TIBCO Software Inc. is a global software company, which provides business integration software to integrate, manage, and monitor enterprise applications and information delivery. Their software products include applications for coordinating business process and activities, securely exchanging information with trading partners, creating and maintaining XML documents, and managing distributed systems. Their software products are also called by the name TIBCO, which include a set of products like BusinessWorks, EMS, Adapters, BusinessConnect etc.
We can say TIBCO is Middleware, however, there are some presentation layer components exist within TIBCO. It is an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) which promotes Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The major portion of its implementation in JAVA.
TIBCO is widely used because of its reliability, flexibility, and scalability. It provides a common framework for integrating incompatible and distributed systems which will make it faster and easier to tie together in real time. TIBCO’s EAI software’s allows interacting with your applications, Data Bases, and mainframe by automatically routing and transforming information in an appropriate format to respective destinations.
The advantages of TIBCO’s are:
It’s ease of Rapid application development Easy to integrate all variants of Message-oriented middleware, Data Bases and different distributed system Easy to transform data based on the receiver Ability handle exceptions
What is TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW)?
BusinessWorks is a package which TIBCO provided where Tibco process (Integrations) are running. We need to deploy the TIBCO applications in a server where we configured BW. Read more about BW and the development environment in what is the development environment for Tibco business works?
What is TIBCO EMS?
EMS stands for TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) is fully compliant Java Message Service implementation from TIBCO with some enterprise-class enhancements. This tool is used to communicate with other applications. This tool is compatible with all platforms like Java, Main Frame etc.. Read what is Tibco EMS to know more about it.
What is TIBCO HAWK?
This tool is used to monitor the TIBCO applications (Integrations), file system, EMS etc.