Case Study: NASA achieves an 83% reduction in project review time and data democratization with TIBCO Software

NASA Launches Integration to Land on Productivity Gains

NASA faced fragmented, manual data workflows across its centers—countless Excel files, Word docs and PDFs with duplicated effort, poor version control and week‑old reports—making it difficult to trust or quickly access the information engineers and managers needed for mission reviews. The agency needed a way to integrate disparate systems, provide real‑time, trusted data, and speed up reporting and decision making across the organization.

NASA implemented a TIBCO integration platform (migrating from BusinessWorks 5 to 6) with TIBCO Professional Services launching and training staff, creating a single point of access and real‑time web reporting. The result was democratized data and cultural change—junior and senior staff can extract verified data quickly—faster, more accurate reviews (an 83% reduction in review time), higher confidence in signoffs, and measurable productivity gains, with plans to extend the platform into AI and recommender systems.

NASA

Jim Matheson

Principal Software Engineer