Vivek Ranadive

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name = Vivek Ranadivé


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birth_place = Mumbai, India
occupation = Chairman, CEO and Founder, TIBCO Software
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children = Three children
website = [http://www.tibco.com/company/leadership/bio_ranadive.jsp TIBCO Software, Inc. Official Vivek Ranadive bio]
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Vivek Ranadivé (b. 1957, Mumbai, India) is the Chairman, CEO and Founder of TIBCO Software, the computer software technology company he founded in 1985. The Palo Alto company employs 1,600 and has annual revenue of more than $500 million. Ranadivé's New York Times business bestseller, "The Power of Now": How Winning Companies Sense and Respond to Change Using Real-time Technology" has been widely used in academia.

Ranadivé grew up in Juhu area of Mumbai and was the youngest of three children. [cite journal
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year = 2007
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title = Master of his own destiny
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author = Julia Hanna
year = 2000
month = December
title = Driving the Information Bus:Vivek Ranadivé
journal = Harvard Business School Bulletin
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TIBCO's origins begin with a company called Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. (TSS). While at Teknekron, Ranadivé developed The Information Bus, which integrated and delivered market data -- like stock quotes and other financial information -- for banks and other financial service institutions.

Personal life

Ranadive grew up in Juhu area of Mumbai and was the youngest of three children. He is married and now has three children of his own. [cite journal
author = Priya Jain
year = 2007
month = March
title = Master of his own destiny
journal = Express Computer
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doi =
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pages = ] . He enjoys playing golf, tennis, biking and hiking. Ranadive coached his daughter’s basketball team, a sport he has a passion for.

Books Authored

1999 "The Power of Now", with foreward by Scott McNealy, published by McGraw-Hill

2006 "The Power to Predict", with foreward by Frederick W. Smith, published by McGraw-Hill

TIBCO: “The Information Bus Company”

"My background was as a hardware engineer," Ranadivé says. "If you look inside a computer, there's a back plane, or "bus", with cards that plug in to run the machine's functions. My idea was to create a "software bus" and plug applications into that." As simple as it sounds, this insight had a dramatic impact on real-time information. (TIBCO is an acronym for The Information Bus Company.). [cite journal
author = Julia Hanna
year = 2000
month = December
title = Driving the Information Bus:Vivek Ranadivé
journal = Harvard Business School Bulletin
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References

External links

* [http://www.tibco.com/company/leadership/bio_ranadive.jsp TIBCO Software Inc. Official Vivek Ranadivé bio]
* [http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2007/09/10/tidbits1.html San Francisco Business Times Biography]
* [http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/2000/december/profile.html Driving the Information Bus:Vivek Ranadivé]
* [http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20070312/technologylife03.shtml Master of his own destiny]
* [http://gigaom.com/2002/01/12/vivek-randive-tibco-ceo-is-living-in-real-time2/ Vivek Randive, Tibco CEO is living in �real time2]
* [http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2001/2001_06_27.tibco13.html Tapping into the need for speed ]