Tibco Rendezvous

The most basic need of application-to-application integration is the efficient movement of data from system to system, within and beyond the enterprise. As the foundation, the messaging software must be efficient, reliable, and scalable. It must be flexible enough to support the integration of off-the-shelf and custom-built applications, and it must garner industry-wide support among leading technology companies.

Benefits

• Provides a high-performance, scalable platform for e-business infrastructures.
• Enables the creation of robust event-driven applications.
• Harnesses the full capabilities of high-performance multiprocessor servers.
• Ensures minimal integration-driven traffic as cross-system needs grow.
• Meets the reliability standards of even the most demanding applications and 24x7 environments.
• Provides off-the-shelf support for over 100 of the world's leading applications, technologies, and databases.
• Simplifies administration with self-administering protocol.

Features

• Fully integrated with all TIBCO products, including a broad library of pre-built adapters and TIBCO Adapter™ SDK for creating custom adapters.
• Browser-based monitoring and management tool provides administrators a standard, readily accessible interface.
• Dynamic, source-based routing protocol provides added efficiency and simplified configuration.
• Enhanced message support and user extensible types improve performance and flexibility.
• Built-in APIs for fault tolerance and load balancing.

The Choice of Technology Vendors

TIBCO Rendezvous has been integrated or embedded within the products of the world's leading technology companies. Over 100 leading applications, technologies, and information sources have already been integrated as off-the-shelf offerings. TIBCO Rendezvous is the only messaging software that delivers true real-time publish/subscribe and request/reply messaging. It also supports qualities of service ranging from lightweight informational messages to certified and transactional delivery.

Architecture

TIBCO Rendezvous utilizes a distributed architecture to eliminate bottlenecks and single points of failure. Applications can select from several qualities of service including reliable, certified, and transactional, as appropriate for each interaction. Messaging can be request/reply or publish/subscribe, synchronous or asynchronous, locally delivered or sent via WAN or the internet. TIBCO Rendezvous messages are self-describing and platform independent, with a user-extensible type system that provides support for data formats such as XML.

Unmatched Reliability

More than a decade of production use has proven TIBCO Rendezvous to be one of the most reliable software products of any kind. Built-in facilities for constructing fault-tolerant, load-balanced applications maximize uptime and performance. Integration with TIBCO Hawk® provides TIBCO Rendezvous-based components with immediate recovery from unexpected failures or application outages.