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A Great Integration Tool
August 11, 2017

A Great Integration Tool

Ayaskant Swain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)

We use Tibco BussinessWorks (BW) version 5.13 in our organization. It is an amazing integration tool that enables us to integrate our web service platform to various heterogenous services within our company. It also helps to orchestrate the requests, responses while interacting different services. It provides a great set of connectors to connect to systems like DB, RESTful & SOAP endpoints, JMS messaging servers and the list just goes on. It also supports asynchrnous flows.This has enabled us to build a robust middleware service platform that is the backbone of our front end application. I would highly recommend Tibco BW to be used by software companies for such type of projects.
  • It provides connectors to connect to heterogenous systems/services (SOAP,REST,DB,JMS Server) without the need of writing the cumbersome any code to connect.
  • Has a nice Admin UI to deploy , undeploy & monitor the Tibco BW applications.
  • Has a great support team who help in resolving errors in the product or the application
  • Installation of BW suite of products is bit difficult. We need to do a lot of configuration form CLI. That need to be reduced.
  • Product is quite heavy weight (size). Try to make it lighter weight.
  • Make the admin console app perform faster. Currently the app deployment through this app is slow.
  • Positive Impacts - Fewer lines of code needed to be written for the integration layer even though the number of our spoke systems are high. It saved development time & resources to connect to various systems. Also Tibco BW connectors are robust & reliable.
Visual creation is very good but could be improved as in Mule (Another successful integration tool).
It is very good and at par with other integration tools like Mule. The only lagging thing is it is not as easy to install and get started faster, as can be done with Mule. Another area where Tibco BW needs immediate improvement is logging. It is not easy to add logging in BW and that makes life difficult for developers and Ops to debug errors.
Mule ESB
Scenarios where Tibco BW is well suited - If your application is a distributed application that talks to multiple heterogeneous services or systems. Also if you need asynchronous flows and re-trial of failed orders or jobs.

Less appropriate scenarios - If your application is a monolithic application with fewer integration points. If you handle fewer requests and target a small volume of customers.