TIBCO, a world leader in business integration tools and infrastructure software, entered the BPMS arena in 2004 with the acquisition of Staffware, a pioneer in human workflow automation. Since then, the company has integrated its BPM offering, called TIBCO iProcess, with its SOA platform (BusinessWorks and ActiveMatrix), in an initiative it calls BPM+, promising the ability to handle both human-centric and integration-centric processes in a single platform. Today, TIBCO claims BPM accounts for roughly one quarter of its total revenue of $517M (2006).
In 2007, TIBCO embarked on a large-scale effort to provide a more unified and consistent design experience across its BPM, SOA and Business Optimization offerings as well as ensure a more streamlined lifecycle from process discovery to design and deployment, with improved collaboration between business and IT. The TIBCO ONE Project, launched May 2007, seeks to eventually create a unified IDE for the entire TIBCO platform based on Eclipse, independent of runtime environment or programming language, and exposing different perspectives or “personas” to business analysts, architects, and developers. The first product under the TIBCO ONE umbrella is TIBCO Business Studio 2.0, a BPMN-based business process modeling and design tool. New TIBCO ONE versions of the SOA infrastructure platform, TIBCO ActiveMatrix and BusinessWorks, are promised for later in 2007.
