Intelligent Enterprise and TIBCO Announce Distinguished Panel of Judges for First Annual Intelligent Enterprise Award

Luminaries Tapped for Judging Panel Span Market Research, Media and Corporate Worlds

PRNewswire
NEW YORK and PALO ALTO, Calif.
Aug 8, 2005

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine, dedicated to helping organizations plan and deploy strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence, and presenting sponsor TIBCO Software Inc., (NASDAQ: TIBX), a leading business integration and process management software company that enables real-time business, today announced the Distinguished Panel of Judges for the First Annual Intelligent Enterprise Award. Held in conjunction with the Intelligent Enterprise Summit, being held from October 5-7, 2005, the winner of this award will be named at an evening award gala on Wed., Oct. 5, 2005 at the Dolce Norwalk Center for Leadership and Innovation in Norwalk, Conn.

  The distinguished panel of judges includes notable industry experts:
   * David Stodder -- Editorial Director/Editor-in-Chief, Intelligent
     Enterprise
   * Doug Henschen -- Editor, Intelligent Enterprise
   * Jeanette Burriesci -- Senior Editor, Intelligent Enterprise
   * Justin Shaffer -- Vice President and Chief Architect, MLB Advanced
     Media
   * Bruce Silver -- Intelligent Enterprise Contributing Editor
   * Naeem Hashmi -- President, Information Frameworks
   * Stuart Robbins -- Founder and Executive Director, CIO Collective
   * Seth Grimes -- President, Altaplana and Intelligent Enterprise
     Contributing Editor
   * Mark Smith -- CEO, Ventana Research

The Intelligent Enterprise Award recognizes IT executives and their ability to create and sell a vision, utilize technology as an enabler and ultimately deliver quantifiable results for the enterprise. This award also recognizes the individual who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in his/her organization to sell the vision and motivate the team to get the project completed. The award is open to chief information officers, vice presidents and/or directors of enterprise applications, and vice presidents and/or directors of information technology, or their equivalents, who have demonstrated innovation and excellence, ultimately leading to tangible business results for their organization.

"We are very fortunate to have such an elite group of industry experts participating in the judging of this year's award program," said Ram Menon, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, TIBCO Software. "And in looking at the caliber of the nominations received to date, our distinguished judging panel will have their work cut out for them. We predict that the final decision for the first Intelligent Enterprise award will indeed be a difficult one," added Menon.

Nomination forms are available at http://www.iesummit.com/. All nomination forms must be submitted by Wednesday, August 10, 2005 to ieaward@execalliance.com.

Finalists should also be able to attend the award reception and gala on the evening of October 5, 2005 in Norwalk, Conn. in order to be recognized by peers and the industry in general. For questions about the Intelligent Enterprise Award Program, please contact Executive Alliance at ieaward@execalliance.com or call (404) 982-8562.

About the Presenting Sponsor: TIBCO Software

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) is a leading business integration and process management software company that enables real-time business. Real-Time Business is about helping companies become more cost-effective, more agile and more efficient. TIBCO has delivered the value of Real-Time Business, what TIBCO calls The Power of Now®, to over 2,000 customers around the world and in a wide variety of industries. For more information on TIBCO's proven enterprise backbone, business integration, business process management, and business optimization solutions, TIBCO can be reached at +1 650-846-1000 or on the Web at http://www.tibco.com/. TIBCO is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

TIBCO, the TIBCO logo, The Power of Now and TIBCO Software are trademarks or registered trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other product and company names and marks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.

  Media Contacts:
   Tracey Passuello             Dana Dye
   Intelligent Enterprise       The Bateman Group for TIBCO
   (516) 562-5647               (415) 503-1818, ext. 14
   tpassuel@cmp.com             danadye@bateman-group.com

SOURCE: CMP Media LLC

CONTACT: Media Contacts: Tracey Passuello of Intelligent Enterprise,
+1-516-562-5647, tpassuel@cmp.com, or Dana Dye of The Bateman Group for TIBCO,
+1-415-503-1818, ext. 14, danadye@bateman-group.com; both for CMP Media LLC

Web site: http://www.iesummit.com/
http://www.tibco.com/

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