The platform is composed of several intercommunicating components, each one with its own responsibilities (with clear separation of concerns) enabling a clustered deployment. As this is an introductory book, we will not dive deep into all the components, but we will identify the main ones and the underlying architecture.
A depiction the platform's components is shown in the following diagram:
The descriptions of each of the components in the preceding diagram are as follows:
- TIBCO Spotfire Server: The Spotfire server makes a set of services available to the analytics clients (TIBCO Spotfire Professional and TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Server):
- User services: It is responsible for authentication and authorization
- Deployment services: It handles the consistent upgrade of Spotfire clients
- Library services: It manages the repository of analysis files
- Information services: It persists information links to external data sources
The Server component is available for several operating systems, such as Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
- TIBCO Spotfire Professional: This is a client application (fat client) that focuses on the creation of data visualizations, taking advantage of all of the platform's features. This is the main client application, and because of that, it has enabled all the data manipulation functionalities such as use of data filters, drill down, working online and offline (working offline allows embedding data in the visualizations for use in limited connectivity environments), and exporting visualizations to MS PowerPoint, PDF, and HTML. It is only available for Windows environment.
- TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Server: This offers users the possibility of accessing and interacting with visualizations created in TIBCO Spotfire Professional. The existence of this web application enables the usage of an Internet browser as a client, allowing for thin client access where no software has to be installed on the user's machine. Please be aware that the visualizations cannot be created or altered this way. They can only be accessed in a read-only mode, where all rules are enabled, as well as data is drill down. Since it is developed in ASP.NET, this server must be deployed in a Microsoft IIS server, and so it is restricted to Microsoft Windows environments.
- Server Database: This database is accessed by the TIBCO Spotfire Server for storage of server information. It should not be confused with the data stores that the platform can access to fetch data from, and build visualizations. Only two vendor databases are supported for this role: Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server.
- TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Client: These are thin clients to the Web Player Server. Several Internet browsers can be used on various operating systems (Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows, Mozilla Firefox on Windows and Mac OS, Google Chrome on Windows and Android, and so on). TIBCO has also made available an application for iPad, which is available in iTunes.
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For more details on the iPad client application, please navigate to: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/spotfire-analytics/id417436823?mt=8
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