This IDC Health Insights Perspective highlights the use of TIBCO Spotfire in the life sciences as the de facto end-user interface of choice for the strategic assessment of clinical data. It is clear that despite the growth of application-specific dashboards and supporting actionable analytics the foundational use of Spotfire as the common visual interface across life science organizations remains strong, based on its well-designed, highly intuitive user interface and ease in creating active information portals. While application-specific dashboards continue to improve and strongly deliver value for application end users, the use of Spotfire as a multiapplication, common analytical and visualization interface is strengthened by the widespread availability of connecting application programming interfaces (APIs) and the general familiarity with Spotfire by people from across life science organizations.
This Perspective is based on a recent interview with a major pharma thought leader and anecdotal discussions from across the industry regarding different approaches to visualizing both clinical and operational data for key stakeholders across a life science organization.