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Will TIBCO survive ?
September 21, 2017

Will TIBCO survive ?

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO BusinessWorks

It is being used across whole organization but there will be no future investment in the technology.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • + 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.
Ease of learning and RAD development using declarative programming accelerates development but not OOTB continuous integration. Maven integration has manual deployment steps impacting the cycle time.
Good for XML. However, since XML is native to BusinesWorks, Doing JSON event enrichment & processing always needs to be converted to XML and XPATHs and XSLT applied.

TIBCO must think forward and build engines that natively support JSON for REST APIS.
Unit Testing is faster due to built in visual debugger.
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.