TIBCO Software, a business integration and process management software company that enables real-time business, has launched TIBCO Business Studio, the first software offering in a series of role-based design technologies targeting the business user.
TIBCO Business Studio represents a unified Eclipse-based environment that integrates modelling, management and simulation to help facilitate collaboration between business and IT users and optimise processes, thereby decreasing time-to-market of enterprise projects.
Enabling business users to easily define business processes that involve both people and systems helps to facilitate the seamless linking of services within a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to the business process. TIBCO Business Studio saves time and minimises rework by enabling users to define processes in business terms. The resulting processes are easier to understand because they don`t include or require technical information. This makes it possible for non-technical users to own their business processes and intelligently manage them through the process lifecycle, including pre-planning, modelling, simulation of execution and re-modelling.
"Modelling and managing processes is becoming more and more difficult and there is ongoing pressure to reduce the time from design to execution," says Marco Gerazounis, Country Manager at TIBCO South Africa. "TIBCO Business Studio streamlines complex processes, simulates `what-if` scenarios and encourages process optimisation, helping our customers realise a return on their solutions even faster."
As BPM, SOA and business optimisation technologies evolve, so does the complexity of the processes that they manage. According to the Gartner report released in February 2006, business process analysis (BPA) and modelling is becoming a starting point for BPM projects and compliance activities. The assistance of a tool with visualisation and other features - such as simulation and activity-based costing - is essential to optimise business processes and realise BPM cost and time savings.1
TIBCO Business Studio addresses the challenges of incorporating assets, both inside and outside of the organisation, modelling them into business processes and simulating how they would perform prior to deployment. The end result is an ability to move to execution in a more timely and accurate manner. With TIBCO Business Studio, non-technical business users can automate models into deployable applications that leverage analytical efforts and better comply with business process rules. TIBCO Business Studio provides a more efficient and cost-effective way to manage business processes overall.
Standards-based modelling/guided modelling
TIBCO Business Studio is standards-based with support for BPMN and XPDL. When defining a model, Business Studio will recognise any problems with the model and walk the user through how to make the model compliant. TIBCO Business Studio provides guided modelling, helping ensure that process models adhere to corporate methodologies. Those methodologies might be external, such as Six Sigma, or an organisation`s own custom methodology.
1. 27 February 2006, Gartner Research Report: Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis Tools, 2006, Michael J Blechar, Jim Sinur
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TIBCO Software Inc (NASDAQ:TIBX) is a leading business integration and process management software company that enables real-time business. Real-time business is about helping companies become more cost-effective, more agile and more efficient. TIBCO has delivered the value of real-time business, what TIBCO calls The Power of Now, to over 2 500 customers around the world and in a wide variety of industries. For more information on TIBCO`s proven enterprise backbone, business integration, business process management and business optimisation solutions, TIBCO can be reached at +27 011-4673111 or on the Web at www.tibco.com, TIBCO is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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