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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AIBM Z® IntelliMagic Vision is a performance analysis solution that helps organizations monitor and optimize their mainframe environments. It enhances RMF and SMF data with built-in expertise to prevent disruptions, improve performance, and safeguard service availability.N/A

    TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ATIBCO Integration is used to connect diverse business solutions, data sources, and devices into a single, seamless system.N/A
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    IBM Z IntelliMagic VisionTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
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    IBM Z IntelliMagic VisionTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    IBM Z IntelliMagic VisionTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
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    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Cloud Software Group
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    84%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    26 Answers
    Features
    IBM Z IntelliMagic VisionTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
    Cloud Data Integration
    Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision and TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
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    IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision
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    Ratings
    TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
    5.8
    128 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Pre-built connectors00 Ratings7.0121 Ratings
    Connector modification00 Ratings5.58 Ratings
    Support for real-time and batch integration00 Ratings6.4117 Ratings
    Data quality services00 Ratings5.56 Ratings
    Data security features00 Ratings2.77 Ratings
    Monitoring console00 Ratings7.9121 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM Z IntelliMagic VisionTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (16 ratings)
    8.9
    (236 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    4.5
    (23 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    7.2
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (28 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    1.3
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    5.6
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    7.3
    (21 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    7.2
    (23 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.9
    (5 ratings)
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Z IntelliMagic VisionTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is perfect for just about any after-the-fact analysis that I have tried to use it for. Sometimes it doesn't provide support for the latest SMF fields, but that is the nature of SMF data analysis - it is impossible to keep up with the rate at which new SMF fields are added. Combine that with the fact that the description of new fields is often poor, and it is amazing that IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is as up-to-date as it is. I think that less experienced users might benefit from material that more clearly differentiates products like IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, which feed off SMF data, and products like Omegamon, which report in real-time contents of various system control blocks.
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    Cloud Software Group
    In BusinessWorks it is quite easy to develop applications and monitor where as it is not similar with Scribe. The data which successfully processed in Scribe is quite difficult to view. I think the Scribe console tool should have better view for the data it has processed.At times we founds some of our sales orders are missing which are unable to update/insert in the DB, after investigation found the issue is in Scribe tool. A case has been raised 02129657 for the same and as per the guidelines from the Scribe support engineer we did changes in the shutdown interval to zero. ''update SCRIBEINTERNAL.SCRIBE.KSYNC
    set keyvalue= 0 where KEYNAME = 'SETTINGS.SHUTDOWNINTERVAL''. Later this change we started getting alert emails like ''Fatal error 325 occurred: Message processor shutting down
    - defined maximum memory usage (900MB) exceeded. Please contact Scribe support
    at support@scribesoft.com if this
    problem persists''. We found this issue is a critical one as the occurrences of it is decreased but still it is persist.
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    Pros
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    • IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is easy to use for beginners and experts.
    • Search and drill down helps to find overview and deep dive.
    • IntelliMagic has implemented expert knowledge into Vision and the rating of the report is really helpful.
    • Predefined reports can be modified very easily and individually adapted reports (replacement of old SAS programs) are also possible without any problems
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    Cloud Software Group
    • The UI is easy to navigate and map flows are intuitive and easy to build upon after some basic training. However, a user should have some basic knowledge of writing nested statements.
    • Very responsive customer support.
    • The debug feature is a great tool for troubleshooting. You can easily identify where the issue is in your flow. At each debug step, it returns the expected value, and when there isn't the expected value, you know when to modify your flow.
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    Cons
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    • The voluminous data is a challenge for all tools. As always, improved response time is always appreciated.
    • I really appreciate reading the descriptions and field descriptions that are provided with the screens. All additional elaborations will be appreciated.
    • Monthly trending and cyclical pattern detection
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Missing functionality: We like to run all the files available in the FTP when clicking the run button. Right now, we have to click the run button several times (or have multiple solutions) in order to run files from our FTP site one at a time.
    • Generating column fields every time a file changes from the source in the FTP is very tedious. Working in integrations makes me have to go back and forth a lot of the time, and doing this is incredibly annoying.
    • The security is horrendous. We installed an on-premise agent on the customer side, but we don't want them even touching the ETL tool at all. The only knowledge we are fine with knowing and being able to see is that they installed the agent, not the solutions themselves.
    • Our company's connector would have to point to the dataset name rather than dataset ID. It was very frustrating because we change the dataset name a lot, and then we'd have to repoint it.
    • It's very difficult to monitor the different integrations that go on because there isn't a consolidated dashboard.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    In comparison to other products (even on IBM Z), IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS is really RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability). The GUI is really stable; analyze/reduce jobs with detailed diagnostics; restart functions with Automator
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    Cloud Software Group
    We are deeply entrenched in using Tibco Scribe capabilities, and we are only expanding our usage. It would be one thing if we used it only for a one-time data load, but we have several Scribe maps running constantly, keeping business-critical data up to date. And the ease of use for the occasional, mass data update or upload is simply icing on the cake. I'm a big Microsoft fan, so there is potential down the road to convert our Scribe data integrations to Microsoft Flow (or Power Automate as it is now called). But for now, the functionality just isn't there with Flow (Power Automate), plus the work involved to change all our current integrations would be a large undertaking. So for now and the foreseeable future, Scribe will remain our data integration tool of choice.
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    Usability
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    with more than 12 years of experience in Mainframe performance tuning and analysis, it was much easier to translate and understand the tool. New college grads without Mainframe exposure struggled a bit to connect the dots, it might be good to have a recording from IM to go through mainframe basics before the staff start to use the tool covering mainframe concepts than tool itself.
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    Cloud Software Group
    As mentioned in the previous sections, setup and maintenance is extremely easy. We don't have many issues for which we need support and there is no need for deep technical skills to use Tibco Cloud Integration platform. The solution provides everything we need for our specific use case, being the replication of our Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM data to our on premise database for reporting.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Cloud Software Group
    We have not had any issues with TIBCO not being available when needed. I have only had to contact support less than 5 times in about 5 year time frame due to syncing issues or a problem with the agent. Support is very quick to respond as well as very helpful.
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    Performance
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)'s performance of the user interface are not to be complained about. The user interface is swift and is a pleasant user experience. The replication jobs take some time to finish but that is because the number of records to be updated/created on a daily basis is quite big. I did split up the jobs between highrunners (entities with a lot of changes) I update on a daily basis and quite stable entities that I update weekly. That solved my issue of a way to long replication.
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    Support Rating
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    Really highly skilled IntelliMagic team:
    • Head of IntelliMagic (Gilbert Houtekamer, Els Das and Jean-Marc van der Kolk)
    • Account manager DACH/Europe local support team ...
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    Cloud Software Group
    For creating new process, you have lots of palettes to do every develop you need. For created process it is easy to understand even if you have ever seen before it. You can analyze your process in all their detail. User Experience is positive for beginner and expertise people. Just debug mode is still raw, but better in TIBCO BusinessWorks 6.x than TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.x .
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    In-Person Training
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Cloud Software Group
    Before using TIBCO Businessworks, I participated an official training with a specialized instructor. In this training, I learned what I needed to know to build some applications or web services and how to manage its. It was been very important to me. I understood many technical stuff to familiarize with this powerful platform. I can advice TIBCO Educational Services.
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    Online Training
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Cloud Software Group
    really good resources
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    Implementation Rating
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Cloud Software Group
    If we don't design the process correctly, it can do lot of damage (like deleting files or data etc.,) and might assume product issue rather than a design flaw. So it is always recommended to do thorough unit testing , QA and a design review even for a small process to avoid major problems.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    These are the legacy products that have been used for capacity/performance/billing and report generation over many years. Some are better suited for solutions using programmatic interfaces ( internal billing ), and processing IMS transactional data in particular. For most tasks, however, Vision can generate charts, provide levels of drill-down, allow a focus on analysis rather than report generation, much faster with greater reliability and less required training than the above products
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    Cloud Software Group
    Used TIBCO for migration of our data for our learning management system.TIBCO, succesful Content ,data migration(courses, classes, registrations, transcripts etc.) ,User migration(Internal users and Partner migration)and Report migrationIntegrations with different applications Workday,Single Sign-On,CertTracker,Okta,Partner contact sync and Questionmark is succesful.LOD: Learn on demand is a third party vendor application where all Virtual classes are delivered by the vendor application. Learning management system sends the class and registration events to learn on demand via real time web service call through TIBCO
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    Scalability
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
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    Cloud Software Group
    We could easily add multiple agents and new systems. This had no impact on the performance. We had some issues because flows cannot be splitted and called by each other. So you have lots of flows which are the same. It would be great if this was improved. Also transferring values via variables between flows seems to be impossible. You can only use global lists with dictionaries.
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    Return on Investment
    IntelliMagic, an IBM Company
    • Based on data from Vision, we have not had to expand the hardware this year.
    • Any expansion of hardware in the coming years can be well supported by figures from Vision.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • Startup time - the quick time in which we can provision integrations means we can deliver requirements quickly, which is what our departments need
    • The online training means we can easily get users up and running without the need for the internal cost of training
    • Development time - The development that was needed to create connectors for our custom application was large
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision Screenshots

    Screenshot of where IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS evaluates CICS metrics against best practices to highlight availability risks. Results are shown in red, yellow, and green, with detailed views by group, region, or time charts.Screenshot of an automated analysis of 80+ metrics for Db2 members and buffer pools, which detects availability and performance risks. The interactive report highlights warnings and exceptions, with drill-down capabilities for root cause analysis.Screenshot of a time chart for metrics. These are used to explore potential relationships during analysis. For example, assess time-of-day correlations between metrics with exceptions (orange/red borders) and overall get-page activity.Screenshot of where to filter network traffic by class or IP range to analyze protocol-specific data, including encryption algorithms, key lengths, and cryptographic attributes.Screenshot of analysis of transaction rates alongside response times to identify issues or track workload trends. Viewers can break down response times into components like System of Record (SOR) time, with adjustable data granularity.Screenshot of visual charts and dashboards, these showing CPU usage and transaction rates of WebSphere application workloads over time, enabling clearer communication and informed planning.

    TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo) Screenshots

    Screenshot of TIBCO Control PlaneScreenshot of End-to-end ObservabilityScreenshot of TIBCO VSCode Development ExperienceScreenshot of Model-based Development ExperienceScreenshot of TIBCO Developer Hub