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Tibbr

Reading NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal’s Twitter posts inspired Tibco CEO Vivek Ranadive to develop a Twitter-style enterprise communications tool called tibbr that allows users to follow specific topics.  Unlike other social networking applications that focus on “following people,” tbbr allows users to follow granular subjects and machines as well. The notion is to help workers find information related to their particular tasks and jobs quickly and easily by searching for information based on its subject matter and subscribing to relevant feeds on those topics. A tibbr subject can represent a user, an application or a process relevant to a particular business user in an organization. For example, by subscribing to a subject such as Finance or Finance AP (accounts payable), a user could find out if a relevant purchase order had been cut or if an invoice had been received and processed. The application is based on Silver, Tibco’s own cloud-computing infrastructure platform. Currently in use by TIBCO employees, tibbr is scheduled for general availability early this year.

Features:

• Integrates directly with most enterprise IT infrastructure
• Allows information to be delivered in the form, frequency and manner of user preference
• Follows subjects as well as people
• Available via a standards-based API
• Massive scalability, state-of-the-art security encryption, high availability and reliability

Watch Vivek Ranadive’s demo of tibbr on YouTube.