{"id":860,"date":"2015-06-11T17:55:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T22:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cognitiveinfo.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2015-06-11T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T22:55:25","slug":"spotfire-for-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"SpotFire for Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>SpotFire for Data Analytics<\/h2>\n<p>I recently completed a rollout for a major energy company using SpotFire for data analytics from multiple data sources.\u00a0 This is just a quick review of initial impressions.\u00a0\u00a0 My career in the corporate tower was short, but out of it came some great experience with a new tool in my data toolbox.\u00a0 You can download a free trial here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/spotfire.tibco.com\/\">http:\/\/spotfire.tibco.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Pro&#8217;s:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Development environment is very easy to learn<\/li>\n<li>Learning portal has lots of great videos to get you started<\/li>\n<li>Great choices of visualizations<\/li>\n<li>Marking &#8211; this is a great feature to allow web users to dynamically select and analyze data on the fly.<\/li>\n<li>Caching large amounts of data for responsive analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Con&#8217;s:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Data connection properties are not intuitive.\u00a0 If you make your connection wrong, you loose some functionality.<\/li>\n<li>Joining or unioning multiple data sources is tricky.\u00a0 I will have more on this in an upcoming article using multiple data sources.<\/li>\n<li>Scripting is required to extend the capabilities of any of the standard visualizations.<\/li>\n<li>I spent a lot of time getting data into just the right format to get a desired visualization.<\/li>\n<li>Does not play well with SSAS cube hierarchies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, this is a great addition that fits the middle ground above SSRS reporting and pure dashboarding tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a quick review of initial impressions of working with SpotFire for business analytics from multiple data sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bidw-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cognitiveinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}