Real-time messaging and data integration company Tibco Software Inc. announced a broad range of enhancements to its analytics offerings, including new data manipulation features in Tibco Spotfire, new code-free operational intelligence dashboards in Tibco LiveView Web, a new user-inspired developer community and component exchange, and a new acceleration package for Apache Spark and the Internet of things (IoT). The company is also getting into the graph database market.

Tibco has been a bit quiet since it was bought out by Vista Equity Partners for $4.3 billion in 2014, but the company still has a massive presence with large enterprises that use its messaging products to integrate data from multiple sources. With the analytics craze in full swing, the company is using its annual user conference in Las Vegas this week to rekindle interest.

Tibco Spotfire has integrated new self-service data preparation, management, and utilization functionality to further extend the platform’s dynamic analytics capabilities. It provides a code-free interface to access, manipulate, edit and catalog different data sources in an agile programming style. A new inline data preparation functional is said to require no third-party coordination for data preparation. The platform is DevOps and cloud-ready, with re-configured routing and administrative functions and a re-architected HTML5-based client.

Tibco’s open source Accelerator package cuts development time for deploying Apache Spark-based analytics by automating some of the most tedious integration tasks. Accelerator for Spark includes five subsystems:

• Connector, a set of over 30 open source adapters for edge connection to IoT and enterprise data;
• Digester, a stream data preparation layer;
• Finder, predictive model discovery template based on Spotfire;
• Automator, a streaming analytics-based automation engine for Apache SparkML and H2O; and
• Tracker, to monitor predictive models and automatically invoke model retraining.

The free package is in the Tibco Community.

Tibco LiveView Web 1.1 is a code-free HTML5-based operational-intelligence dashboard development platform for use with the Tibco Live Datamart, which includes connectivity to Tibco’s Fast Data catalog. It enables applications to query streaming data continuously. Tibco LiveView Web 1.1 provides a drag-and-drop interface for the creation of live visual dashboards and includes integrated access to Tibco StreamBase streaming analytics, Tibco BusinessEvents, and a variety of both Tibco and third-party applications and systems. Users can also extend or customize dashboards through plug-ins or custom interfaces build in Java, .NET or JavaScript.

Tibco also launched a new developer community that provides peer support and documentation on a wiki. The new Tibco Component Exchange and Marketplace Network also features a free app store for components and products that are based on Tibco products, and a new product-management tool for customer feedback.

Tibco also announced Project Flogo, an ultra-lightweight integration software package, and Tibco Graph Database for big data.

The open-source Project Flogo is a design bot for IoT edge application development, with a tile-based, no-code environment for building and deploying integration and data processing directly onto connected devices. It features prepackaged building blocks for building applications, integration, data processing and microservices, as well as error handling, including an auto-step-back debugger. Tibco said Project Flogo’s installed footprint is up to 20 times smaller than that of Node.js and 50 times smaller than Java’s.

Tibco Graph Database combines transactional and analytics features – a technology that Forrester Research Inc. calls “translytical” – in a database that’s optimized for relationship modeling. All data in stored in what the company calls an “intelligent schema” that makes it easy to change and model relationships as graphs with nodes and edges. Join-free queries can be used to traverse complex relationships as datasets grow.

The community edition is available in beta test now in the Tibco Community. The open source client API is available on GitHub.

Image via Pixabay CC