TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)

Several years ago we did an all company knowledge sharing session on the product and we have a Chatter group to discuss needs/questions/observations.

The product is fairly intuitive and therefore not much training is required for anyone who has the technical chops for it.

The training was outstanding. The problem was that we trained a bunch of people and only a few of us ever actually used it. We did the level 1 online and the level 2 onsite.

The training would be more useful if the students were able to get a copy of all of the content presented in the classroom for reference later. But for some reason, some of that info is not shared.

It’s fairly easy to understand so it was easy to acquire the skills by having existing solutions and making new ones. It’s not that easy to find training material or even find the information to contact a local vendor for help.

I want to use the Rest api but it’s not obvious how to accomplish this.

I didn't have any training prior to using the tool. It was still fairly easy to understand and I was able to find quite a few online examples which helped quite a bit.

I was trained by my boss so I can not speak to TIBCO training.

I have been working with TIBCO Scribe so many years now - it's hard to answer this question to be honest.

The training was necessary and useful. I should probably take more advanced classes now that I've been using the product for a while.

Just a steeper learning curve than if I had formal training.

In person training along with the docs were sufficient.

The package our organization bought came with Level 1 online pre-recording training and Level 2 live web taught training for Scribe. The training was a must-have for new users and integration customizers. There might be the need to additional practice or level 3 training. Since Scribe is mostly point and click, the solution is intuitive and can be self-taught for advanced database users. Any advanced integrations need additional level 3 training, which I don't believe TIBCO offers. Additional documents, guides, how-to, and formulas would be helpful to reference during implementations. Online reference guides are extremely lacking and not very helpful.

We had a third party give us our training (our Salesforce implementation partner) so it has been a lot of self-taught learning with a bit of online support from them. We haven't actually received any training from TIBCO.

I have past experience with multiple other integration bus implementations. Learning to use Scribe was fairly easy for me, given that it is simple and much like other tools. I like that it is far less complex to set up than more expansive suites such as WebSphere ESB and Dell Boomi. Most of my issues using Scribe have really centered around the user interface, sometimes not updating row counts while in-process, and the inability to multi-schedule one solution.

I was used to working all of my data integrations on Visual Studio (full custom made), so finding Scribe was like a "fresh glass of water" for me. In my case, training was not a key differentiator.

I was the primary contact and was the provided with the most training. I think that the training was incredibly important as without a moderate programming background and at least some familiarity with what is required to sync information it would be hard for someone to navigate. But with the training it is fairly straight forward.

I self-taught myself everything necessary to operate the product and was able to breeze through the first certification course. The more advanced certification course was about half review but then offered some good insight into building more efficient maps and extending Scribe outside of the environment I was using it in.

Well, I had no formal training so I had to learn through reading their documentation.

I attended a training conference on scribe early on in my usage of it. This was helpful for some tips and tricks on handling more complex situations that you may come across. I used my documents later on sometimes when I was building maps. I did find the training was more geared towards using the built in scribe connectors (as this is easier to train for) and did not expand on building your own connectors.

I could create quite complex integrations and I was able to deal with most of the issues in Scribe. Sometimes I missed the knowledge about dealing with many issues at once and solution was usually to set up everything separately.

More understanding of the product.

It was mostly self taught, then We reached out to the support and it worked very well for us as they showed us the online training that are available.

The Scribe Insight product is very well designed in that it can be picked up fairly quickly, and organized in a way that helps finding functionality and features in a short amount of time. I have no doubt that the online and in-person training options speed up the learning process, but it is possible to use it efficiently with self-training.