Case Study: Scottish Environment Protection Agency achieves evidence-based environmental decision-making with TIBCO Software

Scottish Environment Agency Makes an Impact with Evidence

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) manages millions of chemistry and ecology samples dating back to the 1960s and needed a way to analyze that legacy and operational data to support evidence‑based environmental and business decisions. Faced with disparate data sources, SEPA required tools to bring data together, model environmental systems, and make insights accessible across the organisation.

SEPA implemented TIBCO Spotfire and TIBCO Data Science to deliver visualizations, web‑based analytics and end‑to‑end data science workflows; the platform now underpins daily use (about 35,000 annual uses), with roughly 140 Spotfire tools and 80% staff adoption. The solution automated tasks such as daily bathing‑water quality predictions, made analytics usable by non‑technical staff, and extended from science into regulation, planning and HR—transforming SEPA into a more collaborative, evidence‑driven organisation with improved KPI tracking and modeling capabilities.

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Colin Gray

Principal Data Scientist