Tibco Now 2017
Blog: Jim Sinur
This year Tibco split it’s well attended conference with three regional conferences. The Asia version was in Spring in Sinapore, the Euro version in Berlin and the US version in San Diego. This time there was a test on the progress of their vision in terms of digital journeys and Tibco plans to help our shared customers. Aragon named Tibco as a leader in the Digital Business Platform Technical Spectrum. For a free copy of the report click here
Tibco has traditionally had a portfolio of strong and visionary products and has had a sweet spots in connecting/integrating and business intelligence. While these themes were still stong there were some new themes that are emeging. The integration (interconnect everything) and the business intelligence (augment intelligence) are still a driver, but with new scopes and levels of intelligence. The most impressive case studies were around BI (Jet Blue and the Mercedes Racing Team). There were some case studies around cloud coversions, but they are still in progress. The theme of distrubted intelligence (smarts on the edge) was new to me. Discusions around customer jounreys leveraging a more intelligent customer expreience was boiling under the surface.
Skunk Work Teases:
Tibco had some hints in the presentations and some demos on the floor that pointed to some promising emerging technologies. I was very impressed by Tibco graph data base and I saw a NLP aprraoch to leveraging the nodes on this ontologial based data base for intellgence that emreges and remembers context as the quiery turns it’s attention to new things. I also heard rumors of partnerships with big players leveraging distributed smarts.
Bottom Line:
Tibco sees the opportunity with digital and will make the right investments to help existing clients while attracting new one. Tibco will lead with their strengths in integration and intelligence, but they are more than a two trick pony now.
There was no risk to naming them a Digital Business Platform leader. Now will they contiune to move their customer base along. We all will be watching
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