Spotfire Brings Web Functionality To Analytics PlatformSpotfire Brings Web Functionality To Analytics Platform

Spotfire, Inc., a vendor of visual analytics for business decision-making, has introduced DecisionSite 8.1, the latest version of its visual data analytics platform.

The company also has extended its client base in the life sciences market with two multi-million dollar enterprise license agreements with top 10 pharmaceutical companies.

DecisionSite is the analytics platform standard for eight of the world's top 10 pharmaceutical research companies.

The product's new version allows for wider use of DecisionSite across the R&D organization due to faster, more flexible data access; enhanced data analysis features, expanded results-sharing capabilities, and improved security and administration.

Spotfire is introducing new Web functionality for wider sharing of analysis results, and allows researchers to share results - from gene expression dendograms to drug safety signal detection - in one online application that now supports heat maps, bar charts, pie charts, trellising and text search.

New visualizations allow for better data analysis for those users who want to employ curve fitting and heat maps. When scientists are looking at millions of compounds in a high-throughput screening process, the ability to weed out bad compounds quickly is essential. Scientists can view and interactively manipulate hundreds of curves at once, and determine compound behaviors at a glance.

With DecisionSite 8.1 pivoting data is faster, and users can re-use stored procedures for advanced query and for database write back. A new work bench has been added to allow mapping of stored procedures for data retrieval or for Action links that perform database actions without retrieving data.