Fioranos Tifosi Goes Global - Message-based integration software adds internationalization, application adapters

Seeking to improve the global application support of its Tifosi application integration software, Fiorano Software Inc. has released a version that adds internationalization, new adapters and stronger support for XML data.

Tifosi 2002, released at the end of September, builds upon the products first release, which offered drag-and-drop style integration of applications using the companys FioranoMQ JMS-compliant message-oriented middleware. Tifosi encompasses FioranoMQ, as well as a graphical business process workflow editor and adapters that allow loosely coupled integration of non-JMS applications.

The new release, according to Sriram Chakravarthy, director of product development, emphasizes internationalization through its support for multibyte character sets for both the user interface and message content. The companys key language focus for multibyte character sets is Japanese and Korean, he said.

Chakravarthy cited Tifosis new home-grown set of adapters. We earlier had partnerships with companies that provided us with application adapters, for SAP, PeopleSoft and so on, but now we have our own set of adapters. We have adapters for PeopleSoft and SAP. We also have extensive database adapters for Oracle, Microsofts SQL Server and [IBMs] DB2," he said, and improved services for Web services and Enterprise JavaBeans.

The latest version also includes a new graphical mapping tool that allows developers to specify the schema definitions for the input and output of any Tifosi-based service using the W3Cs XML Schema Definition.

For runtime monitoring support of a deployed Tifosi application, said Chakravarthy, the system responds to SNMP probes by products like HPs OpenView or Computer Associates Unicenter, and we are adding support at the service level for ActiveX, C and C++."

Fiorano (www.fiorano.com) also has improved Tifosis reliability, claimed Chakravarthy, by adding hot failover capabilities via clustering of the message queues.

Tifosi is priced at $10,000 for each Tifosi Peer Server-that is, the service running on each participating node in a Tifosi Network. If the message queuing is required, a deployed network also requires at least one Tifosi Enterprise Server, for $25,000 per processor. The tools cost $10,000 per developer seat.