Introduction

Welcome to TIBCO Spotfire®!

TIBCO Spotfire makes it easy for you to access, analyze and create dynamic reports on your data. It delivers immediate value whether you are a market researcher, a sales representative, a scientist or a process engineer by letting you quickly identify trends and patterns in your critical business data.

Spotfire can access data in a number of places such as on your desktop or in a network file system. It can even access your data if it is located in remote databases, without you having to involve your IT department each time you wish to ask a new question.

Spotfire lets you filter your data interactively, and gives you answers instantly. It also lets you rapidly create clear and concise, yet sleek and colorful visualizations in the form of bar charts, cross tables, scatter plots and many more valuable tools that will help you respond to events that affect your business.

And finally, Spotfire lets you share your results. Static reports can be limiting to good business in this fast-paced world of data, and Spotfire allows you to create dynamic reports that help you to ask new questions, as well as be able to quickly turn your reports into instant presentations to show to your colleagues and customers.

Note: This user's manual contains information about all functionality that can be used within the Spotfire end user environment. If you do not have access to all licenses, some tools described in this help will be unavailable. For more information on how to get access to the full range of functionality, please visit the website http://support.spotfire.com/support.asp.