Name: Fiorano ESB
Rating: 2 (2 reviews)
Author: Fiorano Software

Communications Outsourcing

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Batch Management Software

Mind Mapping

Development

Online Learning

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Desktop Publishing

Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

Manufacturing Execution

Payment Facilitation

Project Portfolio Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Corporate Performance Management (CPM)

Online Trading

Payment Gateway

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Credentialing

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

AI Governance

Cloud Storage

Enterprise Flash Array Storage

Fraud Detection

HTML Editors

In-Memory Databases

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Internet Security

M2M Application Development

Network Performance Monitoring

NoSQL Databases

Remote Monitoring and Management

Routers

Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Threat Hunting

Traffic Switching

Wireless LAN

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Customer Reference Management

Digital Signage

Email Deliverability

Email Management

Email Marketing

Headless CMS

Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Swag Management

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Point of Sale

Sales

Intrusion Detection

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Security

Auto Repair

Aviation

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Construction Management

Emergency Notification

Home Health Care

Homeowner's Association (HOA) Management

Intelligent Document Processing

Legal Billing

OSS/BSS (Operations Support/Business Support)

Smart Cities

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3rd party

Single server

Support person

Pre sales

File size

Mission critical

Critical data

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Back end

Visual design

Quick and easy

Easy to understand

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Fiorano is being used as a single component of our overall Enterprise Service Bus. So while IT supports, maintains, and develops on it, the data going through it is used by the whole organization. The original intent for the Fiorano product was to consolidate our ESB from a suite of applications to a single platform... the purpose of this goal is to reduce development time for unique data flows, and improve stability of our data transformation and delivery engines which would ultimately lead to improved agility and decreased time-to-market for the organization.

Fioranio's underlying design is very good. In the event of a sudden shutdown, it would - in theory - be able to recover messages that were in-flight.
The visual design surface is very appealing and provides a very quick and easy way to decipher data flows. It has a definite advantage over traditional develop and document processes where documentation tends to be out of date. With Fiorano, the flow is already visualized in a relatively easy to understand way.
One thing that Fiorano had over some competitors was connections into our AS400 data queues. Not all middleware solutions have that - which is a boon for organizations that still run an iSeries in the back-end.
The support people are generally very well educated and easy to get a hold of if you have a support agreement in place.

Fiorano scalability was a problem for us - specifically we were told about a limit of the number of components that could be run on a single server. This was not explained during the pre-sales and is a serious limitation of the platform.
Some of the components in Fiorano are just poorly implemented. For instance, we used the FTP component to download a large multi-GB file. Apparently, that component requires equal RAM to file size. So, if you download a 10GB file, you'll need at least 10GB of RAM to do so.
Stability was also problematic for us - some of the components or entire data flows would suddenly stop for no reason. At time they coudln't even be restarted and we were forced to restart the Fiorano service. Not an ideal situation to be in for mission critical data flows.
Consistency is a problem for the components in Fiorano. There are wide ranges of design variations in the UI between components. Even in the same component, it could be the case that you'd have to switch back to the "old" component UI to view certain important settings. This made development more difficult.
3rd party support doesn't exist - perhaps it isn't popular enough? There isn't a community supporting Fiorano which means that problems require you to go to a support person.

Fiorano added another piece of complexity to our ESB solution but has not pulled its weight as far as ROI. As we started ramping up on the product, it continued to show it's short-comings and we are working now to ramp it down. Overall, it has not been a positive experience.