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Italy's Premier Telecommunications Company Selects TIBCO Software to Connect Customers, Business Partners and Employees Over Enterprise-Wide Information Portal TIBCO Software's E-Business Infrastructure Allows New Levels of Operating Efficiency and Customer Service for Leading Italian Telecommunications Operator Wind
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2000 6:00:00 AM EST
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sep 5, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA, one of Italy's largest telecommunications companies, announced today it has selected real-time e-business infrastructure software from TIBCO Software Inc. TIBX, to provide a complete, enterprise-wide integration platform. The TIBCO ActiveEnterprise(R) suite of products will integrate the multitude of heterogeneous applications and systems at Wind, improving internal efficiency and enhancing customer service.
"With over five million mobile, fixed-line and Internet customers, Wind is one of the fastest growing telecommunications companies in Europe," said Tommaso Pompei, chief executive officer at Wind. "TIBCO's e-business infrastructure technology provides a reliable, scalable platform from which we can continue to rapidly grow and diversify our business, accelerate time-to-market for new services, reduce operating costs and improve overall customer service."
TIBCO's e-business software will enable Wind to integrate its business processes in real-time and connect its partners and customers over the Internet. The new infrastructure will enable Wind to rapidly deploy advanced multimedia services, providing Wind's millions of customers with access to news updates, financial data, and sport and weather information via a handheld multichannel device platform.
"We are delighted to assist Italy's most progressive telecommunications company in continuing its rapid growth in this highly competitive environment," said Vivek Ranadive, chairman and CEO of TIBCO Software. "Wind's commitment cements TIBCO's position as the leading provider of e-business infrastructure software to the telecommunications industry in Europe."
About TIBCO ActiveEnterprise
The core of TIBCO's real-time software infrastructure offering is the TIBCO ActiveEnterprise(R) suite, designed for building a complete, end-to-end Internet and enterprise infrastructure that successfully scales to the most demanding business information networks. It provides a real-time e-business integration platform that encompasses data integration and transformation, business process coordination, messaging, enterprise portals and alerting, adapters for legacy, packaged and third-party applications, plus enterprise monitoring and management.
About Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA
Wind, Italy's largest convergent operator, is the only "one stop shopping of telecommunications" and it offers a complete set of converging telecom services, including mobile (GSM), Internet, fixed voice and data, IP VPN and other broadband services (digital TV) to consumers and businesses in Italy. Wind's main shareholders are Enel, the Italian electricity company, with 51 per cent, and the European telecommunications operator France Telecom.
About TIBCO Software Inc.
TIBCO Software Inc. is a leading provider of real-time e-business infrastructure software. TIBCO's three product lines -- TIBCO ActiveEnterprise(R), TIBCO ActiveExchange(TM) and TIBCO ActivePortal(TM) -- enable businesses to integrate enterprise applications, interact with other businesses in B2B commerce, and efficiently deliver personalized information through enterprise portals. TIBCO's products enable the real-time distribution of information through patented technology called The Information Bus(R), or TIB(R). TIB technology was first used to digitize Wall Street and has since been adopted in diverse industries including telecommunications, electronic commerce, manufacturing and energy. TIBCO's global client base includes more than 1,000 customers from around the world such as Cisco Systems, Yahoo!, Ariba, NEC, Sun Microsystems, SAP, Philips, AT&T and AOL/Netscape. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, TIBCO can be reached at 650-846-1000 or on the web at www.tibco.com.
NOTE: TIBCO, TIBCO ActiveEnterprise, TIBCO ActiveExchange, TIBCO ActivePortal, The Information Bus and TIB are trademarks or registered trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc.
Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: This release may contain forward-looking statements regarding TIBCO's business, customers or other factors that may affect future earnings or financial results. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements can be found in TIBCO Software's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including but not limited to its most recent reports on Forms 10-Q and 10-K, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements including limited independent operating history, history of losses, unpredictability of future revenue, dependence on a limited number of customers, relationship with Reuters Group PLC, rapid technological and market changes, risks associated with infrastructure software and volatility of stock price. Copies of filings made with the SEC are available through the SEC's electronic data gather analysis and retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. TIBCO assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document.
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