OpenSpan and TIBCO have announced a technology and business partnership designed to extend TIBCO solutions to desktop environments. The partnership will enable TIBCO Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management and Business Optimization solutions to more integrate with desktop applications without requiring changes to those desktop applications.

"The OpenSpan technology helps our joint customers service and event enable any desktop application without changing the code and with nearly zero impact to that application," said Tom Laffey, executive vice president, products & technology at TIBCO. "This is very powerful because it allows any application to become a service endpoint, event source or step in a BPM process and enables businesses to more broadly take advantage of the increasing scope and velocity of information available across the enterprise."

TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is a standards-based enterprise messaging platform that brings together different IT assets and communications technologies on a common enterprise backbone to manage the real-time flow of information. It is the foundation of TIBCO's event-driven SOA that is deployed by thousands of TIBCO customers worldwide. The OpenSpan Platform extends TIBCO Enterprise Message Service by enabling a wide range of applications deployed within enterprise desktop environments to consume services and emit events.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix is a service platform for heterogeneous SOA. It gives enterprises a simpler and more productive way to deliver service-oriented applications by separating the applications from the technology details. This separation enables companies to add orchestration, integration, mediation, Java and .NET for services to a unified runtime platform. Business analysts, architects, developers and administrators are able to collaborate through common tools to graphically compose, deploy and manage service-oriented applications. The OpenSpan Platform enables any application, including legacy Windows, client-server and host applications, running on users' desktops to become service-enabled and participate fully in TIBCO SOA solutions.

The TIBCO iProcess Suite delivers BPM Plus, a unified approach to BPM that enables organizations to automate, optimize and improve any type of process - from routine tasks to mission critical, long-lived processes that involve people, information and applications across organizational and geographical boundaries. OpenSpan helps extend TIBCO's BPM capabilities to the desktop and enables organizations to automate and optimize business processes while improving control over end user desktop environments.

TIBCO BusinessEvents helps companies identify and quantify the impact of events and notify people and systems about meaningful events so processes can be adapted on-the-fly and people can take action to capitalize on opportunities and remediate threats. OpenSpan enables applications deployed on corporate desktops to be instrumented to trigger events, which can then be processed by TIBCO BusinessEvents.

"By partnering with TIBCO, a pioneer and leader in delivering SOA enablement, business process management and business optimization software, OpenSpan is further becoming an integral component of an enterprise's SOA strategy," said Eric Musser, CEO of OpenSpan. "We look forward to demonstrating how our combined software offerings will enable organizations to take advantage of modern event-driven architectures."