TIBCO Data Virtualization Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.6 out of 10

Score

8.6 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for TIBCO Data Virtualization are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Data Cache Performance: Users have appreciated the software's ability to maintain a live copy of data through Data Cache, significantly enhancing data processing speed and efficiency. This feature has proven crucial for users looking to optimize their data handling processes.

Secure Design Features: Reviewers have highlighted the software's design with abstraction, row-level security, and column-level security as strong points. These features play a vital role in ensuring that sensitive information is protected and accessible only to authorized personnel.

Improved Data Governance: Many users found the common data model design for Business and IT beneficial as it enhances data governance practices within organizations. By facilitating faster implementation processes, this design contributes to reducing time-to-market for new initiatives.

Reviews

43 Reviews

A short journey with a pricey tech

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

November 28, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used TIBCO Data Virtualization to build a federated query engine extracting data from several different sources and serving it up to a semantic layer to be used by the business.

Pros

It has ability to connect to a variety of platforms
It offers a central management console for admins accessible on web browser
It abstracts the complexity of ETLs from the end users of data who consume it to drive decision making.

Cons

TIBCO Data Virtualization does not offer out of the box it's own caching layer. It has to be augmented with some other database technology to cache data for efficient querying.
TIBCO Data Virtualization is very tedious to maintain when it comes to managing granular permissions on objects and artifacts.
TIBCO Data Virtualization by default tends to process the data in its own server memory instead of delegating it to the backend systems where data comes from. This sometimes leads to a server crash if not handled properly.

Likelihood to Recommend

TIBCO Data Virtualization is well suited for customers who are challenged to deal with extracting data from dozens of different sources and systems, and do not have the time and liberty to hire data engineers and/or ETL developers to write dozens or hundreds of complex ETLs.

However, there are situations where TIBCO Data Virtualization severely underperforms, and those are where we are dealing with large volumes of data, in tera bytes or peta byte scale system. For example, a messaging queue which sends 200 million messages every hour will choke TIBCO Data Virtualization if the technology is chosen to route the data.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Swiss Knife for data Integration.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 4, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Data from disparate sources had to be merged for loading to our warehouse.

Tibco provided Lineage and quick turnaround time to merge the data.

Pros

Drivers to access multiple data souces
Needs a bit of learning curve but Joining different sources
Exposing the data as REST API

Cons

Memory management can be better.
In a 2 node cluster, the timekeeper does not share much load. we need to scale it to multiple nodes to take advantage of the cluster.
The IDE for TDV Development can improve a lot

Likelihood to Recommend

Well Suited:

If data needs to be collected from different types

Quick ETL with SQL like coding.

need to Expose processed data in SQL, REST,SOAP with no extra coding.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Good value for money

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 25, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used TIBCO Data Virtualization to visualize and run analytics on cross LOB customer data for curating personalized finance and loan offers. This tool is one of the best at its class to pull data from disparate sources and help running analytics on top of them to build models.

Pros

Visualize data
Pulls from disparate sources

Cons

Integration with other existing eco systems
Ease of installation

Likelihood to Recommend

Pulling data from disparate sources spread across a large organization.

Prasenjit Mandal

Vice President of Engineering in Information Technology at JPMorgan Chase (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

Powerful data visualization tool for more insights, collaboration

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 24, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use TIBCO Spotfire to analyze and visualize tabular data in biomedical research, which including preclinical experiment, screening, text mining, genomics, data from clinical trials.

Pros

process, reshape data, allows many operations like pivot, unpivot, change column names etc.
interactive interface
variety of visualization provided
option of sharing on web or download as file
data canvas to understand relationship among data tables and edit processes

Cons

interface: the filters - can be a hassle when many tables in the
color scheme: not be able to save or customize
export image can't define the size of output
can't define the base scheme color e.g. axis, ticks, current default is too light, difficult to see in Powerpoint.

Likelihood to Recommend

<ul><li>visualize high through put data: e.g. genomics, gene expression.</li><li>manipulating data frame </li></ul>

Yunyu Zhang

Data Scientist in Research & Development at Novartis (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

Rich feature with limited scalability

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

July 13, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bringing disparate data sources together to allow for a homogeneous denormalized view for data distribution and consumption across multiple business units. Scope is primarily across the Finance, Risk space.

TIBCO DV allows us to bring the Balance sheet data, and merge that with the counterparty data, market data, exchange rates and risk attributes.

Pros

Bringing disparate data sources together
Intuitive setup wrt the physical, logical and business layer definitions.

Cons

Memory management and query optimization
Transparency and control over execution plan

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited

1. Bringing disparate data sets representing a complete picture of an entity/trade/position

2. Ease of bringing them together

Less appropriate

1. Setting up involved logic/transformations within the logical layer leads to major performance issues.

Braj Prasad

VP in Information Technology at State Street (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

I am so happy to provide this product to us and easy to use it.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 6, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using TIBCO to fetch external data in PwC. We are using .net core along with TIBCO.

Pros

Fetching data
Efcore plug in with Tibco
Compatibility with old and new codes

Cons

Did not see any major issues

Likelihood to Recommend

Excellent compatibility

Verified User

Employee in Engineering (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

TDV as a semantic and security layer

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

June 28, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

really great for abstraction of the queries to objects and column and row level security of elements. TDV is the layer between the application and the data storage layer that ensures proper authorization of what a user or role can read, write, or alter and handles the translation between these components into SQL statements

Pros

abstraction
row level security
column level security

Cons

user interface
training
documentation

Likelihood to Recommend

in environments that have many disparate data stores that need to be secured or addressed in a unified way across an enterprise. this would include hybrid on premise and cloud architectures requiring a single point of translation or semantic layer that hides the underlying sql used to query or interact with the data stores directly.

Dave Withers

Vice President, Data Architecture in Engineering at Pimco (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Good data virtualization platform

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 26, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The following reasons make working with TDV very reliable and quick in my day-to-day task. a. More approachable. b. Quickly querying the data. c. Creating connections to various data sources. d. simple and effective. e. Robust and Combability with various data sources. f. Incorporating cloud connections. g. caching the huge data.

Pros

Caching huge data
Incorporating cloud data source connections
Robust and Combability with various data sources
Simple and effective

Cons

User Interface can be enhanced
Customer Service turn around time
Quick analysis of data

Likelihood to Recommend

TIBCO Data Virtualization has developed a platform to track, manage, and provide concise reports throughout the various stages of the sales process. It is a powerful tool that has helped maximise efficiency through its visualisation formats. After working with this tool and seeing the benefits, I couldn't imagine my life without it. I will continue to use TIBCO Data Virtualization for the foreseeable future.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Great product!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 5, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

TIBCO Data Virtualization has created a platform to track manage and provide concise reports throughout the various cycles of the sales process. It is a robust tool that has helped maximize efficiency through its visualization formats. After working with this tool and seeing the benefits I could not see myself without it. I will continue to use TIBCO Data Virtualization for the foreseeable future.

Pros

Data wrangling
Curve fitting
Visualizations

Cons

User interface
Customization
Filtering

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited in the sales department, but also allows a platform for our customers to successfully leverage their data and communicate collaboratively across their lines of business. It provides high and low level knowledge of data that would not be nearly as insightful without the power of the visualizations that TIBCO Data Virtualization has to offer

Verified User

Account Manager in Sales (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

TDV - Great for creating master view as a source of truth.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 7, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

TDV is used in our organization to create master data views used by a host of downstream applications as a common source of the data stream. TDV is helpful in the sense that we can create a common master view by combining different consumer views sourced from a wide variety of data sources.

Pros

Master data views from disparate data sources.
Integration with Cloud technologies.
Compatibility with target systems such as Business Objects, Spotfire etc.

Cons

Improve the web manager console to better manage users /groups/ monitor logs etc.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited: Useful for aggregating data sources and creating a master view to be used across Org streams/ units. Less appropriate: Not a lot of organs use TDV solely because it is marketed as a sole virtualization product rather than a suite of products. Moreover, there is definitely room for improvement when it comes to the user interface, especially the web manager console.

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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