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TIBCO Data Virtualization is an enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources and delivers the datasets and IT-curated data services foundation for nearly any solution.
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What is TIBCO Data Virtualization?
TIBCO® Data Virtualization aims to break down data silos and makes complex, distributed data environments simple – placing a business-friendly layer over data – that makes it easier to find, understand, and use. Users focus on data’s business value, while data engineers take care of the rest. The vendor states users can build and manage virtualized datasets and IT curated data services with breakthrough speed and cost-effectiveness.
According to the vendor, TIBCO® Data Virtualization’s differentiating out-of-the-box data sources supports the most demanding connectivity needs, providing nearly four times more data sources than any competitor.
TIBCO® Data Virtualization is deployed in companies in financial services, energy, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, healthcare, government, transportation, communications and technology, and more.
According to the vendor, TIBCO® Data Virtualization’s differentiating out-of-the-box data sources supports the most demanding connectivity needs, providing nearly four times more data sources than any competitor.
TIBCO® Data Virtualization is deployed in companies in financial services, energy, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, healthcare, government, transportation, communications and technology, and more.
TIBCO Data Virtualization Features
- Supported: Self-service UI
- Supported: Data Catalog
- Supported: Metadata Repository
- Supported: Modeling & Transformation
- Supported: Secuirty
- Supported: Caching
- Supported: Quality
- Supported: Governance
- Supported: Management
- Supported: Performance Optimization
- Supported: Version Control
- Supported: Runtime Environment
- Supported: Data Access
- Supported: Data Delivery
- Supported: Active Cluster
- Supported: Deployment Manager
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, SaaS |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
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May 12, 2022
Data Virtualization ... Evolution or Revolution
Identified
as one important enabler for the new digital ecosystem, is helping NOS build a Digital Stack and deliver new
capabilities much faster and enforce security, resilience, performance, and
scalability. We start by implementing Data Virtualization to support our Interactive Voice Response used by our Call Center 24x7 and expanding this capability to our digital channels providing the best experience to NOS customers.
- Performance (Data Cache keeps a live "copy" of our data)
- Common data model design for Business and IT(improve data governance)
- Faster Implementation(time-to-market)
- Secure (systems not exposed)
- Resilience (support several scenarios simultaneous - online data vs cache data)
- Studio User interface more modern
- Messaging (Kafka, Pulsar,...) adapter out-of-the-box without the need to buy additional software
We use it for unifying access to various systems distributed across the company, along with simplifying authentication to several "kerberized" data sources. Also, we have a row-level security filtering applied in TDV due to a few underlying data source systems not supporting RLS. As for business problems, we actually do not address any (yet), we address only technical ones.
- Data throughput.
- Multitude of connectivity options to published datasources (JDBC, ODBC, REST, SOAP...).
- Performance of TDV Studio (its own IDE) is poor.
- Performance of TDV repository database is rather poor for larger numbers of objects .(Note: We have approx. 9tsd objects introspected in TDV and approx. 20tsd objects generated in upper DV layers.)
- Propagation of privileges to parent/child dependencies does not work when applying recursively on a folder. (It's a huge setback when working with large number of objects organized semantically into subfolders.)
- Lack of command line client interface for scripting at the time of version 8.4 (I had to write my own CLI.)
- TDV Studio does an absolutely horrible job with its own code editors when indentation is in place. Also, the editor is brutally slow and feature-poor.
- Tracking privileges on the level of table/view columns causes occasional problems when regranting.
- TDV's stored programs ("SQL scripts" in their own terminology) compiler leaves out many syntactic and semantic checks, making them hugely prone to run-time errors.
- TDV Server's REST API is a very poor (in terms of features) and flawed cousin to its SOAP API (at the time of version 8.4).
It was supposed to centralize access to numerous data sources from different DB architectures and provide unified access to all data. However, the limitations we found for example in the Hadoop connection prevent this use case for now. Interesting technology but it has to mature further to be usable on an enterprise level and for more complicated use cases.
- Merges different data sources
- simplifies access to data
- unifies user base management
- leverage advanced database operations
- hadoop access
- performance
We used it for Data virtualization in our organization, It provided data access to our business users through many database connectors like JDBC, Rest. It also helped in using data sources in the form of reports, dashboards, mobile applications, and web apps as well. It assists in collecting data from a different source and helps in analyzing it as well.
- Data access to JDBC, ODBC
- Collect , search data from different source
- Integrate data
- Complex Dashboards
- Precision in terms of reports
December 10, 2021
TIBCO- best software for open order data analysis
I am using this app to generate reports on customer orders with different kinds of statuses to understand what are the pending orders and I can analyse the same. As Croma is in the retail industry of the electronic market, we are receiving E-commerce orders from many websites like Croma.com, Tata Cliq, Amazon, Flipkart. TIBCO gives us all the data required for a better understanding of segregation and customer behaviour. We are using these data for further presentation to management to show where we are and what are the scops of improvement.
- Open order report.
- Pending order report.
- Finance related report.
- Real time data generation.
- Adding graphs for better data analysis.
- Indicators.
October 18, 2021
Great Data Management Tool But a Bit Pricey
TIBCO Data Virtualization is available to all of our organizations. TIBCO Data Virtualization is used by most of our organizations to bring multiple data into one reporting solution. TIBCO Data Virtualization allows us to pull data from many different sources in many different locations and create the reporting requirements that are needed by our various business departments.
- Use different data repositories in one solution.
- Use of analytics tools by end users.
- Use of SQL so users don't have to learn a new scripting language.
- Unable to find a way to run a scheduled report to be saved to another location.
- High cost compared to other solutions.
- Tool is a bit difficult to learn.
We have data coming in from diverse sources. Some of the data come from the operational systems and the rest of it is derived from external sources with whom we have subscriptions for the same. This data is sanitized and transformed into various reports and dashboards which are consumed by customers either in the form of PowerBI/Tableau or are a raw dump of the same. Data virtualization is used by core operational teams only.
- Security & Governance of the data.
- Sophisticated/advanced query engines.
- Data orchestrations.
- Higher learning curve.
- Pricing is high.
- Initial setup is slightly cumbersome.
September 16, 2021
One of the best tools for data virtualization
This software is primarily used by our organization to organize the data in a much neater way, which makes analyzing it easier. It is being used throughout our organization so that we can combine all the data and not miss any important details about our clients. Thanks to its easy integration, it is also helpful when one is using a third-party application to analyze data.
- It can be integrated quite well with its own software and other third party applications.
- It makes setting up new data sources quite fast and easy.
- Algorithms for analyses are quite efficient and updated frequently.
- The pricing is high, which makes it unsuitable for small organizations.
- Its user interface looks quite old and unappealing. The options are not placed optimally.
- Initially, its learning curve is quite high (its bad user interface doesn't do any favours either) and it takes some time to learn it.
September 08, 2021
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It's used internally by the department to manage and visualize data. We use it to generate and create reports also. It helps us manage the huge amount of data we have and makes it easier to search and see trends. We also use it to give a summary to our management on the trends.
- Manage data.
- Generate reports.
- Search data.
- Responsiveness.
- Performance.
- User experience.
September 07, 2021
TIBCO is good….depends on your purpose
I have used TIBCO for the organization to extract data from multiple data source, transformed the data to our needs and present the data visually for easy easy read and quick decision. It was used across the organization to solve this issue. However at the time of testing I’m not sure if KPIs option was available.
- It has many type of data sources to connect to.
- You can drag and drop connection between table(s).
- Easy visual of the data.
- Easy to use.
- Will be good to have KPIs to view data.
- The UI looks like management studio….maybe a different look and feel.
- Be able to create custom calculation.
September 07, 2021
A robust data virtualization
Processing data from other sources is ideal for data consumption within the company and is what generates easy-to-read data reports. Many departments use TIBCO Data Virtualization thanks to the fact that it has very simple tools that are perfectly integrated, we always manage to solve the difficulties in data governance and data virtualization is a source of success in data management.
- Fast and effective data processing.
- Robust connection to multiple data sources.
- It has a user interface that guarantees compliance with business goals due to how easy it is to execute all functions.
- The price can be very expensive in the initial stage of implementation and can be very high risk, but everything is positive after implementation.
TIBCO Data Virtualization is one of the widely used and popular Data Virtualization Tools which was initially developed by the identity of Cisco Information Server. This product was developed with the sole and primary purpose of breaking down all of the data silos and transforming all of the complicated data into a simplified version which eventually makes it interpret and understand. This tool has been serving its great features in organizations for a long time.
- The software has flawlessly connected all of the primary data sources and combined the transactional data with different other department data sources simultaneously.
- The I advantage found in the platform is its ability to scale out all of the queries in horizontal and vertical ways both of which I find to be very unconventional.
- With the help of this platform the sales and marketing department of our organization can easily gauge by making an assessment exclusively for their penetration stages and even environmental in-depth analysis.
- There are a few downsides of the tool as well as personally in my organization I felt that there is no such support of data lineage.
- There was also some poor integration with different modeling tools.
August 31, 2021
Real-time data visualization made simpler
TIBCO Data Virtualization is being used by one of our clients at the firm. Since it is a consultancy firm different clients prefer different data visualization tools. TIBCO Data Virtualization is helping our clients create data visualizations from the insights generated at the backend which are then used by the business owners to take key decisions.
- Connectivity to various data source.
- Real time processing.
- User/Business friendly.
- Lightweight.
- Help section needs to improve.
- The UI can be more intuitive.
- Sometimes it takes a lot of time to return a result.
August 31, 2021
Review: TIBCO Data Virtualization Tool
We just started using TIBCO Data Virtualization at our organization within the last year. It is a great tool for daily data virtualization needs. It helps us in the data transformation and reporting the new trends for the improvement in the reports so that we can achieve our target goals more efficiently and effectively.
- Earlier we were using manual scripts to analyze but with TIBCO Data Virtualization, it is easy and more efficient.
- TIBCO helps us maintain the trends reports more efficiently.
- Documentation for the tool should be improved.
- Cache and data transformation performance can be improved a little better.
We use [TIBCO Data Virtualization] to extract different data from several data sources and [it has] always met our needs. It's been a good [purchase] with a great ROI.
- Data extraction
- Data preparation
- Metadata support
- Data virtualization
- Customer support
- Updates
August 26, 2021
A Robust Product - Data Virtualization
TIBCO Data Virtualization is primarily used by our systems engineering and analyst team which helps cater to the needs of many other teams in the organization. This type of technology helps us avoid duplication issues in our systems and avoids redundancy. You can easily connect to different types of data sources and run comparison analysis which provides you valuable insights into the data.
- De-duplication.
- You can run analysis from different data sources.
- Good query optimization algorithms are available to use.
- UI feels a little outdated.
- Doesn't do good version management and sometimes collaboration with a bigger team becomes difficult as we cannot use it with GitHub.
August 26, 2021
Heavy solution for visuals
TIBCO Data Virtualization is used across departments to visualize performance indicators.
- Graphics.
- Styles.
- Simplicity.
- Integrations.
- Ease of use.
- Trials periods.
August 26, 2021
Great tool for small BI uses!
TIBCO Data Virtualization is the best product for a BI platform for small companies. It is a very basic reporting platform given data inputs in standard formats. It helps us create reports and standardize our data entry. It is also very user-friendly and helps us get integrated to multiple sources so we can do quick reporting.
- Integrations with sources.
- Ease of use.
- Very customizable in terms of output formats.
- Cost management.
- Very limited functionalities for charting, dashboards, intuitive reports.
- A complete reporting project takes longer time.
- Creates static reports and if you'd like to create interactive reports, that won't be possible.
May 10, 2021
TIBCO is the best!
It is being used by our IT team and it helps to make access to data faster as well to integrate different databases.
- Help in reusing data easily.
- Help in integrating different databases.
- Allows for more time to analyze the data.
- A cleaner interface.
- More clarifications or help options.
April 30, 2021
TIBCO Data Virtualization in Data Governance
We have begun utilizing Data Virtualization while implementing a Data Governance framework. We are in the initial phases of implementation presently. The goal will be to use Data Virtualization across the organization for consumption of data. It will allow us to pull together disparate data sources, transform data when needed, push the data to downstream TIBCO products (ex: Clarity, EBX), ingest the data into an on-premise data warehouse, and reflect the data back to end users.
- User interface is straight-forward and easy.
- Ability to connect to data sources is not difficult.
- Implementation has been seamless.
- Setup of security is difficult within the tool, as there are nuances.
April 29, 2021
If you have spotfire, you need TDV
[TIBCO Data Virtualization] is used across the whole company as a central repository of data. We use it to connect to all of our primary data sources and manipulate that data to provide spotfire with clean data connections. TDV also allows us to join different data sources together so that we can analyze data that is not natively found in one system. We also use a fair amount of caching in [TIBCO Data Virtualization] so that data pulls into spotfire are more efficient.
- Data management: being able to pull and manipulate massive amounts of data in real time makes analysis much easier
- Availability of data connectors: we can connect to virtually any data source, including databases, APIs, flat files, and other web sources.
- Caching: storing standard data pulls in memory means better performance when that data is used in other sources
- seamless connection to spotfire means getting data into spotfire for analysis a breeze
- We did have some issues with API authentication in the past that slowed down our progress on some data, but that was eventually rectified with the latest version of TDV
- Price: we use TDV exclusively to push data into spotfire, but we did investigate if we could use it to push to other systems (excel, power BI, etc.) The cost to push to spotfire is incredibly economical, but scaling to push to other systems was too much for us.
- Not exactly user friendly. a strong db/sql background is pretty much essential to use TDV to the level it should be,
April 19, 2021
TDV - get data in hours not months.
We resell this software but in most cases we actively use on customer's behalf. That means creating content for customer's end users who consume that from TDV.
- Fast federated queries from different data sources.
- Optimization of data queries from different data sources.
- Linkage of data flow.
- A little bit obsolete design of UI.
April 16, 2021
TIBCO Data Virtualization provides a simple, approachable platform to integrate data sources
Currently we are using Data Virtualization to combine transactional data from our warehouse and Azure Cloud solution with different Marketing data sources.
- Connecting to traditional relational databases.
- Administration and setting up new data sources.
- Managing users and access.
- The user interface is lacking.
- Compared to competitors such as Domo, there are no incorporated analytics.
- First-time setup is somewhat burdensome.
January 16, 2020
The ability to integrate data from different sources into a single version is a big plus for Data Virtualization
TIBCO is being used by the analyst team in our organization. Currently, we have data in multiple sources. We are using TIBCO Data Virtualization to connect to all different data sources and queries against the different data sources. We didn't go with the traditional method of data warehousing, because we didn't want to duplicate the data, so we started using TIBCO Data Virtualization to avoid duplication.
- Reduce duplication of data
- Easy to use and run queries on different data sources
- It is versatile but it also makes it quite complex if you haven't already thought it out fully before you start writing the views.
- Performance is highly dependent on queries used
May 01, 2019
Virtual reality in the data world
Allows integration of data sources of various types from different departments, so that it can be accessed without actual retrieval of data.
- Drag and drop feature.
- The large variety of data source adapters.
- Works with Spotfire for analytics.
- Cost.
- Sometimes not as easy to deploy as expected.