Collaborative commerce for the electronic manufacturing services marketPalo Alto 16 August 2000 TIBCO Software, a provider of real-time infrastructure software for e-business, and Tonbu, Inc. a provider of collaborative commerce (C-Commerce) solutions for the electronic manufacturing services (EMS) market, announced a technology alliance that will bring to bring C-Commerce to the $90 billion EMS market. The management team of Tonbu, led by Steve Chen, the architect of the Cray X-MP and Y-MP supercomputers, brings together decades of expertise in technology, engineering and manufacturing.
Tonbu functions as a virtual general contractor that manages global EMS
outsourcing projects for its customers' complete product design, prototyping and
manufacturing needs. TIBCO provides the robust and secure technology
infrastructure for Tonbu's collaborative business-to-business (B2B) software
platform, enabling project members from across the world to securely use complex
design and enterprise applications, and to collaborate in real-time, all via a
standard web browser. By leveraging this core collaborative platform and
partnerships with leading designers, suppliers and manufacturers, and by leading
projects with engineering and program management services, Tonbu can deliver
electronics and information appliance products to its customers faster, at lower
cost and with superior quality.
Tonbu is using the TIBCO ActiveEnterprise e-business product suite to enable
the real-time exchange of information among best-of-breed designers, engineers,
suppliers and manufacturers -- worldwide. TIBCO ActiveEnterprise seamlessly
integrates disparate applications so global participants can access the
applications and information they need to collaborate on projects. As more
preferred project management, document management, electronic design automation
(EDA), computer aided design (CAD), customer relationship management (CRM),
product data management (PDM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other
supply-chain applications are added to the Tonbu collaborative platform, TIBCO's
flexible technology infrastructure will reliably scale with the growth of the
company.
"Collaborative commerce is emerging as a significant force in the new economy as
companies look for ways to speed the time-to-market of new products and
services," said Fred Meyer, chief marketing officer for TIBCO Software. "Powered
by TIBCO's infrastructure technology, Tonbu's solution helps high-technology
companies get their electronics products to market faster, at a lower cost and
with better quality, and gives them an alternative to legacy manufacturing and
supply-chain processes."
Tonbu is C-Commerce powering the next industrial revolution by enabling design,
engineering, supply, and manufacturing firms to collaborate in real-time on the
Web. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Tonbu serves as a virtual general
contractor, leading the global convergence of collaborative commerce, B2B use of
the Internet and outsourcing. Tonbu's core collaborative software is scalable,
customizable and deployable to accelerate the product life-cycle in key markets,
including telecommunications, Internet appliances, medical devices, networking,
computer manufacturing, and semiconductors. The management team of Tonbu, led by
Dr. Steve Chen, the architect of the Cray X-MP and Y-MP supercomputers, brings
together decades of expertise in technology, engineering and manufacturing.
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