Case Study: a well-renowned arts and crafts retailer achieves a smooth TIBCO BW 6.9 upgrade with XTIVIA

a arts and crafts retailer upgrades 1,250-store TIBCO environment from 6.4 to 6.9 with Xtivia

The customer, an arts and crafts retailer, needed to perform a high-risk upgrade of their mission-critical TIBCO BW system from version 6.4 to 6.9. Due to complex interdependencies and a requirement to maintain their legacy RHEL 6 operating system, the upgrade presented significant technical challenges. They engaged vendor Xtivia as their implementation partner for this complex project.

Xtivia implemented a solution that ensured business continuity by creating a new TIBCO 6.9 environment that coexisted on the same servers as the old version, allowing for a rolling deployment. Their methodical process included a two-stage code refactoring, extensive compatibility testing, and comprehensive documentation. The result was a smooth transition to the new TIBCO BW 6.9 version for end users with minimal impact on upstream and downstream applications.