Spotfire, a business unit of Cloud Software Group and a global leader in enterprise-class visual industrial analytics, today announced the availability of Spotfire® 15.1, the latest innovation release of the Spotfire® platform, advancing AI-augmented investigations with natural-language analysis, reusable analytical workflows, and specialized AI agents working directly within interactive Spotfire analyses. The latest innovation release also expands Spotfire® Industry Pro with new capabilities for semiconductor yield investigations and subsurface visualization.

Industrial investigations involve more than answering individual questions. Engineers need to build and refine visualizations, explore relationships, validate findings, and apply proven approaches to new data. Spotfire 15.1 brings these activities closer together, helping users move from questions to evidence without interrupting their analytical workflows.

At the center of Spotfire 15.1 is AI integrated smoothly into the analytical experience. With Ask Spotfire, users can create and refine interactive investigations through natural language. A semiconductor yield engineer, for example, can request yield by lot, drill down into wafer maps, identify the lowest-yielding wafers, and then continue exploring using the full analytical capabilities of Spotfire. Reusable Skills allow teams to capture multi-step investigations and apply them to new datasets, while Insight Agents perform specialized analytical tasks. Organizations can also build and share their own agents to address specific business and industry needs.

The expanding portfolio of Insight Agents within Spotfire brings specialized analytical capabilities to the investigation process. Available agents include Data recommender, which helps analysts discover related data; Analyze category profiles, which assists with statistical comparisons and selecting appropriate tests; and Equipment commonality analysis, which identifies equipment and processes associated with batches of differing yield or quality. Upcoming agents will extend these capabilities to time-series data preparation and spatial wafer pattern detection. Together, agents help teams move beyond visualization creation to specialized analytical tasks, while keeping domain experts in control.

“Spotfire AI works where investigations actually happen, inside the analysis, with the expert in control,” said Niklas Amberntsson, Director of Product Management at Spotfire. “With Spotfire 15.1, teams can ask in their own words, use AI to build the analysis, and check results against their real data. We made Spotfire AI so that engineers and scientists can be more effective; AI helps geologists, production engineers, yield and process engineers, and many other roles in energy and high-tech manufacturing do the analytics part of their job better. Spotfire AI amplifies their subject matter expertise.”

Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectivity extends these AI-powered investigations to compatible external systems. Ask Spotfire, Skills, and Insight Agents can retrieve additional information or initiate follow-up actions, such as creating a ticket in a connected system. Administrators control which MCP connections are available to users and groups, building on the centralized AI governance introduced in Spotfire 15.0.

Version 15.1 also expands industry-native analytics for semiconductor manufacturing. Spotfire’s dimensionally accurate, multi-layer wafer map now has assisted wafer configuration to help engineers begin critical spatial investigations faster. Statistics layers overlay yield, defect counts, and other configurable metrics onto the wafer map view, while exposure fields provide photolithography context for investigating repeating field-level patterns. A new public wafer map API enables developers to integrate wafer visualizations into custom applications, scripts, and AI-assisted workflows.

“Industrial teams need both analytical depth and convenience,” said Brad Hopper, VP of Vertical Markets at Spotfire. “In this release, AI assistance and industry-native analysis come together, so engineers can quickly gather the data they need, uncover cross-domain signals, understand the patterns, and decide where to investigate next. We continue to evolve our integration of AI to help engineers more easily leverage the analytical power of Spotfire and AI together.”

Spotfire 15.1 also improves everyday analysis and enterprise operations. Bulk column editing and color scheme management in the visualization properties panel streamline authoring, while new tornado and waffle charts, along with enhanced area chart and timeline visualizations, expand visual exploration. For enterprise teams, enhanced Automation Services logic supports more flexible workflows, the interactive release notes page simplifies upgrade assessments, and improved AVEVA PI and SAP HANA connectivity expands access to operational and enterprise data. The release also adds support for R 4.6.

Spotfire 15.1 delivers enhancements across Spotfire® Analytics, Spotfire® Industry Pro, and Spotfire® Enterprise. To learn more, visit the Spotfire What’s New Hub or read the latest Spotfire 15.1 announcement blog.

About Spotfire

Spotfire is a visual industrial analytics platform that helps organizations make better decisions in environments where complexity is high, and the cost of getting it wrong is real. By bringing data, analytics, AI, and industry expertise together in a shared visual environment, Spotfire enables engineers, scientists, and operational teams to understand what is happening, why it is happening, and what to do next. Spotfire supports organizations across manufacturing, energy, life sciences, and other industrial sectors through AI-augmented investigation, advanced analytics, and industry-native workflows.

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