As we continue to strengthen our visual data science offering and help customers tackle complex, industry-specific challenges, we are excited to announce the launch of Spotfire® 14.6 LTS, our latest long-term support release.
This release combines the enterprise-grade stability our customers depend on with powerful new capabilities such as Reference Elements – visual overlays that bring thresholds, ranges, and benchmarks directly into your charts – alongside upgrades across Spotfire Analytics, Spotfire Data Science, and Spotfire Enterprise, ensuring organizations can innovate faster while relying on a stable and scalable foundation.
Smarter visual data science for industries
Spotfire® 14.6 LTS introduces enhancements that empower engineers, scientists, and decision-makers across industries such as energy, manufacturing, and life sciences. At the heart of this release are Reference Elements, a foundational new capability that turns visualizations into decision-ready tools by embedding thresholds, targets, and benchmarks directly into visualizations. Alongside new domain-specific features, advanced box plot enhancements, and deeper automation, customers can accelerate insight discovery and streamline analytics at scale.
Highlights of what’s new in Spotfire® 14.6 LTS release
Spotfire® Analytics: Flexible, powerful, and intuitive
Authoring and visualization upgrades help users create clearer, more impactful data stories:
- Custom markers & enhanced box plots – including horizontal orientation, custom metrics, and improved scale labels – for more precise data communication
- Bulk formatting & improved property panels to speed up analysis on large, complex datasets
- Modern visualization authoring tools that make building analyses more intuitive and efficient
Spotfire® Data Science: Advanced insights for domain experts
This is the first LTS release to include Spotfire Data Science, extending advanced, industry-specific capabilities:
- Reference elements to overlay thresholds, targets, and benchmarks directly in visualizations
- Violin plots to reveal hidden data patterns and variability for deeper quality and performance analysis
- Enhanced data functions and match-on-column names that make metadata-driven analytics and sensor workflows easier to build and scale.
- Match-on-column names for stronger operational analytics with live production and sensor data
Spotfire® Enterprise: Scalable, cloud-ready, and easier to manage
New administrative and connectivity features simplify IT operations and enable enterprise-wide growth:
- Simplified license management and extended legacy license support
- Per-job automation timeouts for greater workflow predictability
- Configurable web administration tables and streamlined library migration to AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Modernized connectors with OAuth/SSO for enterprise-grade security and smoother cloud adoption
A new welcome experience
The new dynamic welcome page connects users with Spotfire news, events, training, and webinars directly from their start screen. Every launch brings the latest resources, ensuring teams get the most value from Spotfire.
Why Spotfire 14.6 LTS matters for your business
With more than 100 new features and 90+ user ideas delivered since Spotfire 14.0 LTS, Spotfire 14.6 enables organizations to:
- Accelerate insights with advanced domain-specific features and smarter visualizations
- Simplify IT management with streamlined administration and enterprise-ready integrations
- Future-proof analytics investments with the stability and support of an LTS release
This latest long term support release reduces overheads and ensures cloud readiness. For data scientists and analysts, it delivers richer, faster, and more flexible analytics. For the business, this release means stronger, faster, and more confident decisions.
Get started with the latest that Spotfire has to offer
Spotfire 14.6 LTS is the safest, most powerful release yet for enterprise-wide analytics rollouts. Whether you’re upgrading from 14.0 LTS or moving from an earlier version, this release ensures your teams have the tools they need to innovate with confidence.
To explore these features in depth, visit the What’s New page, join our What’s New webinar series to learn about the latest and greatest from Spotfire, and in case you missed it, watch our recent webinar on demand, which goes into detail about the newest enhancements in Spotfire 14.6. Additionally, view our release notes to learn more about each enhancement in greater detail.