PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TIBCO Software Inc. , a leading business integration and process management software company that enables real-time business, today announced that the latest generation of TIBCO Business Studio(TM), version 1.1 is available for free.

To date, commercially available process modeling environments have been too cost-prohibitive for most companies to invest in for non-technical users. The few made available for free are generally not standards compliant, have limited functionality, or do not fit into the current IT infrastructure. As a result, models built in these solutions cannot be executed easily and, in most cases, require significant re-work by IT to ensure compliance with the execution engine. TIBCO Business Studio, version 1.1 is the first fully functional, standards-based process modeling product tailor-made for business users offered at no cost. This eliminates a key barrier to entry by giving organizations an easy, low-risk way to get started with their BPM projects.

"Getting the model correct remains the biggest challenge in BPM implementations and how companies consume most of their time," said Michael James Melenovsky, Research Director focusing on business process management, Gartner, Inc. "Providing tools that are accessible and easy to use allows business users to spend more time refining models to improve their BPM implementations and less time learning new technologies."

"TIBCO Business Studio provides the best quality BPM models by leveraging the know-how of those closest to the business processes without bogging them down with technical details," said Harm Scherpbier, M.D. product manager for Siemens Medical Solution's Soarian(R) health information solution. "In our experience, we've found that those with the most knowledge on business process and organizational pain-points often aren't able to contribute to BPM implementations due to technical hurdles. With TIBCO Business Studio we are able to remove these hurdles, empowering even non-technical users to design the models in a friendly environment and leaving the technical side of the implementation to the IT team."

TIBCO Business Studio provides a more collaborative environment that allows business users to properly model, simulate and manage business processes. In addition, because TIBCO Business Studio is standards compliant, with support for BPMN and XPDL, it can easily implement the models business users create.

"Offering TIBCO Business Studio for free will help close the gap between business and technical users in BPM and encourage the broad adoption of a standards-based modeling environment," said Jeff Kristick, senior director, Product Marketing, TIBCO Software. "Having a tool that caters to non-technical users will continue to drive innovation in BPM without weighing business users down with technical details."

TIBCO Business Studio is now available to the public for free and may be downloaded via: http://www.tibco.com/devnet/business_studio/default.jsp. To learn more, visit http://www.tibco.com/ for details or stop by TIBCO's booth at the Shared Insights Business Process Management Conference, being held Nov. 14-16, 2006, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston. For more information about the conference itself, please visit http://www.sharedinsights.com/.

About TIBCO

TIBCO Software Inc. is a leading business integration and process management software company that enables real-time business. Real-time business is about giving organizations the ability to sense and respond to changes and opportunities as they arise. TIBCO has delivered the value of real-time business, what TIBCO calls The Power of Now(R), to over 2,500 customers around the world and in a wide variety of industries. To learn about TIBCO's solutions for service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM) and business optimization, contact TIBCO at +1 650-846-1000 or on the Web at http://www.tibco.com/. TIBCO is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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CONTACT: Holly Burkhart of TIBCO Software Inc., +1-650-846-8463, or
hburkhart@tibco.com; or Aaron Wessels of Bateman Group, +1-415-503-1818,
ext. 15, or tibco@bateman-group.com, for TIBCO

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