Spotfire® Server and Environment - Installation and Administration

License models

This article covers information about the license models under which Spotfire is commercially licensed.

Current license model

In the current license model, Spotfire is commercially licensed with the new product licenses (such as Spotfire® Enterprise, Spotfire® Data Science, and Spotfire® Analytics).

For details about the current license model, see Spotfire license information.

Old license models

You might be on a contract with an older license model, with the old product licenses (such as Spotfire® Analyst, Spotfire® Business Author, Spotfire® Consumer). The following sections describes these license models.

Product license model Description
Named-user Identified users. Applies to Spotfire product licenses which include the right to use a certain set of license features.
Capacity The environment's capacity, such as the number of processors.
Legacy Named users plus the number of instances.

Named-user license model

Named users are identified by the Spotfire administrator and granted licenses appropriate for their roles in the organization. This license model is used when you know the users but not the system's capacity needed to support them.

Spotfire products that always use the named-user model:

  • Spotfire Analyst
  • Spotfire Business Author

Spotfire products that can use either the named-user model or the capacity model:

  • Spotfire Automation Services
  • Spotfire Consumer
  • Spotfire Server (including the data function services: Spotfire® Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edition (a/k/a the TERR™ service), the Spotfire Service for R, and the Spotfire Service for Python)
  • Spotfire Statistics Services
  • Advanced Data Services (See TIBCO® Data Virtualization, now sold under a separate license; used with Spotfire only as the destination of data.)

Named user licenses work closely with license features. For more information about this relationship, see Named user licensing (Old license model).

Capacity license model

The environment's capacity (for example, the number of processors that the services run on) or number of instances determines the number of users that can use a product or the system concurrently. Individual names are not required. For more information about calculating capacity for compliance under this model, see Capacity licensing (Old license model).

Spotfire products that can use the capacity model:

  • Spotfire Automation Services
  • Spotfire Consumer1
  • Spotfire Server (including the Spotfire® Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edition (a/k/a the TERR™ service), Spotfire Service for R, and Spotfire Service for Python)
  • Spotfire Statistics Services
  • Spotfire Advanced Data Services (See TIBCO® Data Virtualization, now sold under a separate license; used with Spotfire only as the destination of data.)
Note: The TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services server is discontinued and will no longer be updated. You can continue to use it but no bug fixes or security patches will be provided, and it will eventually be removed. Instead, use the specific services for the data function language of interest to run data functions. See the Migration Guide for more information.
Note: For anonymous authentication, the Capacity model is used, with one or more named Spotfire Analyst or Spotfire Business Author named-user licenses added. Alternatively, customers can set up a Spotfire environment licensed by a named user (for authoring).

Legacy license model

This historic model combines named users and the number of server instances. For more information about calculating instances for compliance under this model, see Legacy licensing (Old license model).

1 If Spotfire Consumer is licensed by processor, then Spotfire Server, Spotfire Automation Services, and Spotfire Statistics Services must also be licensed by processor.