BANGALORE: TIBCO Software Inc. and Infosys Technologies have extended their
relationship by announcing a strategic alliance, where the latter will provide
systems integration of TIBCO's entire product line. Infosys will also develop
and support the essential enterprise application integration adapters.
Infosys will establish an EAI competency center dedicated to building and
supporting up to 100 application adapters. These adapters are necessary for
total business integration of legacy, ERP, CRM, and database systems including
SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft and Oracle.
Gartner projects that the application integration and middleware market will
reach $8.7 billion in 2005. This new alliance will offer clients a complete
solution that combines TIBCO's products with Infosys' consulting, integration
and support services for rapid implementation.
Infosys will leverage its global presence and its dedicated TIBCO EAI
practice professionals in providing consulting, integration and support services
to clients worldwide. The clients to benefit from this alliance include Toshiba,
Adidas, Telstra and Vodafone.
"Successful partnerships in the software business are ones that combine
core competencies of each company to deliver a total solution," explained
Raj Mashruwala, TIBCO's executive vice president of engineering and marketing.
"TIBCO is pleased to combine our software solutions with Infosys'
expertise in large, complex systems integration to offer clients the value of a
one-stop shop. This enables TIBCO to expand its footprint in the market.
"Flexible architectures have become the key component of every company's
cost reduction and time-to-market needs," said Phaneesh Murthy, Infosys
board member and head of worldwide sales and marketing. "At Infosys, our
strategy has been to help companies reduce total cost of ownership through use
of flexible architectures and TIBCO's products fit well into this
approach."