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    Microsoft BizTalk

    Score8 out of 10
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    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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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Microsoft BizTalkTIBCO Messaging
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Apache Camel
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Apache Kafka
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    TIBCO B2B Integration Solution
    Score8 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft BizTalkTIBCO Messaging
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.6
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Microsoft BizTalkTIBCO Messaging
    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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    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
    • 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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    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
    • 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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    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
    BizTalk will always be required at this hospital.
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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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    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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    Cloud Software Group
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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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    Cloud Software Group
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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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    Cloud Software Group
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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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    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
    • 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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    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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