TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)

Because of its ease of creating applications in TIBCO BW, project turnover is pretty quick

TIBCO has made projects successful and easy to implement for customers

It helps us develop integrations quickly and in a relatively readable fashion.

It provides a standard set of metrics which can be monitored and queries by TIBCO Hawk, which is valuable by having an integration monitoring standard.

Good impact on overall business.

On the positive side, it is relatively inexpensive. It allowed us to get started quickly as a smaller company and integrate systems that had few options. The replication has worked well. It has burned us with support issues in the past but overall is very cost effective and trusted now. The current product has proven very solid.

On the negative side, support is lacking on tougher technical issues. Follow up is poor. Some earlier technical issues had no fixes or workarounds. Cloud service based endpoints for calling and receiving was non-existent but seems to be available now. Payload mapping from one source to another is limited.

BusinessWorks 5 allowed us to make a good name for our new team. We were able to create solutions quickly, and they ran reliably. We were not only fast and reliable, we were also able to accomplish projects that had failed in the past, mostly due to a lack of software developers. With TIBCO, we were able to make it much easier for the various teams to share data. BW6 has compromised our good name so far. It often takes a very long time to develop even a simple interface, and sudden strand issues have halted our production instances.

BW5 is expensive but worth the cost. Two people, already well versed in the business processes and infrastructure of an organization, can easily and quickly create interfaces between systems. The technical work is probably 10% of the effort, the rest business process discovery and testing. BW6, again, is a real pain. We only use it for REST calls. BW6 is not worth the cost.

Training a new developer on BW5 is relatively easy. For example, it only took me 12 hours to train a Java developer to use BW5 productively, able to work on actual projects. My boss and I also self learned BW5 over the course of running projects, and found it straight forward. We did no formal training. BW6 is again opposite. The issue is the Eclipse based designer. Eclipse is a good tool, but the BW6 designer is very immature and suffers from many frustrating bugs -- some that even corrupt the work-space or crash the designer. The biggest challenge with BW6 is getting around these bugs. For this reason, even after having it for well over a year, I have not started to train any new developers on BW6. It would simply be a waste of time. They would not be productive for months and would constantly need my help with complicated issues and vague errors. It's just better to do the REST interfaces myself. BW6 is not worth the time cost of training.

Positive, value for money

Increased demand for work

Confirmed alliance with other companies

We are able to action on customer orders more quickly.

Turnaround time on customer service calls are faster as they are armed with more information.

Thanks to the easy way of using the products I could spend more time on studying generic concepts and cases of use of the products more than focusing on how it works

From a business perspective the markets offered a lot of job opportunities with good remuneration

TIBCO support was one of the strategic forces of the product, but the quality of the new BW6 and it's related support has decreased in the last year so customers start looking for different solutions

Scribe Online makes our investment in webcasts more valuable, with actionable data at the fingertips of sales & marketing

It means that the data we collect is retained and can be referenced far into the future

It is flexible enough to allow us to capture the specific data that we need and insert it into our heavily customized database without issue

COTS product, reliable, superior support from Tibco support and PSG (Tibco Professional Service Group)

Good investment with mission critical enterprise infrastructure and apps

Could be pricy in licensing and maintenance cost

It has fit the need well to integrate MDM into our environment.

The tool has proven to be the Swiss army knife for integration as we have utilized it to connect several different tools and technologies to achieve the desired functionality.

It has helped build the new application and maintain with ease.

It can be deployed in a form leveraging the existing infrastructure.

Works very well with EMS.

Simplicity and convenience when developing applications with intuitive interface

Costs for some plugins to be purchased for some types of communication that are not accepted by customers by requiring us to change protocols or use custom Java

Customer has seen significant improvement in the number of applications processed and especially in peak period because of the effectiveness of the provided services.

Also significant increase to income due to increased performance and increase in the number of applications.

Significant decrease in service disruption and down time for application upgrades and changes.

No noticeable negative impact when compared to what was in place before the use of TIBCO Businessworks.

The most important benefits of Tibco Business Works are :

Scalabe

Reliabe

Robust

Realtime

Dynamic

Since the development time is shorter, TIBCO BusinessWorks will yield returns quicker. But that being said, I tried some POC on the 6.x versions, they are completely different and they are not as easy to develop as in the designer based 5.x version.

Easy to scale up the engines with multiple granular controls to modify and manage every aspect of the deployment. Hence requires less investment in the deployment cycle.

Although TIBCO BusinessWorks supports scripted deployment. TIBCO environments do not support simultaneous deployment of all the engines at the same time. Hence requires a longer down time of the applications during the major upgrades. Longer downtime means loss of business.

On-premises integration - Positive Results

API Factory project - did not go well.

TIBCO needs to provide a feature like Mulesoft's Exchange. This is very important.

This tool is [generally] perfect for ROI since it reduces a lot of development costs due to the easy user experience.

It is a cost centre, too expensive to use

The support team at TIBCO is not very helpful

Does provide quick time-to-market value

The Client used it to connect to eCommerce which brings in a lot of profit.

For a period of time, the system was using TIBCO BW and IIB. It seems BW runs better than IIB.

TIBCO is a middle man. It can see processes between integrations which is an advantage but also a disadvantage. When something happens, another team usually comes to the TIBCO team. TIBCO team usually can help to find out the source of the issues.

Solved legacy system manual effort with automation.

Ease of Integration with out of box connectors.

Tibco BusinessWorks has a positive impact because TIBCO Designer is intuitive and TIBCO applications are easy to maintain.

Observed very vast income for the projects developed using TIBCO BusinessWorks Product