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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\t\t\n\t\tIt\u2019s understandable that heavy Spotfire users want to install the latest and greatest version of Spotfire<\/a> right away. However, before we continue, I do think it\u2019s fair to warn a bit here. TIBCO supports Spotfire\u2019s normal (MS or mainstream) versions only for a few months, whereafter you need to upgrade to a newer version as soon as it arrives. For companies that cannot update every two months (due to their size or just lack of support reps), I would recommend following the Long Time Support (LTS) path<\/strong>. These versions will be supported for a long time until a year after the next LTS is released. So make sure to be aware of this when planning your update!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Okay, so let\u2019s quickly get back to all the new Spotfire functionalities. What\u2019s new? Well.. a lot! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n First of all, many new database connections were either added or improved. Let\u2019s take a quick look at these new connectors:<\/span><\/p>\n With Spotfire X, TIBCO introduced streaming analytics<\/a>. Personally I was very enthusiastic about this new feature, but soon I found out that there were some functional flaws in using streaming data. For example, data wrangling on streaming had its limits, like concatenating strings. Apparently there were more flaws and some of them were mitigated in Spotfire 10.7. This eventually made sure we can now concatenate strings and calculate the GreatCircleDistance on data streaming into Spotfire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, in my opinion, the best improvement for me came with version 10.6. This version enabled streaming data in the Spotfire Web Client. Additionally, this version brought a very simple alerting function as well, that allowed setting a threshold and trigger actions to perform when the threshold is met.<\/span><\/p>\n And last but not least, version 10.8 introduced automatic reconnection to streaming data, which was a pain before. When the connection got lost, there was no way to reconnect other than to close the analysis and open it again.<\/span><\/p>\n Working with map analyses always brought up a lot of internal conflicts for me personally. A specific frustration that comes to mind is the auto-zoom function. I love auto-zoom, but let\u2019s be honest, the auto-zoom was very rigid. Once zoomed in there was no way for a user to zoom out or pan to another part of the map. But now, together with some other improvements on geo-analytics, this issue was solved in Spotfire 10.7!<\/span><\/p>\n Two important changes have been implemented in page navigation since Spotfire 10.7. First of all, you can now hide a page for end-users. I always have a page with notes (about things to do, how-to\u2019s for colleagues, etc.) that I need to delete in production, or in smaller work-in-progress pages that I don\u2019t want users to see yet. A simple right-click and \u201chide\u201d does the trick now. Secondly, there is a change in page navigation for more guided analysis types of solutions. You can now fully disable page navigation so that you can decide how the user navigates through the application by creating buttons or actions on KPI charts.<\/span><\/p>\n Apart from the choice for LTS or MS there is one more thing you need to know before upgrading to Spotfire 10.3 or later. 10.3 introduced a new way of trusting scripts and data functions by authorized users. Read more about this item <\/span>here.<\/span><\/a> To round off, there are way more new functionalities besides the ones I covered in this article. If you want more information on all the \u201cWhat\u2019s New\u201ds on TIBCO Spotfire I suggest you visit the <\/span>TIBCO site.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Want to learn more about Tibco’s Spotfire and the value it can bring your organization’s decision-making processes through insight? Spotfire gives you dashboards on your data that show insights, predict the future, and are real-time.<\/p>\n![\"Spotfire](\"https:\/\/devoteam.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Spotfire.png\")
<\/p>\nSpotfire provides new database connectors<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Spotfire Improved on Streaming Analytics<\/b><\/h2>\n
Improvements on Geo-analytics<\/b><\/h2>\n
Spotfire conveniently changed Page Navigation<\/b><\/h2>\n
Before you upgrade\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
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