TIBCO Software Inc. has announced its TIBCO Cloud platform, featuring the new TIBCO Cloud Live Apps offering alongside the recognized TIBCO Cloud Integration. TIBCO Cloud provides improved solutions for organizations completely hosted in the cloud, enabling business users with self-service functionality, while simultaneously reducing the burden on IT. These developments illustrate TIBCO’s commitment to enhancing the customer experience, equipping them with advanced, intelligent technologies to become more productive, profitable, and innovative.
TIBCO Live Apps is an intuitive and easy-to-use solution that enables rapid delivery of smart business applications, built on powerful integration capabilities. Designed from the ground up to offer a unique user experience that requires no training, the solution provides a unique approach for digital business users. Key capabilities are also pre-built and can easily be customized for security or scalability, creating a tailored experience.
“Our new Live Apps and TIBCO Cloud Integration Web Integrator offerings are proof of product innovation and a robust user experience-centric design, providing an intuitive solution for users,” said Rajeev Kozhikkattuthodi, vice president, product management, TIBCO. “This means we are not only able to reach new users, but also help new customers across vertical markets beyond our traditional base. We are empowering a broad set of users with self-service tools that promote digital experimentation so that IT can focus on more mission-critical enablers.”
Alongside Live Apps, the Web Integator feature of TIBCO Cloud Integration introduces a completely browser-based design for creating integration applications. Built using open-source Project Flogo, Web Integrator allows line-of-business users and IT alike to create extremely light, performant applications with instinctive interfaces for increased productivity.
“TIBCO Cloud allows us to rapidly deliver cloud-based solutions and expedite service delivery,” said Kozhikkattuthodi. “These tools provide the means to create agile work environments that rethink business infrastructures and processes. Our goal is to continue being hyper-responsive to our customers, providing them with support for fast and iterative delivery of business apps to help them in their digital transformations.”
The agility offered by a cloud environment reduces the workload of IT departments, expanding the user base to include a variety of divisions rather than isolating one. In a December 2016 Forrester report titled Customer Obsession Will Remake AD&D Tools and Supporting Technologies, several analysts commented on the rise of this technology, saying “Low-code platforms support rapid experimentation and expand what development shops can do. Some can also allow business experts to participate in application design and prototyping as well as to create extensions and maintain key business processes and rules. Supporting business experts with low-code tools helps take the ‘rogue’ out of rogue IT.”