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TIBCO Data Virtualization

Overview

What is TIBCO Data Virtualization?

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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Great product!

10 out of 10
April 05, 2023
Incentivized
TIBCO Data Virtualization has created a platform to track manage and provide concise reports throughout the various cycles of the sales …
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Dave Withers
Vice President, Data Architecture
Pimco (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees)
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Carlos Castro
Head of BPM & Data Virtualization CoE
NOS (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)
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Product Details

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 solution lets users build and manage virtualized datasets and IT curated data services with speed and its out-of-the-box data sources supports the most demanding connectivity needs, with the goal of providing more data sources than any competitor.

TIBCO® Data Virtualization has been deployed in companies in financial services, energy, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, healthcare, government, transportation, communications, and technology.

TIBCO Data Virtualization Features

Data Visualization Features

  • Supported: Data Visualization Options
  • Supported: Interactivity
  • Supported: Data Import and Export
  • Supported: Dashboard Creation
  • Supported: Customization Capabilities
  • Supported: Data Filtering and Sorting
  • Supported: Project Collaboration Tools
  • Supported: Real-time Data Updates
  • Supported: Cross-platform Accessibility
  • Supported: Data Analytics Integration

Additional 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
  • Supported: composite Data Views

TIBCO Data Virtualization Screenshots

Screenshot of Data Flow EditorScreenshot of Data CatalogScreenshot of Transform Editor

TIBCO Data Virtualization Integrations

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TIBCO Data Virtualization Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, Japanese

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Denodo, Dremio, and AtScale are common alternatives for TIBCO Data Virtualization.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.9.

The most common users of TIBCO Data Virtualization are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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December 13, 2023

TIBCO- best software for open order data analysis

Verified User
Manager in Other
Retail Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Open order report.
  • Pending order report.
  • Finance related report.
  • Real time data generation.
  • Adding graphs for better data analysis.
  • Indicators.
Likelihood to Recommend
TIBCO data virtualization is useful for industries where they are getting E-commerce orders or online orders from customers. They can serve orders on time to increase better customer service. Pendency will be reduced with this app and one can achieve 100% SLA adherence if taking data for proper analysis. Best app.
Return on Investment
  • Improvement in customer service level.
  • Increase in SLA adherence.
  • More market penetration by taking data analysis.
Performance
7
Transportation model is created based on TIBCO data visualization where I can work on complex data with big size files with lesser time and it gives better representation which can be interpreted by newly emplyeed people and analysis can be dat from transportation model easily by exporting data with different cuts.
Data Virtualization
We were using manual platform before using TIBCO data platform. Previously it was taking too much time for extracting data and and analysis part. Also previously facing problem of crashing file due to heavy data but TIBCO gives faster solutions with better analysis. TIBCO stores data safely and can provide whenever required.
Alternatives Considered
In the retail industry, you want to penetrate more and more market areas and increase your company's market share compared to other competitors. For more penetration, one needs to increase CSL( Customer service Level). For this company need to analyse what they are currently doing and what are the areas where they can improve. TIBCO data virtualization gives proper data to understand your strength in the industry and gives you a better understanding of areas of improvement.
Problems Addressed
As per the example of a 1-day delivery program for customers' online orders, you need to ensure that orders should be processed within the time limit so that they can be handed over to the courier partner on time. If there is any delay in process or handover product can't be delivered on time which led to poor customer experience. For this, you need data of pending orders for every hour so that they can be processed on time and we can manage work accordingly. TIBCO is useful in this case and improved our customer experience.
Impact of Virtualization
Data integration is for giving a macro picture to management for an understanding of the current scenario of business on a larger scale. If you want to give that good image you need to work on micro areas which led to stronger data to display the growth. That is the reason we believed in the process rather than focusing only on end results and selected data visualization.
Other Software Used
Support Rating
9
Before using this software, our company's order pendency was very high due to unidentified orders, after using this we have improved so much which gives us the benefit of CSL compared to other competitors and survive in this industry for a longer period with expansion of other areas of the country too.
Premium Support
No I haven't purchased premium support as it is costlier and without premium also I am getting good support
Bug Resolution
No
Additional Customization Considerations
Nothing
Scalability
8
Good scaling
Reliability and Availability
8
Good
March 03, 2023

Great Data Management Tool But a Bit Pricey

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
If your organization is large, has many different data sources, and has the budget then TIBCO Data Virtualization may be the solution for you. The TIBCO Data Virtualization tool does take some time to learn. If your organization is smaller with a lower budget then there may be a better solution for you. We also need reports automatically generated on a periodic basis and saved to another location (such as our electronic document management system) but we aren't sure if/how this can be accomplished using TIBCO Data Virtualization.
Return on Investment
  • Better ability to create reports/dashboards from many sources in one location.
  • Allows ability for better decision making when able to review various data in one reporting tool.
  • A bit expensive so need to crunch the numbers to see if it is worth the cost.
Performance
8
There is a learning curve to using TIBCO Data Virtualization. The built in connector for Salesforce is the tool that we used. The amount of data loaded on a monthly basis did not take much time to import into Salesforce using TIBCO.
Data Virtualization
All of the data that was loaded by TIBCO Data Virtualization was from on-prem sources to Salesforce. The ability to load data from multiple sources saves the end users time and effort to analyze the various business services that our customers are using and the ones they are not. Showing the business services that our customers are not using in a snapshot allows opportunities to entice the customer to take advantage of the other services we can offer them.
Alternatives Considered
I was not involved in the purchasing decision of TIBCO Data Virtualization. TIBCO Data Virtualization does provide us with a good reporting tool that can access various data sources in order to review the analytics and make future decisions. It can be used on-premise or in the cloud. It is robust and can pull data quickly to generate the various reports and dashboards needed.
Problems Addressed
We need to forecast business decisions and have many different data sources that are used across our organization. We need to pull the data into one location for many business users to access. The data changes quite frequently so it was imperative to be able to update the data quickly without much user intervention as the data changed. TIBCO Data Virtualization is able to pull the data in and update the reports and dashboards with the new data seamlessly. Without TIBCO Data Virtualization it would take so much more time to gather the data from multiple sources, analyze the data, and create the reports to disseminate to the decision-makers.
Impact of Virtualization
Data virtualization is very insightful. It can be used to create various "what if" scenarios. It is handy to be able to access data from multiple sources in one location that is readily available. It improves business outcomes and drives innovation. We are able to view the data virtually and able to modify data to analyze the impact to our business.
Other Software Used
Cloud Benefits
It was very helpful to load data from different sources into Salesforce using TIBCO. It made the ability for the users to show our customers all the services they use from us along with the customers' specific data. This saved us time and money to have the data available in one location rather than spending time gathering this data.
Cloud Migration
We implemented TIBCO as a new deployment. We use TIBCO to load data into Salesforce from multiple data sources. TIBCO does have a high learning curve but once we configured TIBCO, the data loading was nearly seamless and saved us so much time and money.
TIBCO Investment Preservation
We newly implemented Salesforce and utilized TIBCO to load data into Salesforce which allowed us the ability to provide our customers with a snapshot of the offerings they were taking advantage of from us.
Future Proofing
It is nice to see TIBCO adapt their products as technology changes. We did not have a need to implement any of the new capabilities offered by TIBCO but it was nice to see the ability to do so if there was a need.
Upgrade Benefits
  • Import data faster
  • Protect data
  • Enables business users to access data efficiently and easily
Exceptional Examples of TIBCO Data Virtualization Support
TIBCO has always been very responsive to any support issues and questions that we have encountered. Our issues have been fairly common issues and are resolved very quickly. TIBCO has even reached out to us when they notice any issues with our online agent.
Customer Feedback
I have not provided feedback to TIBCO but feel my feedback would be taken into consideration based on my past experiences with TIBCO.
Innovative Uses
  • Process automation
  • Use fewer development resources
  • Enforce centralized data
Users and Roles
1
Only IT staff use TIBCO data virtualization
Support Headcount Required
1
IT staff are the ones with the skills to support TIBCO Data Virtualization in our organization
Business Processes Supported
  • Combining data from different sources
  • Ability to combine data to be viewed by customers efficiently
  • View performance metrics
Future Planned Uses
  • Implement real time data rather than just historical data
  • Implement data housed from other sources rather than just on-prem data sources
Likelihood to Renew
6
We have been looking at implementing Microsoft Dynamics to replace Salesforce which would eliminate our need to use TIBCO.
Products Replaced
No
Key Differentiators
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
TIBCO Data Virtualization was able to meet our needs to load data from multiple sources into Salesforce. Once the configuration was completed in TIBCO initially, we did not have to touch the configuration again which made implementing TIBCO very efficient.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
Talk with peers to see which software solutions they implemented and better understand the learning curve to in incorporating the various data virtualization applications.
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
  • TIBCO professional services
Implementation Phases
Yes
We implemented our UAT environment first then our Prod environment.
Change Management Lessons
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
We should have providing the end users with more advanced direction and guidance prior to the implementation phase.
Implementation Issues
  • Initial configuration/setup
Implementation Rating
8
Professional services were very helpful in the implementation. I don't think we would have been able to implement this on our own, however.
Training Types Used
  • Online Training
Online Training
8
The training was helpful. I was able to understand how to use TIBCO for the data load process that we implemented and how to perform various troubleshooting steps based on the training I received. The technician was thorough and took the time to answer any questions. Once we were shown how to use TIBCO in the test environment, we were able to configure the production environment ourselves.
Product Configurability
8
I believe the configurability is complex.
Configuration Lessons
No
UI Customization
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
Extensibility and Customization
No - we have not done any custom code
Support Rating
7
Customer support for TIBCO Data Virtualization is very responsive and helpful. They are courteous and quick to assist.
Premium Support
Yes, we did purchase premium support as we weren't entirely sure how to implement the data load and how to remedy any issues that may crop up in the future. Using premium support gave us quick turnaround and our issues were addressed and resolved very fast. The support team is very knowledgeable, polite, and seem to have a vested interest in resolving our issues.
Bug Resolution
No
Additional Customization Considerations
No
Usability
8
Once it is configured, its overall usability is good. Initially implementing it does take some effort and time.
Easy Tasks
  • Loading data once it has been configured
  • Updates are seamless
  • Reviewing errors are typically intuitive to finding the possible solution
Difficult Tasks
  • Initial implementation
  • User interface could be more intuitive
Scalability
9
It seems to be flexible and scalable based on our needs.
Reliability and Availability
9
We have never encountered issues where it was unavailable when we needed it.
Systems Integrated With
  • Salesforce
Once the configuration was completed with the help of TIBCO professional services, the integration with Salesforce has not experienced any serious issues.
Future Integration Plans
  • No
Types of Integration
  • File import/export
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
Ease of Integration
3
The learning curve of integration was a bit steep in my opinion.
Integration Lessons Learned
No
Pre-Sale Experience
8
I wasn't involved initially with the sales process but my involvement after the sales process was positive.
Post-Sale Experience
8
The vendor has been very accommodating with any needs that have arisen after the sale.
Key Negotiation Points
I was not involved with the negotiation.
Dealing with TIBCO Software Inc.
No
Upgrade Process
No
Anticipated Benefits from Future Upgrades
  • NA
Future Edition Upgrade Plans
No
Migrating Between Editions
No
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