TIBCO Launches Real-Time "Portal-On-Demand" Network Services; TIBCO.net Integrates Content and E-Business Services Across Web, Wireless Media.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 1999--TIBCO Software Inc., the Silicon Valley technology subsidiary of Reuters Reuters British cooperative news agency. Founded in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, it was initially concerned with commercial news but began to serve a growing newspaper clientele after the London Morning Advertiser subscribed in 1858. Group PLC, today announced TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company .net, a new service and technology offering that provides information integration and electronic business services for Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the companies, corporate Web sites and wireless telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. carriers. Additionally, TIBCO.net includes global e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. transactional services via TIBCO technology, which is used by many of the world's leading financial institutions and stock exchanges. The announcement was made at "Upside Upside The potential dollar amount by which the market or a stock could rise. Notes: This is basically an educated guess on how high a stock could go in the near future. See also: Bull, Downside Magazine's Showcase 99" executive conference in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. hosted by computer market pundit An expert or knowledgeable person. From "pandit" in Hindi. See guru. David Coursey Cour´sey n. 1. (Naut.) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. 2. The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent. In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds. - Bacon . TIBCO.net enables businesses to tap into external sources of information from Reuters and other third-party content providers, integrate it with internal sources of information, and then make it easily accessible in real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. to customers, partners and employees via Internet browsers See Web browser. , pagers and cell phones. Integrated content from TIBCO.net is sent directly over TIBCO's massive, multiple OC-12 connections to the global Internet to consumer sites, such as early TIBCO customers Yahoo! (in the form of delayed stock quotes) and Netscape (1) (Netscape Communications Corporation, Mountain View, CA, www.netscape.com) Part of America Online (AOL), Netscape specializes in Web software, including the Netscape Web browser. , or onto private enterprise networks, such as 3Com's corporate extranet, or to wireless telecommunications providers, such as PageNet Founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin, PageNet (Paging Network, Inc.) grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s. . Alternatively, TIBCO.net can integrate content inside a customer's own data center. "We are enabling corporations to rapidly become commerce-driven e-businesses by integrating and filtering external content with internally created business information," said Vivek Vivek ( िववेक in Devanagari script) is an Indian name that refers to a person's ability to "discriminate". For example, to discern between right and wrong. Ranadive, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of TIBCO. "Our unique experience is in delivering integrated and filtered content in real-time. We say that if your Web site is not real-time, it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have history." "The TIBCO.net launch underscores the importance of customized services in the New World where data, voice and video traffic are coming together over a single network," said Don Listwin, executive vice president, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. . "TIBCO's solution will enable the next generation of real-time, personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. information, giving customers immediate access to customized services including news, travel, weather and corporate information." "Portal content isn't is·n't Contraction of is not. isn't is not isn't be just for the big boys anymore," said David Coursey, editor and publisher of Coursey.Com, a leading computer and Internet industry newsletter, and executive producer of Upside Magazine's Showcase 99. "Here is an offering from a company that knows more about integrating news, weather, sports and corporate information in real-time than any other provider in the space. The playing field for the Portal games just got leveled." From Anywhere to Anything TIBCO.net's content strategy calls for the integration of internal and external information along with the unique capability to transmit To send data over a communications line. See transfer. that information in real-time to, from and in-between in-be·tween adj. Intermediate: Adolescence is an awkward, in-between age. n. An intermediate: conservatives, radicals, and in-betweens. Adj. 1. various access devices including Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
At the same time, using TIBCO's widely adopted publish and subscribe (1) To provide a source of information that users select from and then receive on a regular basis or when certain events occur. The service can be public or private, free or paid, and information can be provided via e-mail and the Web or by means of proprietary applications. multicasting or "broadcasting" software, TIBCO.net hopes to enable Web sites to expand communities of users from small groups into worldwide networks with millions of users. "Sun has been working with TIBCO, a market leader in enterprise application integration and real-time content, for more than a decade," said Scott McNealy Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954 in Columbus, Indiana) was the Chairman of Sun Microsystems, the computer technology company he co-founded in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. , chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . "TIBCO's reliable implementation of the publish and subscribe model provides another important building block for customers to integrate the Internet and e-commerce into their business." "3Com customers place a great deal of importance on the integration of public Web-based information and private corporate information. They are also interested in mobile access to this information via their Palm Computing computing - computer devices, and TIBCO.net brings this prospect closer to reality," said Eric Benhamou, chairman and chief executive officer, 3Com Corporation. "Together with TIBCO, we will explore ways to add real-time, personalized delivery of internal enterprise content to the news and information to be provided by 3Com's Palm.Net(TM) service." TIBCO.net distinguishes itself from other service providers in three ways: -- Adapters for corporate content -- content adapters ensure smooth integration of disparate content and transaction systems. These adapters include TIB/ActiveEnterprise components to integrate business information from enterprise software applications such as SAP R/3 or Oracle databases. This enables corporations to extend their enterprise systems onto the Web to build value-added extranet e-businesses. -- Value-added e-business services -- software devices such as alert engines, auction/quote exchange, time-series trackers, and other real-time services are but a few of the value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. of TIBCO.net. -- Decoupled output distribution -- mechanisms ensure that content delivered by TIBCO.net matches the look-and-feel of the host site. Consumer sites, including TIBCO customers Yahoo!, Netscape, E
rade, CBS Sportsline and several others, account for nearly 50
percent of all Web traffic according to TIBCO research. They function
as content aggregators providing value-added services and have become
the premier interactive marketing channels for today's most
sophisticated Internet consumers.
"Netscape uses TIBCO technology as part of our personalized My
Netscape Web service," said Mike Homer, executive vice president and
general manager of Netscape's Netcenter division. "TIBCO is one of
only a handful of companies that can provide industrial-strength,
high-performance software that enables companies such as Netscape to
provide valuable information services to its millions of users around
the world. TIBCO.net continues in that same tradition."
"Yahoo! Finance, one of the Internet's most popular personal
finance sites, provides vital news and information integrated with
timely stock quotes. TIBCO.net gives us a high-performance, reliable
distribution model for delivering information, coupled with a tool for
integrated content from diverse sources," said Mike Riley, senior
producer of Yahoo! Finance. "TIBCO.net allows our users to access the
information they need the moment it becomes available."
Corporate extranets, a primary target market for TIBCO.net, have
become customer service and communication feedback channels, reducing
overall costs while enhancing service quality and customer
satisfaction.
Some forward-thinking enterprises have extended corporate Web
sites to include content from supply-chain partners along with direct
communications enhancing overall operational efficiencies. Specialized
corporate sites that offer financial services, such as that operated
by Scotiabank, are implementing straight-through processing across
their value chain using TIBCO technology.
"Scotiabank was an early adopter of TIBCO's industrial-strength
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) software and services", said
Gail Smith, senior vice president of front office development at
Scotiabank. "We have been working with TIBCO for the past ten years in
our trading operations all over the globe, beginning on Wall Street
and expanding from there to Toronto, London and beyond. More recently,
TIBCO technology has helped to enable our StockLine Internet Trading
System, which is part of the Bank's evolving online services."
Greg Lindeblom, assistant general manager of Front Office
Development at Scotiabank added, "In the discount brokerage
marketplace today, our customers require comprehensive market
information relating to their own personal interests. Technology from
TIBCO has helped Scotia Discount Brokerage meet this demand on the
Internet."
Wireless telecommunications service providers are creating their
own branded content and offering informational products to augment
their bandwidth or messaging services. Information such as stock price
alerts, voicemail, and customer billing information can be accessed by
wireless devices in real-time.
"How does PageNet give customers the information services they
want, when they want them? That's easy. We are building the
information delivery channel of the future using TIBCO's Enterprise
Application Integration (EAI) software and their TIBCO.net solution,"
said John P. Frazee, Jr., chairman, president and chief executive
officer, PageNet.
"Our new Information Services Hub will deliver customized content
to wireless subscribers by aggregating, filtering, and delivering
content from multiple sources to pagers or other mobile devices. In
addition, we are using TIBCO software to integrate our billing and
customer service applications so we can provide our business customers
with unsurpassed access to information, anytime, anywhere. And what's
good for our customers' business, is good for our business."
PageNet, the world's largest wireless messaging and information
company, is using TIBCO's enterprise application integration solutions
combined with TIBCO.net to create an Information Services Hub that
will enable the delivery of an unparalleled range of customized
content to PageNet subscribers.
Acting as a "content engine," the Information Services Hub will
receive and aggregate information flowing in from a variety of
sources, such as PageNet's branded content partners, the Internet and
corporate Intranets. The Hub will then filter, process, format and
deliver this information to PageNet subscribers, customized to their
individual information needs and the specific capabilities of their
pager or other mobile device.
In addition, PageNet has integrated their billing and service
applications into the hub so that customers can access account
information wirelessly.
Current TIBCO.net customers include:
-- PageNet -- Real-time news and business events via wireless
distribution
-- Yahoo.com -- Delayed stock quotes over the Web
-- PointCast.com -- Content aggregation services at their data
center.
-- 3Com -- Corporate extranet content filtering integration with
internal resources.
-- Scotiabank StockLine -- Internet trading system.
Among the consumer content available today through TIBCO.net are
popular news and information services including Reuters and S&P
Comstock stock quotes, Reuters News, Business Wire and PRNewsWire.
Planned additional content includes other financial sources,
travel services, sports channels, health resources, weather sources,
and classified sources.
Not Just for the Fortune 500
Unique to TIBCO.net is its OneWire Service for both subscribers
who want just one or a few services, but also for independent Web site
publishers who want their content "pushed" in real-time to their
partners thus eliminating content management issues. Other offerings
include alert services for event-driven messaging.
TIBCO.net also includes all of the facilities for handling hub
monitoring and management, including database and file replication
across multiple locations, either through TIBCO's data center or at
the customer's site. The company offers dozens of hub services from
reporting and processing to auditing and accounting, and
personalization and registration management.
Pricing and Availability
TIBCO.net content integration services designed for Internet
portal sites or corporate intranets which include a single news feed
start at $2,500 per month. Fees charged by the content providers are
not included. Services are available immediately from TIBCO.
About TIBCO Software Inc.
TIBCO's software is a de facto standard for event-driven
computing and enterprise application integration (EAI) in finance,
manufacturing, construction, electronic commerce and other industries.
The company's patented publish/subscribe technologies allow for
interapplication communications across heterogeneous computing
environments.
Based in Palo Alto, Calif., TIBCO Software Inc. was formed from
TIBCO Inc., which was acquired in 1994 by Reuters Group PLC
(Nasdaq:RTRSY) the international news and financial information
services group. TIBCO Software Inc. is majority owned by Reuters Group
PLC. Cisco Systems Inc. and Mayfield Fund are minority shareholders.
Its sister company, TIBCO Finance Technology Inc., is a premier
supplier of digital trading systems and integration technologies to
finance services firms worldwide. For more information, contact TIBCO
at (650) 846-5000, or on the Internet at www.tibco.com.
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