Tibco offers integration in the cloud

Grazed from ITWorld.  Author: Howard Soloman.

The cloud is a place to store data, to buy processor power and to buy complete services.  Increasingly, it’s also a source of integration services that join the cloud and on-premise data and applications.  Tibco Software Inc. is the latest to join the movement by offering its Cloud Bus integration platform as a service (iPaas) for joining social media cloud applications – such as Salesforce – with data held behind the firewall.

“We recognize customers are not going to be 100 per cent in the cloud as there’s still a lot of on-premise data that is very interesting to them,” said Steve Lueng, Tibco’s director of product marketing for cloud computing.  “So to fulfill the need of integrating cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premise we’ve released Cloud Bus.”…

The service meets a number of needs, he said, for organizations that don’t want to put customer data in the cloud but do want to leverage the cloud’s power for certain applications.  For example, he said, when fulfilling customer orders parts of the process can be moved to the cloud but other parts stay on-premise.  Cloud Bus has integration template packs specially configured for Tibco tibbr (the company’s enterprise social networking suite), Salesforce and SAP…

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