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TIBCO Brings BPM and SOA to Business Users

Business Studio Bridges Gap Between Business and IT; Eases Modeling, Simulation and Management of Business Processes and Services

TUCON™, Orlando, Fla., April 13, 2006 - TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX), today announced at TUCON 2006, the company’s annual user conference, the launch of 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 modeling, management and simulation to help facilitate collaboration between business and IT users and optimize 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 minimizes 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, modeling, simulation of execution and re-modeling.

“Modeling and managing processes is becoming more and more difficult and there is ongoing pressure to reduce the time from design to execution,” said Ram Menon, SVP, Worldwide Marketing, TIBCO. “TIBCO Business Studio streamlines complex processes, simulates ‘what-if’ scenarios and encourages process optimization, helping our customers realize a return on their solutions even faster. ”

As BPM, SOA and business optimization 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 modeling is becoming a starting point for BPM projects and compliance activities. The assistance of a tool with visualization and other features — such as simulation and activity-based costing — is essential to optimize business processes and realize BPM cost and time savings.¹

TIBCO Business Studio addresses the challenges of incorporating assets, both inside and outside of the organization, modeling 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 Modeling/Guided Modeling

TIBCO Business Studio is standards-based with support for BPMN and XPDL. When defining a model, Business Studio will recognize any problems with the model and walk the user through how to make the model compliant. TIBCO Business Studio provides guided modeling, helping ensure that process models adhere to corporate methodologies. Those methodologies might be external, such as Six Sigma, or an organization’s own custom methodology.

Availability

TIBCO Business Studio is available now and will be demonstrated at the second annual worldwide TIBCO User Conference (TUCON), being held April 11-13, 2006 at the Omni Orlando Resort in Champions Gate, Fla. For more information, visit http://tucon.tibco.com/index.html.

About TIBCO Software

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 optimization solutions, TIBCO can be reached at +1 650-846-1000 or on the Web at www.tibco.com, TIBCO is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

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¹ Feb. 27, 2006, Gartner Research Report: Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis Tools, 2006, Michael J. Blechar, Jim Sinur