software website spotfire.tibco.com spotfire was a business intelligence company based in somerville massachusetts . it was bought by tibco in 2007 . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit spotfire s origins trace back to the university of maryland human computer interaction lab at the university of maryland college park where a visiting student from sweden in the early 1991s christopher ahlberg worked with ben shneiderman to develop applications of dynamic queries . ahlberg returned to sweden and developed an enhanced unix implementation of his visual data analysis tool the information visualization and exploration environment ivee . spotfire was launched in mid 1996 by ivee development which was renamed spotfire inc. 1 on may 2 2007 it was announced that tibco would buy the company . 2 3 see also edit business intelligence tools visual analytics tibco spotfire partners references edit tibco spotfire versions release in spanish http www.xcelarsolutions.com tibco spotfire libera el poder de su informacion dynamic queries starfield displays and the path to spotfire by ben shneiderman february 4 1999 updated july 26 2007 accessed may 18 2009 tibco kauft spotfire datta saheli s.r. october 1 2006 . spotfire s predictive technology helps companies mine data . cnnmoney.com . spotfire a business intelligence software company based in somerville external links edit official website platform overview retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title spotfire & oldid 717249609 categories business intelligence companiesdata visualization software navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 26 april 2016 at 15 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view