TIBCO provides a common framework for integrating 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 reduces the complexity of your IT infrastructure and dramatically improves its reliability, flexibility and scalability – giving you the ability to focus on improving how your business runs instead of worrying about whether or not your infrastructure will be scalable or flexible enough to support new initiatives or capitalize on perpetual shifts in the market.

TIBCO’s EAI(Enterprise application integration) software lets your applications, databases and mainframes communicate and interact with each other by automatically routing and transforming information so it gets where it needs to be, when it needs to be there, and in the proper format. TIBCO’s EAI software lets you integrate your business using the best available approach for your specific situation – whether that is an industry-standard technology such as Java, XML, or Web

TIBCO Software Inc. is a global software company, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. They provide business integration software to integrate, manage, and monitor enterprise applications and information delivery. Their software products include applications for coordinating business process and activites, securely exchanging information with trading partners, creating and maintaining XML documents, and managing distributed systems. Their software products is also called by the name TIBCO, which include a set of products. It may be defined as below  

• It is an EAI( Enterprise Application Integration) tool
• It is suit of Products from TIBCO
• It consist of Design time and Run time Components
• It is a configuration based tool
• It is a tool that promotes real time Integration
• Major portion of it’s implementation is in Java
• It runs on most of the platforms from pocket PC to  Mainframe
• Typically it acts a Middleware, however there are  some presentation layer components exist within   TIBCO
• It is a tool that promotes SOA( Service Oriented Architecture)
• It can be accessed through API’s in different languages including Java and .Net

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