TIBCO Spotfire for Developers

Spotfire can give your organization the competitive edge through better analysis and visual presentation of business intelligence and this book will show you how. A guided tour of all the essential features of Spotfire.

Overview

• Install a development environment on your own desktop/laptop
• A hands-on guide with many step-by-step instructions and screenshots, to enable faster assimilation of concepts and theories
• Learn to create several visualization types including: bar chart, pie chart, scatter plot and box plot

In Detail

Given the amount of competition and the recent economic downturn, corporations have to provide the best services in the most efficient way. Analytics help businesses understand behaviors and patterns, identify and minimize waste, and provide process visibility. Spotfire is a latest generation Analytics Dashboard that enables the representation of relevant data in an intuitive fashion, fostering both rich visualizations and shortened analysis. It allows the highlighting and discovery of not only commonalities and anomalies but also relationships, all in reduced timeframes.

An introduction to the TIBCO Spotfire world, covering the main concepts and features of the platform in a very fast-paced style. From the installation procedure to the loading of heterogeneous data and the creation and manipulation of several visualization types, you will gain hands-on experience with this very powerful analytics tool.

Starting by introducing you to the platform and its architecture, this helpful guide will show you how to install a standalone working environment. You will then learn about data loading and visualization creation, using several graph types, and also journey through the features of filtering, data preparation, transformation, and layout definition. Finally, you will master library creation and deployment, as well as web player usage. With this book, you will become familiar with all the required functionalities and concepts to start working with the Spotfire technology.

What you will learn from this book

• Understand TIBCO Spotfire platform architecture and the main features of the individual products
• Set up a development environment on your machine
• Load data into the platform from multiple heterogeneous sources
• Create powerful visualizations such as bar chart, line chart, and pie chart
• Learn how to use filtering to drill down on specific visualization data
• Create libraries and access them in Spotfire Web Player

Approach

A fast-paced, step-by-step guide to creating, manipulating and deploying analytical visualizations using the TIBCO Spotfire Platform

Who this book is written for

If you are hoping to discover a fast and easy way to develop business intelligence apps with TIBCO Spotfire, this book is ideal for you. You are expected to know the basics of business intelligence, but no prior knowledge of TIBCO Spotfire is required.

Spotfire能夠透過更好的商業智能分析和視覺呈現，為您的組織提供競爭優勢，本書將向您展示如何實現。這是一個導覽，介紹了Spotfire的所有基本功能。

概述：
- 在您自己的桌面/筆記型電腦上安裝開發環境
- 提供許多逐步指導和屏幕截圖的實用指南，以便更快地理解概念和理論
- 學習創建多種可視化類型，包括：長條圖、餅圖、散點圖和箱形圖

詳細內容：
鑑於競爭的激烈程度和最近的經濟衰退，企業必須以最高效的方式提供最佳服務。分析幫助企業了解行為和模式，識別和減少浪費，並提供流程可見性。Spotfire是一個最新一代的分析儀表板，可以直觀地呈現相關數據，促進豐富的可視化和縮短分析時間。它不僅可以突出顯示和發現共同點和異常，還可以顯示關係，並在較短的時間內完成。

本書是對TIBCO Spotfire世界的介紹，以非常快節奏的方式介紹了平台的主要概念和功能。從安裝程序到加載異構數據，再到創建和操作多種可視化類型，您將親身體驗這個非常強大的分析工具。

本書首先介紹了平台及其架構，然後展示了如何安裝獨立的工作環境。接著，您將學習數據加載和可視化創建，使用多種圖形類型，並通過過濾、數據準備、轉換和佈局定義等功能進行探索。最後，您將掌握庫的創建和部署，以及Web Player的使用。通過本書，您將熟悉使用Spotfire技術所需的所有功能和概念。

本書的學習重點：
- 了解TIBCO Spotfire平台架構和各個產品的主要功能
- 在您的機器上設置開發環境
- 從多個異構來源將數據加載到平台
- 創建強大的可視化，如長條圖、折線圖和餅圖
- 學習如何使用過濾器深入研究特定可視化數據
- 創建庫並在Spotfire Web Player中訪問它們

這本書的寫作對象：
如果您希望以TIBCO Spotfire快速輕鬆地開發商業智能應用程序，這本書非常適合您。您需要了解商業智能的基礎知識，但不需要事先了解TIBCO Spotfire。