An overview of Spotfire Consumer (formerly web player)

The web player is the standard platform to deliver Spotfire analyses to a wider audience. An analysis author can, in principle, share analyses with others using just the professional client and enterprise player, but it's not a very efficient delivery mechanism for a large audience.

The Spotfire web player server is installed in Microsoft IIS and is linked to the Spotfire server for user authentication purposes and, critically, for access to the Spotfire library. Analysts working with a professional client can save their analysis files to the library, where they can be controlled by a combination of user/group administration and library administration, and then served to consumers through the web player.

To access the web player, a user needs to open a standard web browser, enter the URL for the Spotfire web player, log in, navigate the library, and open the analysis file of interest. The standard URL for the web player is http://<server...