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TIBCO BusinessWorks Review
July 21, 2017

TIBCO BusinessWorks Review

Sandip Banerjee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO BusinessWorks

TIBCO BusinessWorks is being used by IT division for application integration at Denver Water Utilities.
  • Application data Integration batch/real-time
  • Web service
  • Very quick time to market and ROI. Development time is very fast.
  • Migration to BusinessWorks 6 from BusinessWorks 5 is a real challenge to date.
  • As Rest services take a lot of space nowadays BusinesWorks 5 should include a rest plugin by default. Customers are not willing to pay extra for that.
  • Another thing is SFTP. BusinessWorks must include SFTP activity as well in version 5.
  • JDBC Query, or update or SQL direct should have the place to use multiple JDBC connections dynamically. For example, if I have multiple databases that have the same table structure to query, I want to write a single JDBC query and loop through different databases. Currently I'm achieving that using Java code (extra coding effort, extra time consuming).
  • Development time is reduced due to time to market being fast
  • Very Very positive impact as BusinessWorks is extensively being used within my organization.
As I said time to market is very fast as far as the development effort is concerned. But as the industries move towards cloud integration BusinessWorks still lags behind with version 6 and BWCE. Micro services is another area where I feel it is lagging.
XPath is awesome. But I'd still like to have more Xpath included by default, for example, XML-JSON or JSON-XML conversion. Regex is another one could have been there for xpath regex related mapping. We have translation function but I'd also like to see string replacement function.
It's pretty simple, easy and straight forward method of testing using designer.
Mulesoft, Oracle SOA and WSO2
[Well suited for] Day to day business integrations mostly for all different organizations. TIBCO BusinessWorks can implement any functionality in very little amount of time.

But migrating from BusinessWorks5 to BusinessWorks6 is still a pain area. The migration tool still needs to be made more effective or else moving to the cloud (BWCE) will be tough for customers.