TSI Software And TIBCO Establish Alliance and OEM Agreement.WILTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 3, 1998-- TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company to Resell TSI's Mercator Product Suite TSI TSI Total Solar Irradiance (sum solar light in energy per unit of time) TSI Trading Standards Institute (UK) TSI Transportation Safety Institute (US DOT) International Software Ltd. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : TSFW) and TIBCO Software, Inc., today announced an alliance and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement enabling TIBCO to resell the Mercator(R) product suite. As part of the alliance, TSI Software is providing off-the-shelf integration of TIBCO's leading messaging middleware product, TIB See NIST binary. (R)/Rendezvous(TM), with TSI's Mercator. The technology alliance between TSI and TIBCO, leaders in enterprise application integration, will enable customers to seamlessly integrate applications within enterprise-wide, mission-critical environments. "We are very pleased to be partnering with TSI Software to bring robust and rapid integration solutions to our clients," said Murat Sonmez, vice president, sales, TIBCO Software, Inc. "Mercator's rich data transformation capabilities, coupled with our event-driven information distribution, make it easier for our clients to efficiently and reliably deploy their enterprise application integration projects." "The partnership with TIBCO opens important new market opportunities for Mercator and adds a major new worldwide sales channel for TSI," said Connie Galley, president 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 TSI Software. "TIBCO is a recognized leader in delivering event-driven middleware solutions. By drawing on our combined expertise with enterprise applications, customers will be able to implement real-time integration solutions more quickly and at less cost." TSI/TIBCO Synergies TSI and TIBCO bring complementary product and market strength to this relationship. TIBCO's TIB/Rendezvous middleware product is a developers tool for building scalable, distributed applications on heterogeneous platforms. Using TIBCO middleware to integrate client-server solutions with legacy applications, corporations can share critical business information throughout an enterprise, even across the Internet. TIBCO's event-driven technology ensures that new information is immediately and automatically distributed to the people and systems that need it. TSI's Mercator complements TIBCO's TIB/Rendezvous middleware platform through its ability to transform complex application data without writing programs. Mercator is a leading solution for integrating ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. applications, such as SAP R/3, with legacy systems, best-of-breed applications, e-commerce, databases and data warehouses. In addition, pre-built format definitions and automatic import facilities provide off-the-shelf support for a wide range of application formats including S.W.I.F.T., X12 EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. , EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange For Administration Commerce and Transport) An ISO standard for electronic data interchange (EDI) that was proposed to supersede both X12 and TRADACOMS as the worldwide standard. See EDI. , XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , HL7, and COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. . About Mercator Mercator is a comprehensive solution for integrating applications at the "business content" level. Its unique ability to grasp the structure, rules and semantics of any application interface, and completely transform the interface without writing code, clearly sets it apart. Mercator features a robust workstation environment for creating transformation solutions that can execute on all major platforms including NT, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Windows, OS/400 and MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. . Mercator is the only product certified by SAP for use with all major SAP Business Framework interfaces including ALE, DMI (Desktop Management Interface) The first desktop management standard from the DMTF. Enabling PCs to be monitored from a central console, it was superseded by the DMTF's Common Information Model (see CIM). , EDI and BAPIs. Mercator has been selected by SAP for use within SAP Accelerated Solutions and for R/3 compliance with the integration standards of the Open Applications Group (OAG OAG Office of the Attorney General OAG Office of the Auditor General (of Canada) OAG Official Airline Guide OAG Open-Angle Glaucoma OAG Open Application Group OAG Operational Advisory Group ). In addition, Mercator has been selected by Price Waterhouse as the integration tool of choice within its R/3 practice. About TIB/Rendezvous TIB/Rendezvous's publish and subscribe messaging An e-mail system or message broker that supports the publish and subscribe model. It enables multiple users or applications to sign up for an event, and when that event occurs, those users or applications are sent the appropriate notification or data. See messaging system and messaging middleware. technology is the foundation of TIB/ActiveEnterprise, the family of products bringing event-driven computing to the Internet and corporate Intranets. An emerging standard for information delivery, 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. has been endorsed by leading-edge companies, including Cisco, 3Com, Compaq, Informix, Microsoft, Oracle, and Sun. About TIBCO Software, Inc. TIBCO's software is now a de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for enterprise-wide event-driven computing in finance, manufacturing, construction, electronic commerce and other industries. Dozens of companies have endorsed TIBCO software for Internet/Intranet applications. Among those companies that have announced alliances with TIBCO are: IBM, Cisco Systems, 3Com, Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Informix, i2 Technologies, and Deloitte and Touche. TIBCO is an international market leader and pioneer in software tools and services for building distributed applications that provide event-driven and real-time information exchange throughout the enterprise. The company developed and patented publish/subscribe technologies that allow for interapplication communications across heterogeneous environments. Based in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , TIBCO Software, Inc. was formed in 1997 from TIBCO Inc., a company which first became prominent by supplying information management systems to financial trading rooms. TIBCO Inc. was acquired in 1994 by Reuters Group PLC (NASDAQ: RTRSY), the international news and financial information services group. TIBCO Software is majority-owned by Reuters. In 1997, Cisco Systems, Inc. purchased a minority stake in TIBCO Software. 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 at http://www.tibco.com. About TSI International Software Ltd. TSI Software is a leading provider of off-the-shelf software for enterprise application integration across all industries. TSI's flagship product, Mercator, is the leading solution for integrating SAP R/3 with other enterprise applications. TSI's integration solutions operate on all major computing platforms, are complementary to all major middleware systems for message transport, and have been implemented by over 1,400 customers worldwide. TSI customers and partners include American Express, Citibank, CrossWorlds, Deere & Company, Dow-Corning, Eastman Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, HBOC HBOC HBO & Co of Georgia HBOC Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer HBOC Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carrier HBOC Hawke's Bay Orienteering Club (New Zealand) HBOC Hunter Bird Observers Club HBOC Horse Breeders and Owners Conference , IBM, Mitsui, Netscape, and Texas Instruments. TSI Software is a public company and is headquartered in Wilton, Connecticut. More information about the company can be found at http://www.tsisoft.com. Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the Company's beliefs, expectations, hopes or intentions regarding the future. Forward-looking statements in this release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the demand for the Company's applications integration solutions and acceptance of Mercator including in the international markets. It is important to note that actual outcomes and the Company's actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as changes in demand for applications integration solutions and the Company's Mercator family of products in particular, the ability of the Company to expand its international operations, the ability of the Company to continue to add resellers and other distribution channels, and the success of third parties in marketing and distributing the Company's products, and market acceptance of the SAP R/3 system or difficulties and/or delays in SAP R/3 implementations. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures outlined in the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 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