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    Support for Azure Information Protection (AIP)

    Azure Information Protection is being adopted by Azure customers as an add-on layer of authorization at the document level. Applications reading protected documents (eg MS Excel worksheets) need to be AIP-aware. Current behavior from Spotfire: Spo...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 2 Future Consideration

    Add "Scan all Rows" to Import dialog for excel and text files - to improve column data type determination

    Spotfire sometimes incorrectly guesses the data type for Excel and text files because it scans only a portion of the rows in the file. Well add an option so it scans the whole thing so we can get that data type right the first time! SPSS Modeler h...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 1 Future Consideration

    Spotfire Connector to Power BI XMLA EndPoints

    Our organization uses a lot of Spotfire but there are other BI Tools in use, particularly Power BI. Our Spotfire teams of late have been getting asked to connect to what are referred to as "XMLA Endpoints". Power BI workspaces use an "XMLA endpoin...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Easier to search for tables in a TDV data catalog

    The available search function in the Files and data flyout always searches the whole library. This makes it hard to find tables in a TDV data catalog (in the Files and data flyout) since the search result also includes Information Links and other ...
    about 3 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Likely to implement

    Allow query results to be cached in-memory on Server

    This is different than our normal caching. We want to offer ways to store query results in memory on the server for high-speed / low-latency interaction with the data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 Future Consideration

    Support for Azure Cosmos DB as a data source

    Provide support for Azure Cosmos DB as a data source. Caching and data ship are out of scope initially. Please indicate in the comments if that is desired.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 2 Will not implement

    Provide a simple interface to setup incremental caching

    Add a new UI to setup incremental caching capabilities for a view based on timestamp, dates and/or IDs.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / development 0 Future Consideration

    Provide self-tuning capabilities in the query engine

    Have the query engine learn and recommend optimizations that can be provided to the developer as they are creating / designing views.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add a file adapter to connect to avro files directly

    Extend the flat file support of the server to connect directly to avro files to read in data.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Future Consideration

    add hint in SQL SELECT to explicitly choose which table to data-ship to which data source

    At the moment there is a hint to suppress data-ship within a query. I do miss a hint to explicitly tell the TDV engine which table (or view) he must ship to another database (and which database). Reason: in some situations TDV does make decisions ...
    almost 5 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / performance 0 To be Reviewed
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