TIBCO And TCS Ally On SOA

TIBCO Software and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have announced a strategic tie up to drive the development and delivery of SOA based solutions across various industry verticals.

The joint industry solutions will combine services and technologies from TIBCO and TCS and enable customers to streamline business processes using integrated service delivery models.

“As the market for SOA matures, it is becoming fast apparent that a host of new challenges is quickly arising. By combining our respective expertise and leveraging the new TIBCO ActiveMatrix family of products we can help to ensure customers receive optimized SOA solutions designed for their specific business needs,” said Dr. Santosh Mohanty, global head of the BI, EAI & KM Practices at TCS. “Our synergistic efforts will also provide simple, easy to use solutions that deliver on the promise of eliminating IT complexity in a services-based environment, resulting in faster time to market.”

TIBCO and TCS will also set up an SOA Center of Excellence (CoE) which will seek to educate and train SOA practitioners to ensure an in-depth understanding of project methodologies, relevant industry standards, and how-to resources for integrating legacy systems and business processes within a service-oriented architecture.

“We are delighted about extending our global business relationship with TCS. It demonstrates a continued customer commitment to ensure the highest standards of software and service excellence. The initiative will help to simplify the entire implementation and technology transfer process by providing enterprise organizations with a range of customized SOA industry templates,” commented Sanjay Gupta, vice president, Worldwide Alliances, TIBCO Software.