Microsoft BizTalk Server vs. TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft BizTalk
Score 6.6 out of 10
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TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Score 8.5 out of 10
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TIBCO Integration is used to connect diverse business solutions, data sources, and devices into a single, seamless system.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft BizTalk ServerTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
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Microsoft BizTalkTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Microsoft BizTalk ServerTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Considered Both Products
Microsoft BizTalk

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TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Chose TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Easiest to implement, best integration for dynamics, and easy to map data.
Chose TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Scribe is better suited for high volume data integration, migration, or replication, and provides better connectivity to Source/Target the most other integration products. Lead development time is much less with Scribe than other products if the integration project does not …
Chose TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Scribe is a good ETL option and could be cheaper depending on licenses owned.
Chose TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Management chose it.
Chose TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Much better scalability and works better with non Microsoft based systems
Chose TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
We migrated from Microsoft BizTalk as it was not scalable and easy to use and maintain. On the contrary, TIBCO is easy to use/deploy/scalable and easy to maintain.
Chose TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
During the RFP period (14 years ago), we pitted TIBCO against Oracle JCAPs (formerly eGate SeeBeyond), IBM WTX DataStage (formerly Mercator), Gentrans, and Microsoft Biztalk.

None was able to fulfill our requirements, except TIBCO, which completed the tasks specified in RFP in …
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Features
Microsoft BizTalk ServerTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Cloud Data Integration
Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft BizTalk Server
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Ratings
TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
5.8
128 Ratings
34% below category average
Pre-built connectors00 Ratings7.5121 Ratings
Connector modification00 Ratings5.58 Ratings
Support for real-time and batch integration00 Ratings7.0118 Ratings
Data quality services00 Ratings5.56 Ratings
Data security features00 Ratings2.77 Ratings
Monitoring console00 Ratings6.9121 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft BizTalk ServerTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(7 ratings)
8.2
(236 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
1.0
(28 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(2 ratings)
4.5
(23 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(6 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(3 ratings)
7.3
(28 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
1.3
(5 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.6
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(8 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(5 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(21 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(23 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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(0 ratings)
7.3
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft BizTalk ServerTIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
BizTalk is well suited as middleware. Where you wish to translate an input file into an output file and send it to some endpoint. In our case, we used it to convert and send files to SAP. In many ways, it very flexible, and you can do almost anything you want with it. In many ways, it's a better solution than your SAP XI or PI as middleware, since it's much less expensive, and allows you do interface with non-SAP systems.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Microsoft
  • It is very user friendly. Users can change rules during run time and change workflow.
  • Huge capacity for queueing messages. It supports all types of adapters like Oracle, Salesforce, SMTP, FTP, etc. Also users can built custom adaptors.
  • If users want to dynamically deploy their solution without any downtime, this is a perfect solution. BizTalk will be a good fit, especially for public-facing websites.
  • Well-proven in the market. I used it when developing a website for Virgin Trains, catering more than 800K user requests per day.
  • Helps in load balancing.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • 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
Microsoft
  • Microsoft BizTalk is over engineered for some situtations
  • Microsoft BizTalk can be frustrating to use as it forces you to use the GUI as opposed to code
  • Microsoft BizTalk is very resource intensive to create integrations
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • 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
Microsoft
BizTalk will always be required at this hospital.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Microsoft
I gave a 7 because this product BizTalk does need time and training to get familiar with the usability and features, it is not that easy to use.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Microsoft
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TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Microsoft
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TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Microsoft
BizTalk Server has been supported for more than 15 years. It is well proven in the market. Microsoft has provided excellent support with technical issues.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Microsoft
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TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Microsoft
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TIBCO Software Inc.
really good resources
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
Make sure you have everybody and all depts. On board during testing on test server.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Microsoft
BizTalk was selected here mainly because it is easy to integrate to a .NET application (most of them are Web Service, WCF SOAP, WCF REST and Web API) and many backend databases are Microsoft SQL Server. Another benefit is that the monitoring job is easy to set up and centralize with other .NET application monitoring jobs.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Microsoft
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TIBCO Software Inc.
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
Microsoft
  • A positive impact has been the quicker turnaround time of a part request and that part showing up in SAP using Biztalk as middleware.
  • A somewhat negative impact has been the somewhat insufficient error logging/message capture settings that Biztalk provide. This has caused occasional delays when attempted to create parts for the business.
  • A somewhat negative impact has been the need to have a specialized developer who understands Biztalk to troubleshoot issues with the Biztalk and SAP interaction when creating parts, and when adding new fields to the parts.
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TIBCO Software Inc.
  • 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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