Named user licensing

The named user product license works closely with feature licensing. This topic covers this relationship, and how you can understand it to make best use of your named-user licenses.

Named users of product licenses should follow this guide for understanding which license features they have access to.


License feature	Spotfire Analyst	Spotfire Business Author	Spotfire Consumer
Administrator	Allowed	Allowed	Allowed
Spotfire Advanced Analytics	Required	Required	Not Allowed
Spotfire Analyst	Required	Not Allowed	Not Allowed
Spotfire Business Author	Required	Required	Not Allowed
Spotfire Connectors	Allowed	Allowed	Allowed
Spotfire Consumer	Required	Required	Required
Spotfire Diagnostics	Allowed	Allowed	Allowed
Spotfire Enterprise Player	Required	Required	Required
Spotfire Extensions	Allowed	Allowed	Allowed
Spotfire Information Modeler	Allowed	Allowed	Allowed

Named users who need access to Spotfire Analyst functionality should belong to groups with the following licenses:

Spotfire Analyst
Spotfire Advanced Analytics
Spotfire Business Author
Spotfire Consumer
Spotfire Enterprise Player

Named users who need access to Spotfire Business Author functionality should belong to groups with the following licenses:

Spotfire Advanced Analytics
Spotfire Business Author
Spotfire Consumer
Spotfire Enterprise Player

Named users who need access to Spotfire Consumer functionality should belong to groups with the following licenses:

Spotfire Consumer
Spotfire Enterprise Player

Note: A named user is counted as a license used, regardless of whether that user ever logs into Spotfire.

The features included with the Spotfire Business Author and Spotfire Consumer product license are a subset of the features included with the Spotfire Analyst product license. That is, a user with a named-user product license for Spotfire Analyst can also use all features provided in Spotfire Business Author and Spotfire Consumer. However, the reverse is not true: Users with only Spotfire Business Author named-user licenses cannot use the features specified only for the Spotfire Analyst license.

Ensuring compliance

Spotfire administrators are responsible for ensuring that the number of named users with access to Analyst, Business Author, and Consumer functionality is not larger than the contract allows.

Note: "System users", such as an account used for automated testing or similar, are counted as any other named user. However, Spotfire's internal system users such as automationservices@SPOTFIRESYSTEM are not counted as named users.