Tibco Takes BPM to a Higher Level

The new offerings include version 3.0 of Tibco ActiveMatrix, a suite of application development and integration tools; version 4.0 of Tibco BusinessEvents, a platform for processing events and managing business rules; version 3.1 of Tibco Spotfire, an analytics application; and Tibco Silver, a platform for developing composite applications that can run on a new cloud computing implementation of Tibco's BPM software.

Rourke McNamara, Tibco senior director of product marketing, said that together the four offerings anchor the company's approach to providing a federated approach to BPM that will span public and private cloud computing deployments. That approach, he added, serves to differentiate Tibco from BPM competitors that anchor their offerings around a particular database or set of enterprise applications, as opposed to providing a middleware framework that can span a customer's custom and packaged application environment.

According to McNamara, Tibco Business Events 4.0 can now process tens of billions of events generated by thousands of rules. To make it easier to develop these types of applications, Tibco is adding a new BusinessStudio tool based on the open source Eclipse development environment to its ActiveMatrix 3.0 suite of application development and integration tools.

In addition, McNamara said that over time customers will also come to appreciate how the company has taken the time to bake data governance tools inside its BPM offerings to simplify adherence to various compliance requirements.