TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)

TIBCO BusinessWorks is an excellent tool for integrating various systems, allowing data transmission, transformation and transcoding, even at high speeds. It may not be suitable in situations where the data volume is very large.

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.

I would recommend if you need a simple replication/sync from cloud data systems to local data storage. You should make sure that the connectors are supported, as the documentation is a bit generic. You also have to ensure that the settings are defined when making connections, as it's easily missed and not turnkey. In my opinion, feels like the UI is a bit unfriendly

For continuous integration of data from one database to another, Scribe is very useful. It is also helpful if you are importing large sums of data to GP. If the rules of the integration are not constant, then Scribe might not be the best tool.

We really liked the overall integration support of TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) with other external systems like SSO, Workday etc. It was easy to combine data from multiple sources and transform data. Apart from these, support for web services is also good, having the option to use both SOAP and REST services. The best feature is the graphical user interface. It makes really easy to understand and start learning without much hassle.

It can be used a middle layer.
some logical functions cannot be done.

Well suited for duplicating operational processes and transforming data. It's less suited for querying and updating medium to large datasets. It is possible our connection wasn't configured correctly, and the speed could be improved. However, it still takes a long time to update mass changes.

I love TIBCO Cloud Integration. The speed of the applications and data being integrated is to die for. It is so innovative and beneficial to the company. The self-service makes it so easy for users.

For a big enterprise which has multiple products - be it on-premise or cloud based - TIBCO is best suited for all the integration needs with all the different connectors available. Scribe is the top product specially when it comes to any Dynamics CRM / 365 integration needs. There is no other product in the market similar to Scribe, other competitors are more of SSIS based.

Well suited with data housed in a data store, but would probably not be as well suited if you're wanting to use real-time data from multiple different sources, from what we know of.

It will work connecting to apps like Hubspot. Becomes more crucial if used in a cloud environment. Scribe had many APIs and can support a lot of applications integrating data. If a user doesn't like building rest API and would like a more GUI-like approach then Scribe should be considered as a support tool.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dynamics on-prem to online upgrade. Dynamics to NAV. Dynamics to SQL.

It's suited for low volume data movement on sources and targets which don't have many fields and are located on databases without many objects. The amount of metadata generated when retrieving database schemas causes extreme slowness when you have many fields and/or numerous DB objects. We tried to create schemas with access to as little as possible to limit this. It also should be something closely monitored if using it for scheduled tasks. It often fails for varying reasons, and needs to be restarted or have individual records reprocessed. It's not incredibly stable.
Because of the diverse connector types available, Scribe is useful for accessing a variety of source/target types.

Back-end data transformation/enhancement and processing are the best scenarios where Tibco BusinessWorks is suited. Service development is too much of an over-kill scenario.

Well suited for point to point schedule integrations, somewhat limited on real-time integrations (without a lot of customization at the source).

It is useful when there are requirement to integrate two different package products. Business logic/rule should not be used in Tibco BusinessWorks.

It's great to give business users an easy way to mass insert records while keeping the data clean.

For large-scale integrations between ERP and CRM systems, Scribe works like a charm. Because of its licensing cost, it may not suite for SMB companies.

Scribe Online is ideal for quick data migrations of any complexity, provided staging and transformation can be handled by another tool. The platform also shines at fast integrations that can be scheduled to run multiple times a day. Large volumes of data per run can bring its speed down. Overall, this is still one of the most versatile, fast-start iPaaS solutions available.

It's well suited if you have several applications that need integration. The build and management are just so easy and fast. It has a small learning curve and setup is a breeze. I wouldn't recommend if you'll not be using more than 3 connectors.