Likelihood to Recommend We used it in two cases, and it went pretty good with both. We used it for analytics and logging alongside event-based communication between different tech-stacks. One thing that users need to keep in mind is that it has a limited knowledgebase and will need a good understanding of Kafka to use it efficiently. So choose it carefully and when its needed
Read full review If you need a robust, extensible, reliable Enterprise Service Bus, with "Enterprise" being the key word here, TIBCO [Enterprise Message Service] will be able to fulfill every expectation. As proof of concept, or ad-hoc implementations, it might not be as well suited due to the infrastructure required.
Read full review Pros It is adaptive and helps us create more engaging experiences on our platforms. The Key metrics dashboard is rich with insights. Read full review Tibco EMS performs very well, and it meets our stringent performance requirements for corporate messaging backbone. Tibco EMS scales well, and this is another of our stringent requirements. Tibco provides good support for the EMS product, and continues to improve it. This is important as we don't want to use something that does not keep up with the changes in the technology landscape. Joe Yee IT Strategic Technical Advisor
Read full review Cons Provide Capabilities to connect the Event Streams via REST Proxy. Schema Registry to handle Avro Formats. Provide Kafka Connect Sink & Source Connectors. Read full review In terms of TIBCO Messaging, it would nice to have a more out-of-the-box way of linking its objects (queues, topics) directly to those of other popular solutions like MQ or Kafka. Not being able to filter (that is, using selectors) through patterns/subtexts on the message body is missed on occasions. Given the current trends and state-of-art, lift & shift of on-premise EMS clusters to cloud architectures should be more directly attainable. Read full review Likelihood to Renew EMS is a solid system and I see no reason to abandon it, in fact I am eager to see what the next versions will offer and future road maps. Knowing we have support to help us in case of problems is invaluable, both in case of critical issues and to improve overall performance.
Read full review Usability The product was very user friendly and extremely easy to get started with. The documentation is excellent and the free tier makes it very easy to get started with without having to make deep or long term financial commitments.
Read full review Support Rating I met with the support team and they have deep technical and development understanding of the needs and the problems which IBM Event Streams addresses. If you are looking for a product backed by a highly technical support team then IBM Event Streams is probably the best choice. I was specifically impressed by the level of technical understanding my support team demonstrated.
Read full review Alternatives Considered In Event Streams, applications send data by creating a message and sending it to a topic. To receive messages, applications subscribe to a topic. High availability and reliability. Event Streams offers a highly available and reliable Apache Kafka service running on IBM Cloud. Event Streams. Event Streams stores three replicas of your data to ensure the highest level of resilience across three availability zones.
Read full review We also use other messaging products:
IBM MQ , especially for integration with other systems (server2server), which has been an industry standard for a long time, and
Apache Kafka for cloud-native applications. EMS is a worse option compared to them, but it is still acceptable.
Read full review Return on Investment In using downstreams, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, makes us feel that there's no upgrades and other than that there's poor marketing of the product. The adoption around the service is low, requires focused marketing. Lack of visibility into topic depth , Monitoring capabilities Read full review Improved developer productivity as TIBCO Enterprise Message Service requires minimal coding Quicker time to market as the configuration / onboarding can be automated with this tool Ability to onboard more clients/consumers as the tool can handle large volumes seamless Improved visibility on the end to end process as the product provides monitoring by using JMS header information Read full review ScreenShots