Elica gets cooking with Tibco’s SOA software
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Cooker hoods manufacturer Elica says it expects its service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation to reduce IT costs by unlocking value in existing systems, improving time-to-market of new service-based offerings and providing a single view of its business.
The company went for Tibco’s standards-based software platform because, as Massimo Lo Campo, Elica’s CIO puts it: “Tibco provides us with a comprehensive solution that helps connect and coordinate all of our IT assets, as well as play an integral role in the deployment of an SOA that fits our strategy.”
He says that Elica shortlisted Tibco along with two other integration vendors, but the firm’s BusinessWorks stood out because of its “platform-neutral support for heterogeneous IT and SOA environments”.
Why the need for an SOA now? Elica’s acquisition activity and global OEM agreements meant it was living with several different applications all transferring files and data from third parties to core systems through a number of point-to-point interfaces.
Tibco BusinessWorks will help Elica to increase efficiency by enabling the integration and orchestration of its different systems, with very little programming.
Lo Campo says the project will initially focus on integrating Elica’s AS/400-based billing and ERP systems with order management, with the objective of automatically feeding data into its back-office systems.
Also, he expects BusinessWorks’ web-based interface to assist with monitoring systems and processes – with real-time information exchange keeping staff informed.
