TIBCO Business Works

Where does TIBCO BusinessWorks fit in?

Business
Integration
TIBCO BusinessWorks
layer
Application
Integration
layer
Transport
layer

TIBCO Adapters
(Application Adapters SAP R/3, PeopleSoft
(Technology Adapters Database, MQ)

TIBCO Messaging
(TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO Enterprise for JMS etc .)

TIBCO BusinessWorks Run-time Architecture

TIBCO
Runtime Agent
TIBCO Administration Server

Connect to
Enterprise Applications
through Adapter Services

Evaluate
Business Rules,
Perform
Transformations

RV/JMS

Fault-tolerant Process Engines

HTTP,
SOAP,
SMTP
Communicate over
the Internet

ODBC,JDBC

Connect to File and

Database systems

TIBCO BusinessWorks Components The complete picture

TIBCO Designer.
TIBCO BusinessWorks engine.
TIBCO Administrator.
TIBCO Runtime Agent (TRA).
TIBCO In Concert (Optional).

TIBCO BusinessWorks Features

Messaging.
Adapters Services.
Business Process Modeling.
Schemas and Data Mapping.

TIBCO BusinessWorks Features:

Messaging
TIBCO Business Works has messaging system that can reliably handle the
of messages that will be sent and received by it.

The system has the following characteristics:

Guaranteed and fault tolerant.
Distributed architecture.
High Throughput.
Scalable.

volume

TIBCO BusinessWorks Features

Adapters

Adapters receive information from a source application and publish it

to the business process in a shared format.

Adapters subscribe to information from a business process.

Translate it to a format the target application can understand.

Adapters can also be set up to work in a client/server mode (using remote

operations.)

TIBCO BusinessWorks Features

Adapters
TIBCO BusinessWorks fully integrates with the following adapters:

Technology adaptersIncludes adapters that access files or databases.

Application adaptersIncludes adapter for PeopleSoft, SAP R/3, Siebel, and others.

TIBCO BusinessWorks Features

Business Process Modelling

The business processes describe the actual flow of data inside the

enterprise.

In TIBCO BW, TIBCO Designer GUI is used to design and test processes.

TIBCO BusinessWorks Features:

Business Process Modelling

Features
Configuration of adapter services.
File Read, File Write,and File Create, email activities, timers, FTP activities, etc.

A transformation tool to map the output of one activity to the input of subsequent
activities.
Conditional transitions supporting XPath syntax.
Grouping of activities.
An easy-to-use design-time process debugger.

TIBCO BusinessWorks Features:

Schemas and Data Mapping

Different applications in an enterprise use different data representations.

For example, a purchase order in a PeopleSoft system differs from a
purchase order in a Siebel customer service system.

TIBCO BusinessWorks allows you to view and manipulate the data coming
from and going into each service or activity using XML schemas.

Thank You!