TIBCO BusinessWorks Review
October 26, 2017

TIBCO BusinessWorks Review

Denis Berretti | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO BusinessWorks

In the company we use TIBCO BusinessWorks on various projects and on various customers. We mainly use it for customers in the energy, banking, industrial sectors.

Various projects have been done to integrate systems on various platforms, such as Siebel CRM, Hoplo in Cloud, Oracle Lodestar, Sterling IBM, Filenet IBM, Salesforce.
  • TIBCO BusinessWorks works extremely efficiently with major vendor databases, including Oracle, Sysbase, PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • It is a multiplatform product, the code does not need to be recompiled on different operating systems
  • It does not require strong programming skills to learn how to use it.
  • Possibility of creating custom custom palettes for your needs
  • The ability to create archives or extract archives of various types, for example: TAR, GZ, ISO, GZIP, ZIP
  • Improve memory usage management, since being a Java Based product requires great use
  • Correction of designer bugs related to referral management, workspace runtime update.
  • The misleading use of the product
  • Product scalability and updating
  • A negative factor can be the large expense of memory required

The 5.x product is easier to use and immediately use as a business solution than version 6.x, due to the many changes to the development interface and flow management.

I've tried Red Hat's Camel Fuse product, which could be a competing product, but in terms of speed of development and processing performance, I found it slower than BusinessWorks.

Compared to Red Hat Camel, I find that the drag and drop system to be very convenient and simple.

The functionality of XPath and XQuery makes it a unique and reliable product. Handling references to mapped data is convenient.


The only problem the references of variables and mapped data to write the conditions is not always managed in the link transitions between the various palettes.

In the TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.X version, the debugger is very lumpy in terms of functionality.

In the 6.Xversion of TIBCO BusinessWorks uses the Eclipse debugger, and you can better understand any issues that may occur in the processes.The great features offered by the Eclipse debugger make it an essential part of the product to develop robust code.

TIBCO's automation, data analysis and business development products are easy to integrate with each other thanks to the features made available to make it work without the need to make configuration changes or install special libraries outside of the product itself.

An example is the TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks product that interfaces with the following products: TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM.

In my opinion, a scenario where TIBCO BusinessWorks is ideal is in the banking sector. Since
it is capable of simultaneously processing a large amount of data from
databases, and has the ability to keep active processes running for several
years.