Possibly 6.x can provide opportunity to transform, if journey from Tibco BW 5.x to leading edge products is made smooth technically as well as cost-wise
August 04, 2017
Possibly 6.x can provide opportunity to transform, if journey from Tibco BW 5.x to leading edge products is made smooth technically as well as cost-wise
Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)
Tibco BW is used as one of the core middleware components for interfacing with multiple enterprise systems within the organisation. It interfaces with outside vendors for file transfer, accessing services on the web. It also exposes services using standard protocols to internal systems.
Its used in one department.
Provides the key roles in data transfer and transformation for Market Systems of utilities industry.
- Relatively easy to develop / design the processes.
- Easy to deploy and monitor.
- Quite a few options to solve the problem to satisfy business needs and to align with policies of company.
- There is no clear path to migration to newer versions ( 6.x from 5.x) of Tibco BW. Too much risk and cost is prohibitive. This makes it difficult to use the new features and capabilities of BW.
- Licensing cost of add on components is prohibitive. There are no tangible benefits to business, but can make a huge difference to operations. Simply said IT wants it, but cost doesn't allow business to purchase these licenses.
- When the same technology stack is used, Tibco BW is generally good for new initiative. But for new add-ons, business finds it difficult to invest in technology.
- At times business sees themselves as locked-in to vendor.
- WebMethods
When I joined the organisation, it was already using Tibco so I had to use that. Mapping tools in Tibco were quite good. Some palettes were quite easy to configure.
In had little exposure to WebMethods.