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TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)

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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Recent Reviews

TIBCO user

8 out of 10
January 15, 2024
Incentivized
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
Incentivized
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
Incentivized
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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Popular Features

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  • Pre-built connectors (120)
    7.5
    75%
  • Support for real-time and batch integration (117)
    7.0
    70%
  • Monitoring console (120)
    6.9
    69%
  • Connector modification (8)
    5.5
    55%

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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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  • Setup fee optional

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Cloud Data Integration

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

5.8
Avg 8.2
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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

TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo) Screenshots

Screenshot of TIBCO Control PlaneScreenshot of End-to-end ObservabilityScreenshot of TIBCO VSCode Development ExperienceScreenshot of Model-based Development ExperienceScreenshot of TIBCO Developer Hub

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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Frequently Asked Questions

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

Boomi, Workato, and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform are common alternatives for TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo).

Reviewers rate Pre-built connectors highest, with a score of 7.5.

The most common users of TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User friendly
  • Visual drag and drop tool
  • Easy to learn
  • The IDE sometimes does not respond to changes automatically
  • The links and references must be manually refreshed when changes are made
  • Bugs in the IDE (e.g.: when using the current-datetime function, you must add and remove an empty space in the parameters section in order for the function to be saved in the XPath expression field of the input mapping section)
October 26, 2017

Good Job Tibco BW

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Flexibility as it is possible to customize flows for any need
  • Compatibility with a large number of drivers
  • Highly customizable
  • SFTP - currently TIBCO has no palette for performing SFTP operations. We have to write custom Java code which does the SFTP operations and then call the Java code from TIBCO.
  • Cloud interaction is not that well explored while using TIBCO BusinessWorks, BC and adapters etc.
  • The RESTful + JSON support is still not too perfect.
Denis Berretti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • TIBCO BusinessWorks works extremely efficiently with major vendor databases, including Oracle, Sysbase, PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • It is a multiplatform product, the code does not need to be recompiled on different operating systems
  • It does not require strong programming skills to learn how to use it.
  • Possibility of creating custom custom palettes for your needs
  • The ability to create archives or extract archives of various types, for example: TAR, GZ, ISO, GZIP, ZIP
  • Improve memory usage management, since being a Java Based product requires great use
  • Correction of designer bugs related to referral management, workspace runtime update.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • No Code Approach - Allows developers to focus on complex business logic and fine-tuning for performance, without worrying about mundane implementation level details. If needed, it allows using full-fledged Java code to be written as part of the applications.
  • Highly scalable, Easily Manageable with capability for automated deployment.
  • Numerous plugins and adapters, allowing ease of connectivity with third-party systems.
  • TIBCO BW6 can improve upon the managed FT setup, as it requires a lot of DB schemas. One per appspace - I think it should allow using a prefix to create tables in the same schema, so multiple appspaces can be configured with the same schema.
October 26, 2017

TINBO BW Survey

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Describes business process very well
  • Easy & fast to use
  • Very scalable
  • Better error descriptions
  • Find GV used in projects sometimes does not work
  • Less hardcoding on some palettes
Chetan Indolia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • B2B connectivity possible via wide use of protocols as plugins and also possible from warehouses worldwide which send data via RFID agents.
  • Excellent SOAP services support and rapidly evolving REST services thus caters to both ease vs security aspects of APIs/ services.
  • Best suite for EAI when it comes to 2k applications.
  • Cloud interaction is not that well explored while using Tibco BusinessWorks, BC and adapters etc.
  • Cost of ELA could be a concern for small and midcap [companies] can go for alternatives like Mule, Kafka, Dell Boomi but TIBCO being there for 25 odd years is the best bet.
  • Constant upgrades mean that there's a limited lifecycle of your TIBCO stack outside which the products will not be supported causing you to set aside budget for LCM every year.
September 21, 2017

Will TIBCO survive ?

Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Rapid application development and ease of learning. It is well documented
  • Rich Plugin ecosystem. Natively supports XSD/XML
  • Stable Monitoring Solutions e.g Hawk, ActiveAspects.
  • Case Studies and references available. Widely used across various domains.
  • Quality of support has deteriorated.
  • Licensing costs are high. Lot of customers have opted out for this reason
  • Unlike in the past, I have not heard of any TIBCO folks working to define open standards, specifications etc. In the past, Paul Brown was a known name in this area.
  • Except for BW ESB, remaining products have not done well: For example AMXSG, BPM
  • TIBCO Mashery was a good addition to the portfolio but unfortunately TIBCO was late in integrating it in their offering and fell behind in the race.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It's easy to develop the code for various business cases.
  • BW is more adoptable for all the projects because it has all features to implement in it.
  • BW performance is faster than the other applications.
  • Easy to make the changes in runtime.
  • Coercions for repeating nodes are sometimes hard to retrieve while mapping the fields.
  • Optional fields are automatically converting to mandatory if string-length check is not provided.
  • Simple archive is taking more time for deployment.
August 31, 2017

BusinessWorks Review

Deepak Sasikala Peethambaran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy development
  • Less Maintenance
  • Associated tools for monitoring
  • Hashing and Encryption for different parts of a single message with choice of cipher suites
  • Any tracing available to be turned on for BW interaction with EMS files - async msg dg, sync msg db, meta db
  • Support for Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol and ISO 20022
Vivekananda Ravichandran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • TIBCO BW is used to host a webservice where the .NET application on the upstream will post request on to the SOAP webservice in TIBCO BW and it will be sent to downstream for processing.
  • Tibco BW is used to consume webservices from third party and get the required information and send that back to the requestor.
  • BW is also used to interact with TIBCO SmartMapper which makes our work simpler.
  • TIBCO BW can also be used with any of the messaging platforms like IBM Message Broker, Apache Kafka and many more.
  • TIBCO BW misses the Business Process Management integration within itself which would be more helpful in the case of order management.
  • BW could also have integrated monitoring within itself which would be more handy for users.
  • BW should also inculcate the EMS into itself as a single strategic software.
August 30, 2017

BW review

Saranya Pv | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Good tool with useful built-in logic which saves a lot of time
  • It has its own messaging systems such as EMS and AS
  • Easy problem management/identification. TIBCO support is very helpful
  • Migration/upgrade of software is easy.
  • Big data parsing takes too much time when implemented in JAVA. Example : JsontoXML parsing
  • SFTP in TIBCO BusinessWorks has some issues: Delete doesn't work and timeout can not be set as global variable, and sometimes consecutive sftp connections also cause process hanging.
  • Active Space connection set as secured channel doesn't allow global variable for some parameters
Javier Ubalde Carramiñana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Working with XML files is awesome, really easy and useful. Reading, validating, parsing and hard transformations are really difficult to implemente in other techonlogies.
  • Message management. EMS integration is great, provides fault tolerance, scalation, high volume control, etc.
  • Routing. Making decisions at real time on which target systems must receive a message.
  • Memory consumption. Production servers requiere high volume of logical memory available.
  • IDE in 5.x version was very stable but "old-fashioned". Eclipse-based IDE in 6.x provides lots of advantages (such as Java integration) but development experience has become much worse: less stability and migration from 5.x is imposible.
August 23, 2017

BW Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of process design
  • Ease of runtime parameters configuration
  • Ease of operational manageability
  • The quality of TIBCO support has deteriorated in the last few years
  • Huge differences between 5.x and 6.x
  • Slower cycle of incorporating changes and bug fixes
Varad Khetan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • By using TIBCO BusinessWorks, coding is really fast/easy and if the code is developed by following proper standards the process is very stable, and it does a good job of integrating with the other systems.
  • TIBCO BusinessWorks provides lots of pallets/activities in order to achieve integration and business functionality.
  • Extremely good product support from TIBCO BusinessWorks.
  • Tibco Businessworks does not have support for the REST and JSON in 5.X; we needed to buy a separate plugin for REST and JSON.
  • Now Tibco has BW 6.X which is very different from BW 5.X, it needs better migration tools to migrate from BW 5.X to BW 6.X.
  • BW 6.X is not as stable and easy to use as BW 5.X.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Integration with JMS (like Tibco EMS), where message has to be consumed from a bus.
  • Data transformation and validation (XSD, XSLT).
  • Easy integration with other frameworks like Java APIs, Soap services.
  • Very simple code / project structure. It is all open XML, even packaged deployment files, so even visual check/compare is very simple. This allows us to use, for instance, an external editor or script to modify code or package.
  • We are primary using BW5 line, so it has issues with custom IDE. It was, according to vendor, improved in BW6 product line, where Eclipse plugins are used. Personally I'm not in favor of this change, as it makes IDE much more slower and complex.
  • TIBCO is a traditional vendor, so to get advantages of new standards or libraries, more recent version of BW has to be installed. Even then some Java plugins used by BWE are out-of-date. Most of the time it could be fixed by using Java interface and/or writing own plugins (JAR).
  • Support for CD-CI is pretty complicated and easiest on Windows, although it was done within our organisation on Linux too.
  • TIBCO objected to supporting our current version (BW5) in containers, even when there was no real technical reason (it works just fine), but licensing.
Marek Bickos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Enables rapid application development
  • Has rich feature set
  • Allows to embed custom Java code and structures when a desired feature is not available
  • Comes with a decent debugger
  • Exposes many run time tuning parameters
  • Does not expose modern blocking and non-blocking concurrency structures
  • Current locking does not scale
  • Not possible to use thread pools for activities executed on private threads
  • Missing support to expose custom Hawk methods
  • Version 6.x design time is based on Eclipse
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The UI based modelling capability allows for near zero coding in order to implement business logic. Building a SOAP/REST service in java may require more than a couple of hours to build and deploy. Same thing in BW will take half hour.
  • BW has adaptors/connectors to most third party application/tools which allows for standards based integration
  • Even though BW is a java based software product, it scales well and is easy to debug and manage at runtime. Since it runs in a JVM allowing standard profiling tools to be used.
  • TIBCO introduced BW 6.x series which is based on a completely different architecture (OSGi based) compared to BW 5.x series which is much simpler.
  • The concept of deploying/managing multiple applications across JVMs to allow for complex deployment architecture using OSGI didn't see much adoption in TIBCO Service Grid product.
  • Even though the modelling constructs in TIBCO designer (BW 5.x) have been made available available/improved in BW 6.x (eclipse based) , the simplicity of development, testing & debugging BW 5.x to solve complex problems was the main reason for its popularity/adoption.
  • Support for cloud container (such as docker) for BW has been late and this is made available only in BW 6.x
  • Support for CI in BW 5.x
August 11, 2017

Tibco Exepricence

Pradeep Achar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Data transfer and data flow is very well done in Tibco Business works
  • Data from different sources such as ftp sftp tcp can be very well transferred
  • Business users can use the process designed by Business works very well.
  • Multiple products which is used with Business works can be either reduced or integrated into a sing product.
  • User experience can be better
  • Product can be lighter
Ayaskant Swain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It provides connectors to connect to heterogenous systems/services (SOAP,REST,DB,JMS Server) without the need of writing the cumbersome any code to connect.
  • Has a nice Admin UI to deploy , undeploy & monitor the Tibco BW applications.
  • Has a great support team who help in resolving errors in the product or the application
  • Installation of BW suite of products is bit difficult. We need to do a lot of configuration form CLI. That need to be reduced.
  • Product is quite heavy weight (size). Try to make it lighter weight.
  • Make the admin console app perform faster. Currently the app deployment through this app is slow.
Marjono Reksopuro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simplicity is the name of the game. From design time, run time and troubleshooting, we have exact same code flows. We use TIBCO BW combined with TIBCO Hawk and CA APM and CA Wily Introscope, and literally you can see the movement from one artifact to next artifact.
  • Fast and Reliable, combined with TIBCO EMS, it provides a strong and fast Messaging Backbone
  • Reusable Code
  • Fits well within CI/CD and agile DevOps paradigm
  • Adoption of newer technology like Docker and Cloud Enablement on various products
  • Seamless transition between multiple TIBCO BW products
John Andrew Balandra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Intuitive UI Interface - uses drag and drop components and connects components together. This allows users with minimal programming skills to get up to speed quicker in learning BW.
  • Configurable environment variables - the BW project EAR file can be deployed with different environment XML configurations that makes it flexible to use across different environments.
  • Rapid development - faster and easier to develop because it uses pre-built components that just need to be strung together.
  • I find the schema editor to be a bit clunky. So I usually end up always it in notepad and then saving on the project directory.
  • Memory management could be improved on BW studio. I frequently have to re-open studio because it freezes .
  • Maybe more seamless integration with Microsoft CRM and SharePoint products?
August 09, 2017

BW review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • SOA Integration
  • Easy Coding approach
  • Quick turnaround time
  • SSL integration
  • Fewer functions are available compared to Java
  • Map object is not present in a schema like Java
  • Testing in BW should be improved
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