TIBCO Software Inc. provides infrastructure and business intelligence software worldwide. The company offers products in the areas of integration and core infrastructure; business optimization; and process automation and collaboration. Its integration and core infrastructure product line helps organizations integrate their disparate systems and move towards flexible infrastructure comprising services or discrete data components that can be assembled, orchestrated, and reused; enables the creation, management, and virtualization of heterogeneous services; and provides a unified environment for policy and service management. The company s business optimization software tracks large volumes of real-time events as they occur and applies rules in order to identify patterns that signify problems, threats, and opportunities; automatically initiates appropriate notifications or adaptations of processes; and helps employees to perform their jobs, managers to identify and analyze problems and aberrations, and executives to spot opportunities and risks. Its process automation and collaboration software helps organizations coordinate manual and automated process flows that span their business; enables employees to collaborate in real-time using social media; and coordinates the human and electronic resources inside a business and its network of customers and partners. The company also provides professional services, which include consulting services, such as systems planning and design, installation, and systems integration; maintenance and support; training; and hosted services. It serves financial services, telecommunications, energy, retail, life sciences, manufacturing, transportation, government, insurance, and business services industries. The company sells its products through direct sales force, as well as alliances with software vendors, resellers, and systems integrators. TIBCO Software Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.