TIBCO Software Case Studies Swisscom Integrates to Compete and Transform

	Swisscom Integrates to Compete and Transform TIBCO Software

Swisscom Integrates to Compete and Transform

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Telecommunications
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Digital Thread Process Control & Optimization Remote Collaboration
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration Training
Challenge	Swisscom faced significant challenges due to intense competition from local Telco operators and over-the-top providers that use local network resources. Additionally, the company was undergoing a rapid transformation to digital business, which necessitated an organizational restructuring and IT platform consolidation. The primary challenge was not only integrating technologies and IT platforms but also integrating people from different divisions to create solutions for the entire company. Without successful integration, Swisscom risked slower product creation, increased costs, and reduced revenues. Read More
About Customer	Swisscom is Switzerland’s leading telecom provider, offering corporate and residential mobile and fixed-line telephony, Internet, and digital TV services. It is also one of the largest IT service providers in Switzerland, building and maintaining infrastructure for mobile and fixed-line telephony, transmitting broadcasting signals, and being active in sectors such as Banking, Energy, Entertainment, Advertising, and Healthcare. Internationally, Swisscom's activities are concentrated mainly in Italy through its subsidiary, Fastweb, one of the largest broadband providers. Swisscom is recognized as one of Europe’s most sustainable companies. Read More
Solution	In 2010, Swisscom decided to use TIBCO as the core technology for its integration platform, based on a product analysis that considered cost, product maturity, stability, and support availability. TIBCO’s ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks was chosen for its ability to reuse functions, thereby speeding up new integrations and reducing time to market. TIBCO Professional Services played a crucial role in supporting Swisscom during the initial setup and later in stabilizing performance. The collaboration with TIBCO helped Swisscom’s employees ramp up on building and managing the production installation, ensuring a smooth and efficient integration process. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Digital Thread

Process Control & Optimization

Remote Collaboration

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Training

Challenge

Swisscom faced significant challenges due to intense competition from local Telco operators and over-the-top providers that use local network resources. Additionally, the company was undergoing a rapid transformation to digital business, which necessitated an organizational restructuring and IT platform consolidation. The primary challenge was not only integrating technologies and IT platforms but also integrating people from different divisions to create solutions for the entire company. Without successful integration, Swisscom risked slower product creation, increased costs, and reduced revenues.

About Customer

Swisscom is Switzerland’s leading telecom provider, offering corporate and residential mobile and fixed-line telephony, Internet, and digital TV services. It is also one of the largest IT service providers in Switzerland, building and maintaining infrastructure for mobile and fixed-line telephony, transmitting broadcasting signals, and being active in sectors such as Banking, Energy, Entertainment, Advertising, and Healthcare. Internationally, Swisscom's activities are concentrated mainly in Italy through its subsidiary, Fastweb, one of the largest broadband providers. Swisscom is recognized as one of Europe’s most sustainable companies.

Solution

In 2010, Swisscom decided to use TIBCO as the core technology for its integration platform, based on a product analysis that considered cost, product maturity, stability, and support availability. TIBCO’s ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks was chosen for its ability to reuse functions, thereby speeding up new integrations and reducing time to market. TIBCO Professional Services played a crucial role in supporting Swisscom during the initial setup and later in stabilizing performance. The collaboration with TIBCO helped Swisscom’s employees ramp up on building and managing the production installation, ensuring a smooth and efficient integration process.

Impact #1	Swisscom's TIBCO solution continuously transmits and receives application data, lowering IT TCO by reducing effort and cost through a common, standardized infrastructure.
Impact #2	The integration platform enables efficient end-to-end business process automation, reducing time to market and improving delivery speed due to enhanced modularization, compatibility, stability, and availability.
Impact #3	Quality has increased as data deficits and inconsistencies on integrated backends can be corrected with ongoing, coordinated exception handling.

Impact #1

Swisscom's TIBCO solution continuously transmits and receives application data, lowering IT TCO by reducing effort and cost through a common, standardized infrastructure.

Impact #2

The integration platform enables efficient end-to-end business process automation, reducing time to market and improving delivery speed due to enhanced modularization, compatibility, stability, and availability.

Impact #3

Quality has increased as data deficits and inconsistencies on integrated backends can be corrected with ongoing, coordinated exception handling.

Benefit #1	More than 120 IT applications are integrated.
Benefit #2	Over 650 integrations have been implemented.
Benefit #3	The solution comprises more than 200 components and over 85,000 data mappings.

Benefit #1

More than 120 IT applications are integrated.

Benefit #2

Over 650 integrations have been implemented.

Benefit #3

The solution comprises more than 200 components and over 85,000 data mappings.

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Swisscom Integrates to Compete and Transform

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