TIBCO Announces Key Analytics Advances in 2016

LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - May 18, 2016) - TIBCO NOW -- TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration and analytics, today announced a host of pivotal developments in its analytics offerings, including new data wrangling features in TIBCO Spotfire^®, new code-free Operational Intelligence dashboards in TIBCO LiveView™, a new user-inspired developer community and component exchange, and a new Accelerator package for Apache Spark and the IoT. These advances, along with improved embedded business intelligence (BI) support in TIBCO Jaspersoft^® and a host of industry awards, signify both TIBCO's unstoppable analytics momentum and its commitment to helping businesses successfully navigate their transformation into digital enterprises. TIBCO's focus is on leveraging analytics for augmented intelligence -- the ability to amplify human skill and experience to discover new insights, then productively share those insights across the enterprise in the shortest amount of time possible.

"Some in the industry would lead you to believe that computers are going to replace people. We think that's dead wrong," said Mark Palmer, SVP and general manager of analytics engineering, TIBCO. "Computers should serve to augment human experience and intellect. At TIBCO, we focus our industry-leading visual, advanced, embedded and, streaming analytics solutions on delivering a pragmatic approach to cognitive computing, which we achieve by combining enhanced intelligence features with algorithmic automation capabilities. This combination encapsulates the essence of our Fast Data analytics platform -- it balances human insight with intelligent technologies for superior productivity and a competitive advantage in end users' respective markets."

TIBCO's four major analytics developments this year are:

New Built-in Data Wrangling and Preparation in the Spotfire^® Cloud-Scale Enterprise Architecture
TIBCO Spotfire has integrated new self-service data preparation, management, and utilization functionality to further extend the platform's dynamic analytics capabilities. It provides a code-free interface for business analysts, data scientists, data stewards, and analytics leaders in IT to access, manipulate, improve, and catalog different data sources in an agile and trusted way. Unlike other analytics platforms, the inline datawrangling functionality in Spotfire is built-in, so it requires no third-party coordination for data preparation. The Spotfire 2016 platform is DevOps and cloud-ready, with re-configured routing and administrative functions and a re-architected HTML5-based client to scale on all devices, anywhere, including the new Spotfire client for iOS and new advanced geo-analytics applications.