Software integration center opens

Tibco Software Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., has opened an executive briefing center in Falls Church, Va., to help develop integration platforms for government customers. The move is part of the company's new government solutions practice aimed at providing homeland security, Federal Enterprise Architecture and cross-agency collaboration applications.

Tibco has partnerships with various integrators, including Accenture Ltd., BearingPoint Inc. and EDS Corp. Solution providers such as Siebel Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. use Tibco's standards-based messaging and integration software to tie together disparate systems, including off-the-shelf and custom applications.