Tibco took the next step in a year-old effort to unify its distributed messaging, business process management, and integration middleware products under the Tibco One umbrella architecture with release of ActiveMatrix 2.0.
There are a lot of pieces to the 2.0 release, as it is part of an ambitious strategy for Tibco to unify a diverse set of middleware and messaging products that each has their own distinctive lineages.
iRise, a provider of front end visual simulation tools used during the requirements phase of software development, has drawn $20 million for a third round of funding. It’s also released the next version, 6.5, of its Studio product, carrying a mix of usability and performance tweaks.
Desktop management suites are a dime a dozen, and if you listen to the Altiris’s and LANDesks of the world, are simpler and more economical than ever. But nobody going to be simpler or cheaper than the $1 or less per machine, per month price points that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) desktop management provider Paragent LLC provides.
As the largest independent provider of data integration software still standing, Informatica is launching a new program intended to communicate the message that as the “Switzerland” player in its market, that it is the safest and most logical bet for software vendors and integrators to partner with.