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Infy, TIBCO partners on systems integration

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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.

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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.

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"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."

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