The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
By Tony Baer, Senior Analyst, Ovum , 05/22/2008
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You can tell you’re at a techie conference when the CEO’s opening address steps you through the generations of IT history. Tibco CEO Vivek Ranadivé, who roughly a decade ago wrote a book on the power of real-time information, is now telling us that real-time isn’t fast enough; you need to be able to predict the foreseeable future based on patterns that are emerging today. What was kind of amusing was that as he was drawing Tibco’s vision of event-driven architecture (EDA), events took their own turn as his slide presentation anticipated what Ranadive was going to talk about next, and advanced from the EDA architectural diagram to the next shot before he was through. Check out Dana’s Gardner’s ZDNet blog for another account of Ranadive’s keynote.
TUCON 2008 provided some interesting tidbits of a company in transition. Like most major software players, it came off a good 2007 and, Q1 2008 wasn’t too shabby either (like the rest of the software industry, we’re waiting for Q3 and 4 to see if Tibco and its peers can handle the truth). Like most active mid-tier players, the company is embarking on a SOA transition that hasn’t always been well explained to its customers. In part it’s due to the fact that Tibco has had to layer over a legacy, the penalty paid for being the first on the block, but mostly it’s due to the fact that the company has not adequately communicated its message as to how all the pieces are fitting together. With Tibco ONE, which seeks to unify the design experience across all its tools, busses, and process engines, it’s made an auspicious start. But to date, the company lacks a page to explain what the ActveMatrix brand is, and the vision and message behind it. Enter “Tibco ActiveMatrix” in Google today, and aside from point product listings, you’ll get a SOA landing page with a list of ActiveMatrix products underneath it.
The highlights of Tibco’s announcements include a welcome addition to run time SOA governance, Service Performance Manager, which cleverly bundles some of its Business Events complex event processing technology to tell you whether you’re meeting the Service Level Agreements, at least from a performance standpoint. It takes the assumption that service levels are a classic complex event processing problem, especially given the kinds of highly scaled and highly distributed networks that Tibco customers tend to have. We attended a live podcast recording session led by Dana Gardner that featured independent analyst Joe McKendrick, IDC analyst Sandy Rogers, Tibco SOA marketing manager Rourke McNamara, and Allstate technology solutions VP Anthony Abbatista that plumbed the topic to more detail, which should be published soon by Gardner and Tibco.
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