Spotfire® Server and Environment - Installation and Administration

Named user licensing (Old license model)

The named-user license model 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.

Note: A named user is counted as a license used, regardless of whether that user ever logs into Spotfire.
Legacy product licenses
  • Spotfire Analyst is the most feature-rich of the legacy product licenses.
  • The features included with the Spotfire Business Author license are a subset of the features included in the Spotfire Analyst license.
  • The features included with the Spotfire Consumer license are a subset of the features included in the Spotfire Business Author license.

Ensuring compliance

Spotfire administrators are responsible for ensuring that the number of named users that are assigned a certain product license is not larger than the contract allows.

As outlined in the license terms, to ensure compliance with your subscription, you are obliged to provide metrics about your Spotfire environment to Spotfire at certain times. For information about how to a report with the required metrics, see Deployment report.

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.