Item: TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Rating: 4
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO BusinessWorks

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used across whole organization but there will be no future investment in the technology.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Rapid application development and ease of learning. It is well documented
Rich Plugin ecosystem. Natively supports XSD/XML
Stable Monitoring Solutions e.g Hawk, ActiveAspects.
Case Studies and references available. Widely used across various domains.

Cons

Quality of support has deteriorated.
Licensing costs are high. Lot of customers have opted out for this reason
Unlike in the past, I have not heard of any TIBCO folks working to define open standards, specifications etc. In the past, Paul Brown was a known name in this area.
Except for BW ESB, remaining products have not done well: For example AMXSG, BPM
TIBCO Mashery was a good addition to the portfolio but unfortunately TIBCO was late in integrating it in their offering and fell behind in the race.

Return on Investment

+ Low cycle time due to RAD and ease of learning
+ Resilient and Reliable
- License cost is an issue. TIBCO must retain existing customers and there seems to be something wrong with the positioning in recent years
It is missing the innovation to be a competitor in integration space. There is no clear strategy and roadmap.

Alternatives Considered

integration manager and Oracle Fusion

More intuitive, stable, rich and easy-to-learn compared to TIBCO IM.

RAD application development and requires minimal knowledge of Java to get to medium expertise level.

BW 5.11 is suitable for EAI and SOA integrations integrating legacy applications. This is precisely why existing TIBCO customers are retaining BusinessWorks, but not for long.

BW 5.11 is less appropriate for micro-services with Docker containerization, REST API development, JSON (due to native XML processing). Also continuous integration is not available out-of-the-box.

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Hitesh Nembhwani
(Vendor Representative) commented 8 years ago
Hello, I’m Hitesh Nembhwani from TIBCO and we really appreciate your valuable feedback. Few points that might help you: - Re. Containerization, Micro-services and JSON support for REST APIs: - have you had a chance to try out or take a look at BusinessWorks Container Edition? (since you’ve referred BW 5.11 version) - If no, you can register for a bi-weekly demo here - https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-businessworks - self learning videos available on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnmoGGHHJldjn3umpkxVncBvsvzcezuK3 - REST guide is also shipped with the product and you can read more about it here https://docs.tibco.com/pub/bwce/2.3.1/doc/pdf/TIB_bwce_2.3.1_REST_reference.pdf - Re. Maven Support: - there’s an open source Maven plugin available on GitHub - https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/bw6-plugin-maven. - quite a few customers have been using the Maven plugin successfully today. - Re. roadmap, licensing concerns and innovation at TIBCO: - could you please share your contact details on bwcesurvey@tibco.com and our team can work with you closely to understand your Integration use-cases and suggest a path forward? - there’s so much going on at TIBCO including Project Flogo, TIBCO Cloud Integration - we definitely need to catch up with you to talk more on the innovations and the fun stuff coming up. Thank you for the feedback and looking forward to hear back from you.

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