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As
organizations struggle to unify disparate business processes and
applications, integration is one of the key corporate
constraints on revenue growth, increased productivity, and
business performance visibility. Application integration has
traditionally required custom-built business processes, which
are very expensive to develop and maintain. Universal
Application Network dramatically reduces the cost and complexity
of application integration, enabling organizations for the first
time to cost-effectively develop and deploy cross-application
business processes. Based on XML and Web Services industry
standards, Universal Application Network enables organizations
to select best-in-class applications and ensures that they are
not locked into vendor-specific proprietary architectures.
Universal Application Network includes three primary
components:
Business
Process Design Tool - A selection of business process
design tools for modeling and configuring existing business
processes and creating new ones. TIBCO's BusinessWorks Process
Modeling Tool enables organizations to model and configure
existing best-practice business processes for Universal
Application Network resulting in substantially reduced
integration and implementation time and cost. A business
analyst can use the business process design tool to describe
the business process at a level that is
application-independent and an application developer can
further define details by providing process flows indicating
how a specific application accomplishes those steps.
Best-Practice Business Process Library - A library of
prepackaged, industry-specific business processes based on
best practices prebuilt, quality-assured, and provided by
Siebel Systems. These business processes can be executed
across multiple applications, departments, organizations, and
enterprises. Siebel Systems is building this business process
library, using the TIBCO business process design tool that
enables users to design, configure, modify, and extend
business processes for Universal Application Network. These
business process design tools can import and export
standards-based XML representations of business processes.
Integration Server - An integration server executes
business processes, created by the business process design
tool, and coordinates interapplication communication.
The
result is a vendor-independent application integration solution
that enables organizations to rapidly respond to business
opportunities, optimize organizational performance, and realize
unprecedented business value from existing systems. Because this
approach is standards-based, Universal Application Network
business processes can be deployed across a diverse set of
applications, in multiple company divisions and business units.
This gives customers the freedom to choose best-of-class
applications and leverage their existing IT investments.
"TIBCO
Software is pleased to be working with Siebel Systems to support
industry standards and deliver best practices to make our joint
customers more successful," said TIBCO Software Chief
Operating Officer Raj Mashruwala. "By providing a
comprehensive tool to model business processes, we are
underscoring our commitment to help customers ease integration
challenges and maximize the value of their eBusiness
applications."
Siebel
Systems and TIBCO have developed a suite of industry-specific
demonstrations that showcase the power of business process
computing and ease of cross-application integration using UAN.
One of the demonstrations includes an integrated portfolio and
order management system illustrating how Siebel eFinance, a
portfolio management application, and a trade order application
can be integrated in a seamless best-practice business process
that enables retail brokers to proactively manage their clients'
portfolios for achieving individual financial objectives. This
demonstration is available to Siebel Systems and TIBCO customers
and prospects at TIBCO solution centers.
"By
working with TIBCO to deliver best-practice business processes,
Siebel Systems continues to help customers substantially
increase the return on investment from their CRM investment and
dramatically lower the cost associated with integrating
disparate eBusiness applications," said Jeffrey Scheel,
Vice President and General Manager, Alliances for Siebel
Systems. "This customer-centric solution substantially
reduces the need for application customization, minimizes
complexity, speeds deployment, increases end user adoption and
success rates and delivers a low total cost of ownership."
About
TIBCO Software Inc.
TIBCO
Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX), a pioneer in business integration
software, offers solutions for many industries and operates
around the world. Today, TIBCO is the leading company
specializing solely in business integration software. TIBCO's
innovative technology enables its more than 1,700 customers to
unlock the power of their people, systems and processes.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, TIBCO can be reached at
650-846-1000 or on the web at www.tibco.com.
About
Siebel Systems
Siebel
Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of eBusiness applications
software, enabling corporations to sell to, market to, and serve
customers across multiple channels and lines of business. With
more than 3,500 customers worldwide, Siebel Systems provides
organizations with a proven set of industry-specific best
practices, CRM applications, and business processes, empowering
them to consistently deliver superior customer experiences and
establish more profitable customer relationships. Siebel
Systems' sales and service facilities are located in more than
28 countries.
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Palo
Alto, CA and San Mateo, CA - September 16, 2002 - TIBCO
Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX) and Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:
SEBL), a leading provider of multichannel eBusiness applications
software, today announced the companies are leveraging their
joint partnership to deliver prepackaged best-practice business
processes for Universal Application Network. Siebel Systems is
using TIBCO's design tool to develop these business processes
for Universal Application Network to address complex application
integration challenges and minimize the need for customization,
speeding the deployment and lowering the total cost of
ownership.