Western Union Announces Deal with TIBCO

The Western Union Company

, a leader in global payment services, today announced an internal Big Data initiative designed to help define and capture growth opportunities within the company's digital, retail and stored value businesses. Working with TIBCO Software Inc.

, Western Union will leverage internal Big Data analysis to anticipate consumer trends, and ultimately customize the company's customer engagement strategies according to an individual's unique needs. In addition, the company will work with TIBCO to streamline the systems integration process for Western Union's Global Share stored value platform. Western Union will utilize a number of TIBCO's solutions for the internal Big Data initiative, including: * A high-performance event processing platform that facilitates real-time decision making; * An in-memory data grid enabling immediate sharing and processing of internal Big Data; and * A scalable middleware platform that helps automate business processes and integrate the company's retail locations with its online and mobile offerings.