SAP customers are continuing to derive significant business value from their SAP deployments by leveraging TIBCO to orchestrate business functions across their extended enterprise. With TIBCO, SAP customers can create a holistic view of their enterprise and execute on key business events through efficient alignment of technology investments and corporate objectives.
As organisations seek to gain operational efficiencies, improve customer loyalty, comply with regulations and expand their business, they must create a flexible, long-term technology infrastructure - a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for assembling systems and applications for maximum value. For most organisations, this means leveraging current IT systems, creating a standards-based integration platform, and integrating these systems and applications to drive higher return on investment (ROI). Beyond application connectivity, only TIBCO provides end-to-end, dynamic process orchestration, cross-functional performance management, and the platform to create an event-driven architecture to enable SAP customers to sense and respond to changing business conditions, market opportunities and competitive pressures in real-time.
Pirelli, one of the world`s largest tire manufacturers with over three billion euros in annual revenue and over 6 000 distributors and dealers, maintains a complex system that includes supply chain management, production planning and finance operations. Pirelli realised immediate business value by using TIBCO to integrate its internal business applications - including multiple instances of SAP software and several other applications - to provide a common conduit for sharing information and build loyalty with its network of thousands of distributors worldwide. TIBCOR business-to-business software helps Pirelli quickly add new distributors to their system, manage inventory and synchronise production, resulting in stronger loyalty among distributors, increased sales and improved business agility. Now Pirelli can compile sale forecasts in 30 minutes instead of 70 days; improved inventory management resulted in savings of 20%; and the ability to quickly add new distributors has increased sales 5%.
"By extending the functionality and processes from our existing SAP applications, we now have visibility throughout the supply chain. We`ve increased productivity, reduced costs and improved our time to market with new products," says Dario Scagliotti, CEO SSC, a Pirelli and Telecom Italia company. "By leveraging our existing technology investments, TIBCO has helped us transform our way of doing business and achieve significant results."
Recognised by industry analyst firm, Gartner, as a leader in business integration, TIBCO provides fast time to value and lowers risk for companies looking to leverage their SAP investment to achieve real-time business. As a neutral, third-party integrator, TIBCO supports other technologies, including SAP NetWeaver, and enables faster deployment and integration of new SAP components and components that need to interact with SAP. TIBCO has completed SAP integration projects across a wide range of global industries including financial services, energy, telecommunications and manufacturing.
"While SAP software provides a fundamental application for an organisation`s IT infrastructure and business users, the true value of an SAP investment is realised by utilising TIBCO technology to extend SAP functionality across the enterprise," says Ram Menon, senior vice-president, Worldwide Marketing, TIBCO Software Inc. "Increasing numbers of customers rely on TIBCO`s standards-based, agnostic solutions to increase the value of their SAP implementations and improve business agility."
To learn more about how TIBCO`s solutions help drive more value from SAP investments, download the informative white paper "How SAP Customers Achieve Greater Value Using TIBCO" at http://www.tibco.com/mk/2004/tsapwp.jsp.
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