TIBCO Spotfire Developer
TIBCO Spotfire Developer enables your organization to turn the TIBCO Spotfire analytics platform into a fully customized application, integrated with your unique business process and needs.
The TIBCO Spotfire platform has a complete set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for not only configuring and automating the platform, but extending it with entirely new capabilities as well. The APIs are used to create custom TIBCO Spotfire Extensions. Extensions are compiled, licensable code packages that, from the end users perspective, are virtually indistinguishable from the core TIBCO Spotfire product.
TIBCO Spotfire Extension types that developers can create include:
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Data Reader
Import data from custom file, database, and web services data sources
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Data Writer
Export data to custom file, database, and web services data sources
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Calculation
Add custom aggregation, expression function, and statistical methods that automatically re-execute on data update events
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Dialog Tool
Prompt users for input into custom application and document-level automation jobs
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Control Panel
Collect user input from and display feedback to an always available custom control panel
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Visualization Panel
Display custom charts, plots and other forms of presentation based on the current set of filtered and marked data
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Automation Interface
Send and receive properties, events, and commands to and from an external application
TIBCO Spotfire Developer gives you access to the TIBCO Spotfire Software Development Kit (SDK), which includes:
- Assemblies necessary to compile and debug custom extensions in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
- A full set of example code, written in Microsoft's C#, that demonstrates each of the extension types that can be built and shows you how to use the API for your own custom automation and integration projects
- The TIBCO Spotfire Package Builder that is used to prepare your custom extensions for automatic distribution through the Spotfire Analytic Server's Deployment Services mechanism
The Spotfire Technology Network is a freely available resource that provides a wealth of information for developers and technologists on how to begin using and take full advantage of the TIBCO Spotfire SDK and API to adapt the TIBCO Spotfire analytics platform to their business.
