License models

Spotfire is available under one or more of the product license models. The product license model (license model) describes how, or to what extent, you intend to use the product license, as described in the following table.


Product License model	Description
Named-user	Identified users. Applies to Spotfire product licenses, such as Spotfire Analyst, which, in turn have applied license features.
Capacity	The environment's capacity, such as the number of processors.
Legacy	Named users plus the number of instances. This older model is no longer offered.

Named user

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.

Capacity

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.

Spotfire products that can use the capacity model:

Spotfire Automation Services
Spotfire Consumer¹
Spotfire Server (including 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: For this Spotfire release, the 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.

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

This historic model combines named users and the number of server instances. Only license renewals of an existing contract fall under this model. For more information about calculating instances for compliance under this model, see Legacy licensing.

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