IBM CICS Transaction Server vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid

The strengths of CICS are certainly the scalability. The multilevel architecture of the CICS regions, security, and performance, manages to manage large volumes of transactions with efficient performances.

Incentivized

It fits perfectly for SOA and EAI architecture with large numbers of services that required to be wired to each other, the binding virtualization is quite good to simply this part. For the simple scenario of orchestration and /or ESB architecture could be a better use traditional stack.

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• De facto standard in the legacy enterprise
• Multiplatform connection
• Native connection with DB2

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• reduce the number of http port required by services
• simplified the binding connection amongst services
• high scalability and fast deployment of applications

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• Direct internet connection
• Social connectors
• Speak Java not only with Websphere

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• health check of services and application features has been released with a lot of bugs that have never been fixed
• it is not so simple to apply the security policy to service/reference binding

Incentivized

There is no comparison, in practice, the possibility of using the latest programming languages but, above all, the databases can be different and more modern than DL1.

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TIBCO service grid has been chosen as a natural selection of the TIBCO product evolution. The high flexibility and the binding virtualization fits very well with client needs for its EAI applications due to the huge number of services and applications, the management of application dependencies during deployment, the advantage of perfect integration with EMS for logging

Incentivized

• More scalability than servers
• More reliability than servers
• More security

Incentivized

• The integration of old BW with BWSE and its interface quite similar to design time has reduced the cost of training for developers
• The TIBCO support for this product is no the best and clients complains too much about this. This required to find a workaround or force the client to move to new/or different product. Huge impact on ROI

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