The University of Melbourne Chooses TIBCO Software for Integration Project

TIBCO BusinessWorks(TM) to reduce the complexity of the university's
information systems and pave the way for new technology initiatives

MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TIBCO Software
Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX) today announced that the University of Melbourne has
selected its integration and orchestration software to help establish a more
agile and adaptable IT environment that can scale to support the university's
new technology initiatives.
As part of its agreement with the university, TIBCO will provide
professional consultation and implementation services, conduct technical
training for staff, and deploy TIBCO BusinessWorks to tie together the
university's myriad applications and data exchanges on a single integration
platform.
Jason Nell, Manager, Systems Development and Integration at the University
of Melbourne, and project manager involved in the evaluation and selection of
the TIBCO solution, believes the integration project is a reflection of wider
technology trends in the tertiary education sector.
"Universities are often decentralised in their IT services provision. Over
time they acquire and develop a wide range of applications and systems using a
combination of vendors and in-house development often without a view to
enterprise integration. Many institutions are now in a situation where they
need to review their information systems strategies to support increasingly
agile business models, where reducing barriers to integration and moving to a
modular approach to application development are key requirements to supporting
future business growth," he said.
TIBCO will help the university streamline its enterprise systems
integration, by replacing point-to-point connections between applications with
an enterprise service bus approach. Additionally, the highly scalable nature
of the BusinessWorks platform will also facilitate the rapid development and
integration of new systems.
The initial deployment phase involves a range of challenges from simple,
low-level data transfers which will be made more robust through deployment on
the BusinessWorks platform, to the development of data and business logic
libraries allowing for re-use. Additionally, TIBCO will train staff in the
university's systems development and integration unit to use both
BusinessWorks and other TIBCO platforms such as BusinessStudio(TM), TIBCO's
development environment for process modeling.
"The reasons we selected to work with TIBCO were the maturity and
accessibility of its BusinessWorks(TM) platform and the partnership approach
adopted by the vendor. TIBCO BusinessWorks provides us with a trusted
platform, which is the result of sustained investment in engineering while
TIBCO's partnership approach supports us to develop organizationally in terms
of our architecture and integration maturity, which ultimately allows IT to
better support our business," Mr. Nell said.
Mark Fahmy, regional vice president for Australia, New Zealand and India
at TIBCO, said, "The University of Melbourne was proving to be a great partner
-- competent, receptive to ideas and change, progressive, and attuned to their
issues. TIBCO is delighted to have as our customer such an eminent university
-- one which is not only recognized as a leader in Australasia but
highly-regarded world-wide," Mark Fahmy added.
Mark Fahmy said the partnership with the University of Melbourne was
TIBCO's first in tertiary education in Australia, a sector which he believes
will take off in coming years, as universities become more competitive,
flexible and distributed in their service delivery, requiring the deployment
of integration platforms, such as TIBCO BusinessWorks, to facilitate efficient
information flow across the organization.
TIBCO BusinessWorks and TIBCO BusinessStudio are now generally available.
To learn more about either product please visit www.tibco.com.
About The University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a leading international university with a
tradition of excellence in teaching and research. Melbourne's outstanding
performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher
education in the Asia-Pacific region and the world. The University of
Melbourne is consistently ranked by the THES among the world's top 30
universities.
Established in 1853, shortly after the founding of Melbourne, the
University is located just a few minutes from the centre of this global city.
The main Parkville campus is recognised as the hub of Australia's premier
knowledge precinct comprising eight hospitals, many leading research
institutes and a wide range of knowledge-based industries.
The Growing Esteem strategy, adopted by the University in December 2005,
lays out a ten-year plan to fulfil Melbourne's aspiration to be a
public-spirited and internationally-engaged institution, highly regarded for
making distinctive contributions to society in research and research training,
learning and teaching, and knowledge transfer.
From 2008, as the cornerstone of Growing Esteem, the University will
introduce landmark educational reforms known collectively as the Melbourne
Model. These reforms are designed to create an outstanding and distinctive
Melbourne Experience for all students. The Model is based on six broad
undergraduate programs followed by a graduate professional degree, research
higher degree or entry directly into employment. The emphasis on academic
breadth as well as disciplinary depth in the new degrees ensures that
graduates will have the capacity to succeed in a world where knowledge
boundaries are shifting and reforming to create new frontiers and challenges.
In moving to the new model, the University is also aligning itself with the
best of emerging European and Asian practice and
well-established North American traditions.
About TIBCO Software
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 40 countries and an ecosystem of over 200 partners. Learn more at
www.tibco.com.
In Australia, TIBCO services three of the top four retail banks and three
of the top four telecommunications companies. TIBCO also services Australian
insurance, utilities and government sectors. TIBCO is located in Canberra,
Sydney, Woy Woy and Melbourne.
Please contact Monique Fenech, Impact Communications on 612 9519 5411 or
61400 635 811 or at monique@impactcommunications.com.au
TIBCO, The Power of Now, TIBCO Software, TIBCO BusinessStudio, and TIBCO
BusinessWorks are trademarks or registered trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc.
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Cecilia Lau of TIBCO Software Inc., (852)2821-3078, clau@tibco.com; or Monique
Fenech of IMPACT Communications, (612)9519-5411,
monique@impactcommunications.com.au, for TIBCO