Designing Insights: An Inside Look into Tibco Spotfire’s Architecture

Understanding Spotfire’s Framework to drive engaging Data Visualization and Informed Analysis

The data analytics landscape is rapidly evolving. Various Visualization tools are available in the BI marketplace to cater to these changing needs. TIBCO Spotfire is a powerful data visualization and analytics platform developed by TIBCO Software Inc. It enables users to transform raw data into interactive, insightful, and visually compelling dashboards, reports, and visualizations. Spotfire is designed to help organizations make data-driven decisions by providing tools to explore, analyze, and gain insights from their data.

This article explores the architecture and some new features of Spotfire.

Architecture

To know about the internal workings of any software, a good approach is to comprehend its architecture. Once we grasp the various constituents of the software and the interplay among them, understanding the entire software becomes notably more straightforward. The Spotfire application operates on a Client-server architecture with multiple components. The interaction between these different components defines the working of the Spotfire application.

The below diagram depicts the high-level architecture of Tibco Spotfire: