whats new in spotfire 4.0
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What’s New in Spotfire 4.0
Spotfire Product Management
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INFORMATION AT A GLANCE
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Dynamic Values
WhatDynamically display single
values in text areas that
responds to filtering and
parameter changes.
WhyLook at the most important
numbers first before diving
into more details.
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Conditional Icons
What
Dynamically calculated
conditional icons that respond
to filtering and parameter
changes.
Why
Indicate change, comparisons
to targets and highlight
important events.
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Sparklines
What
Dynamically calculated
sparklines that respond to
filtering and parameter
changes.
Why
Show at a glance and when
drilling in whether a metric is
trending down, up or varies a
lot.
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Graphical Summary Tables
What
Dynamic values, conditional
icons and sparklines in one
compact table broken down by
some category.
Why
Visually show everything you
need to know on a single
screen.
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LOOK AND FEEL
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All new graphical profile
What
New style for Spotfire visualizations and pages. Fewer lines and frames. Toolbars moved out of the way. Larger visualization titles.
Why
Improves the look and feel of the page and puts the data in focus. Easier to blend in with portal pages and other applications.
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Pop-over over filter panel
What
New pop-over panel mode for
the filter panel as an
alternative to docking
Why
Use space on the screen more
efficiently by not showing the
filter panel when it’s not
needed.
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Pop-over legend
What
New pop-over mode for the
legend as alternative to
docking
Why
Use space on the screen more
efficiently by not showing the
legend for a visualization when
it’s not needed.
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Individual control over axis label
visibility
What
Individual control over axis
label visibility
Why
Save space by hiding one axis
label if the intepretation is
obvious without having to hide
all axis labels.
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More control over legend contents and
placement
What
Turn on and off axis selectors
and title for individual legend
items. Dock legend left or
right.
Why
Use space on the screen more
efficiently by only showing
what’s necessary in the
legend.
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Fixed Size Layout
What
Constrain the visualization area to a specific height and width and use scrollbars or whitespace outside the visualizations to adapt to different screensizes.
Why
Create optimized Spotfire dashboards and applications for specific devices and screen resolutions.
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Mix filters and controls on the page
What
Freely mix and match filters with other controls and dynamic value displays.
Why
Keep filters and controls together to make them easier to find for the user. Expose only the filters that are relevant and put them in an understandable context for the dashboard user.
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Nicer looking tables
What
Cleaner and more display
friendly tables without heavy
headers. Scrollbars only show
up when needed.
Why
Clean display with the data in
focus.
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Combine different slices of data on the
same page
What
Limit each visualization to any
combination of markings,
filtering schemes and
conditional expressions.
What
Show everything related to a
single topic on one page
regardless of if it requires
different slices of the data.
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Toolbars and Information
What
Toolbars and information
about the analysis has moved
to separate dialogs
Why
Focus on the data instead of
on controls when they are not
needed. Less technical for the
end user.
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NAVIGATION AND INTERACTION
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Actions
What
Add actions to icons and
sparklines that moves to a
different page, applies a
bookmark or execute a script.
What
Drill down or navigate to more
details by clicking on an icon or
sparkline in a graphical
summary tables.
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Page History Navigation
What
Single click to move backwards
and forwards in the page
history.
Why
Allow the user to go back to
where they came from.
Especially important when
detailed info are shown on a
different page and you want to
get back to the overview.
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Embed interactive controls
What
All new summary visualizations support expressions and properties that respond to user controls.
Why
Create one parameterized dashboard and give the user control over what to see instead of creating a hundred dashboards for different user needs.
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BUILDING DASHBOARDS
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Preserve Information when Switching
Visualizations
What
As much information as
possible is carried over when
switching from one
visualization to another.
Why
Saves time when changing a
visualization type after you’ve
already done some
configuration.
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Change all fonts in one place
What
Apply a font or size change to
all visualizations in the entire
analysis.
Why
Saves time.
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Easier access to toggling visualization
features
What
Turn on and off visualization
features from a right click
menu inside the visualization.
Why
Improves ease of use since its
possible to reach this
functionality even when the
title bar is hidden.
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More predefined categorical coloring
schemes
What
4 pre-defined categorical
coloring schemes.
Why
Easy to chose between a few
categorical color schemes that
look good and are readable.
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Manage Document Color Schemes
What
Possible to delete and rename
document color schemes.
Why
Easier to work when you have
many document color schemes
to keep track of.
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Better Defaults when creating
visualizations
WhatDate is used as the default column on the x-axis of a line chart if one exists. Row count is used as the default column for bar charts.
Why
Faster to get to a suitable visualization that can be modified. Easier to understand what the visualizations shows if the default visualization makes sense.
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Toggle auto column additions off
What
Option to control whether new
calculated or added columns
should automatically show up
in the table visualization or
not.
Why
No surprising changes after
deciding that the dashboard
looks just right.
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Analysis Previews
What
Analysis preview images are
available when browsing for
analysis in Spotfire
Professional or Enterprise
Player.
Why
Easier to find a specific
analysis.
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Control over table header font
WhatFonts can be set independently for table headers and section headers
WhyDashboard designers can chose the header style that looks the best and is most readable in a given situation.
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COLLABORATION
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Share with TIBBR
What
Right click on any visualization
or page and share the view on
tibbr with a link back to the
analysis
Why
Easy sharing of insights and
findings.
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Add tibbr discussions to the analysis
What
Integrated tibbr discussions
right in the analysis filtered to
a particular subject.
Why
Discuss insights and findings
with collegues directly in the
analysis. Subscribe and get
notified when someone posts
a comment on an analysis you
are interested in.
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Embed dashboards in other web pages
What
One click access to HTML fragments that displays a Spotfire page that can be pasted directly into portals and other web pages.
Why
Put a link to the analysis in your corporate blog or wiki. Integrate Spotfire analysis displays into SharePoint WebPart and other portals.
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OTHER ENHANCEMENTS
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Export Footer
What
Include a footer when
exporting or printing pages.
Why
Make it clear where the
printout came from or indicate
to the reader that the contents
is confidential.
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Stepped Linecharts
What
Draw stepped linecharts that
only shows a change in value
at the exact point where the
value changed.
Why
Better representation of
discrete data that avoids
misleading the user by
interpolating values in
between data points.
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Automation Services 4.0
What
New task added to remap Information Services catalogs and schemas during an automated Library import.
Why
Allow for the automation of migrating a Spotfire Information Model from a test to production environment in instances when the test and production instances of the data source are in different database catalogs or schemas.
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENT CHANGES
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TIBCO Spotfire 4.0
• Require Microsoft .Net 4.0
– Old extension written with Microsoft .Net 2.0 will
continue to work without re-compilation
• Drop support for Internet Explorer 6
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TIBCO Spotfire Web Player 4.0
• Server
– Drop Support for Windows Server 2003
– Require Microsoft .Net 4.0
• Note: Old extensions written with Microsoft .Net 2.0
will continue to work without re-compilation
• Client
– Drop Support for Internet Explorer 6
– Latest versions of Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
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TIBCO Spotfire Lead Discovery 4.0
• Base Requirements
– Microsoft .Net 4.0
– Microsoft .Net 2.0 (if chemistry component requires it)
• Renderers
– Drop Support for Accelrys Draw 3.0 and 3.1
• Editors
– Add support for editing substructures in 64 bit environments
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