TIBCO Software |
TIBCO Software Inc. is a global software company, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. In their key market investment banking, their name, commonly shorted to TIB is synonomous with their enterprise message bus software TIBCO Rendezvous. Rendezvous has the dominant market share in price distribution applications with a strong reputation for scalability and fast asynchronous message delivery. Their main competitor is IBM WebSphere MQ, however MQ is relied upon less for price distribution and more for trade capture.
TIBCO provides business process management and business integration software. This software integrates, manages, and monitors enterprise applications and enables reliable and high-performance information delivery. Their software products include applications for coordinating business process and activities, securely exchanging information with trading partners, creating and maintaining XML documents, and managing distributed systems. The current range of products also includes a Portal, Workflow and Business Intelligence Solutions.
TIBCO Rendezvous is perhaps their most important and well known product. It is an underlying network transport layer, providing a messaging platform used by their other (more high level) software. This Message Oriented Middleware was TIBCO s original product, bringing them a lot of early success in the pre-internet Information Technology industry. Partly owing to this long track record, the TIBCO Rendezvous platform is still very popular within the finance industry and has a large installation base. The company was a key contributor to the Java Message Service specification and supports the standard in the TIBCO Enterprise Message Service product.
Vivek Ranadive founded the company as Teknekron Software Systems in 1987. This company invented the patented Subject Based Addressing technology and built the Teknekron Information Bus and a Market Data Delivery System solution that also included products like MarketSheet (a kind of thick-client portal). This technology was revolutionary, and played a major role in the drive to replace green screens and digitize securities trading floors world-wide. In addition to Subject Based Addressing, TIB included many other common messaging concepts that have since become widely accepted, and as hardware and operating systems evolved, the TIB evolved from using broadcast messaging to using IP multicast groups.
In 1994, the Teknekron Software Systems was acquired by Reuters. In 1996, the company was renamed TIBCO (The Information Bus Company). The Teknekron Information Bus was renamed, tongue in cheek, The Information Bus, although it continues to be abbreviated as, the TIB.
In 1997, a small fraction of TIBCO was spun off as TIBCO Software Inc., with TIBCO Rendezvous as its main product.
TIBCO acquisitions include, among others:
TIBCO participates in the development of industry standards in many areas:
=See also=
*Enterprise application integration *Business Process Management *Enterprise service bus
=External reference=
*[http://www.tibco.com/ Company site] *[http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtmlarticleID=22102250 Intelligent Enterprise Magazine]|
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