Yphise Ranks TIBCO Best BPM Software

TIBCO iProcess Suite Outperforms BEA Systems, Pegasystems, Axway and W4 Based
on ISO 9001:2000-Certified Assessment

LONDON, March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TIBCO Software Inc.
(Nasdaq: TIBX) today announced that the independent analyst
group -- Yphise -- ranked TIBCO iProcess(TM) Suite as the industry's
"Best Business Process Management (BPM)" solution. According to the report,
TIBCO's BPM suite demonstrates that it has the maturity and agility required
by large companies and represents a sound investment compared to competitive
offerings based on an ISO 9001:2000-certified assessment. It is the second
time in a row that iProcess(TM) Suite has been distinguished by Yphise,
against new competitors who were not included in the 2006 assessment.
TIBCO iProcess Suite was honoured with the prestigious Yphise award
following a comprehensive, comparative assessment of leading BPM vendors
including BEA System's AquaLogic, Pegasystems's Pega Rules Process Commander,
Axway Synchrony, and W4 BPM Suite. Yphise's in-depth comparative analysis was
based on more than 190 technical and functional assessments for each competing
product. Aggregating these inputs, Yphise created four categories that would
enable enterprises to accurately choose a BPM solution. These include
understanding business processes, productivity in implementing processes,
facilitating business agility and operational management of processes.
Fabio Pulidori, senior vice president for EMEA at TIBCO, commented:
"Recognition by Yphise as the best BPM solution is testament to TIBCO's
sustained efforts to strengthen the solution on which enterprises can easily
create and scale their business processes. By continuing to drive innovation
in the BPM space, we have enabled many global organisations to accomplish
their goal of achieving process efficiencies and providing improved service
levels to customers and partners."
Yphise's assessment commends TIBCO technology for its ease of use and
flexibility of orchestration at run time. The report also states that TIBCO
iProcess Suite is a reliable and scalable product. Additional unique features
highlighted include:
-- Powerful simulation tools, including graphical comparisons of versions
for optimising processes;
-- Flexible BPM integrated into a full SOA platform;
-- Capability to natively link and coordinate application services in an
SOA environment;
-- Unique provision of dynamic planning or modification of processes in
operation to accommodate changes required by operational decisions;
-- Ability to prevent disruption: monitoring of processes in operation and
ability to alert and escalate efficiently.

According to the Yphise executive report issued this month: "TIBCO
confirms its leadership by improving the ease of designing processes and the
flexibility of orchestration at run time. The force of TIBCO is providing
flexible BPM integrated into a full SOA platform."
For more information on TIBCO iProcess Suite or to download the executive
report, please visit: http://www.tibco.com.
About Yphise
Yphise identifies and certifies the software products that allow large
companies to increase the value of their information systems while optimising
the costs and managing the risks. Yphise covers all areas of interest in order
to develop, operate, maintain and secure the applications to compete. Yphise
has assessed 150 software products each year since 1985. Each assessment is
ISO 9001:2000-certified in order to guarantee independence and to focus on key
issues for large companies. Yphise distributes more than 8000 comparative
assessment reports each year all over the world. Yphise has unparalleled
experience in the recognition of winning strategies in software vendor claims.
Thousands of investment decisions made by large companies have used Yphise
independent research.
About TIBCO
TIBCO digitized Wall Street in the '80s with its event-driven "Information
Bus" software, which helped make real-time business a strategic differentiator
in the '90s. Today, TIBCO's infrastructure software gives customers the
ability to constantly innovate by connecting applications and data in a
service-oriented architecture, streamlining activities through business
process management, and giving people the information and intelligence tools
they need to make faster and smarter decisions, what we call The Power of
Now(R). TIBCO serves more than 3,000 customers around the world with offices
in more than 20 countries and an ecosystem of over 200 partners. Learn more at
http://www.tibco.com.
TIBCO, TIBCO iProcess Suite, The Power of Now and TIBCO Software are
trademarks or registered trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc. in the United
States and/or other countries. All other product and company names and marks
mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners and are
mentioned for identification purposes only.
SOURCE TIBCO Software Inc.

Declan Waters of TIBCO Software Inc., +01628 786 844, dwaters@tibco.com; or
Nick Spencer of NSPR, +01628 502 606, nick@nspr.co.uk, for TIBCO Software
Inc.