San Francisco: TIBCO Software today announced that it has expanded its existing eight-year relationship with Infosys Technologies. Infosys CEO, Kris Gopalakrishnan, will use his keynote speech at TUCON to outline how the strategic alliance has enabled TIBCO and Infosys to win new customers by delivering a unique value proposition based on the two companies' combined experience and market knowledge.

Demonstrating their commitment to customer excellence, TIBCO and Infosys recently opened a Concept Center at the Infosys campus in Bangalore, India. Serving as a valuable educational resource, the Concept Center showcases joint solutions offered by TIBCO and Infosys to the global market. Customers and prospects that visit the Concept Center will gain an in-depth understanding of project methodologies and relevant industry standards, as well as access to resources for modernizing and integrating legacy systems and business processes within a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

"As the industry's leader in platform-independent infrastructure software, TIBCO enables lower cost of ownership and faster time-to-value for organizations who want the ability to customize an approach in line with their specific business needs," said Abhishek, associate vice-president and head of the BPM-EAI practice at Infosys Technologies. "Our alliance partnership with TIBCO directly addresses the challenges we are hearing from our customers."

The expanded Concept Centre will also offer customers implementation guidelines based on real-world experiences using state-of-the-art digital communication and video conferencing technologies, enabling joint customers around the world to benefit from learning about the companies' latest offerings for driving value from their IT infrastructure.

TIBCO executive vice president, Ram Menon commented, "This deepened alliance partnership allows Infosys and TIBCO to leverage their respective strengths to jointly and proactively address customer needs, showcasing product and solution collateral and best-of-breed delivery practices for customers." He continued, "This will help customers realize real-time visibility, understanding, and action at optimal costs, and gain an in-depth understanding of project methodologies and relevant industry standards."