TIBCO Spotfire Is the leading “Current Offering” in Agile Business Intelligence

In an announcement on Monday TIBCO Software Inc. presented the strong performance of its analytics and data discovery platform,TIBCO Spotfire®, in the The Forrester Wave: Agile Business Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2014 report. Among the 16 others featured in the report Spotfire® ranked first in “Current Offering” and “Agile BI – Clicks to Answer”.

Forrester Research rated the current product offerings included in the report based on there performance regarding 15 criteria. They also supplied a data set, that was used as a test ground for these programs,in order to compare how effective users were able to work with each of them. According to the research company, Agile BI is a “key element in the business agility equation.”

Another one of TIBCO’s products, the recently aquired open-source solution Jaspersoft, which is a highly acclaimed open-source solution for embedded Bi and reporting, also scored as a “Strong Performer”.

“I believe that attaining the highest current offering score of all vendors in the Agile BI report underscores the value Spotfire provides to organizations who need real-time answers from their data,” reflects Lars Bauerle, VP Product Strategy for Spotfire, TIBCO. “Spotfire has consistently received high ratings from customers and independent research firms, and we are proud to be a leader in Forrester’s research. I feel that this achievement reflects our passion for delivering easy-to-use, yet powerful, self-service analytics, that enables others to make fast, data-driven decisions.”