HCL-Tibco Expand Alliance to New Domains
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Nov 19, 2008 1150 hrs IST

HCL Technologies has expanded its alliance with Tibco software to include collaboration on Business Process Management (BPM), Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Under the alliance HCL will provide updated solution frameworks in the above domains apart from those previously agreed upon. The two companies have also agreed to collaborate in sales initiatives across verticals such as financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and life sciences in India, Singapore, New Zealand, UK and the Middle East.

These territories were not covered in the sales agreements of the two companies previously.

"The expanded contract reflects our joint commitment to providing expertise in critical technology areas including Complex Event Processing, Business Process Management and SOA Governance," said Vikram Duvvoori, senior vice president and global head of the Middleware & SOA Practice for HCL Technologies.

CEP

HCL is developing a new Logistics Optimizer framework called Logistics Optimizer based on TIBCO CEP and built with TIBCO BusinessEvents. Logistics Optimizer will help companies improve operational efficiencies and reduce costs through the integration of transportation and shipment applications, according to the companies.

BPM

HCL is launching a framework for BPM as a shared service, which helps enterprises to accelerate BPM adoption and also accelerate new functionality and composite application creation by a few hundred times, HCL claimed in a press release.

SOA

HCL is also launching an enhanced version of their product, xFIT, an automated toolkit for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) testing. HCL will also develop new solutions for Tibco platform products, such as Tibco BusinessEvents, Tibco ActiveMatrix and Tibco Spotfire, as well as create specific testing, security and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solutions to accelerate SOA and BPM adoption among enterprises.

HCL first launched the BPM as a shared service, xFIT and ProcessWatch solution frameworks in May 2007. These solutions were aimed at providing an SOA-based view of business transactions in the financial, freight, logistics, and energy trading segments.