Statistics services

With TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services, technical & business professionals have more confidence in their decisions by using the latest predictive analytics available in S+ and R without requiring expertise in statistics software.

Statisticans/quants can build their models in S+ and/or R and centrally deploy them on the Spotfire Statistics Services. TIBCO Spotfire users, using Professional, Web Player or Enterprise Player, can then simply access the library of models residing in the Statistics Services and can employ them in their analyses. Computation occurs on the server, allowing for a single, powerful computational engine serving many clients.

Organisations increase efficiency by giving decision makers self-service access to easy-to-interpret analytic results through Spotfire applications, while scarce statistical resources deploy and control access to a centralized repository of R and S+ functions, ensuring only the most statistically valid analytic methods are used.

The link between R/S+/Miner and Spotfire

New Features:

Cluster Management: Easily expand your analytic bandwidth by dynamically adding new nodes to your cluster, ensuring the availability, reliability, and scalability of your computational services. Queues and distributes analytics requests across the available servers in the cluster.

Remote Script Execution: Write, test and debug scripts, then remotely execute them on Statistics Services using an interface in the Workbench or by using new API functions directly in your code. This enables you to offload computationally intensive scripts to the Server, or to analyze data accessible only on the server.

Notification: Through the new Notification API, asynchronously notify clients of job completion, allowing clients to more reliably and efficiently track job status.

Integration Enhancements

API Enhancements: The Java and C# APIs have been unified, making cross-platform application development easier.

C# and Java Application Integration Tutorials: New tutorials published on the Spotfire Technology Network provide a guided, step-by-step approach for creating applications with Statistics Services, making it easier to integrate computational analytics into your applications.

Administration Enhancements

Easier Installation: One-click, zero-configuration install minimizes installation effort and simplifies expansion of your cluster.

System Monitoring: JMX–enabled remote server monitoring and configuration

Centralized Job Management: A centralized job queue with administrative views makes it easy to track job status on a single system or across a cluster.

Scheduled Maintenance Services: Configurable services routinely clean the job queue, reducing the effort to maintain your system.

Execution of S+ and R programming language scripts on systems designed for compute-intensive tasks (ideal replacement for home-grown management of R clusters and grids) 

Seamless integration with Spotfire Professional, Enterprise and Web clients

Rich APIs for integration into other business applications through Java, .NET and simple HTTP web services (XML and JSON); backwards-compatibility for applications built on Statistics Services 8.1

Scales from standalone servers to large clusters for load balancing and failover

Scriptable installation/deployment of new cluster nodes

Centralised S+ and R package repositories for uptime deployment of new analytic methods to all cluster nodes 

Zero-configuration installation makes it easy to get started

Oracle and MS SQL Server support for enterprise-scale job management
Schedule your R/S+ scripts or Miner workflows to analyse data, create graphics & produce reports at a particular time of the day.