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When trying to develop visualization to share with clients, I have to physically upload and embed the data every day, which is very inefficient. The data from Azure SQL is not sensitive, so I should be able to make the risk decision as the administrator for my company. The functionality is available, just not in a web deployed application. Embedding the updated data everyday is extremely inefficient when I accept the known risks.
+5
I currently have the spotfire client running python code in infinite loop to call a spring boot app via rest call to generate multiple sdbf files, update the analysis, and save to the cloud.
it's inefficient for many reasons :
* The windows client has a feature : unlimited control Z, which builds a memory leak, after one or two days of sync for a very small set of data make the windows client consumes more than 12GB of memory.
* This year, the authentication token expires every day, which breaks the sync.
* That's quite some work to be done for something that should have been working from day one with a few clicks with features that are part of the on prem product.
This makes me consider Google Data Studio, since I'm hosted on GCP.
Also, I could point out some inconsistency: the Spotfire team has added a feature that limits the number of IPs from which Spotfire connects to data sources.
But it's useless since you can't store credentials of any DB on Spotfire.
And really, most use cases involve DB as data sources.
The lack of key features make Spotfire cloud quite useless.
I don't see how this product is viable with all these limitations, which is lame because Spotfire is just a great product!
Also exposing our DB on the internet, even with firewall restrictions on IPs is not ok.
Spotfire cloud should support vpn connectivity to major cloud providers, especially when the first licence cost 1250€/year : this price is clearly not justified with the little feature that can be really used in the cloud version.
I'd put a big plus 1 on this request. Without this feature, the cloud offering becomes much less valuable to us and much more painful to use.