Functional Components This section provides a general overview of each TIBCO product component used by the FTP Server. TIBCO BusinessConnect TIBCO BusinessConnect is a business-to-business server that enables the secure exchange of business documents and automates cross-company processes. Its architecture leverages TIBCO expertise with Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to completely integrate systems and processes across company boundaries. TIBCO BusinessConnect also provides partner management features to let businesses efficiently define and maintain the complex partner relationships required for electronic commerce. TIBCO Rendezvous TIBCO Rendezvous allows you to exchange data among applications across a network. It supports network data transport and network data representation as well as many hardware and software platforms, so applications running on many different kinds of computers on a network can communicate seamlessly. TIBCO Rendezvous applications communicate by exchanging messages sent on subjects. Messages can contain any kind of data (except memory pointers); they usually contain notification of business events and any associated data. TIBCO Rendezvous features self-describing data structures that contain information about their data types, sizes and names. Rendezvous applications on heterogeneous platforms can communicate easily by exchanging self-describing data.