Before being acquired by TIBCO in 2007, Spotfire was a business intelligence company based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

[1][2] Ben Shneiderman's work on information visualization, including dynamic queries, also led to the development of Spotfire.

[5][6][7] In November 2011, TIBCO added business intelligence (BI) and analytics software Spotfire 4.0 with Microsoft SharePoint integration.

Spotfire 12, released in 2022, allowed customers to complete data-driven actions from dashboards and added new cloud-native and model operations functions.

[15][16] Built on Microsoft Azure's OpenAI service, the AI assistant Spotfire Copilot was introduced to improve data analysis functions.