TIBCO Spotfire Advanced Data Services
We're going to finish this chapter with a look at TIBCO Spotfire Advanced Data Services, which is an on-demand data integration service that allows you to create aggregated and mashed-up views of business objects from multiple source applications and deliver those views directly to Spotfire users or via the information and library services on the Spotfire server. The resulting data views are well suited for self-service visual data discovery.
In addition to all the standard database connections and specialized data connectors supported by Spotfire, Advanced Data Services can also connect to database applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite, Salesforce.com, SAP BW, SAP ERP, and Siebel CRM, as well as other applications through web services APIs.
Data delivery
The Advanced Data Services platform supports multiple data delivery mechanisms: SQL (ODBC and JDBC), web services (HTTP, SOAP, and JSON), messaging (JMS), URIs, Java, and application APIs...