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    Statistica should be certified for use with PostgreSQL

    PostgreSQL is now established as an enterprise database platform. It's offered under a very liberal license similar to BSD or MIT, meaning that it can be used without charge, even for commercial endeavors. Suppose you were supporting a Statistica ...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 0 Future Consideration

    Allow configurable default numbers of bins for histograms

    We'd like to recommend making the default number of bins configurable for histograms. We'd like users to be able to set their own preferences. We get asked about this a lot by users. Most of the time they find the default number of bins too small....
    over 6 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Spotfire Analyst native connector for Google BigQuery to connect with service account

    Our vendor that provides us with our cloud-hosted data in Google BigQuery provides service accounts for us to access the data in their project, but does not add our Google accounts to the project. Other tools like Microsoft Power BI allow analysts...
    about 1 year ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Support different versions of Python, R in the same environment

    An organization may have projects using different versions of Python, R. Supporting different versions of Python and R in the same environment helps with upgrade planning. Version 1 is "production use" and Version 2 is "testing upgrade". This alle...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Statistica 2 Future Consideration

    Consistent Updates for adapters of major DBMS versions

    Commit to adding support for new versions of the popular RDBMS within 6 months or the next service pack from their release. The major vendors should be supported, these are Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Gather native stats from database platforms that support it

    Currently, TDV calculates stats manually from analyzing the data. Where possible we should gather stats from database platforms that support it.
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization 0 Future Consideration

    Unpivot new columns of specified data types automatically

    I am bringing excel file into Spotfire that has dates as the column names. I have loaded the data into Spotfire by conducting an unpivot transformation on all date columns. When new columns (new dates) are added to the excel file, however, it does...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 1 Future Consideration

    Add ability to apply filters and markings to Text area property controls

    The property controls in a text area should be able to be limited to both the filters and markings if the property controls are based on unique values in columns. You don't want the options available in say a drop down box if that item is eliminat...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Text Area 1 Future Consideration

    CSS for ALL elements

    Currently calculated values, canvas backgrounds, and other elements are 'off limits'. Allowing access to all elements enables "theming" based on CSS templates
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Data Function output column names should be Display Name

    When outputting a column from a data function, the column name is not the display name but rather the parameter name
    about 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions 0 Future Consideration
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