Date published: 01.09.08 - not release date

RENESAS GAINS MANUFACTURING ADVANTAGE USING TIBCO SPOTFIRE ENTERPRISE ANALYTICS

TIBCO Spotfire's visual, interactive enterprise analytics platform helps Renesas engineers and managers solve problems faster across design, development and operations

Somerville, Mass. – Sept. 13, 2007 - Spotfire, a division of TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX), today announced that Renesas Technology, the world’s top supplier of microcontrollers and a leading system solution provider to the automotive, digital appliance and mobile semiconductor markets, has selected the TIBCO Spotfire enterprise analytics platform. Renesas is deploying the enterprise analytics platform to accelerate its design, technology development and manufacturing operations across multiple facilities.

Renesas strives to give its customers a market advantage by ensuring high performance, high quality and fast delivery of products from all of its divisions. Toward this end, Renesas has created a comprehensive program comprised of design and manufacturing systems and procedures that focus on speeding the transition from design to manufacturing. Renesas wanted to provide a unified approach to manufacturing analytics, with a simple, effective analysis environment that could speed up problem solving for all types of data and fit smoothly into its existing IT infrastructure. TIBCO Spotfire enterprise analytics met these criteria.

Renesas is using TIBCO Spotfire enterprise analytics in the design area, improving quality and reliability by comparing simulated and empirical product performance in its system in package, MOS FET. Additionally, the company has found ways to reduce variability across manufacturing operations, resulting in tighter than promised performance to customer specifications.

“TIBCO Spotfire enterprise analytics has allowed us to improve customer satisfaction by reducing process cost and improving product cycle time,” said Nobuyoshi Matsuura, Group Manager of the Power Supply Devices Design Department at Renesas. “These efficiencies help our bottom line, but they also allow our people to spend more time developing innovative products for the future. That’s a double advantage for us and our customers.”

In Renesas Takasaki where TIBCO Spotfire has been implemented, Renesas has seen significant improvements in quality and speed from their new product production ramps. “TIBCO Spotfire’s solution has helped us reduce design-to-manufacturing time by more than 30% with the improved performance on our DFM simulation tools,” said Mr. Matsuura.

About Spotfire

Spotfire, a division of TIBCO Software Inc., is a leading provider of enterprise analytics software for next generation business intelligence. Spotfire offers a visual and interactive experience that helps professionals quickly discover new and actionable insights in information. Distinguished by its speed to insight and adaptability to specific business challenges, Spotfire rapidly reveals unseen threats and new opportunities, creating significant economic value. Spotfire's customers include industry leaders among the Global 2000 that have deployed Spotfire analytics to gain an information advantage over their competitors.

For more info, visit http://spotfire.tibco.com.

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