This post on TIBCO Community Blogs is the second in our series on the community blogs of leading integration and SOA platform software firms. The TIBCO Community has a blog site. You need to register to gain more access. It looks new and there is only one blog so far, on TUCON 2008, but this blog has many authors, including people outside TIBCO such two of the bloggers on our lists, Dana Garnder and Joe McKendrick. SOA TIBCO is the most popular tag. The most recent post is When Real-Time Isn't Fast Enough: Notes from TUCON 2008 was written during the event.
It discussed a number of topics including an addition to the run time SOA governance, Service Performance Manager, which “cleverly bundles some of its Business Events complex event processing technology to tell you whether you're meeting the Service Level Agreements, at least from a performance standpoint. It takes the assumption that service levels are a classic complex event processing problem, especially given the kinds of highly scaled and highly distributed networks that TIBCO customers tend to have.”
At the same event, in another TUCON 08 blog post by Dana Gardner wrote that CEO Vivek Ranadive used his keynote presentation to describe the need for an "event cloud" to support the demands on the next generation of enterprise infrastructure. He said that “an elevated level of cloud management would allow for complex business events and activities to occur in "real-time" at the huge scale demanded of modern business processes. He said TIBCO's goal remains the same as it has been for years, to the bring the right information to the right places at the right times. Only now is that vision nearing fruition, and the combination of SOA and cloud computing will make it happen.” Ranadive also spoke against having data trapped in databases, preferring a pending era of data portability.
An alternate place to check out is the IT Toolbox group of TIBCO EIA users. It is a real user board - geared toward the bit twisters trying to solve tactical issues, but there are at least a dozen or so active threads going on every day, on everything from legacy enablement to managing BPM inside BusinessWorks.
This was certainly much of what we are finding TIBCO customers doing every day - how do I turn my technology "silos" into something much more flexible that runs on the information bus (the "TIB" in their name), and how do I validate and prove that it will continue to meet changing needs? It was great to join them at this last TUCON and here's to the creation and promotion of the "TIBCOmmunity" of users.
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