Spotfire Server introduction

Spotfire Server is the administrative center of any Spotfire environment.

In addition to providing the tools for configuring and administering the Spotfire environment, Spotfire Server facilitates the services that make it possible for users to access, blend, and visualize their data, creating analyses that provide actionable insight. The server also enables sharing of the prepared analyses to consumers.

Spotfire Server has the following main functional areas and responsibilities:


Functional area	Function
Library services	Provides centralized storage of Spotfire analysis files and metadata. The library items reside in the Spotfire database.
User services	Provides user authentication and role-based authorization.
Audit services	Provides centralized collection of action logs.
Deployment services	Delivers client product upgrades.
Information Services	Provides a centralized point of data access and metadata management for relational data sources. The following functions are provided by Information Services: Information links, which provide one way to access external data sources. (See also Accessing Data from External Data Sources in the Spotfire Analyst User Guide for more data access options.) Network input/output (I/O).
Client connections and routing services	Provides access points for all client connections. Routes clients (end users, scheduled jobs and Automation Services jobs) to the appropriate service instance, based on the default routing or configured routing rules. Continually gathers information about the state of all service instances.