The case for BusinessWorks
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO BusinessWorks
Mainly used in the MES department for system integration. Limited use on business system level as yet, with the exception of some business systems being integrated with SAP.
Mainly used for process orchestration during integration. It allows us to use a standardized platform for building, deploying and monitoring our integration solutions.
Pros
- Platform independence, although we are using just MS Windows
- Powerful, with a great set of components (activities) available, yet also being able to customize and extend according to our needs
- Runs quite stable within deployment
Cons
- Deployed process can become quite resource intensive, with each deployment running within its own JVM
- Licensing cost is quite high
- The version we are using does not yet support newer technologies like REST and JSON natively
- It might not provide the fastest platform to roll out solutions. It takes some time learning and getting used to it.
- Standardizing our integration with SAP makes maintenance much easier
- Quite a stable platform that mostly do not require much effort once deployed
- webmethods, enterprise link and WSO2 Carbon
Each product has its unique characteristics, strengths and weaknesses. BW is not necessarily better than everything else. There are places where it shines, places where it competes well, and places where it loses out to other products.
In our case, BW was not selected to after competing against other products. In fact we still have other products running on site performing similar functions.
BW was selected to be our standard way forward due to its capability, extendibility with adapters, relative ease of use, support offering and cost.
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