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Top TIBCO Spotfire interview questions and Answers What do you understand about TIBCO Spotfire?

Tibco Spotfire is a business intelligence and analytics platform used for deriving business insights that help in the valuable decision-making. Apart from this, it is secure, scalable and flexible and provides additional features like data discovery, visualization, and predictive analytics. Spotfire has an interactive analytical app and an effective dashboard as well.

Explain S Programming Language and its features.

S-Programming Language specifically created for the exploratory data analysis and statistical modeling. It is the core of TIBCO Spotfire S+ and R combined. Besides, statistical applications can be created five times faster than other languages using this.

Following are some of the features of S-Programming Language. 

Object-oriented and interpreted 4GL Language

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Fast prototyping and interactive exploration

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It has rich data structures including but not limited to a matrix, array, list, vector, a data frame

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It has user-defined functions, classes, methods, objects, and libraries.

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Has a library of more than 4000 functions for graphics, integration, data manipulation etc.

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CSAN library

What is Spotfire Analytics?

It is an analytics platform, which helps to get actionable insights for business and technical users to make smarter decisions. With the use of predictive and complex statistics, it helps a customer in performing in-depth analysis of their data. It is the most powerful analytical tool in the world giving immediate information advantage over their competitors to individuals and organizations.

What are the features of Tibco Spotfire? 

Analyze the data with intuitive, interactive visualizations

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Provides Bar charts, scatter plots, treemaps, box plots, map charts etc.

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Incredible speed and flexibility with In-Memory data architecture

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It provides direct access to different corporate and local data sources, which also includes spreadsheets.

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No coding required; Zero Footprint Client

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Create the analytic applications and distribute for the Web

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Easily creates sophisticated statistical analysis

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Good integration between Spotfire and S+ statistical package.Analyze event-driven and real-time data

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Tight integration with TIBCO infrastructure products

Explain Spotfire Cloud.

Spotfire is cloud-based business analytics and leading data visualization software. It helps users create beautiful and interactive visualizations from their laptop or tablet. Unlike traditional BI tools, it allows users to explore new trends, outliners, and insights in their data.

What are the functions of TRA (Tibco Runtime Agent)?

Following are main functions of TRA: 

It provides a runtime environment for all TIBCO apps

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This is the one which responsible for starting and stopping the processes that are running on a machine.

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In the background, it runs on every TIBCO machine.

Explain Spotfire Shared Folders.

Spotfire Cloud allows you to share and explain what you discover instantly but in order to share; the file has to be saved in a folder in your library, which is called Shared Folder. Personal users create the folders in their online library, whereas workgroup users can create on cloud or desktop libraries. Folders can public, private or shared depending on what type of subscription you opted.

Are backward transitions allowed in TIBCO BW Processes?

No, we do not have backward transitions which mean we cannot go back to the previous transition at any point. In TIBCO BW processes, transitions are always in one direction only between the activities.

Explain the difference between fault tolerant and Load balanced deployment in TIBCO. Load balancing: To avoid server crashes due to heavy load on a single driver, we distribute the load between servers, which is called load balancing. Generally, load balancing is done between two or more servers.

Fault tolerance: Fault tolerance is the ability of the system to withstand or continue processing even when an unexpected failure occurs. It is achieved between two servers, one is primary and the other is secondary. Whenever primary server fails, secondary server takes the backup and acts as the primary server.

Describe the main features of TIBCO Spotfire 6.5.

Following are the features of TIBCO Spotfire 6.5 

Ease of using the data and faster

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Easily and quickly, access huge volumes of information.

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It hides complexity from end users by creating Spotfire apps, which interact directly with complex big data sources.

Explain the different Panels of TIBCO designer window.

Below are the four types of panels available in TIBCO designer window Project Panel: We use this panel to show the project hierarchy.

Design Panel: We use this panel to design new BW Processes in TIBCO. Palette Panel: By default, it has all the Palettes available with bundled activities, which are used in the design process of the panel during the process of development.

Configuration Panel: Input, output details for any activity are specified in the configuration panel.

Mention the different levels of validations that can be performed in TIBCO designer.

Below are the three levels of validations supported by TIBCO BW 

Activity level validation

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Process level validation

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Project level validation

How can we develop Restful web services in TIBCO? By using the Plug-ins namely, REST and JSON provided by TIBCO, we could develop Restful web services in TIBCO.

What are the different options for configuring storage for process engine’s checkpoint repository?

Following are the options for configuring storage for process engine’s checkpoint repository are: Local File: Keeping in mind, an engine’s crash or failure, the information is stored in a local file, and when the engine recovers, the same information is used to resume the process. This process works in the case of load balancing or single server approach.

Database: In this case, information is stored in a database and this information is used to resume the engine at some point later. Only this database can be used to recover Fault tolerant engines from a checkpoint.

Which activity is used for writing schema information into a file while debugging TIBCO BW process?

Inspector activity is used to write all the information of the designer activities into a process while developing applications in TIBCO designer.

Can we the name, marking, and color.

Yes, based on your requirement, we can change the marking properties from the Document Property.

Can we use different filters in different pages.?

Yes, we can use. To apply different filters, we use filtering schema.

Which visualization do I need to use to see the outlier, which visualization I need to use?

Scatter plot.

Explain TIBCO Certified Messaging TIBCO certified messaging makes sure that every message that is sent, will reach the intended recipient. It works on registration and acknowledgment principle.