Case Study: Scottish Environment Protection Agency achieves rapid, data-driven decision-making and increased productivity with TIBCO Software

Scottish Environment Protection Agency Transforms DecisionMaking with Data

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is Scotland’s national environmental regulator, monitoring air, water, and soil and managing decades of scientific records across 22 sites with just 1,300 staff. Faced with code‑heavy, manual analytics and slow pre‑ and post‑site workflows—often taking weeks to prepare and relying on printed binders—SEPA needed a faster, more mobile way to turn data into on‑the‑spot decisions.

SEPA adopted a TIBCO mobile‑friendly analytics and visualization platform that removed the need for custom coding, put interactive dashboards on tablets, and digitized inspection workflows. The result: real‑time field analytics, public dashboards and water‑quality forecasts, and broader use across business units and partners (e.g., Scottish Water). Outcomes include a 40% drop in overall non‑compliance, an 80% reduction in manual processes, roughly £1.4M saved from digitized inspections, and faster, data‑driven conservation and funding decisions.

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Graeme Cameron

Principal Scientist