TIBCO BusinessWorks - worth a try
August 30, 2017

TIBCO BusinessWorks - worth a try

Vivekananda Ravichandran | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO BusinessWorks

TIBCO BusinessWorks is majorly used in my project for Application Integration and Order Management. Varied applications are integrated to each other using TIBCO BusinessWorks. Also We use BusinessEvents along with BW for Order Management and Progression.

We are using the following TIBCO products:
TIBCO RV
TIBCO Hawk
TIBCO Enterprise messaging service (EMS)
TIBCO Business Events
TIBCO Designer
TIBCO Admininistrator
TIBCO JRE
Tibco JDBC plug ins
TIBCO iProcess engine

All the above TIBCO products are integrated in a cluster (basically within a network) and the communication between the softwares happens either by EMS or by RV.

Pros

  • TIBCO BW is used to host a webservice where the .NET application on the upstream will post request on to the SOAP webservice in TIBCO BW and it will be sent to downstream for processing.
  • Tibco BW is used to consume webservices from third party and get the required information and send that back to the requestor.
  • BW is also used to interact with TIBCO SmartMapper which makes our work simpler.
  • TIBCO BW can also be used with any of the messaging platforms like IBM Message Broker, Apache Kafka and many more.

Cons

  • TIBCO BW misses the Business Process Management integration within itself which would be more helpful in the case of order management.
  • BW could also have integrated monitoring within itself which would be more handy for users.
  • BW should also inculcate the EMS into itself as a single strategic software.
  • TIBCO BW has only positive impact when it comes to ROI.
  • We observe that after implementing our application with BW, it is more stable.
  • TIBCO BW negative impact is that since the license is limited to number of CPUs, it's quite hard to understand for users.
TIBCO BW is top notch when it comes to webservices implementation. It can be easily framed with BW. When it comes to different applications running on different platforms like .NET, Java and others, BW is the right choice.

Comments

  • Balachandar Ramachandran | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Balachandar Ramachandran
    commented 7 years ago
    Hi Vivekananda, This is a good article. Can the orchestration be achieved only with Business Works (BW6)? We dont have business events purchased. If you can provide some article/case study/examples on Orchestration with BW it would be helpful. Thanks & Regards
  • Balachandar Ramachandran | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Balachandar Ramachandran
    commented 7 years ago
    My mail id is: bala.kaushikh@gmail.com

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