Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Our SOA solutions help organizations migrate to an infrastructure composed of services that can be assembled, orchestrated, and re-used. Whats unique about TIBCO's approach to SOA is that its platform agnostic. Service virtualization abstracts the complexity of heterogeneous application platforms, and our bus-based architecture extends the high performance and scalability equally across the distributed enterprise. Enterprise-scale SOA comes together when you create services from new business logic and wrap existing legacy assets to expose them as services. A challenge in many large enterprises, integrating legacy assets is a core competency of TIBCO.

TIBCO SOA Product Categories

Composite Applications: Provide a common service model to combine multiple existing functions or components to assemble new applications. : Enables administration and enforcement of runtime policies for services and provides operational monitoring and management of services to ensure service levels are met through dynamic provisioning and de-provisioning of additional services. : Builds a common framework for integrating incompatible and distributed systems to tie together applications and web services. : Exposes mainframe assets as reusable services that can be assembled into new composite applications and integrated with the rest of the enterprise. : across networks. Manages the real-time flow of event-driven information

: Enforces and maintains policies to keep data accurate and consistent across multiple transactional systems. : Manages the secure execution of transactions outside of the firewall and over the internet.

Building Composite Applications

The challenge in building composite applications is accessing existing functions across a heterogeneous environment and rapidly including them in new applications in a way that allows for change.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix reduces architectural complexity by providing a standards-based grid architecture that serves as a technology-neutral platform, with service containers for .NET, Ruby, C++, BPM, Web Servlets, Spring, and Java. These containers provide a framework for the development and deployment of new business logic. Visual tools enable drag-and-drop assembly of technology components and service assemblies. It simplifies management and improves operational control of these composite applications by making service location, transport, and protocol independent through the virtualized assembly and composition of services all on one technology-neutral platform.

Composite Application Product Information

ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks: A standards-based service creation, orchestration, and integration product built to run natively with other ActiveMatrix products. : lightweight A enterprise service bus than enables IT to mediate services in a flexible and reliable manner in any heterogeneous environment. : A distributed platform for assembling, deploying, and managing Java, .NET, web technologies, and other services as composite applications. : Enable packaged applications, databases, and networking technologies to become active participants in the enterprise information flow. : A distributed peer-to-peer inmemory data grid, a form of virtual shared memory that leverages a distributed hash table with configurable replication for data storage purposes.

SOA Governance
The benefits of SOA adoption are compelling: lower development costs through rapid deployment of new functionality that reuses existing code, increased flexibility from improved responsiveness to business needs and reduced maintenance costs from freeing staff to work on innovative new initiatives. Yet, as the number of services grows within an organization committed to SOA, realizing those benefits becomes difficult without putting in place policies and procedures. SOA governance ensures the effective and efficient use of SOA in enabling an organization to achieve its goals with policies, procedures, roles and responsibilities for both design-time and run-time governance: Design-time/Lifecycle governance focuses on the entire lifecycle of an application, service or artifact, including design, development, testing,

deployment, maintenance, retirement. Run-time/Operational governance ensures that once the services are deployed appropriate security, auditing and logging policies are enforced and performancebased SLAs are met.

TIBCO's integrated SOA governance portfolio enables organizations to implement endto-end governance across the entire service lifecycle. With integrated registry, repository, policy and service management infrastructure, TIBCO simplifies how developers publish, discover, reuse and change service, which increases return on investment and delivers on the promise of SOA.

Product Information
TIBCO Hawk: Distributed monitoring and management software that helps IT staff ensure and improve the performance and availability of the software that supports business processes. : A policy management solution that enables IT to define, distribute, and enforce rules for security, auditing, logging, service levels, and other application characteristics across services built on Java, .NET, custom, and packaged applications. : An enterprise software platform that monitors and proactively manages the health and performance of IT and business services based on service level agreements by provisioning and de-provisioning services automatically. : A comprehensive, innovative SOA governance software platform that includes an SOA registry and SOA repository foundation as the system of record for your enterprise SOA and a rich set of governance capabilities enabling SOA visibility, trust, and control.

Business Integration
Enterprise integration software provides a common framework for integrating and synchronizing incompatible and distributed systems, making it faster and easier to tie together applications and web services so you can integrate them into business processes that span your organization. TIBCO's business integration software has been deployed by over 1,000 companies worldwide and is the foundation for several of the largest mission critical service-oriented business applications in production today. It reduces costs by enabling developers and administrators to build and change applications with little or no coding.

TIBCO BI Product Information

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks: Exposes existing systems as services, builds new services, and orchestrates and assembles services into applications with little or no coding. : Assembles a comprehensive and consistent view of data by providing crossreferencing and translation rules to harmonize semantically different data sets across multiple applications. : Enable packaged applications, databases, and networking technologies to become active participants in the enterprise information flow.

Mainframe Integration
Mainframe systems are an integral part of most enterprises. These systems hold valuable data and processes that have evolved with the enterprise, and it is crucial that these assets be active participants in corporate technology infrastructures as part of an SOA strategy. However, the introduction of open systems technologies has resulted in incompatibilities making it difficult if not impossible to achieve real-time integration of data and processes across an enterprise. TIBCO Mainframe Service Suite addresses these problems by exposing mainframe assets as reusable services that can be assembled into new composite applications and easily integrated with the rest of the enterprise.

Product Information
Mainframe Adapters: Enable the exchange of information via publish/subscribe or point-to-point messaging between applications, databases, and technologies. : Enables bidirectional message exchange between TIBCO applications and applications running on IBM i software. : Provides APIs that integrate mainframe assets with TIBCO's messaging backbone. : Enables mainframe applications to subscribe to off-host messages and publish data to TIBCO-enabled business applications. : A mainframeresident and open systems-resident application development environment and integration broker.

Messaging
High-performance messaging middleware powers mission-critical IT infrastructures. Whether it's accessing market data, processing millions of transactions, or tracking millions of shipments in real time, TIBCO's high-performance messaging solutions not only provide the lowest end-to-end latency and highest throughput, but also the reliability and enterprise-readiness required to operate in the most demanding business environments. TIBCO pioneered the concept of an information bus when its software digitized Wall Street. Since then, thousands of customers worldwide rely on TIBCO's high-performance, enterprise-strength messaging technology to power their mission-critical business applications and IT infrastructures.

Product Information
TIBCO Enterprise Message Service: Industry-leading Java Message Service (JMS) 1.1-compliant messaging software with support for Java, .NET, C/C++ and COBOL to serve as a foundation for Enterprise-SOA : The leading ultra-low-latency, highthroughput messaging software for real-time applications that require broad data distribution 7500: Ultralow-latency messaging appliance with TIBCO Rendezvous implemented in hardware for enhanced performance, manageability and lower TCO : Extreme-low-latency messaging software for highperformance applications such as algorithmic trading, market data distribution, and high-speed event processing

Master Data Management

Master data management (MDM) ensures that an organization's critical information (customers, vendors, products, employees, locations) is accurate and consistent across that organization's operational systems spanning geographic, line-of-business, and application silo boundaries and the organization's interactions with third parties. MDM enforces the necessary data governance processes and policies for continuous data quality while controlling access. In addition, MDM allows organizations to manage the many complex hierarchies (product and customer classifications, categories, organizational structure) and relationships within their data such as those between products, customers, vendors, or locations. Through effective MDM, organizations can eliminate errors, become efficient in their business activities, and accelerate critical processes such as a single view of the customer,

new product launch, vendor on-boarding, first-time-right service provisioning, crosssell/up-sell, and customer service. MDM builds a highly available, high quality data foundation that supports enterprise IT initiatives such SOA, EDW, and BPM.

TIBCO Product Information for MDM

TIBCO Collaborative Information Manager enables organizations to align enterprise master data (product, customer, vendor, etc.) across multiple business units, departments, and partners and synchronize that information with downstream IT transactional systems. TIBCO MDM Analytics provides data stewards and business users an easy-touse graphical reporting interface to understand where workflow bottlenecks exist as well as to better understand master data content. TIBCO MDM Studio has all the tools needed to create data models, business processes, and business rules, all integrated into a single easy-to-use solution that is open standards (Eclipse) based. This allows for the development, testing, QA, and ultimate go live deployment in just one application development environment.

Multi-Enterprise Connectivity & Automated Business Interactions

Automating business interactions between suppliers, customers, and trading partners allows companies to better share information and optimize processes across the value chain from better demand forecasting to streamlined manufacturing to more responsive customer service. TIBCO's Multi-Enterprise Connectivity (MEC) software fundamentally changes the way businesses communicate and interact with each other, enabling organizations to manage the secure execution of transactions over the internet using accepted industry standards; streamline inter-enterprise processes that go from your back-end systems to your partners' systems; and manage a large and diverse community of trading partners with minimal overhead. With TIBCO MEC, organizations can reduce costs, increase visibility, and improve the overall level of security and compliance as it relates to the exchange of business documents with trading partners.

Product Information
TIBCO BusinessConnect: Provides interaction and collaboration with trading partners by enabling the secure exchange of documents and automation of

transactions across public and private networks. : Provides EDI management, transaction automation, transaction validation, error correction and reporting solutions that enable insight into business operations while shortening revenue cycles, reducing administrative costs, and helping organizations prepare for major initiatives like HIPAA 5010. : Enables secure, efficient, enterprise-scale file transfer and automates cross-departmental and inter-company processes.