TIBCO provides enterprise software that helps companies achieve SOA and BPM success. With over 2,500 customers, TIBCO has given leading organizations around the world better awareness and agility—what TIBCO calls The Power of Now®. TIBCO looked to AtreNet for creative and engineering support for a time-critical relaunch of TIBCO.com. AtreNet developed an iterative update to the look-and-feel and created a JSP infrastructure to facilitate common templates across the site. We worked as an extension of TIBCO's internal production teams to successfully relaunch the site under an incredibly compressed timeline—in time for a crucial product announcement.
“We needed to relaunch our site to coincide with our ActiveMatrix product launch. The timing was incredibly tight. Our plan included new designs, a new infrastructure, and updates to thousands of pages. It seemed an impossible project. Luckily, our experience with AtreNet had shown us that they had the skills, dedication and can-do attitude to make it happen. They were the perfect choice for this project and delivered beyond our expectations. The new site was launched on schedule and continues to pay dividends through the highly maintainable infrastructure.”
Scott Fingerhut
Sr. Director, WW Marketing Strategy & Services
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The Challenge
- TIBCO faced a 30-day deadline for the relaunch of the site.
- TIBCO.com needed a new design to boldly introduce its ActiveMatrix product.
- The update would incorporate CSS-driven templates as a solid foundation for SEO and maintenance, with a JSP infrastructure to separate the look-and-feel from content.
- Thousands of pages needed to be converted to the new XHTML strict format.
- The project would require collaboration between AtreNet team members and geographically dispersed TIBCO representatives.
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The Solution
- Due to the intensive time constraints, we could not afford to miss a single deadline. AtreNet created a timeline for deliverables and milestones for this 30 day period. Schedules were tight, but project management was there every step of the way to ensure that deliverables were met and the project remained on target.
- AtreNet developed a compelling new look-and-feel for TIBCO's SOA portal, and then extended this design across other areas of the site.
- To facilitate rapid integration of content, AtreNet created and launched a skeleton template prior to the final development and approval of the site designs.
- Once the designs were approved, AtreNet's engineering team created conversion scripts to translate the skeleton template to the final template.
- AtreNet's engineering team created a JSP infrastructure using a single XML configuration file in order to drive the site's design and navigation.
- To ensure consistency and support multiple production teams, AtreNet created a web standards guide and best-practices guide. We also provided code libraries and videos as self-help resources for team members.
- AtreNet hosted and managed the development server which was utilized by TIBCO team members across the world.
- The web site was launched on schedule and is serving as a maintainable and extensible new foundation for TIBCO's online marketing and support efforts.
