The access your analysts and consumers have to Spotfire is determined by a combination of licensing of features, product licenses, product license models, and license types.

License features are used to provide product functionality to users, such as the ability to run advanced analytics or to edit data sources for information links. License features are granted by the server administrator to groups of users. Planning for feature access and the licenses needed is covered extensively in Groups and license features. This section discusses product licenses and license models, and how those licenses work with license features. It also covers the environment license types: production and non-production.

Commercially, Spotfire is licensed by using product licenses. (The license features assigned to a group can determine which product license a user must be granted and vice versa.) A product license assigns the right to use a certain set of capabilities and features in Spotfire, rather than the use of a specific "out-of-the-box" application.

As an administrator of the Spotfire system you are responsible for assigning license features to user groups so that your company's use of Spotfire complies with the product licenses defined in the commercial agreement.

For the product license level, the following general capabilities apply, largely corresponding to license features described in License feature reference.