About TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Plug-in for Mobile Integration

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorksTM Plug-in for Mobile Integration (BWMI) enables sending push notifications to Apple iOS and Google Android applications from TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorksTM Enterprise processes.

With tremendous growth of smart phones and tablets, the mobility sector is getting at the core of IT strategy. It has become increasingly important to integrate mobile applications into business processes. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Plug-in for Mobile Integration provides a solution to this market demand. It integrates TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Enterprise with mobile platforms by:

  • Allowing the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Enterprise processes to send push notifications to a mobile device in a reliable way.
  • Allowing mobile applications to send device token and user information back to the server. This helps map the mobile application on the mobile device with business user information.
  • Allowing mobile applications to acknowledge notification receipt and also pull pending notifications by connecting back to the Mi Service running in the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Enterprise server.

To receive push notifications on your mobile device from an application provider:

  1. Install a mobile application from that particular application provider.
  2. The application must register itself with the notification service and receive a device token. The device token denotes the address of the application running on that mobile device. It identifies both the application and the device it is running on.
    Note: Before you start your mobile notifications development, do consider that the device tokens may change as per the platform vendor's guidelines.
  3. The application sends this device token and any other user-specific information to the application provider's server.

The application provider can now send notifications to the mobile device on which the application was installed. This is done through the platform providers’ push notification service using the device token.