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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer. - Second Edition

By : Andrew Berridge, Michael Phillips
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TIBCO Spotfire: A Comprehensive Primer. - Second Edition

By: Andrew Berridge, Michael Phillips

Overview of this book

The need for agile business intelligence (BI) is growing daily, and TIBCO Spotfire® combines self-service features with essential enterprise governance and scaling capabilities to provide best-practice analytics solutions. Spotfire is easy and intuitive to use and is a rewarding environment for all BI users and analytics developers. Starting with data and visualization concepts, this book takes you on a journey through increasingly advanced topics to help you work toward becoming a professional analytics solution provider. Examples of analyzing real-world data are used to illustrate how to work with Spotfire. Once you've covered the AI-driven recommendations engine, you'll move on to understanding Spotfire's rich suite of visualizations and when, why and how you should use each of them. In later chapters, you'll work with location analytics, advanced analytics using TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R®, how to decide whether to use in-database or in-memory analytics, and how to work with streaming (live) data in Spotfire. You'll also explore key product integrations that significantly enhance Spotfire's capabilities.This book will enable you to exploit the advantages of the Spotfire serve topology and learn how to make practical use of scheduling and routing rules. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build and use powerful analytics dashboards and applications, perform spatial analytics, and be able to administer your Spotfire environment efficiently
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introducing Spotfire
6
Section 2: Spotfire In Depth
12
Section 3: Databases, Scripting, and Scaling Spotfire

Notes on scheduling and routing

It's not possible to provide a set of scenarios that capture absolutely every eventuality, so the scenarios we have detailed thus far are just an introduction to the concepts of Scheduling & Routing. I do have a few notes that are worth sharing:

  • Remember how useful scheduling is! It's a great way to ensure that data is kept up to date and is available immediately, without any loading wait times.
  • You can only apply Schedules to File rules.
  • I am not going to show a practical example of a user routing rule. User rules are very similar to group rules and I don't really recommend them, except in very special cases—it's far better to use group rules and administer the members of the groups rather than individual rules for individual users.
  • The rule priorities will influence which instance serves a particular request.
  • A...