An overview of Spotfire Business Author (new with Version 6.5)

Spotfire Business Author is an enhanced version of the web player that allows web users to make changes to visualizations and create new visualizations through a web browser. The functionality is not as extensive as it is in the professional client, but it does open up a more enterprise-friendly approach to report building.

This implementation is served from the standard Spotfire web player server, and it is made available to users through a new license called TIBCO Spotfire Business Author. If this license is assigned to the finance department group and a member of that group reopens the Baseball Example file in the web player, he or she will see a slightly different interface.

There is now an Edit button alongside the other icons in the top right-hand corner. If you click on this button, you get access to the properties of visualizations in the analysis and acquire the ability to create a limited number of new visualizations...