Item: TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO BusinessWorks

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I think that TIBCO BusinessWorks is very useful to make strong and easy integration. Actually, we use TIBCO BusinessWorks to integrate different systems and clients that use different technologies, you can use alot of communication types, like EMS QUE and TOPIC, Web Services SOAP, and HTTP services. In some cases, we also used very useful adapter services like ADSAP, ADB, and ADFILE.

Pros and Cons

Pros

TIBCO is easy to use and understandable even for people with little experience in programming
Possibility to integrate different technologies and platforms
You can create applications (even as uilities) in less time than a complex programming language

Cons

Some add-ons might be easier to find (e.g. plugin rest for TIBCO BW 5.9)
The possibility to cancel the last actions performed (such as CTRL + Z)

Training Types Used

In-person training

I'm not very happy with this type of training because usually, the material to be studied is so much and because of the short time you can not understand and do experiments to apply and test better what has been explained. However, I have seen many interesting things that could increase my programming possibilities.

Return on Investment

Simplicity and convenience when developing applications with intuitive interface
Costs for some plugins to be purchased for some types of communication that are not accepted by customers by requiring us to change protocols or use custom Java

Alternatives Considered

IIB and IBM Sterling Connect:Direct

Tibco BusinessWorks was the first integration product I've seen and used despite having seen others. I think it is one of the most complete integration software. We used TIBCO since it is more user-friendly, easier to use and configure, it makes it developing faster and more intuitive applications even without having much experience as a programmer.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would use TIBCO in streams where it is important to keep information. Thanks to the use of checkpoints, in case of communication errors (momentary unavailability), you can recover the processes and resume processing without loss of data. TIBCO is also useful in case of database extraction for many records - thanks to the "subset" it is possible to process large amounts of data with simplicity. I would not use TIBCO for simple file transfers (e.g. Connect Direct or SFTP) as plugins for these types of communication often are to be found separately (and at an extra cost).

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