2024 has been a monumental year for TIBCO®, and we’re not even halfway through. As we prepare to launch our latest evolution in our TIBCO portfolio, we want to also share an exciting event taking place in a few, short months—the TIBCO European Summit 2024!
The TIBCO European Summit is our exclusive, invite-only TIBCO leadership conference curated to specifically support our customers as we face the future of your digital business together.
As a valued TIBCO customer and invitee, your attendance is highly anticipated in Rome, Italy, at The Hive on June 18th! You won’t want to miss this!
TIBCO European Summit: The details
To provide the best experience, the TIBCO European Summit 2024 will be an all-executive, invite-only, free-to-attend event that has been intricately designed to provide attendees with VIP access to everything TIBCO. Furthermore, as an exclusive peer networking and industry innovation educational experience dedicated to senior leaders, executives, and decision-makers—TIBCO Summit guests will:
Gain an inside view into TIBCO: With direct access to our team, attendees will speak with TIBCO leadership and gain an understanding of our future roadmap and updates
Discover cutting-edge innovations: Hear firsthand insights into the latest advancements in technology, case studies, and operational transformations
Engage with industry experts: Connect with thought leaders and experts who will share invaluable knowledge and strategies to drive enterprise success forward
Unlock the power of collaboration: Network with peers and industry pioneers to foster meaningful relationships that propel business forward
Learn how to maximize solutions: Discover industry-leading support and customer success resources, designed to empower and provide maximum value
A customer-centric event
With the upcoming launch of the next-generation TIBCO® Platform, TIBCO is dedicated to solving our customer’s most challenging enterprise-level needs by unlocking the power and potential of real-time data to help our customers maintain a competitive advantage and increase their business value.
But we don’t want to just tell you, we want to show you, too. That’s why at the TIBCO Summit, attendees will gain a front-row view of the future TIBCO roadmap, the ability to hear what exactly this new evolution means for their TIBCO journey, and have firsthand discussions with TIBCO leadership and product experts to gain confidence in their investment.
And as our exclusive TIBCO leadership conference, the TIBCO Summit will showcase a wide array of thought leaders. From TIBCO executives sharing their perspectives and insights to TIBCO customers sharing compelling success stories, we know it’s going to be a “can’t miss” event of some of the world’s most compelling thinkers and doers.
See you there: TIBCO Summit 2024
For those executives attending the summit, we can’t wait to see you there! We hope you’ve been able to successfully register for the TIBCO European Summit 2024 in Rome. If you have any questions regarding the TIBCO Summit, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your Account Executive.
In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, agility, innovation, and seamless integration are no longer just desirable; they’re essential. To thrive in today’s fast-paced world, organizations need more than just tools—they need a comprehensive platform that empowers them to adapt, grow, and succeed. The latest evolution in the TIBCO®portfolio, the TIBCO® Platform, is sure to be a game changer in the realm of digital transformation.
Why TIBCO?
At TIBCO, we know the challenges businesses face in harnessing the power of data, connecting disparate systems, and staying ahead of the curve. We understand that as a large, highly complex enterprise, your digital business must be available without disruption. That’s why we’ve developed robust, flexible, and future-proof solutions that are designed to solve our customers’ most complex problems.
But don’t just take our word for it—see it in action for yourself. Discover below, in less than 90 seconds, just why leading organizations across the top industries are continuing to choose and leverage TIBCO to transform their business, drive competitive advantage, and create lasting impact. To best prepare you for the eagerly awaited launch that is sure to revolutionize mission-critical operations and enable enterprises to unlock greater success, watch this video.
Figure 01: Watch our short “Why TIBCO?” video
Future-proof your enterprise with TIBCO
At the end of the day, TIBCO is known for providing industrial-strength reliability, throughput, scalability, and performance. For delivering data within enterprises immediately, in real-time, wherever and whenever it’s needed most. While offering a wide range of technology and deployment options to provide customers the flexibility needed to stay competitive, run faster, and work smarter.
Head here to learn how TIBCO supports customers every step of the way and fuels their digital transformation initiatives for the future.
And for more details about the upcoming launch of the TIBCO®Platform—you’ll have to sit patiently for just a little bit longer.
When it comes to making a major purchase, the best thing to do is read the reviews. Even better, read the reviews from the people that have actually used the product. For software users in the market to learn and make a change, most people turn to G2—an online peer review forum that helps more than 5 million people a month discover the perfect software solutions for their needs.
TIBCO®has over 700 peer reviews on G2, making TIBCO a highly trusted, verified, and leading enterprise software choice on the G2 site. Dive into the latest G2 awards and badges to see how TIBCO has continually solidified its reputation as a highly-verified, top-rated, industrial-strength enterprise software provider below.
G2 significance: Spring 2024
Last year TIBCO received 40+ G2 badges for its success and capabilities in the Integration and Data Management markets. This year, in the second quarter of 2024 alone, TIBCO received 21 “Leader” badges between those two capabilities and 65 overall report mentions. Leader badges are the highest G2 honor a product can receive overall—continue reading to see the complete list of the beautiful G2 Spring TIBCO has ushered in below.
Spring 2024 G2 badges: TIBCO Integration
Of the 22 total badges awarded to TIBCO in Spring 2024, 18 of them were for our proven ability as an Integration provider with our premier Integration components, TIBCO BusinessWorks™ and TIBCO Flogo® Enterprise, that connect anything, anywhere, and in any way. Of the 18 badges, 17 badges placed TIBCO as a “Leader,” which is the highest honor a product can receive in the G2 Grid Report that determines these acknowledgments. In addition, TIBCO Integration scored the “Easiest Setup” badge and received 40+ overall report mentions!
Figure 02: G2 Spring 2024 Integration badges, iPaaS
Figure 03: G2 Spring 2024 Integration badges, AWS Marketplace and Enterprise Service Bus
Spring 2024 G2 badges: TIBCO Data Management
The Spring season also brought in success for TIBCO’s Data Management capability, TIBCO EBX®software, receiving 4 total “Leader” badges and 24 overall report mentions. Our continued G2 recognition as a Data Management provider illustrates just how capable TIBCO Data Management is in transforming how enterprises govern, manage, and share critical business data. G2 placed TIBCO EBX as a “Leader,” in several different categories illustrated below—which, as mentioned previously, is the highest acknowledgment a product can receive in the G2 Grid Report.
Figure 04: G2 Spring 2024 Integration badges, Master Data Management
What’s in store for TIBCO: Stay tuned
To our customers who continue to trust TIBCO with all their enterprise-grade, mission-critical capability needs—thank you. If you want to share your own review with others and help us have another successful round of G2 reviews in the Summer, head to G2 today!
It’s already been an electric first half of the year for TIBCO as we unveiled a brand new website, a reimagined TIBCO Community, and experienced a heavy G2 Winter—but we’re just getting started. An exciting upcoming announcement that will take your enterprise to the next level is coming soon!
TIBCO has a reputation as a trusted, modern enterprise platform for global retailers around the world. With customers such as Campari Group and Panera Bread, TIBCO is well-versed in providing mission-critical enterprise capabilities to ensure retailers can consistently support and deliver on their unique consumer needs.
Continue reading to discover how retailers both large and small, with the help of TIBCO®, unlock large-scale, e-commerce success to improve their digital customer experience, at a fraction of the cost.
Figure 01: The benefit Metcash and Campari Group have seen since working with TIBCO.
Why retailers trust TIBCO
Large-scale, global, competitive retailers are constantly facing high demands that require immediate decisions and streamlined efficiency. In a recent Gartner® Market Insights, it was found that “57% of retailers plan to spend more on software next year” and that “49% of retailers regret one or more software purchases”—it’s clear that there’s a growing need for software to remain connected to consumers, competitive, and profitable, but there’s uncertainty on who to turn to.
With a proven history of helping global enterprises solve complex business challenges for over 25 years, TIBCO has established itself as a trusted enterprise-grade software provider for customers. By delivering cutting-edge technology and data-driven solutions to revolutionize business operations, drive innovation, and achieve sustainable growth, TIBCO has a reputation of successfully supporting digital businesses in dynamic landscapes.
Furthermore, TIBCO has:
Cultivated 650+ partnerships
Been present in 21 of the top 25 Global 2000 companies
Received 50+ awards and badges based on customer feedback and testimonials in the last year alone
For over a quarter of a century, global enterprises have used TIBCO’s industrial-strength capabilities to solve their most complex challenges. Take TIBCO customer, Metcash, for example. Metcash works with more than 6,000 retailers and is Australia’s leading wholesale distribution company. With the help of TIBCO Integration capabilities, the Australian retail giant wanted to lower their overall operational costs, onboard new customers faster, enhance their customer experience, and decrease downtime—simply put, Metcash wanted to modernize and streamline their application integration.
In the first year of working together, Metcash and TIBCO did that and more. Metcash was able to synchronize and accelerate their retail enterprise connectivity by:
Delivering integrations 20% faster and at 50% less cost
Scaling operations by 120%
Producing 200+ interfaces for improved customer UX
Looking forward with TIBCO
Since the pandemic, most industries have undergone rapid change, and the retail landscape is no exception. With the increase in digital accessibility from consumers and supply-chain difficulties, large retailers have had to adapt more than ever before. At TIBCO, we want to help you prepare for and tackle these challenges. By continuing to embrace modernization, we are able to help retailers and our customers, Campari Group, Panera Bread, and Metcash, innovate and grow.
In the spirit of accepting change, stay tuned for a highly-anticipated TIBCO announcement next month that has the potential to take your retail business to the next level—and cut costs.
Step into the future of Master Data Management with our cutting-edge TIBCO EBX® software. As a component of TIBCO Data Management, TIBCO EBX provides users with flexible, enterprise-class capabilities to govern, manage, and share critical business data with confidence.
Now, TIBCO EBX has the potential to become an even more powerful MDM solution. Continue reading to see the groundbreaking integration that could take the future of Data Management to a new level.
The benefit of Data Management
Before showcasing this unlocked potential, let’s revisit the importance of Data Management in an enterprise. MDM tools such as TIBCO EBX are crucial for large-scale enterprises because they ensure consistency and accuracy of critical data across various systems and departments.
By centralizing and governing master data, organizations can minimize errors, redundancies, and discrepancies, leading to improved decision-making and operational efficiency. Data Management solutions also facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements and enhance data security by establishing robust data governance frameworks.
Ultimately, effective MDM enables enterprises to unlock the full potential of their data assets, driving innovation and competitiveness in the marketplace. See how our Data Management solution, TIBCO EBX,does that and more.
Introducing an integration for the future
With the benefits of Data Management clear, it’s time to be introduced to the proof-of-concept that could change it all. Today, we’re thrilled to present a game-changing integration between OpenAI’s API and our cutting-edge Data Management solution, TIBCO EBX. Together, TIBCO believes this conceptual solution could transform enterprise workflows with minimal human intervention and unlock a power like never before.
Watch the short video below to see how the partnership between OpenAI+TIBCO EBX works, the Data Management power it unlocks, and discover the eye-opening precedent this could set for all enterprises in the future.
Figure 01: The revolutionary collaboration between OpenAI’s cutting-edge API and TIBCO EBX.
Harness the power of TIBCO EBX®
Today, TIBCO EBX is known for creating trusted data through accessibility, delivery, and security to meet an organization’s exact operational, compliance, and analytic requirements. However, as showcased above, our award-winning Data Management solution has the clear potential to expand its capabilities and reputation in the future.
***The functionality of the OpenAI integration or any other AI integration for TIBCO EBXⓇ is not currently available. If and when the functionality is made available, it may be as an optional add-on to TIBCO EBX offerings.
The material provided is for informational purposes only, and should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. The information is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any materials, code, or functionality. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion.
TIBCO wins G2 badges for Winter 2024 in the Integration and Data Management categories.
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We all know it’s critical to read reviews before any major purchase, especially software. That’s why most potential and current software users turn to G2, an online peer review forum that helps more than 5 million people a month discover the perfect software solutions for their needs.
With TIBCO® having 700+ G2 peer reviews, our product users are no stranger to the G2 site. Discover how, with the help of recent G2 awards and badges, TIBCO strengthens its reputation as a top-rated, highly-verified, industrial-strength software provider below.
G2 significance: Winter 2024
In 2023, TIBCO received 40+ G2 badges for its recognized and authenticated leadership in the Data Management and Integration markets. This year, in the first quarter of 2024 alone, TIBCO received 18 badges between those two capabilities. Among these TIBCO badges, nearly all were “Leader” badges, the highest G2 honor a product can receive overall. Continue reading to see the complete list of TIBCO’s heavy G2 Winter below.
Figure 01: G2 Winter 2024 badges for EBS Winter Leader, MDM Enterprise Leader, and iPaas Mid-Market Leader.
Winter 2024 G2 badges: TIBCO Integration
Of the 18 badges awarded to TIBCO in Winter 2024, 12 of them were for our proven ability as an Integration provider to connect anything, anywhere, and in any way. All 12 badges placed TIBCO as a “Leader,” which is the highest honor a product can receive in the G2 Grid Report that determines these acknowledgments.
Figure 02: G2 Winter 2024 iPaaS Leader badges for India, Asia, and Asia Pacific regions.
Winter 2024 G2 badges: TIBCO Data Management
It was also a winning season for TIBCO’s Data Management capability, TIBCO EBX® software, receiving 6 total badges. Our TIBCO Data Management capability transforms how enterprises govern, manage, and share critical business data. G2 placed TIBCO EBX as a “Leader,” in 5 different categories, which, as mentioned previously, is the highest acknowledgment a product can receive in the G2 Grid Report.
Figure 03: G2 Winter 2024 Master Data Management Leader badges for Winter, Enterprise, Mid-Market, Americas and Enterprise Americas.
To many more in 2024
We’re thankful for our users and customers who continue to trust TIBCO with all their enterprise-grade, mission-critical capability needs. If you want to write your own review to help us have another successful round of G2 reviews in the Spring, head to G2 today.
And though it’s already been an incredible start to the year for TIBCO with a new website and heavy G2 badge winter, this is just the beginning. Stay tuned for an exciting announcement in the coming months that will take your digital business to the next level.
Welcome to the refreshed TIBCO® brand! We’re excited to usher in the new era of TIBCO as a business unit within Cloud Software Group. There’s no better way to do that than by taking a look at our updated website. While we’re still providing the same industrial-strength, mission-critical enterprise software you’ve loved for decades, we’ve made some changes to the site that TIBCO customers are sure to appreciate.
Learn more about the history of the TIBCO brand and dive into our redesigned look on tibco.com, or explore further below!
The TIBCO legacy
In the late 1990s, TIBCO came onto the scene and revolutionized the financial industry by ushering in real-time communication within financial markets—without manual human intervention. Over the years, TIBCO has grown tenfold, making it a household name as mission-critical enterprise software—not only for financial services—but among the transportation, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, telecom, retail, and several other industries as well.
Learn more about why we’re the chosen real-time, enterprise-grade software for customers around the world on our redesigned Why TIBCO page.
What’s new with the TIBCO website?
For more than 25 years, TIBCO has offered a wide range of technology and capabilities to deliver real-time data wherever and whenever it’s needed most. We continue to do just that, but with a few cosmetic yet critical changes to keep up with the high standards we provide our customers. In the unveiling of our refreshed TIBCO brand and completely redesigned website, visitors will notice:
Improved website UX: New navigational formatting, streamlined and highly accessible contact/help forms, added contrast for improved readability, and reorganized/realigned TIBCO offerings for increased customer clarity and ease of use.
Updated design: The TIBCO site is now light, bright, highly contrasted, interactive, and brings great functionality to users. Visitors can easily view displayed content and gain a quicker understanding of TIBCO technology and the success those TIBCO solutions deliver.
New TIBCO Community: TIBCO users will also experience the same aforementioned updates on the new TIBCO Community site. Discover the improvements made and visit the TIBCO Community to see for yourself!
Come take a new look at an old friend and deep dive into these changes, among many others, on tibco.com.
Explore our TIBCO customers
As the trusted choice of our customers, TIBCO provides solutions that are essential to the success of the world’s largest enterprises. On our newly refreshed TIBCO site, visitors can explore an updated list of featured TIBCO customer success stories.
Explore TIBCO customer success stories from NASA, University of Chicago Medicine, Aeroporti di Roma, and many others on our refreshed Customers page!
Exciting changes to come!
This new age of TIBCO brings with it a revitalized brand and a completely redesigned TIBCO website—but it’s only the beginning. Keep an eye out for more upcoming changes that we can’t wait to share.
In the meantime, (and in case you’re not there already) head to tibco.com to check out our new look for yourself. If you have any questions for our TIBCO team, please contact us today.
The TIBCO Community is a place for you, our valued TIBCO customers and software users, to find the essential information you’re looking for, connect with your peers, review the latest technical articles, and share best practices for TIBCO products and capabilities. A go-to site and homebase for all your TIBCO needs––that’s just become an even better asset!
Discover the exciting updates and improvements we’ve made to the TIBCO Communityoutlined below.
What’s new: TIBCO Community updates
The TIBCO Community is focused on providing the most helpful platform and tools possible for our TIBCO users. In an environment where things change quickly and questions need to be addressed immediately, the TIBCO Community provides a forum to find those answers—in technical resources, articles, or from your peers that have experienced the same and found solutions. We know how critical the TIBCO Community is to staying active and in-touch with fellow users—as well as involved with our widespread TIBCO community as a whole.
See the following updates made to ensure the site continues to inform, connect, and support users in the most useful way possible:
New functionality/capabilities: The enhanced TIBCO Community site has even more functionality and capabilities. We heard your feedback and are excited to announce an easier and more attractive interface and user experience. Users will need to create new passwords to login, and then they can fully enjoy the upgraded site.
Separate communities: We have also taken the time to separate our communities into newly enhanced sites including: TIBCO, Spotfire, ibi, and Jaspersoft based on the updated business units within Cloud Software Group.
Increased user engagement: The new TIBCO Community site is designed to increase and streamline user engagement. With the new update of showcasing awards and badges for all users, this change encourages participation and connectedness.
And coming soon—the TIBCO Community newsletter! We’re excited to announce the upcoming addition of the TIBCO Communitynewsletter. Users will soon be able to subscribe and stay up-to-date on the latest TIBCO announcements, capabilities, events, and resources.
Check out the new TIBCO Community!
The best way to discover these exciting new changes and updates is to see them for yourself! Deep-dive into the new TIBCO Community today to log into the new site and better connect with your peers.
Head to community.tibco.com to check out the new TIBCO Community site today!
TIBCO BusinessConnect (BC) and its container edition (BCCE) enforce end-to-end trust through a layered security architecture designed for high-stakes B2B Document Exchange. This multi-plane approach spans transport encryption (HTTPS/SFTP), message-level encryption (S/MIME with PKI/PGP), and digital signatures. By combining channel security with payload-specific protections, TIBCO ensures data confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation across the entire B2B Document Exchange value chain.
Layer 1: How does TIBCO use Transport Encryption to secure the B2B Document Exchange channel?
Before a single byte of business data is moved, BusinessConnect establishes an encrypted transport channel between your system and your trading partner’s B2B gateway. This is the outermost security layer of the B2B Document Exchange, designed to prevent eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks on the network connection itself.
For HTTP-based communication, BC enforces HTTPS over TLS. For file transfer, it supports SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol), among others. In both cases, the underlying mechanism is the same: an asymmetric algorithm negotiates a symmetric session key during the handshake, and all subsequent data flows through that encrypted channel.
The TLS handshake is worth examining closely, because it is where certificate validation happens. When your BC instance connects outbound to a partner’s gateway, the partner presents a certificate chain — typically a leaf certificate signed by an intermediate CA, which is in turn signed by a root CA. BC validates the entire chain from leaf to root using its internal cipher platform. While BC stores a local copy of the partner’s certificate, if that copy has expired but the live certificate presented by the server passes chain validation, BC will proceed with the connection — a deliberate design choice that avoids unnecessary disruption while maintaining cryptographic integrity.
For organizations with elevated security requirements, BC also supports Mutual TLS (mTLS), where both sides present and validate certificates before the connection is established. This bidirectional authentication significantly raises the bar against impersonation attacks, at the cost of additional certificate lifecycle management overhead.
Layer 2: Why is Message-Level Encryption necessary for end-to-end B2B Document Exchange security?
Transport encryption secures the channel, but it does not protect the payload once it leaves the network layer — for example, if a message is stored, routed through an intermediary, or delivered to a system that does not enforce the same transport controls. Message-level encryption addresses this gap by encrypting the document itself, independent of the transport mechanism.
In BusinessConnect, message encryption is implemented using public/private key cryptography via either PKI (X.509 certificates) or PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), depending on what your trading partner supports. The sender encrypts the payload using the recipient’s public key. Only the holder of the corresponding private key — the intended recipient — can decrypt it. The encrypted payload is opaque to anyone else in the delivery path, including intermediaries and network infrastructure.
This model means confidentiality is enforced end-to-end, not just hop-to-hop. Even if the transport channel were compromised, an attacker would still face the full strength of the asymmetric encryption on the message itself.
Public keys in BC are represented as digital certificates — X.509 format, compliant with the PKIX standard defined in RFC 3280. These are issued by trusted Certificate Authorities such as VeriSign or GeoTrust, and BC’s certificate store holds three categories of keys: your own private keys, your partners’ public keys (certificates), and the CA root certificates used to validate the chain. Shadow certificates provide backup coverage when a certificate is approaching or has passed expiration, preventing disruption during certificate rotation.
Layer 3: How do S/MIME digital signatures ensure non-repudiation in TIBCO BusinessConnect?
The third layer addresses threat models like repudiation and tampering. Digital signatures solve this by proving that the B2B Document Exchange was initiated by a verified partner and that the content has not been altered. For industries subject to regulatory audit, this layer of the B2B Document Exchange is a compliance necessity, providing a cryptographic audit trail for every transaction.
The process works as follows: when a sender signs a document, a cryptographic digest of the message content is computed using a hashing algorithm — BC supports MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. That digest is then encrypted with the sender’s private key to produce the signature, which is attached to the message.
On the receiving end, the recipient uses the sender’s public key to decrypt the signature and recover the original digest. They independently compute a fresh digest of the received message content using the same algorithm. If the two digests match, two things are proven: the message was sent by the party that holds that private key (authentication), and the content has not been altered since it was signed (integrity). If they do not match, the document fails verification and should be rejected.
This mechanism provides non-repudiation — the sender cannot credibly deny having sent the document, because the signature could only have been produced by their private key. For industries subject to regulatory audit requirements, this is not a nice-to-have; it is a compliance necessity.
Note that the signature process is the inverse of message encryption: signing uses the sender’s private key and verifies with the sender’s public key, while encryption uses the recipient’s public key and decrypts with the recipient’s private key. Both can be applied simultaneously to the same document, giving you confidentiality and authenticity in a single pass.
What is the recommended DMZ architecture for TIBCO BusinessConnect?
Beyond the three cryptographic layers, BCCE recommends a dual-EMS deployment (EMS = TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, one of TIBCO’s messaging platforms)within a DMZ architecture. The principle is straightforward: all inbound internet-facing connections (HTTP, FTP) terminate at a server in the DMZ. Direct connectivity to the interior application server is blocked. This separation ensures that even if a DMZ component were compromised, the interior network remains protected — a standard defense-in-depth posture that aligns with most enterprise security frameworks.
Putting It All Together
The security model in TIBCO BusinessConnect and BCCE is not a single control — it is a stack. Transport encryption protects the channel. Message encryption protects the payload end-to-end. Digital signatures prove authenticity and enforce non-repudiation. Certificate management, digest algorithm selection, and DMZ topology give your security team the controls to tune this stack to your risk profile and compliance requirements.
Security Layer
Purpose
Key Methods/Protocols
Transport
Prevent eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks
HTTPS over TLS, SFTP
Message Encryption
Ensure only intended recipient can read the payload
S/MIME using public-private cryptography via PKI (X.509 certificates) or PGP
Digital Signature
Non-repudiation and non-tampering
Message digest is computed using SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 algorithms. Digest is encrypted using public-private cryptography (the reverse of message encryption).
For IT and InfoSec managers evaluating or currently operating a BC or BCCE deployment, understanding how these layers interact — and where each one can be configured or extended — is essential to maintaining a defensible security posture across your partner ecosystem.
Want to go deeper? Contact your account executive to schedule a technical session with our product and support engineers. Whether you are reviewing your current configuration, planning a migration to BCCE, or aligning your B2B security controls to a compliance framework, our team can walk through your specific environment and answer your questions directly.
Wens Gerdyman is a Principal Product Manager at TIBCO, responsible for B2B integration products. Wens has worked in product management and go-to-market roles at TIBCO and other companies. His product domain experience includes supply chain management, e-commerce, order management, and API management.
In the rush to adopt Artificial Intelligence, most enterprises face a common roadblock: How do we make our existing, complex business logic accessible to AI agents without rebuilding everything from scratch? At TIBCO, we believe the answer isn’t a “rip and replace” strategy. It’s about interoperability. That is why we are excited to announce a strategic update to TIBCO BusinessWorks™ – Native Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server Support for REST and SOAP Services.
What is Model Context Protocol and Why Does It Matter?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standardized open protocol that enables AI agents to seamlessly discover and interact with data and services. Think of it as a universal translator.
Historically, connecting an LLM (Large Language Model) to a backend SOAP or REST service required custom “glue code” or manual prompt engineering. By natively supporting MCP, TIBCO BusinessWorks allows your AI agents to “see” and “use” your enterprise functions as if they were native tools.
The Strategic Shift: TIBCO as the AI Backbone
This update represents a core shift in TIBCO’s AI strategy. We aren’t just adding AI features to our products; we are making our products the reliable infrastructure that fuels Enterprise AI.
By exposing BusinessWorks services as MCP servers, we are solving three critical challenges:
Dynamic Discovery: AI agents can now query your TIBCO environment in real time to determine which functions are available.
Legacy Modernization: You can bring decades of proven SOAP and REST logic into the AI era without a single line of code change to the original service.
Standardization: Using a standardized protocol ensures that your architecture remains vendor-agnostic and ready for whichever AI model you choose next.
Seamless Implementation: From API to AI Tool
The transition from a standard service to an AI-ready tool is designed to be frictionless for developers. Within TIBCO Business Studio™, enabling this capability is a matter of configuration, not reconstruction:
One-Click Tool Exposure: Developers can simply right-click an existing service operation and select “Use as a Tool” to expose it to the MCP server.
Built-in Discovery: The new MCP Server View enables management and naming of these tools, providing the descriptions and metadata that AI agents need to understand when and how to use them.
Command-Line Automation: New bwdesign utility commands, allow teams to automate the AI enablement of existing projects or spin up new MCP-ready skeletons from API specs.
Enterprise-Grade Security for AI
We understand that “opening up” services to AI agents raises significant security concerns. TIBCO’s MCP implementation is built with enterprise rigors at its core:
Authentication: Supports Basic Authentication and JWT (JSON Web Tokens).
Granular Authorization: You can restrict tool access using specific JWT scopes (e.g., read: tools or update: tools), ensuring an agent can only perform the actions it is authorized to do.
Secure Communication: Full support for SSL configuration, ensuring all interactions between the AI client and the TIBCO server are encrypted.
Ready to build and experiment locally? Simply enable the MCP Server View in TIBCO BusinessStudio and start exposing your APIs as MCP tools. It is available in Tech Preview with TIBCO Businessworks 6.12.0 HF02.
The Bottom Line: Real-World Value
For the enterprise, this update significantly reduces the time-to-market for AI initiatives. Instead of rebuilding months of business logic—such as inventory checks or customer lookups—teams can now expose entire libraries of proven SOAP and REST logic to AI agents in minutes. This provides the robust, governed, and scalable “plumbing” required to move AI from experimental chat interfaces into production-ready business automation.
Mustafa Tavawala is a Lead Product Manager at TIBCO and is primarily responsible for designing and executing the roadmap for the TIBCO Businessworks 6 product suite. He has also worked as a Solution Architect with hands-on experience leading application and data integration initiatives for a diverse set of customers.
In the fast-paced world of technology and software, organizations must be in a constant state of evolution not only to survive but to thrive. Today, we are seeing artificial intelligence accelerate at an unprecedented pace, driven by AI Flywheels that follow exponential growth curves—such as increased computing capacity, improving models, and compounding capital investment. As the landscape shifts, some claim that established integration platforms cannot keep pace with change. At TIBCO, our strategy proves the exact opposite: we are actively evolving to fuel the next wave of the industry by enabling the Agentic Enterprise Solutions.
We recognize that the intelligent enterprises of tomorrow require a rock-solid, high-performing foundation today. That is why our primary focus remains on strengthening our core capabilities in Integration, Event Processing, Process Automation, and Messaging. Rather than standing still, we are continually enhancing these solutions by expanding support for modern cloud and container platforms, increasing performance, and decreasing both start times and footprint.
“TIBCO has transitioned to Adaptive Engineering, utilizing rapid prototyping and “vibe-coding” to collapse the distance between customer needs and GA features.”
Jason Henley, Global Head of Product Strategy
Building on this highly optimized core, our strategy over the coming year is to weave artificial intelligence into the fabric of your business. TIBCO’s AI strategy focuses on two pillars:
Elevating Enterprise Efficiency: Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into our established toolsets to optimize operational workflows and enable customers to utilize our enterprise functionalities with greater efficacy.
Facilitating Custom Agentic Solutions: Furnishing our clientele with the requisite platform and capabilities to design and implement their proprietary Agentic Enterprise Solutions.
Here is how TIBCO is innovating to keep you ahead of the curve:
Elevating Enterprise Efficiency
How is TIBCO elevating operational & developer experiences for Agentic Enterprise Solutions?
Elevating Operational Experiences
Our goal is to help you, as an operator, to get the problem resolutions faster and actually preventissues from happening instead of reacting to issues that are being brought up. By transforming your environment into an Agentic Enterprise, you can resolve and prevent issues directly in the runtime. To resolve and prevent issues in the runtime. We are taking the following initiatives to enable this:
MCP-ifying the Platform: We are rolling out Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers across the board and on our platform & observability APIs, alongside new MCP servers for a our capabilities (Messaging / BPM / Integration)
TESSA (TIBCO Enterprise Smart System Agent): We will be introducing TESSA, a specialized agent designed to assist with operational tasks, starting with read-only environmental analysis and state monitoring.
TIBCO® Messaging Operational Agents: We will be rolling out operational agents for all TIBCO Messaging products. These agents provide AI-Insights into your messaging estate and are built with a priority placed on reliability and security. Enabling the new operational agents for your messaging deployment enables quiet agents running in the background which use a read-only approach to monitor your entire estate. Gain the benefit of estate level views, anomaly detection and periodic reports all running asynchronously, available to users upon request.
TIBCO ActiveSpaces® Vector Store & RAG Applications: TIBCO ActiveSpaces will be gaining native vector store functionality, which can be used to enable powerful Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) use cases. By storing and querying vector embeddings directly within ActiveSpaces, applications can retrieve semantically relevant context from your own data — grounding AI responses in proprietary knowledge bases, documents, and real-time data streams for more accurate, context-aware insights.
These measures will allow you to use a full agentic end to end experience within our products and on our platform. But next to that we have set it up in an open and composable way so you can also plugin your existing AI – Enabled tools and features that suit your needs. To elevate your operational experience we are MCP-ifying the platform and providing you with a ready-made platform agent you can run your operations much smoother. In this way you can leverage today’s & tomorrow’s AI tools to get to issue resolution faster and even prevent issues from happening in the first place, which changes your environment from a reactive to a proactive approach.
Elevating Developer Experiences
Our goal is to help you work more efficiently with our tools by embedding AI directly into the enterprise experience:
Command line Design Utilities: for our various integration products we are enabling creating our business models programmatically over the commandline, so we can enable CoPilots & AI Agents to develop integration flows.
CoPilots for our integration capabilities (Flogo & Business Works) to help integration developers analyze and build their integration flows faster.
AI Mapper: Reduce the time you spend on making mappings by providing you a capability that learns over time based on the mappings you make. So that when you integrate with similar systems and similar data models you don’t have to make the same mappings over again.
Using CoPilots on top of TIBCO’s business models is a very smart idea.
Firstly, by providing a visual representation of the integration flow, we empower business developers to validate structural integrity with ease. In the agentic era, a visual model remains far more impactful than a thousand lines of generated code.
Secondly, because the AI model is tasked solely with generating high-level business logic, it consistently produces valid outcomes while significantly reducing token consumption. By relying on our pre-tested, high-performance implementations, we provide visual safety nets in “vibe-coding” the foundation. This modular approach allows AI to solve the architectural puzzle more effectively, facilitating the creation of increasingly complex enterprise projects.
Finally, and most critically, leveraging TIBCO as a platform ensures that AI-generated results remain maintainable over the long term. Because our runtime inherently provides essential capabilities like monitoring, observability, and CI/CD, these operational layers do not require “vibe-coding.” They are already baked into our stable enterprise environment, allowing you to focus purely on innovation.
Because the vibe-coded generated logic is constrained by the TIBCO Processes & Activities, it is inherently deterministic. You get the speed of “vibe” with the safety net of a governed platform:
Comparison of Generic AI Coding Tools and TIBCO Vibe Coding
Dimension
Generic AI Coding Tools
TIBCO Vibe Coding
Output Format
Raw, text-based scripts
Visual models, processes, and rules
Debugging
High; requires line-by-line review
Easy; visual flows are instantly verifiable
Governance
High “Shadow AI” risk
Built-in lineage & policy enforcement
Maintainability
Low; creates long-term tech debt
High; adheres to platform-standard logic
Security
High risk, since you have to vibe code those parts as well
Low; Security is woven into the platform foundation
Enabling the Agentic Enterprise
What tools are needed for building Agentic Enterprise Solutions with TIBCO?
The future of enterprise software lies in solutions that embed intelligence directly into organizational workflows. Over the coming year, a major pillar of our strategy is delivering on the promise of “Agentic for the enterprise”.
Custom MCP Servers: To unlock the existing value you have in your enterprise and use this for AI-Ready applications. We have introduced the MCP connector in Flogo, and we will do the same for Business Works. This will set up your existing architecture for the future with minimal effort.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): To help you leverage your own data intelligently, we are launching RAG Palettes for both BusinessWorks and Flogo. Additionally, we will introduce vector database capabilities for ActiveSpaces to act as a data grid for your RAG use cases.
Custom Business Agents: Beyond operational agents, we are bringing capabilities to Flogo that will allow you to easily build your own custom AI agents tailored to your specific business use cases, to create brothers and sisters of TESSA to eventually support entire “agent fleets”.
We are enabling Agentic Enterprise Solutions in the TIBCO Platform, step by step:
Trust, Governance & Observability
How can you enable secure Agentic Enterprise Solutions in a trusted way?
Successful, scaled AI deployment requires robust governance. TIBCO ensures secure, agentic solutions by embedding Enterprise Trust and Compliance directly into its platform architecture, guaranteeing auditability by providing Audit Safe features that:
Lower Compliance Risk: The TIBCO Platform provides built-in auditability, ensuring faster, lower-cost compliance. By maintaining immutable records of any actions & agent reasoning.
Trusted AI Decisions: Explainable, traceable AI with clear lineage to build stakeholder confidence. This includes a full trace of tool invocations.
Scalable Stability: Governance with consistent enforcement reduces outages and policy violations. Using zero-trust security infrastructure with granular access controls.
Our goal is to help you work more efficiently with our tools by embedding AI directly into your enterprise. Throughout 2026, we will transition various AI features from developer previews to general availability, driven by customer demand and adoption. We are heavily investing in innovation, which includes an AI form designer for our Business Process Automation Capabilities, alongside powerful operational agents for our Messaging Capabilities.
Our AI Rules of Engagement: Trust and Flexibility. We know that deploying AI requires trust. TIBCO is not an AI company building or training foundational models. Just as we have always been the “Switzerland of integration,” we are committed to being the Switzerland of AI.
Bring Your Own LLM: You have the ultimate flexibility to use any Large Language Model you prefer, whether it runs locally on a laptop, securely in your data center, or via a public cloud provider.
Strictly Opt-In: We will never force AI features into your workflows; all AI capabilities are strictly opt-in and require deliberate configuration.
Total Transparency: Whenever a user interacts with an AI feature or LLM within our platform, it will be clearly marked with a TIBCO AI-enabled logo to ensure complete transparency.
At TIBCO, innovation is an essential part of our DNA. By continually modernizing our powerful integration core and giving you the tools to build a secure, flexible Agentic Enterprise Solutions, we are ensuring that your organization is equipped to lead in this new era of software.
Author: Hugo Peters – Product Manager AI & DX TIBCO Product Management & Strategy Team
As the digital landscape shifts toward containerization and microservices, enterprise integration platforms must evolve. For many organizations, Microsoft BizTalk Server has been the reliable workhorse for decades. However, with mainstream support for BizTalk 2020 ending in 2028 and extended support concluding in 2030, the clock is ticking. Operating on unsupported infrastructure isn’t just a technical debt; it’s a business risk. This necessity has made the BizTalk to TIBCO Platform migration a top priority for IT leaders looking to maintain operational continuity. This guide explores a modern, AI-assisted modernization path to migrate from BizTalk to TIBCOⓇ Platform Integration – BusinessWorks™ (BW) and TIBCOⓇ Platform Integration – BusinessConnect™ Container Edition (BCCE).
Why Migrate Now? The Strategic Shift from BizTalkto TIBCO Platform
While BizTalk often runs on traditional Virtual Machines (on-premises or in Azure), TIBCO Platform’s modern suite is built for a Kubernetes-based environment (AKS, EKS, or GKE). This transition offers:
Horizontal Scalability: Independent scaling of integration flows as containerized microservices.
Operational Efficiency: Zero-downtime rolling deployments and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) consistency.
The JMS-compliant messaging backbone for reliable asynchronous communication.
BizTalkto TIBCO Platform – The AI-Assisted Migration Methodology
Manual migration is slow and prone to error. By leveraging AI-powered extraction tools, organizations can significantly reduce documentation timelines.
1. Discovery & AI-Powered Documentation
Instead of manually digging through BizTalk artifacts, custom AI tooling (like Behaim’s MCP servers) parses XLANG orchestrations and pipeline definitions to create “Technical As-Is Documentation”. This ensures dependencies and business rules are captured before a single line of new code is written.
2. Detailed Cloud-Native Design
The AI-generated documentation is transformed into Detail Design Documents. This phase maps BizTalk schemas (XSD) to TIBCO Platform shared resources and defines the EMS queue/topic architecture.
3. Development & Kubernetes Hardening
Integration processes are implemented in BWCE, while BCCE is configured for B2B protocols. A key focus here is hardening the Kubernetes environment with proper network policies and resource quotas to ensure enterprise-grade security.
BizTalkto TIBCO Platform – A Staged Approach to Risk Mitigation
A “big bang” cutover is rarely the right choice for mission-critical B2B integrations. A 6-phase staged migration is recommended:
Assessment & Planning: Inventory BizTalk assets and design the IaC templates.
Design & Pilot: Validate the approach with a small-scale proof of concept.
Build & Test: Full implementation and production Kubernetes setup.
Trading Partner UAT: Validate EDI exchange and protocols with actual external partners.
Staged Migration: Production cutover in batches (low-risk partners first) with a 2-4 week soak period between batches.
Stabilization & Decommissioning: Final side-by-side validation and shutdown of legacy BizTalk VMs.
Conclusion: Future-Proofing Your Integration
Migrating from BizTalk to TIBCO Platform is more than just a platform swap; it is an opportunity to embrace AI-assisted modernization and a containerized future. By following a structured, documentation-driven methodology, organizations can eliminate the risks of end-of-life software while gaining the agility of a modern cloud-native stack.
To learn more about the migration process, please review the full technical brief from TIBCO’s partner, Behaim ITS.
Recognized with four TIBCO Partner Excellence Awards, Behaim ITS is a trusted IT integration and operations partner with 14+ years of experience in enterprise-grade system integration, middleware, and mission-critical IT support. Specializing in TIBCO technologies, we deliver deep expertise across the TIBCO Platform for Integration, Messaging, EDI, Managed File Transfer, and ActiveSpaces.
TIBCO Platform Integration – Flogo® streamlines the transition from concept to production by integrating AI-assisted design with the Flogo Design Assistant and automated deployment via the Flogo App Build and TIBCO Platform CLIs. By compiling apps into native Go binaries, Flogo produces ultra-lightweight Docker images that are optimized for rapid, automated scaling across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
How do you design TIBCO Flogo® apps using AI?
The journey begins with TIBCO Flogo® Design Assistant, a Tech Preview feature that acts as an interactive design companion. It allows users to create and configure Flogo applications using natural language prompts without manual UI navigation.
Step 1: Create the App via AI Prompt
Start the Assistant Server: In the Sidebar View of Flogo in VS Code, navigate to the Design Assistant (Preview) section and select Start Server.
Generate the Flow: Input a prompt into your AI assistant (e.g., Anthropic Claude or GitHub Copilot) to create the scaffolding.
Sample Prompt: “Create a flogo app with a timer trigger set to repeat every 30 seconds and a log activity with the message ‘CI/CD Integration Demo’.”
Automatic Generation: The Assistant executes tools like create-project, create-trigger, and create-activity to generate a valid .flogo file automatically in your workspace.
What tools are best for building Flogo artifacts?
Once the design is validated, you must choose the right tool for automation. Both the Flogo App Build CLI and the Flogo Maven Plugin compile your app into a high-performance Golang engine executable.
Feature
Flogo App Build CLI (flogobuild)
Flogo Maven Plugin
Primary Use Case
Building binaries, Docker images, and Platform ZIPs via command line
Integrating Flogo with existing Java/Maven-based CI/CD pipelines
Key Output
Native Executables (.exe), Docker Images, and Platform ZIP files
Standardized POM-based artifacts
Testing Support
Command-line unit testing via test-app
Native Maven test cycle execution
Deployment
Generates specialized TIBCO Control Plane deployment files
Standardized build-and-install lifecycle
What are the steps to build and test Flogo artifacts using the CLI?
The Flogo – App Build CLI (flogobuild) handles automated builds and testing, ensuring your app is production-ready.
Step 2: Build and Test the Application
Create a Build Context: Point the CLI to your environment:
Nikhil Shah is a Principal Product Manager for the TIBCO Flogo product of the Cloud Software Group and part of the TIBCO Business Unit. He is responsible for designing and executing the roadmap for the TIBCO Flogo ecosystem. With over a decade of experience at TIBCO, he works closely with customers and partners on AI-driven integration solutions.
How to automate Smart Incident Response with TIBCO Flogo® and Model Context Protocol(MCP)
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TIBCO Platform Integration – Flogo® automates incident response by combining Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools for interactive data collection, real-time logging, and AI-driven root-cause analysis. Using the Smart Incident Response Assistant, Site Reliability Engineers can collect structured incident data, generate an LLM-powered remediation report, and establish a transparent audit trail within a single TIBCO Flogo workflow.
TIBCO Flogo’s new Smart Incident Response Assistant showcases how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrates with advanced AI agents. This workflow eliminates manual triage overhead by acting as an intelligent bridge between production systems and your Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. For a foundational look at these capabilities, see our full guide on TIBCO Flogo® Model Context Protocol(MCP) Showcase Sample — Smart Incident Response Assistant.
How does the TIBCO Flogo Incident Response Architecture work?
The architecture maps a 7-step automated resolution process:
Initial Trigger: An engineer prompts the AI with a symptom like “Payment system down”.
MCP Elicitation: The ElicitIncidentDetails activity renders a native form to collect structured data.
Real-time Visibility: The LogIntakeComplete activity emits structured log messages back to the client.
AI Analysis: The SampleRootCause activity uses the LLM Sampling Gateway to diagnose the issue.
External Orchestration: The workflow triggers automatic ticket creation in PagerDuty or ServiceNow.
Automating Incident Response Triage with the TIBCO Flogo MCP Connector
The assistant implements three key capabilities within a single workflow to ensure high “Information Gain” and machine readability:
MCP Elicitation: Interactive intake forms via the ElicitIncidentDetails activity collect affected system and severity data.
MCP Logging: Structured log messages from LogIntakeComplete and LogAnalysisComplete provide an instant audit trail directly to the engineer’s client.
MCP Sampling: Complex diagnostics are delegated to an LLM via the SampleRootCause activity to rank likely root causes.
Why is AI-Driven Root-Cause Analysis Critical for SRE Teams?
Manual diagnosis remains the primary bottleneck in production incidents. AI-powered sampling removes this guesswork by automating initial log forensics, a practice supported by DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) standards for high-performing teams. Internal benchmarks show this assistant reduced Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) by 35% for P1 incidents.
Incident Field
Data Type
AI-Actionability
Description
affected_system
enum
High
Used by SampleRootCause to narrow log search.
severity
enum
High
Determines if the report triggers a P1 alert.
error_message
string
High
Captures specific symptoms for LLM analysis.
“In the fast-paced realm of automated system discovery, if the machine can’t parse it in 200 milliseconds, the human will never see it.“
Frequently Asked Questions
How does TIBCO Flogo automatically create tickets? The workflow includes an automated exit strategy where the final triage report triggers a “Build & Return” activity to interface with PagerDuty or ServiceNow.
What is the role of LLM Sampling? LLM Sampling through the SampleRootCause activity delegates diagnostics to an LLM mid-flow to rank root causes and suggest remediation.
What are the prerequisites for the Flogo MCP Connector? Flogo MCP connector is available in Flogo 2.26.0 release onwards. You can download it from here.
Key Takeaways
Automated Intake: TIBCO Flogo uses MCP Elicitation for structured reports.
Qinghai Kong is a Lead QA Engineer for TIBCO Flogo at Cloud Software Group, within the TIBCO Business Unit. He leads quality engineering efforts across the Flogo team, with deep expertise in the Flogo MCP Connector and emerging AI capabilities. He is passionate about building high-quality, scalable integration solutions and collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to drive innovation.
Caption 1: High-Level Architecture for a Smart City Incident Response System. This technical diagram illustrates how heterogeneous inputs (REST and MQTT) are processed in real-time by TIBCO Flogo microservices deployed within Kubernetes on the TIBCO Platform Control Plane, which then orchestrate actions across CRM, DB, and Analytics tiers.
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Building an event-driven smart city requires a seamless integration of real-time data and automated actions to ensure urban safety. By leveraging the TIBCO Platform Integration – Flogo®, developers can create a robust architecture for real-time incident response that orchestrates events from REST APIs (mobile apps) and MQTT (IoT sensors) to trigger critical workflows in CRM systems like Salesforce. Its lightweight, ultra-fast architecture ensures sub-second processing for critical infrastructure events while maximizing resource efficiency across the unified TIBCO Platform.
This is Part 1 of our technical series, “The Future of AI-Native Integration.” We are documenting the evolution of TIBCO Flogo® from a lightweight integration engine to a foundation for autonomous AI ecosystems.
Part 1 [Current]: Building the Event-Driven Smart City – Establishing the connectivity foundation.
What is the Architecture for a Real-Time Urban Maintenance System?
The goal of a Smart City incident response system is to move beyond slow, batch-processed nightly updates. When a citizen reports a utility failure, the system must validate the data and orchestrate multiple backend systems instantaneously.
The workflow must support heterogeneous events—from structured REST API data sent via mobile apps to lightweight MQTT messages pushed by simple IoT hardware (e.g., connected street lights).
The Architectural Flow:
Event Ingestion: The system receives simultaneous inputs via a REST Trigger (e.g., citizen mobile app reporting a leak) or an MQTT Connector (e.g., a “connected” street light reporting a faulty sensor).
Sub-Second Processing (The Logic): A TIBCO Flogo microservice receives the event. In milliseconds, it validates incoming data, checks GPS coordinates against GIS data, and sets the event priority.
Synchronous Action: Flogo automatically calls the Salesforce API wrapper to create and route a high-priority Work Order for a field maintenance crew.
Data Persistence: Flogo logs the entire incident data to a PostgreSQL or SQL Server database for long-term analytics and public transparency dashboards.
Why Choose the TIBCO Flogo for Event-Driven Microservices?
When comparing TIBCO Flogo to traditional integration approaches for edge computing or microservices, the technical advantages can be quantified.
Unlike traditional monolithic integration tools or Java-based engines, Flogo binaries are often ultra-lightweight (~30MB), making them ideal for running dozens of microservices on-premises or on constrained edge devices.
The comparison table below outlines the core technical differences:
CoPilots can generate code but it is hard to maintain and understand by non-owners
Generative AI Design Assistant and Visual Drag-and-Drop in VsCode which makes is easier to understand and maintain.
Deployment Model
Monolithic App Servers
Cloud-Native Containers / Edge / Serverless
AI-Enabled Visual Development
Flogo significantly reduces development friction by augmenting visual design with Generative AI capabilities via the Flogo Design Assistant. This feature allows architects and engineers to build complex logic flows using Natural Language Prompts or from architecture screenshots like above, making the implementation process fast, transparent and agile.
The following screenshot shows how this entire flogo can be designed from the screenshot using a specific, detailed prompt provided to the Generative AI assistant:
This article presented a citable technical breakdown for building a modern, event-driven Smart City architecture using these products/technologies: TIBCO Platform, TIBCO Flogo®, TIBCO Flogo Design Assistant, REST API, MQTT Protocol, Salesforce, and PostgreSQL.
By transitioning from monolithic, batch-processed integration to the ultra-lightweight, zero-latency Flogo engine, municipalities can achieve sub-second response times for critical public infrastructure events while reducing runtime memory consumption by up to 96% compared to legacy Java-based runtimes.
Nikhil Shah is a Principal Product Manager for TIBCO Flogo product of the Cloud Software Group and part of the TIBCO Business Unit. He is responsible for designing and executing the roadmap for the TIBCO Flogo ecosystem. With over a decade of experience at TIBCO, he works closely with customers and partners on AI-driven integration solutions.
What can we truly use Artificial Intelligence for in the business world? The core of running an enterprise lies in coordinating countless systems—from daily transactions and supply chains to marketing and warehouse logistics. Historically, the human ‘cognitive span’ has limited how many of these disparate data streams we can effectively synthesize. This is where an AI-driven business strategy changes the game. By connecting siloed systems into a unified, intelligent framework, organizations can move beyond human limitations and transform raw data into a powerful reasoning model.
This is where an AI-driven business strategy changes the game. While people are limited, AI systems, with their capacity to process vast amounts of data simultaneously, can connect these siloed systems into a unified, intelligent framework. Imagine feeding this consolidated data into a powerful AI reasoning model—we have done this experiment, proving this is possible, with specialized servers acting as the necessary data “conduit”.
Once connected, we can ask the AI not just for simple database queries, but for complex, open-ended strategic questions. Instead of asking “What was my profit last quarter?”, we can ask: “How do I maximize my profit?” or “What should I promote and sell during this specific holiday season?” or even “How do I make my customers genuinely happy?”
The speed and depth of the analysis are astonishing. Where a deep-dive analysis by human teams might take months, the AI can return well-thought-out, deeply analyzed suggestions in minutes. Some of the AI’s proposals might be truly novel, offering valid strategies that human teams had never even considered. This capability proves that a robust AI-driven business strategy can directly shape the future of the enterprise, moving from simple queries to complex reasoning.
Case Study: AI-Driven Business Strategy in Supply Chain Discovery
An example of an AI-Driven Strategy that requires data from many different areas of the business to work is Predictive Supply Chain Risk and Anomaly Discovery. This strategy moves beyond simple inventory monitoring and requires the AI to synthesize data from silos across the organization and externally. It is a sophisticated approach that necessitates the integration of data from across various business areas.
The strategy relies on:
Supply Chain & Logistics data, such as real-time GPS/sensor data from shipments, supplier performance history, inventory levels, and warehouse management system (WMS) data, to continuously track current flow, identify bottlenecks, and flag underperforming partners.
Finance & Procurement data, including accounts payable/receivable data, supplier financial health reports, contract terms, and raw material cost trends, which allows the AI to predict financial instability of a critical supplier or sudden, uncontracted cost increases.
Sales & Marketing data, including customer order forecasts, seasonal demand projections, social media sentiment data, and macroeconomic indicators, to project the impact of a potential supply disruption on future revenue and customer satisfaction.
Geopolitical & External information, like news feeds, weather patterns, political stability indices, and port closure notifications, is fed into the system to provide an early warning of events that could physically or politically interrupt a key trade route or manufacturing region.
Summary
By correlating this diverse set of internal and external data, the AI breaks human cognitive limits to drive a proactive, high-stakes business decision. Ultimately, the deployment of an AI-driven business strategy is about the evolution of the organization itself. As AI takes on the gargantuan task of data synthesis, human teams are liberated to focus on the prescriptive future. This technological leap turns strategy into a continuous process of discovery. The era of the strategic AI partner is here, demanding that we rethink not just how we run a business, but how an AI-driven business strategy can define what it can become.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has progressed through many generations, with the latest, Generative AI (GenAI), commanding the current spotlight. Its newness and potential are immense, but this power comes at a steep cost: massive resources for training and deployment, requiring significant time, memory, and specialized hardware.
What if your most pressing business problem can be solved with a lighter, faster, and more targeted AI solution? It’s time to take a step back and analyze the substantial, yet often overlooked, capabilities of prior Machine Learning (ML) techniques. We should adopt a “Keep It Simple” strategy to avoid over-engineering basic, critical needs.
AI in Real-Time: The Anomaly Detection Showcase
Machine learning, the precursor to today’s GenAI, offers immediate and tangible value in specialized domains. Take Anomaly Detection as a prime example. The core concept is simple: detect what falls outside the expected range of “normal.” Crucially, this can be achieved with Few-shot learning and can run in minimal hardware environments, showcasing real-time AI that is accessible now.
The range of “normality” is often fluid. In operational settings, for instance, a machine’s expected temperature can shift over time due to environmental reasons, where a new normal emerges. Traditional models struggle with this fluidity.
Isolation Forest in Machine Learning is an elegant algorithm designed to find unusual data points, or outliers, in a dataset. It works by:
Randomly partitioning the data in a tree-like structure.
Scoring data points based on the path length required to isolate them.
The shorter the path, the more “different” a point is from the rest of the data. This means it directly targets and isolates anomalies, requiring less data and training time than traditional, resource-heavy classification models. The algorithm is effective precisely because anomalies are rare and different, a perfect fit for a low-resource approach.
If we marry this with additional code to compensate for shifting normal and provide a means for few-shot learning, we will be able to fit this into an eventing real-time scenario.
Real-World Business Value and Deployment
The true significance of this approach is in its deployment capability.
This exact scenario is replicated in the TIBCO Platform – Develop Hub – Anomaly Detection Sample, demonstrating how proven, open-source algorithms—like Scikit-learn’s Isolation Forest—can be integrated directly into a real-time eventing platform using TIBCO and Python. This integration is key to solving high-impact, real-time business use cases:
Banking: Real-time credit card fraud or unusual spending pattern detection. This is an immediate, high-priority ROI case, particularly in regions where a “normal” spending range is unknown to start with.
Computing/IT: Real-time system resource monitoring for unexpected spikes in usage. These spikes could indicate a security threat or a stability issue and need immediate flagging for investigation.
Manufacturing: Monitoring the temperature of critical machinery inside a plant. While the baseline temperature varies, any immediate, sudden abnormality suggests a malfunction or emerging failure.
The Efficiency Imperative
While GenAI is transformative, it is not the answer to every question. As the technology landscape matures, the focus for many businesses should shift to efficiency: Can we accomplish more with less?
This case study shows that high-impact AI, both training and inference, can be leveraged in a real-time eventing scenario with minimal hardware requirements. It’s time to reexamine your business use cases and evaluate your needs. Perhaps something smaller will suffice. Perhaps AI can be done in real-time.
In today’s data-driven landscape, generative AI is only as powerful as the context you provide. To move beyond generic responses and leverage your own enterprise data, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is the gold standard. With the release of the TIBCO Platform Integration – BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for AI, we are bringing these advanced AI capabilities directly into your existing integration workflows.
What is RAG and Why Does it Matter?
RAG integrates information retrieval with generative AI models by pulling relevant data from your internal documents, databases, or knowledge repositories. This context is then supplied to the AI model to ensure outputs are accurate, domain-specific, and relevant – all without the need for expensive model retraining.
Boost Accuracy: Reduces AI “hallucinations” by grounding responses in your data.
Domain Expertise: Provides up-to-date information specific to your business.
Versatility: Supports high-value use cases like intelligent question answering, content summarization, and automated decision support.
Low-Code RAG: Implementing Use Cases in Minutes
The new RAG Palette simplifies complex AI architectures into three intuitive activities that fit right into your BusinessWorks processes:
Chunk Activity: Automatically breaks large datasets or files into manageable segments using Paragraph-Based or Semantic strategies.
Ingest Activity: Generates embedding vectors and stores them in a vector database.
Query Activity: Sends questions to the AI system to retrieve relevant answers based on your unique ingested data.
Fast-Track Your AI Journey
Getting started is straightforward. The plug-in supports leading LLM services available in the market. Simply configure your RAG Connection shared resource, drop the activities onto your canvas, and you’re ready to test.
Whether you are processing travel itineraries or managing complex customer profiles, the TIBCO BusinessWorks™ Plug-in for AI provides the tools to build sophisticated, AI-enhanced applications with the same reliability and ease you expect from TIBCO.
Mustafa Tavawala is a Lead Product Manager at TIBCO and is primarily responsible for designing and executing the roadmap for the TIBCO Businessworks 6 product suite. He has also worked as a Solution Architect with hands-on experience leading application and data integration initiatives for a diverse set of customers.
