Tibco Software is set to roll out a new business process management
platform designed to automate the integration of Web services into
business processes.
BPM (Business Process Management) 2.0 fits into Tibco's
ActiveEnterprise family of products, all of which have been
outfitted with Web services capabilities this year.
The integration infrastructure line-up includes enterprise
application integration, business-to-business integration, portal,
and business process management.
The infusion of Web services capabilities into BPM allows
enterprises to integrate Web services into processes that run
across multiple platform and organisations, according to
Tibco.
Specifically, Tibco has added support for J2EE and .net, as well as
core Web services protocols such as Soap, XML, and WSDL.
Using BPM 2.0 in combination with other ActiveEnterprise
integration products gives developers, administrators, and systems
analysts the ability to create Web services based on existing
applications with no coding.
BPM 2.0 is also an essential piece in assembling Web services into
composite applications, Tibco said.
"Without a scalable integration architecture, Web services can't
provide the same business value," said Andrea Eubanks, director of
products at Tibco.
"You can expose parts of your business with Web services, but data
from different applications still needs to be integrated in order
to present a business process," she added.
Tibco's vision for Web services integration and management includes
the ability to monitor and manage distributed Web services
components as well as the XML metadata that is required to support
Web services.
"Customers have heterogeneous environments with a lot of custom
code. We bring those pieces together and integrate it in real time.
BPM lets people visualise and manage those pieces," Eubanks said.