TIBCO Introduces TIBCO Silver Mobile to Speed Development of User-Friendly Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise

LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - Sep 26, 2012) - TUCON -- Today at TUCON 2012, TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) announced the launch of TIBCO Silver® Mobile 1.0, TIBCO's new mobile application development and management software that offers enterprises a platform to rapidly develop user-focused, mobile applications that enable employees to leverage all their information, on virtually any device, no matter where they are, in real time.

In addition, the company announced TIBCO Silver® Fabric 5.0, the latest version of the company's cloud platform that enables a new Platform-as-a-Service operations model that will radically simplify the provisioning and management of enterprise software platforms, and provides the foundation for groundbreaking operational agility.

The rapid transition to mobile technologies and its potential to improve customer service, increase business productivity, and seize new revenue opportunities, is transforming businesses at every level. Add the power and promise of cloud technology to the user-driven "BYOD" revolution, and enterprises can increase access to big data, extend the value of enterprise applications, and put decision-making in the hands of business users, partners and customers anywhere, anytime and on any device -- all while reducing costs and strain on IT resources.

"Mobile devices have changed the way employees work, and enterprises realize they need to very quickly develop and deploy mission-critical mobile apps that can improve productivity and give employees secure, real-time access to corporate information," said Matt Quinn, CTO, TIBCO Software. "TIBCO Silver Mobile 1.0 is a breakthrough in mobile platform development that enables the enterprise to develop device strategies that are critical to attracting mobile-centric customers and employees."

Event-Enabling Mobile Devices

The advanced capabilities of the TIBCO Silver Platform help enterprises benefit from the consumerization of IT which has helped create a more user-driven, collaborative IT environment where the relationship between people and knowledge is decentralized, mobilized, and takes place in real time. With the release of TIBCO Silver Mobile, enterprises can extend their critical business applications and processes to mobile users, on the device of their choosing. Developers can better marry the agility of the cloud with enterprise-class software infrastructure platforms, enterprise security and oversight, while benefiting from a user-centric platform that enables faster development across devices. End users, whether working on a browser, tablet or phone, will have business-strength applications -- made for mobile -- on their mobile devices, that help them stay productive and connected.

TIBCO Silver Mobile provides a number of benefits:

• Introduces one simple client interface where developers can create, then centrally deploy and manage, applications on a host of popular mobile platforms.
• Accesses the power of real-time data, making it easy to extend business processes to mobile users and carry the event-enabled enterprise through to mobile channels.
• Provisions users with the mobile apps they need from an enterprise app store.
• Integrates device and security services into mobile apps channel for enterprise-grade solutions.

Secure, Mission-Critical Cloud

TIBCO Silver Fabric enables enterprise IT organizations to transform their static data center operating models into dynamic private clouds that can improve quality of service and reduce costs. TIBCO Silver Fabric 5.0 brings a new Platform-as-a-Service operations model (PAAS Ops) to enterprise IT that radically eases the provisioning and managing of enterprise software platforms, simplifying the development process and accelerating time to market for new software development projects. With TIBCO Silver Fabric 5.0, any enterprise can host its own app store, bringing the simple consumer app provisioning model to enterprise platforms.

TIBCO Silver Fabric 5.0 offers several key features, including:

• Delivers powerful self-service platform provisioning capabilities to IT developers.
• Optimizes application service level attainment and resource consumption.
• Expands the benefits of PAAS Ops to additional platforms, including TIBCO BusinessEvents® and TIBCO Spotfire®.

"Private clouds are most enterprises' answer to fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the security of public clouds. Cloud solutions implemented on-premises promise to capture the cost-efficiency of cloud computing without the risks of public clouds." - John R. Rymer, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, "Achieve Cloud Economics for Operations and Services," May 2, 2012, Forrester Research.

"Partnering with TIBCO enables Quartet FS' analytical in-memory DBMS 'ActivePivot' to operate in distributed environments in optimum conditions, with lower risk of failover and decreased administration costs for our customers," said Georges Bory, co-founder and managing director of Quartet FS. "Joint customers can implement large deployments with confidence that the solution will keep up with data volumes, velocity and variety, and that it will be available and resilient at any time."

TIBCO Silver Mobile 1.0 and TIBCO Silver Fabric 5.0 will be on display this week at TIBCO's annual TUCON user conference, Sept. 24-27 at the ARIA Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Both products are generally available now.

About TIBCO
TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) is a provider of infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. Whether it's optimizing claims, processing trades, cross-selling products based on real-time customer behavior, or averting a crisis before it happens, TIBCO provides companies the two-second advantage™ -- the ability to capture the right information at the right time and act on it preemptively for a competitive advantage. More than 4,000 customers worldwide rely on TIBCO to manage information, decisions, processes and applications in real time. Learn more at www.tibco.com.

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