As the cost of storage, processing power and memory have
come down and network speed races ahead, the cost of running
enterprise IT keeps rising, in what Tibco chairman and chief
executive Vivek Randivé calls “the IT paradox”.
Randivé told Computer Weekly at the
enterprise integration software supplier’s 2007
user conference that businesses should not be constrained from
the ability to assemble and maintain infrastructure applications on
the fly.
“Enterprises need to be able to combine their IT infrastructure
with analytics and business process execution in real-time. Yet
when end users already have access to far superior systems at home,
with Google or widgets, all in Web 2.0 for example, the tail is
wagging the dog,” he said.
In response,
Tibco announced it had acquired business
intelligence (BI) software company
Spotfire in a £143m ($195m) deal to “get
real-time information from across the IT infrastructure to
analyse business events and apply rules at speed,” said
Randivé.
“This will deliver the predictive piece, which is really the
icing on the cake.”
Spotfire’s Enterprise Analytic BI platform uses a dynamic Web
2.0, user interface and will integrate with Tibco’s integration and
business process management (BPM) and optimisation products. The
aim is to deliver more powerful data analytics of business
processes built on composite IT applications to end users in a far
more business-oriented, user friendly format.
In a 2009 roadmap characterised by what Randivé said would
“bring simplicity and a self-service element to enterprise IT,” the
supplier also announced ActiveMatrix, a new ‘container’
or
service oriented architecture (SOA) server for managing
sophisticated and complex service built on integrated IT
systems.
While
Tibco One is a project to establish a unified
platform and role-driven interface for its various
messaging, SOA and BPM products, to simplify the access to and
development or management of complex IT-driven operations, for
IT developers and architects to business analysts and line
managers.
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