Connectors are used to set up data connections. The connectors can be seen as adapters which can translate data queries between Spotfire and an external system. Which connectors you have access to depends on several different things:
What licenses the groups you belong to have been granted access to by the Spotfire administrator.
Whether or not your computer has the required drivers for a certain connector. See the system requirements at http://support.spotfire.com/sr.asp for details.
Spotfire Professional comes with the following connectors automatically:
Your company may also have deployed additional connectors on the server that are not embedded in the standard Spotfire distribution. If your connector is not listed below, the help for these products will be available under Help > Additional Help Topics:
See also:
What is a Connection Data Source?