TIBCO NOW 2018: Innovation at the Edge

TIBCO held its user conference in Las Vegas this week and TIBCO delivered to it's theme. TIBCO is serious about providing innovation assists with it software assets and an offer to collaborate together with clients and prospects in a lab environment of it's own. This is a pretty unique offering in the days of intense digital pressure to transform. While TIBCO is a leader in the Aragon Globe for Digital Business Platforms (DBP), TIBCO shines in the areas Augmented Intelligence and Interconnected Everything (resources of data, systems, services and people). For a quick overview of the TIBCO platform, please see the honeycomb chart in Figure 1. While many of the pieces work together seamlessly now, each can be leveraged in usable clusters.

Innovation:

                                           TIBCO Offers a Lab for Innovation 

                                Figure 1: TIBCO's Digital Business Platform (DBP)

The Edge:

At the edge, TIBCO is doubling down it's efforts with Flogo and adds it's ability to sense event streams and aggregate them into patterns by leveraging rules. All of this is at the edge with a tiny footprint and superb performance. To this end TIBCO and JABIL announced an important IoT partnership that will support all kinds of devices and boards at the edge including telematics for the insurance industries. JABIL is one of these best kept secret companies that provides manufacturing support services and products. This will put AI at the edge over time and help with predicting down time and sensing important activity at the edge.

Intelligence:

TIBCO announced a new version of Spotfire that is aimed at analytics in an accelerated fashion by leveraging NLP and even more advanced dynamic behavior. TIBCO also announced a New Data Science Offering exclusive to AWS market place. This approach mimics their rich offering to TIBCO's client base. See Figure 2 for TIBCO's overall  vision for it's Data Science Offering

                                Figure 2  TIBCO's Data Science Platform Vision

Rapid Development & Low Code:

TIBCO also unveiled their approach to citizen development with Live Apps leveraging starter kits. There were numerous sessions dealing with citizen development which is needed to keep up with the new digital pace. In the case of lighter applications that need integrated resources, collaboration between citizen developers and IT professionals are encouraged in Live Apps. One of the demos used NLP with a light weight process to the point of impressing Amazon

Net; Net:

TIBCO is focusing it's strong resources in an ever improving fashion towards their customer's challenge of Digital Transformation while transforming itself into a more potent offering in their areas of strength. More to come on customer proof points and case studies in my next post.