TIBCO Spotfire is an artificial intelligence (AI)-based analytics platform. Before being acquired by
TIBCO in 2007, Spotfire was a
business intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis and management of business information. Common functions of business intelligence technologies include reporting, online analytical pr ...
company based in
Somerville, Massachusetts
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.
History
Spotfire was founded by
Christopher Ahlberg
Christopher Ahlberg, born 1968, is a Swedish/American computer scientist and executive. Ahlberg is the co-founder and CEO of Recorded Future, as well as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Hult International Business School.
Career
Before co-foundi ...
and
Ben Shneiderman to develop applications of dynamic queries in the early 1990s.
Ahlberg returned to Sweden and developed an enhanced
UNIX
Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and ot ...
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.
TIBCO bought the company in 2007 for $190 million. In November 2011, TIBCO added business intelligence (BI) and analytics software Spotfire 4.0 with
Microsoft SharePoint
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integration.
, the latest version is Spotfire X. Spotfire X incorporates natural language query (NLQ) powered search, AI-driven recommendations, and model-based processing.
See also
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Business intelligence software Business intelligence software is a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze, transform and report data for business intelligence. The applications generally read data that has been previously stored, often - though not necessaril ...
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Artificial intelligence
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Data science
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Machine learning
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Machine ...
References
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External links
Spotfire Overview
Business intelligence companies
Data visualization software