Scottish utility giant streamlines operations

NEWS ScottishPower has opted for Tibco Software's enterprise application integration (EAI) suite to simplify the way the energy company sells and markets its products and serves its customers. In addition, the licence agreement includes Tibco's portal service, business process management and B2B integration. Tibco claims its process management and EAI offerings will allow ScottishPower to streamline its internal processes. It also said that its B2B integration will allow the utility to integrate new applications and processes in support of its development as a global energy company. David Jones, group chief information officer at ScottishPower, said in a company statement: "We chose Tibco because of its proven track record to deliver an end-to-end integration solution on a common and robust platform across all areas of our business, both internally and externally." Aditya Shivram, product-marketing manager at Tibco for EMEA told silicon.com that ScottishPower was looking for a consistent vendor to supply it from a process level to a data level across its enterprise. Full integration will be made across ScottishPower's global energy business in the UK and US - with Pacificorp.