TIBCO Software Inc. has announced a host of developments in its analytics offerings. These include new data wrangling features in TIBCO Spotfire , new code-free Operational Intelligence dashboards in TIBCO LiveView Web, a new user-inspired developer community and component exchange and a new Accelerator package for Apache Spark and the IoT.
“Some in the industry would lead you to believe that computers are going to replace people. We think that’s dead wrong,” said Mark Palmer, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Analytics Engineering, TIBCO.
“Computers should serve to augment human experience and intellect. At TIBCO, we focus our industry-leading visual, advanced, embedded and streaming analytics solutions on delivering a pragmatic approach to cognitive computing, which we achieve by combining enhanced intelligence features with algorithmic automation capabilities. This combination encapsulates the essence of our Fast Data analytics platform as it balances human insight with intelligent technologies for superior productivity and a competitive advantage in end users’ respective markets.”
TIBCO’s four major analytics developments this year are:
New data wrangling features in TIBCO Spotfire
TIBCO Spotfire has integrated new self-service data preparation, management and utilisation functionality to further extend the platform’s dynamic analytics capabilities. It provides a code-free interface for business analysts, data scientists, data stewards and analytics leaders in IT to access, manipulate, improve and catalogue different data sources in an agile and trusted way.
Unlike other analytics platforms, the inline data wrangling functionality in Spotfire is built-in, so it requires no third-party coordination for data preparation. The Spotfire 2016 platform is DevOps and cloud-ready, with re-configured routing and administrative functions and a re-architected HTML5-based client to scale on all devices anywhere, including the new Spotfire client for iOS and new advanced geo-analytics applications.
New Accelerator for Apache Spark and the IoT
TIBCO’s open source, BSD-licensed Accelerator package cuts development time for deploying analytics-based solutions with Apache Spark from months to days. The Accelerator for Spark includes five subsystems: Connector, a set of over 30 open source adapters for edge connection to IoT and enterprise data; Digester, a stream data preparation layer; Finder, predictive model discovery template based on Spotfire software; Automator, a streaming analytics-based automation engine for Apache Spark ML and H2O; and Tracker, to monitor predictive models and automatically invoke model retraining.
The Accelerator for Spark is immediately available for all TIBCO customers. The free package can be found in the TIBCO Community. To access all previously released Accelerators, please visit the TIBCO Component Exchange section of the TIBCO Community.
New Code-Free Operational Intelligence dashboard
TIBCO LiveView Web 1.1 is a code-free HTML5 operational-intelligence dashboard development platform for use with the TIBCO Live Datamart, which includes connectivity to TIBCO’s complete Fast Data catalogue. The Live Datamart platform’s innovative Continuous Query Processor allows applications to query streaming data into the future.
TIBCO LiveView Web 1.1, which provides a drag-and-drop interface, enables the creation of live visual dashboards for operational users and includes integrated access to TIBCO StreamBase streaming analytics, TIBCO BusinessEvents and a wide array of both TIBCO and third-party applications and systems. Live Datamart users using LiveView Desktop or LiveView Web can access operational intelligence from any browser. Additionally, enterprises may extend or customise their users' experience by adding plug-ins to LiveView Web, or building their custom interfaces using Java, .NET or JavaScript.
New Business App Developer Community and Component Exchange
To better support customer needs, TIBCO launched a new developer community space for sharing end-user-driven technical expertise, insights and Wiki articles. The new TIBCO Component Exchange and Marketplace Network also features a free app store for components and products that are based on TIBCO products and a new product-management tool for more transparent product input and customer-generated roadmap insight.