the marketplace among business intelligence solutions. In fact, its competitors often recommend one web server per major application, but this is simply not necessary with Spotfire.
Web Player and Automation Services instances reside on Spotfire nodes. A node is set up by installing TIBCO Spotfire Node Manager...