TIBCO Named as "Company of the Year" Finalist in 2013 American Business Awards(SM)

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - May 15, 2013) -  TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that it was named a Finalist in the "Company of the Year" category in The 2013 American Business Awards, ensuring a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie® Award in the program.

TIBCO is a Palo Alto-based provider of infrastructure software used by over 4,000 companies across the globe. The company's tightly integrated platform of products uses data to identify opportunities and risks in real time, enabling organizations to anticipate important events and initiate intelligent action, to make businesses run more efficiently and to improve customer experiences. TIBCO's solutions integrate intelligently with existing IT environments to capture the right information at the right time, and in the right context, to allow businesses to proactively and strategically manage their data preemptively for a competitive advantage.

"TIBCO has been on a mission to help companies manage and derive value from their exponentially growing amounts of data and information," said Vivek Ranadivé, TIBCO founder and CEO. "Being recognized by The American Business Awards validates the work we're doing to help our customers make sense of their big data, run more efficiently and improve their customers' experiences."

The American Business Awards are the nation's premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations -- public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. The American Business Awards will be presented at two awards events: the ABA's traditional banquet on Monday, June 17 -- in Chicago for the first time, after 10 years in New York; and the new product & technology awards event on Monday, September 16 in San Francisco.

More than 3,200 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including "Most Innovative Company of the Year," "Management Team of the Year," "Best New Product or Service of the Year," "Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year," and "Executive of the Year," among others.

Finalists were chosen by more than 140 business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April and May. More than 150 members of nine specialized judging committees will determine Stevie Award placements from among the Finalists during final judging, to take place May 13-24. 

Details about The American Business Awards and the list of Finalists in all categories are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA. 

About TIBCO

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) is a provider of infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. Whether it's efficient claims or trade processing, cross-selling products based on real-time customer behavior, or averting a crisis before it happens, TIBCO provides companies the two-second advantage® -- the ability to capture the right information, at the right time, and act on it preemptively for a competitive advantage. More than 4,000 customers worldwide rely on TIBCO to manage information, decisions, processes, and applications in real time. Learn more at www.tibco.com.

About the Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. A fifth program, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, will debut this year. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

Sponsors and partners of The 2013 American Business Awards include the Business TalkRadio Network, Callidus Software, Citrix Online, Dynamic Research Corporation, Experian, John Hancock Funds, LifeLock, PetRays, and SoftPro.

TIBCO, two-second advantage, and TIBCO Software are trademarks or registered trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc. or its subsidiaries 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.