Tibco Software has updated its Collaborative Information
Manager to
handle master data management in an SOA-based
environment.
Version 6.0 of the offering includes a business process
automation engine,
which supports business rules and workflow and multi-data domain
capabilities,
which create a single reference source for all information
assets.
It also provides a web services interface to enable the system
to communicate
with multiple applications. This means that business users can
access and
manage the information they need to do their jobs, no matter where
it is
located across the enterprise.
Neeraj Gokhale, Tibco’s general manager of enterprise
information management,
said: “Most of the attention in SOA deployments has gone into web
service
creation, deployment and management standards and technologies. But
if data
is inconsistent across applications, it will be increasingly
difficult, if
not prohibitive, to build heterogeneous SOA services that cut
across multiple
systems and departments.”
The upgrade, which is customisable, is available now.