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Good Job Tibco BW
October 26, 2017

Good Job Tibco BW

Domenico Bellifemine | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO BusinessWorks

TIBCO is used to integrate a very large number of streams, which have a sender and recipient both internal and external to the business client.

The software used is TIBCO BusinessWorks and more precisely streams are integrated with EMS, Web Services and Files, for customers in the energy and banking sectors.
  • Flexibility as it is possible to customize flows for any need
  • Compatibility with a large number of drivers
  • Highly customizable
  • SFTP - currently TIBCO has no palette for performing SFTP operations. We have to write custom Java code which does the SFTP operations and then call the Java code from TIBCO.
  • Cloud interaction is not that well explored while using TIBCO BusinessWorks, BC and adapters etc.
  • The RESTful + JSON support is still not too perfect.
  • Customization translates into a large number of implementation streams
  • Code higly readability through the designer, useful for reverse engineer
  • Simplified and readable logging for AM operations
The designer of BusinessWorks 5 is very useful and efficient even though with some bugs in the environment. Such ease of implementation becomes necessary if there are a lot of streams to be developed and many fewer people than they are dealing with. Unlike BW 6 where deployment difficulty is more pronounced.
I've seen other software such as IBM Integration Bus, IBM sterling, SAP integration tools, and none of them have such a high customization of the integrative flow. BusinessWorks, from my point of view, is better than those listed so far. though there are some conditions for which some features are more useful by leveraging IBM Sterling.

TIBCO BusinessWorks 5 has a very simple and useful testing phase unlike the BW 6 where the testing is very tricky. Logging using breakpoints is still very useful as each palette allows you to see in real time the data transmitted in input or output of the palettes to the designer. The testing phase on IBM Sterling for example does not allow you to see all the steps of file transfer and this results in a more complicated debugging phase


The Business Need is to use many customizable technologies to take full advantage of the product, so this business logic lends itself well to using BusinessWorks thanks to its flexibility and customization.
Integration is maximized by leveraging all the components of the product.
PBM ActiveMatrix does not lend itself well to the project, so it is not used in this area


Tibco BusinessWorks is very useful for most integration flows, which are basically used by this product in a very comprehensive way, covering many areas of influence. In my domain I try to exploit the software by leveraging all of its potentialities such as EMS, WebService, file transfers via FTP / SFTP or its various oracle database interfaces. Many other integration software products are not so complete and customizable.