 It has headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and offices in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South America.Its Palo Alto campus consists of four buildings on 16 acres in Palo Alto's Stanford Research Park.In 1997, Vivek Ranadivé, who had previously founded and sold Teknekron Software Systems, Inc, founded TIBCO (The Information Bus Company), as a subsidiary of Reuters Holdings, which was then a new venture firm, with financial backing from Cisco Systems.