Spotfire keeps spreading

Spotfire has released TIBCO Spotfire 2.1, which, the company says, is designed to help customers and partners more easily create highly visual, interactive and extremely fast business mashups adapted to their needs. This latest release also includes new application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable richer analytic and pervasive business intelligence (BI) application development.

The business mashup capabilities in Spotfire 2.1 merge Web 2.0 and BI into business applications that solve specific business problems. Spotfire 2.1 brings the interactive, visual nature of Web 2.0 applications to enterprise users, allowing subject matter experts to leverage standard interfaces and BI data to create user experiences--from rich analytic applications for a particular business problem to dashboards and reports--that are engineered to facilitate insights and prompt better business decisions. This type of speed and flexibility is difficult to achieve quickly with traditional BI solutions.

Further, the company says, Spotfire 2.1 offers enhanced set APIs to allow partners and customers to build analytics applications for any business process, making it easier for companies to create a seamlessly integrated user experience, by customizing the user interface and even developing new data visualizations for the TIBCO Spotfire Web Player.

Additional security improvements provide better integration to existing infrastructure for internal and external use over the Web, according to TIBCO.