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TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)

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What is TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)?

TIBCO Integration is used to connect diverse business solutions, data sources, and devices into a single, seamless system.

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TIBCO user

8 out of 10
January 15, 2024
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TIBCO BusinessWorks is being used by a department of the organization, in particular the integration team. TIBCO BusinessWorks addresses …
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Trust My Review

7 out of 10
October 25, 2023
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I use it as a middle layer to integrate two systems. we have various flows implemented. it addresses the problem we had with syncing data …
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Reasons to use TCI

10 out of 10
July 25, 2023
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TCI is used to integrate Business systems with SAP systems. Volume of transactions vary dynamically depending on time and day of business. …
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What is TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)?

TIBCO Integration is used to connect diverse business solutions, data sources, and devices into a single, seamless system.

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Cloud data integration software simplifies the task of integrating data from multiple different cloud applications

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Product Details

What is TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)?

TIBCO Integration is used to connect diverse business solutions, data sources, and devices into a single, seamless system. TIBCO accelerates connectivity initiatives with low and no-code experiences engineered to reduce development time and costs. Users can implement the best-fit style of integration to address any app, data, IoT, B2B and mobile/web integration use case. TIBCO Integration can connect to virtually any endpoint across the IT ecosystem with 200+ pre-built connectors for a wide variety of business suites, databases and legacy technologies.

TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo) Features

Cloud Data Integration Features

  • Supported: Pre-built connectors
  • Supported: Support for real-time and batch integration
  • Supported: Monitoring console

Additional Features

  • Supported: No-code Business Process Automation
  • Supported: No-code Graphical Designer
  • Supported: Container and PaaS Support
  • Supported: Enterprise Scale

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TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

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TIBCO Integration is used to connect diverse business solutions, data sources, and devices into a single, seamless system.

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September 08, 2021

Review

Bharath Reddy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using TIBCO BusinessWorks throughout our organization. Within our organization, TIBCO BusinessWorks is extensively used for integrating various internal systems, as well as external vendors, by exposing Rest APIs. Development in TIBCO BusinessWorks is very user-friendly, which is why development is rather quick. This helps with delivering projects on time.
  • Integration with internal systems.
  • Integration with external systems.
  • Rest API development.
  • TIBCO support can be provided in a better way.
  • Handling JSON transformation.
  • Heavy weight.
When data needs to be integrated between multiple systems TIBCO BusinessWorks is best suited. If there are only two systems available then it’s not recommended.
September 02, 2021

Happy Customer

Divya Ravindra Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used TCI Scribe to move our data or synchronize our data from on-premise to cloud.
  • Used for CRM operations from Microsoft 365 to SQL to integrate data between online and on-premise data stores. Use an integration solution to map source and target datastores and then run the Solutions on a specified schedule.
  • Used Scribe Online Replication Services Solution to copy the contents of CRM or to a local database for reporting.
  • Used TIBCO Business Studio for real-time integration for endpoints such as web services and APIs.
  • Improve on TCI UI.
  • Improve on providing updates when connectors or services are down instead of opening a support ticket.
One-stop platform to develop, integrate and automate.
Alan Peterson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Scribe to integrate Dynamics CRM with Dynamics GP.
  • Performs calculated data transformations on the fly.
  • Schedules recurring jobs with great flexibility.
  • Allows granular selection of notifications.
  • User interface isn't as intuitive as it could be.
This product is essential for inserting data into Dynamics CRM, it goes far beyond what can be done with the standard import functionality provided by Microsoft.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) is used by a semiconductor manufacturing department. It is mainly used to call services to retrieve data between different systems with different protocols. We use the TIBCO Rendezvous protocol behind BusinessWorks and SOAP for invoking web services. It is used (very efficiently) for logistics management and positioning products in the department. Developing, deploying, and monitoring TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) applications is straightforward, and logging and centralization make it easy to detect problems.

  • Robustness
  • Simplicity for designing solutions
  • Ability to connect to multiple sources
  • Easy to debug
  • Easy to use drag and drop in Designer
  • Integration with native self-built Java modules is difficult
  • Can be less heavy on memory use
  • Difficult for users with no IT experience
All integration problems can be quickly and easily solved with TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe). I would recommend it for most tasks, especially for integrating data. The integration is fast and stable.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use TIBO to integrate our ERP systems with our Dynamics CRM cloud instances and use it across the whole group. The main focus is to get customer master data in the CRM system including orders, quotes, and KPIs. Most of the integrations are daily synchronization jobs that sync all daily changes into the CRM systems. Partly we have triggered integrations to sync leads from CRM back to ERP.
  • Great UI
  • Easy to build logic
  • Easy datamapping
  • Very reliable
  • Integration templates for "standard use cases."
  • Performance increase for large bulk jobs (average around 3 seconds per record but can be more).
  • Licensing not based on solutions.
We use it mainly to integrate bulk updates into the cloud CRM systems. If we need a real-time integration we mostly use the CRM API with self-built integrations
Leonardo Cruz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TIBCO BusinessWorks is an agile solution for integration needs, allowing you to have real time information for strategic decision making. With TIBCO BW, organizations can take their IT Architectures to an SOA Architecture, allowing them to improve their business processes, and allowing companies to have a digital transformation. A main item of TIBCO Cloud Integration, which allows small and medium enterprises to use the product in an elastic architecture.
  • It is a product that allows distributed solutions that complies with SOA principles
  • With the principle of non-code, it helps companies have more agility and better understand their processes and fulfill the business objectives.
  • Manage real-time information for new business decision-making strategies
  • There are few customers with the product in my country Colombia. So the potential of the platform is not known.
  • Not much documentation for independent developers.
Agile Platform for SOA Implementation, In strategy of encapsulating legacy systems is the best alternative, It offers different adapters that do not need coding. For horizontal growth scenarios BW is listed, as well as load-balancing or fault-tolerant strategists for business environments that need business continuity to failures. As well as the ceter of monitoring and traceability as security are covered.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Tibco BusinessWorks is used to write backend microservices and to implement SOA architecture as well. Tibco Business Event is a major tool used in our company where we have implemented rule engines to process events for different domains such as flight, baggage, crew, passenger etc. With a great mix of Active Space as caching tool and BusinessWorks to write services, our IT is very agile and nimble in adapting to rapid changes in business which are continuously happening in the airline sector.
  • It is very easy to code services or flows in BusinessWorks as it is a UI based tool. Anyone who is not from a coding background can use TIBCO to create services.
  • Easy monitoring via Hawk alerts.
  • Memory management is easy in TIBCO.
  • Excellent customer support from TIBCO.
  • The Tibco BusinessWorks cloud offering has to improve.
  • Tibco businessWorks in not good at handling large XML
  • Creation of rest services
  • SOA framework implementations
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Scribe for copying data from MS Dynamics CRM cloud to our on-premise servers in a scheduled manner. It is being used by our department for internal use.
  • Flexible scheduling of jobs for SQL server.
  • Reliability of data copies from cloud to on-premise.
  • Custom one-time jobs can also be created (both small and big) as per user requirements.
  • On some occasions, the scheduled jobs fail due to technical glitches. This can be improved for better user experience.
Scribe is very well suited for our business needs, where we have our CRM on the cloud and we need a copy of data locally for varied analytics.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Hubspot in our Marketing department and Dynamics CRM in our Sales department. We needed a way to synch data between those two platform. With no out of the box solution, this is where TIBCO Cloud Integration & Scribe becomes the key to our issue. Scribe is a simple and easy to implement system. In a few clicks, we were able to push crucial data from a platform to another!
  • Easy data mapping
  • Able to schedule the synch
  • Strong debug mode
  • Not able to sync all modules
  • Limited in the trigger filter
If you have multiple databases in your company and trying to have a strong consistency between them, [TIBCO Cloud Integration] and Scribe are a must have. It has plenty of connectors, nice UI & UX and requires no coding.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Scribe Replication Service (RS) is used only by me to replicate 73 MS CRM 365 entities to an Azure SQL Database, used as a "data warehouse". The 73 tables in our Azure SQL database are updated by the RS every night. The intent was to have a copy of the most useful CRM entities in the cloud for reporting purposes with Power BI.
  • Daily Replication succeeds without errors more often than not.
  • The Replication Service does not include the ability to "pre-filter" the data in any way, i.e., it gets ALL records from the beginning of time and ALL columns, many of which are not used in CRM.
  • Several errors with records that fail to be processed are frequently reported, including "Execution timeout expired", "data would be truncated", and "Cannot insert duplicate key row". I've opened support cases for these, but none seem to have a solution I can use.
  • The row counts of all entities replicated should be approximately equal to the row counts in the source database, but several entities' counts are significantly different.
  • In the Scribe Online web app pages, the error details panel cannot be resized andruns off the bottom of the screen, making impossible to read the entire error message.
Scribe Replication Service is not well-suited for maintaining accurate copies of database tables. It also has very limited connection options for source and target.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

We use Scribe to transfer data between multiple systems. From our account/contract system to our CRM system, as well as from our CRM system to another database.

Scribe plays a major role in making sure we have data integrity across multiple systems. It allows to avoid manual updates of data between system, which is crucial when we have limited staff. This allows staff to focus on other job duties.

  • The creation of integration maps is straightforward.
  • The ability to schedule when solutions are run is of great value because we need to have systems updated in a particular order. Scheduling makes this easy.
  • When errors do occur, the error messages give enough information to allow us to diagnose how we need to fix records as necessary.
  • The system could be a little faster when navigating within maps. Sometimes there are delays while the page loads.
  • There could be more examples of how to use Scribe in the documentation.
  • I would suggest that Scribe provide suggestions when sending error messages eg Have you tried to refresh the metadata? This would save contacting support for some people.
Scribe is ideal when you want to move data between two systems. The ability to drag and drop is fantastic, plus the formula validation tool is a useful feature.

Off the top of my head, I don't have any scenarios where it is less appropriate because if you want to move data between two systems, Scribe is one of the best options.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Tibco Scribe to bring the data from our Dynamics 365 CRM Cloud environment to our on-premise data warehouse. We use this data in our BI environment, where our business users use it to create dashboards and reports. The sync is done on a daily basis using a manually selected set of Dynamics 365 CRM entities.
  • The setup of both the sending as the receiving side is easy, you don't really need expert skills to set up the "technical" part.
  • We don't need a complicated ETL tool to extract the data from the Cloud environment.
  • The overall management of what needs to be synchronized is straight forward.
  • Thanks to the specific SCRIBE fields in the receiving database we have a track of deleted records (for which we don't have anything in the CRM database).
  • The synchronization is not fast and seems to do some unnecessary work.
  • Selecting the entities to synchronize is quite tedious, you need to scroll through quite a big list (especially when you have a lot of custom entities) a filter would be welcome.
  • You need to manually update the metadata of the sending connection to see newly created entities, it would be nice if you could schedule those tasks too.
  • We already had quite some situations where MS changed things in the data model of CRM that caused issues in the sync tasks.
It is a great tool to quickly set up synchronization between an on-premise data warehouse and a cloud solution as MS Dynamics 365 Customer engagement (CRM), which was our specific use case. Most of the issues we ran into could be worked around without any special technical skills.

When you need more specific control (field level) of what needs to be synchronized, you need to look to a more specialized tool to do the data integration.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Scribe for data integration between our CRM (Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement) and our ERP (an old AS400) as well as our CRM and our external website (HubSpot). We are also migrating to a new ERP (Dynamics 365 Business Central) and Scribe continues to play a roll in keeping our data integrated. Besides "near real-time" updates for data used is both systems, we also use Scribe for massive data uploads and edits (such as with our new ERP), as well as transferring data from our ERP into line-of-business model-driven PowerApps using the Common Data Service. Obviously, being connected so much with our CRM, much of the usage is for Sales and Marketing. But Finance, Purchasing, and our Creative Labs and Quality Control Labs also benefit.
  • Near-real time integration of multiple systems along with data validation and translation in the integration maps.
  • Integration Events have also been used in the past to display related data from a different system on-load, rather than always copying data and storing it in multiple places.
  • Massive data uploads are useful, for example, when adding a new field to records and loading correct data on all the records as a starting place.
  • TIBCO Scribe also has so many connectors. We've used D365CE, D365BC, SQL, Excel, HubSpot, and ODBC.
  • Logic built into the functions and drag and drop actions make creating maps pretty painless and very powerful.
  • Some level of beginner training would be great. There are some commands that aren't immediately clear what the slight difference is between each one and what scenarios make one command better than another.
  • Similarly, example Scribe maps could also be useful, if that's possible. Again, it was a little slow for me getting started and seeing examples always makes things easier for me to understand.
Copying, transforming, and loading data, hands down, very powerful. Also, connecting various systems and moving data back and forth or displaying related data from one system to another, incredibly useful.
Less useful for data that needs to immediately be somewhere else (rather than waiting 2-5 minutes). Or when one action in one place should immediately trigger another action somewhere else, Scribe might not be the way to go.
October 27, 2020

Scribe Online: Use it

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We offer Scribe to multiple customers as a Microsoft partner. Our most common uses are one-off migrations from legacy systems to dynamics 365 or ongoing integrations between dynamics 365 and another system.
  • Point and click design for integration maps
  • Simple scheduling of integrations
  • Useful error reporting
  • Since moving to Scribe online: no publisher
  • Online editor can be sluggish: lagging
  • Debug should mimic a commit not actually commit
  • Improve having live and testing integrations in one tenancy
Dynamics on-prem to online upgrade. Dynamics to NAV. Dynamics to SQL.
Salah BENAMIRA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TIBCO BusinessWorks is used as an integration layer in my organization. It resolves all problems to transport data (file, ftp, Web service, API...) inside our organization or with our partners.
  • Quick developement
  • Quick deployment
  • Easy monitoring
  • Easy scaling
  • API Rest and JSON tools are not natively available in the designer V5
  • Sometimes the mapping tab presents some bugs (for example : if statement)
  • Maven cannot be used to build TIBCO BusinessWorks projects
All integration problems can be quickly and easily solved with TIBCO BusinessWorks.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a consultant, I am advising and helping clients who have Scribe and Flogo products. Each customer has different use case, which shows how well Scribe and the other TCI products help with integrating data between systems. There are many connectors which helps any customer even with only data knowledge (no programming knowledge) build effective and reliable data maps between the different solutions. Tibco knows how to integrate and their product suite shows this as well.
  • Scribe can dependably map or sync data between systems. When you have different systems being used by many departments, this is the tool to keep the data in-sync!
  • API's are widely used by many applications and companies. Tibco Cloud Integration allows companies to integrate data from an older ERP system with a newer system using an API.
  • Tibco provides the flexibility for business users, developers and anyone in-between to understand where data is moving within their organization.
  • One example of flexibility of the solution is easily manipulating data on the fly.
  • Tibco has some older products. Those products have newer alternatives rising to the top.
  • BusinessWorks is a little difficult for users with no programming experience.
Scribe has allowed my company to provide dependable mapping of data for any scenario. One example is a customer who was integrating large amounts of data to MS CRM and having issues with the CRM API. Rather than pushing many thousands of records through the API, Scribe allowed us to create a process to maintain 100% reliability of data and know exactly which records need to be updated. The end result was sending a much smaller set of records over to CRM.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TIBCO BusinessWorks is used as ESB/Integration layer with connectivity to heterogenous applications like SAP, Salesforce, Ariba, Java based applications, Informatica applications, .NET applications, legacy applications across entereprise. TIBCO Business Works addresses application connectivity across enterprise systems and getting information to the right system at the right time with high availability.
  • Easy Learning and development capabilities.
  • Ease of integration to any kind of applications using connectors/adapters/plugins.
  • Usage of custom java functions and sharing resources during design-time to reduce development effort.
  • Cost and time to market.
  • Pluggable CI-CD pipleline for devops
  • Handling HTTP requests in more efficient way. For high HTTP loads, TIBCO Business Works needs improvement to handle heavy loads.
  • Hot Deployment features needs improvement where variables/property values can be changed on-demand without need for redeployment.
  • Handliing Dynamic JDBC queries needs improvement and traditional JDBC statements may not fit into fast changing world.
  • Automated unit testing feature needs more focus
Quick implementation of web services and HTTP based use-cases are well-suited. JMS, JDBC, File based scenarios also add to its best performing portfolio. Adapters/Plugins to connect to different applications like SAP, PeopleSoft, Legacy, Mainframe, Oracle Suite makes TIBCO Business Works easy to integrate with any kind of application.

Implementing API's using TIBCO Business Works is less appropriate where API's are bound to physical machine TCP ports making them inefficient to handle multiple operations. Scalability of existing applications is less appropriate for TIBCO BusinessWorks.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using TIBCO Cloud Integration to connect ERP System to internal subsystems.
  • Easy to use
  • Clean interface
  • Good customer service
  • Lots of errors--having to restart the system and losing work in the process
  • Solutions are cumbersome and very difficult to organize.
  • System periodically will just not work, specifically when you are trying to fetch records to preview.
  • System is VERY slow.
TIBCO Cloud Integration does well in on-demand data transfer of small loads. I do not recommend high amounts of data transmissions. There are other solutions that are much better for higher data capacity.

Solutions are extremely difficult to organize because everything is in one spot and is paged. This is probably my biggest issue with the system, besides the frequent seemingly random errors.
Joshua Moesa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TIBCO BusinessWorks is our main platform for enterprise application Integration within the logistics domain. We successfully implemented integration solutions using the ESB pattern (soapatterns.org) , supporting our core operational processes like parcel sorting. Right now we are in the process of maturing our cloud native architecture. We're mainly looking at how to realize the cost benefits of migrating to the cloud.
  • Zero-code development. Model driven which makes it more easy to explain integration solutions to less technical stakeholders.
  • A lot of configuration options to make robust solutions. Think of fault-tolerance, loadbalancing, circuit breaking, session pooling etc.
  • Openness so it can be integrated in your own CI/CD pipelines and monitoring solutions.
  • The (Java fat client) UI of BW5 feels outdated compared to current user interface standards. Successor BW6/BWCE is Eclipse based and allthough it's an improvement you still need to cope with the ux quirks. In the future I would like to see a webbased UI.
  • The BW process development tools heavily lean on XML and Xpath. Therefore, processing big documents isn't recommended. You need to consider this upfront.
  • Due to the ease of use of the development tools, you can build robust solutions very quickly. It would be nice if the tooling would provide optimization tips (using AI) during development.
  • Docker base image of BusinessWorks Container Edition is quite big. Allthough latest version has adressed this.
Well suited in environments where solving business or domain problems fast and efficiently is more important than coding a state-of-the-art technical solution. Less suited in organizations that are on a small budget. The container edition also needs a lot of other tools to be really operational like logging and monitoring solutions.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

It is used by a department for manufacturing electronic system. It keeps separate logic from implementation, making it easy for application to call services. Logging and centralization let us easily detect problems.

We use TIBCO Rendezvous protocol behind BusinessWorks

For example, we use a service to retrieve data between different systems and though different protocols (FTP, shell script...) making all transparent to clients.


  • Abstraction of logic
  • Robustness (very high)
  • Good maintainance
  • Versatility
  • Usability of GUI (too many settings in too many places)
  • Slow management interface
  • Difficult to learn

Appropriate when you need to highly monitor the service you do, or when you do not have rights or code for some parts of the service.

Good for big applications and for selling your service to customers, not to use for small web applications, the effort is not worth it. Now there are plenty of cheaper alternatives.

Nachiket Kulkarni | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

TIBCO BW is used across the whole organization. It is an efficient software to ease the integration process of backend and front-end systems. It supports a wide variety of technology like SAP,Siebel,PeopleSoft,Facebook etc etc. Someone using TIBCO BW does not have to worry about data conversion issues between front-end and back-end systems or incompatible software products. It seamlessly converts the data via the use of XML as a standard.

It is a highly scalable and reliable software that has many supporting technologies like JDBC, JMS, different databases, messaging systems, data conversion system. It is extremely user friendly using the Eclipse UI as a standard and is highly customizable.

It is certainly a leader in the integration software industry.

  • Data conversion
  • Data transfer
  • Integration
  • Can be less heavy on memory use
  • Should be accessible for students for further enhancement
  • Can be expanded for use with more open source products
- Well suited to integrate plugins for any software. - Process large volume of data in real time - Suited for data conversion for systems that follow different data conventions - Suited for cloud deployment - Not suited for low processing capability systems
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for data integration or migration stages of the projects we take on as consultants for companies looking to move to Salesforce from some other legacy system. We build out a solution and train a customer's employee to take over the management after we're done.
  • The price of the Scribe Online integration platform is very competitive with the features provided.
  • The ease of use for designing solutions is good.
  • The web-based interface makes it easy to manage from any location without installing operating system specific client-side software.
  • Field mapping is not easy to use and is not clear which fields are mapped where or if they're utilized at all
  • There are often delays when opening solutions or mappings and waiting 10-30 seconds for the cache to fully load before being able to click on the next item. This can be quite frustrating to navigate.
  • The session timeout of 2 hours is kind of aggressive and the login page doesn't play nice with LastPass extension (often have to refresh for it to behave correctly)
  • It doesn't seem to support using multiple tabs in parallel
  • It would be nice to be able to copy/clone individual elements of a solution rather than only exporting the entire solution. Even better (though might be impossible/challenging to implement) would be to build an element and have it referencable from other solutions so you can edit one and have the changes present in both (rather than just a copy that is independent).
  • There is no centrally managed High Water Mark feature: each operation in a solution uses its own independent High Water Mark so it is possible for them to be out of sync of each other if operations take a while to run
Scribe Online is better suited to smaller or less complex integrations that don't require a large number of steps to achieve the desired result.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use TIBCO BusinessWorks for all real time integration across the whole organization. Anytime, we want to get real time data synced across different systems, TIBCO BusinessWorks is our first toolkit of choice.
  • TIBCO BusinessWorks does really well in the DB adapters. We can configure and be set up and running in minutes.
  • Design and implementation of business process is pretty simple and intuitive.
  • Debugging capabilities other than debugging Java code. It is addressed with the latest version of Business Studio.
  • Plugins or adapters for the new technologies. Even SFTP plugins are introduced late in the market and it is not part of the standard bundle. It has to be purchased separately.
  • RV is very complex to understand for a newcomer.
  • Debugging limitations.
TIBCO BusinessWorks is not for all solutions. It works really well with the real time data but it has performance issues when it deals with file parsing or a large volume of batch data etc.
Gavin Atkinson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We currently use Scribe at 4 different client sites. We have developed a number of integrations to help our clients link disperate systems together. This includes SQL Server to Microsoft Dynamics and FTP/CSV to dynamics. All our scribe solutions have enabled our clients to get almost real time feeds from different systems into their main Dynamics CRM system without the need for custom written code. We can manage all the integrations centrally with the ability to administrate across multiple companies quickly and easily.
  • Centralised administration of all integration solutions. The ability to sign-in once and quickly administrate and develop across multiple sites is just great.
  • Easy modification when changes are required. Customer requirement change all the time, with Scribe you simple make a small few changes. Integration changes no longer mean a full release, customer code etc.
  • Support for many connectors - We haven't yet had a customer where a connector isn't available, the local agents are great where clients are still on premises.
  • Easy Debugging - The validation means that most things just work, but when you do hit a problem the step by step debugger is so useful to quickly identify where the problem lies.
  • We have one situation where we required to use REST and a bearer token. While Scribe used REST it didn't support bearer token. This needs to be added.
  • History logs just disappear after a period. Sometimes you may only run a job every few months, could we just keep all logs. Also sometimes you make a mistake, as administrator could I just be able to clear any log if I need to ?
  • Query runner - When we have clients with a local agent we often don't have access to their system (eg; SQL Server). We can build a integration to run a custom query and preview it, but it's clunky to do. Couldn't we have a query window so we could send native queries via the local agent and get test results.
Great for linking multiple different database systems. Where you want to get information say from a financial billing system into CRM it's easy to build a solution. This can often mean users of one system (e.g. CRM), no longer need to access multiple systems to get the data they need to do their jobs. It can also often mean users no longer need licences for multiple systems and save money. Also great as an integration tool to bring data from many systems together when building a reporting system (e.g. Power BI).
Score 7 out of 10
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TIBCO BusinessWorks is used by my company for the Enterprise Service Bus architecture. It is useful to orchestrate different kinds of services between different systems. In this way the architecture of the bus is very simple and it can be easily scalable to add other services and new development.
  • Developing Web Services
  • Map different flows
  • development simplicity
  • Settings of external variable in service palette
  • Limited use in big companies
  • Resolution of bugs
TIBCO BusinessWorks is well suited for a company that must integrate different services and make it easy, which is possible only using a Enterprise Service Bus. The scenarios where it is less appropriate is when dealing with business processes, and in that case we suggest to use TIBCO BPM.
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