Case Study: Swedish Defence Research Agency achieves clearer materiel planning and interoperability insight with TIBCO Software’s Spotfire analytics platform

Swedish Defence Research Agency Tests TIBCO Spotfire® Analytics Platform for Defence Materiel Planning and Interoperability Requirements Analysis

The Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) helped the Swedish Armed Forces move toward a model-based capability development process but faced a major data challenge: materiel planning and requirements analysis were spread across many disconnected documents and spreadsheets, making it hard to get an overview of project economics, unit needs and delivery risks across thousands of hierarchical data records. FOI needed a faster way to visualize, navigate and trace relationships (e.g., requirements → user needs → capabilities) and to spot overbooked materiel or missed deadlines.

FOI developed interactive prototypes using the TIBCO Spotfire analytics platform with treemaps and linked dashboards to load ~15,000 project records, reduce data prep, and drill from high-level project groups down to unit-level demand and delivery timing. The solution made it easy to identify overbooked projects and units at risk of late deliveries, supported demonstrations that led to further development with real data, and improved the Armed Forces’ ability to analyze consequences and manage model-based planning.

Swedish Defence Research Agency

Pär-Anders Albinsson

FOI Scientist