TIBCO Spotfire is an artificial intelligence (AI)-based analytics platform. Before being acquired by TIBCO in 2007, Spotfire was a business intelligence company based in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Industry | Computer software |
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Products | Spotfire |
Website | spotfire |
History
editSpotfire was founded by Christopher Ahlberg and Ben Shneiderman to develop applications of dynamic queries in the early 1990s.
Ahlberg returned to Sweden and developed an enhanced UNIX implementation of his visual data analysis tool, the Information Visualization and Exploration Environment (IVEE).
Spotfire was launched in mid-1996 by IVEE Development, which was renamed Spotfire Inc.[1]
TIBCO bought the company in 2007 for $190 million.[2][3][4] In November 2011, TIBCO added business intelligence (BI) and analytics software Spotfire 4.0 with Microsoft SharePoint integration.[5]
As of 2018[update], the latest version is Spotfire X.[6][7] Spotfire X incorporates natural language query (NLQ) powered search, AI-driven recommendations, and model-based processing.[8]
Spotfire became a business unit of Cloud Software Group in 2023.[9][10]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Dynamic queries, starfield displays, and the path to Spotfire (By Ben Shneiderman, February 4, 1999, updated July 26, 2007) Accessed May 18, 2009
- ^ Alejandro Cremades. "Christopher Ahlberg On Selling His First Business For $190M And His Second One For $780M". Alejandro Cremades. Retrieved 2021-11-04.
- ^ TIBCO kauft Spotfire
- ^ Datta, Saheli S.R. (October 1, 2006). "Spotfire's predictive technology helps companies mine data". CNNMoney.com.
Spotfire, a Business-intelligence software company based in Somerville
- ^ "Tibco launches Spotfire 4.0 with Microsoft SharePoint integration | V3". v3.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
- ^ Inc., TIBCO Software. "TIBCO Announces the AI-Powered A(X) Experience for Spotfire". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
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has generic name (help) - ^ Spotfire X
- ^ "TIBCO Unveils Unprecedented Analytics with Spotfire X and the A(X) Experience".
- ^ Banks, Martin (June 15, 2023). "Cloud Software Group explained, with TIBCO and Citrix still very much in enterprise line of sight". Diginomica.
So what is Cloud Software Group? While being a conglomerate, the parent company of both TIBCO and Citrix, it's more than that. Many of the major product groups within those two – such as TIBCO's Spotfire and NetScaler from Citrix, are now developed into distinct business units, of which there are now eight in total.
- ^ Chambers, Alice (April 5, 2024). "Cloud Software Group invests $1.65 billion in Microsoft Azure and AI capabilities". Technology Record.
Spotfire, a Cloud Software Group business unit, is using the Azure OpenAI service to power its new Spotfire Copilot