TIBCO brings AxtiveMatrix to customers with global SOA tour

TIBCO Software has announced a 17-city worldwide SOA Bus Stop Tour that will allow the company to communicate directly with key customers, partners and analysts in great depth about its expanded service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform.

Beginning 5 February in Zurich, TIBCO SOA experts will demonstrate how the company's latest products can help customers better solve problems related to faster application development, integration and deployment, while reducing IT costs.

The bus tour will arrive in South Africa on 19 March 2007 with TIBCO hosting an SOA Executive Forum at the Michaelangelo Hotel in Sandton on 20 March.

The information technology market has been flooded with a lot of 'noise' around SOA over the last few years and there is a lack of true understanding of what vendors can deliver to make it a reality. The SOA Bus Stop Tour was created to give attendees the chance to learn about TIBCO's recently expanded SOA offerings and to walk away with a clear understanding of the company's vision for service-oriented architecture. Specifically, delegates will leave the event understanding how the TIBCO ActiveMatrix and TIBCO BusinessWorks products can help them implement an open, scalable SOA, empowering them to better solve their business problems today and in the future.

"The bus stop programme enables us to share TIBCO's unique 'service virtualisation' approach to SOA," says Marco Gerazounis, TIBCO country manager - South Africa. "With TIBCO's technology, organisations can leverage a platform agnostic solution to harness existing investments in employee skills and technologies. These events will also offer our customers and partners a chance to interact with product experts, as well as other customers to gain greater insight and know-how about solutions, fundamentals and best practices to SOA."

The new TIBCO ActiveMatrix products constitute the first phase of the company's ongoing Project Matrix initiative and complement the company's service creation and orchestration offerings in TIBCO BusinessWorks. TIBCO's suite of SOA offerings provide some of the broadest and deepest capabilities available today in the market and position customers to go beyond the initial hype of "some other acronym", to harness SOA's inherent complexity, and to innovate for competitive advantage.

The TIBCO SOA Bus Stop Tour will visit Brussels, Chicago, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney Tokyo and Zurich over a Two-month period. For additional locations and for more information on how to attend a TIBCO SOA Bus Stop event, please visit http://www.tibco.com/company/events/seminars/default.jsp.