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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure IoT Central

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Azure IoT Central allows users to connect IoT devices to the cloud and offers centralized management to configure and updated connected devices.N/A

    TIBCO Messaging

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ATIBCO offers high-performance messaging technology, and gives customers flexibility and unique choice between Commercial and Open-source messaging solutions. TIBCO Messaging is a comprehensive messaging portfolio available to meet a wide variety of use cases and deployment models.N/A
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    Azure IoT CentralTIBCO Messaging
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Azure IoT CentralTIBCO Messaging
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    83%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Azure IoT CentralTIBCO Messaging
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    Apache Kafka
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Apache Kafka
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure IoT CentralTIBCO Messaging
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
    7.6
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    User Testimonials
    Azure IoT CentralTIBCO Messaging
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Azure IoT Central has native integrations with Visual Studio (like pretty much all Microsoft products) making it pretty simple to publish apps to Azure App Service, where you can host all sorts of different applications. It does a really good job of storing large amounts of data (for instance, collected from IoT devices with various sensors) and it gets stored to multiple DBs. Azure IoT Central could improve by adding more customizations, as this would make troubleshooting the products easier and make future costs smaller and easier to predict.
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    Cloud Software Group
    Organization which uses TIBCO Business Works or TIBCO Business Process Management or TIBCO BPM Enterprise can make use of TIBCO Messaging as it works well with other TIBCO tools. Many TIBCO tools have TIBCO Messaging products bundled as a package along with other TIBCO tools. Use of dynamic topics and queues makes run time processing easier.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Documentation
    • Support
    • Good and approachable GUI
    • Many types of subscription configurations
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    Cloud Software Group
    • 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.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • central application
    • smartphone app
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    Cloud Software Group
    • 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.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
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    Cloud Software Group
    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Before deciding to go with Microsoft Azure IoT Central, we considered Google, Datadog, and AWS alternatives. The reason we went with Azure was that the client was heavily invested in Microsoft technologies and Azure plays really well with other Microsoft products. The competitive products might be a little bit easier to set up, with more flexible pricing, but, the integrations with other Microsoft services were the deciding factor for our use case.
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    Cloud Software Group
    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.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • positive: connected huge number of machines as IoT devices and passed them through entire IoT pipeline until storage in a fairly short time
    • negative: we spent some time figuring out some "less-used" services because they aren't documented well
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    Cloud Software Group
    • 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
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