<p>By Adrian Bridgwater, September 26, 2012 New partner ecosystem, application roadmap, and Tibco Silver Mobile development environment</p><p>Tibco held its TUCON user conference this week in Las Vegas. Key among the news announcements being proffered forth were technologies designed to help build what the firm defines as the "social enterprise" and the collaboration applications operating within it.</p><p>NOTE: The firm's name TIBCO stands for The Information Bus Company.</p><p>Tibco has created a new partner ecosystem for its tibbr social enterprise collaboration tool, which has been described as "Facebook for the enterprise" by various company executives. Launched less than two years ago, tibbr comes out of the firm's heritage in integration "supporting transactional systems bidirectionally", a technology layer intended to make it easy for users to act upon information in context to get work done.</p><p><a href="http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/tibco-spells-out-social-enterprise-appli/240008027">Keep reading...</a></p>