TIBCO BusinessWorks: the easy way to add an ESB to your company!
Updated December 06, 2019

TIBCO BusinessWorks: the easy way to add an ESB to your company!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)

TIBCO BusinessWorks is used by my company for the Enterprise Service Bus architecture. It is useful to orchestrate different kinds of services between different systems. In this way the architecture of the bus is very simple and it can be easily scalable to add other services and new development.
  • Developing Web Services
  • Map different flows
  • development simplicity
  • Settings of external variable in service palette
  • Limited use in big companies
  • Resolution of bugs
  • High scalability
  • Fewer defects than other ESB software
  • Difficult to find expert technical staff
The community support and the stability of the software are the most important points. In banking business flows, security is also very important, so is it is better to use a proprietary software instead of an open-source solution like MuleSoft Anypoint and others.
  • Price
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
  • Vendor Reputation
The vendor support is important during the first phase of using the product
  • Availabiliy
  • Good Maintenance
  • Fast support
  • In-person training
It's important to train the product with an expert for understand the software. I suggest to follow also the online documentation on the tibco web site.
TIBCO BusinessWorks is well suited for a company that must integrate different services and make it easy, which is possible only using a Enterprise Service Bus. The scenarios where it is less appropriate is when dealing with business processes, and in that case we suggest to use TIBCO BPM.

Learnings and Advice

To increase the performance of the middleware selected is important to create an efficient infrastructure.
Based on the performance expected, you can choose the best Enterprise Service Bus that adapt on your systems.

Using TIBCO Cloud Integration core features

Development environment and ease of Deployment was very simple, flexible and knowledge transfer to the other team members can be done easily. Testing and Debugging becomes very simpler.

Development environment and ease of Deployment was very simple, flexible and knowledge transfer to the other team members can be done easily. Testing and Debugging becomes very simpler.

Development environment and ease of Deployment was very simple, flexible and knowledge transfer to the other team members can be done easily. Testing and Debugging becomes very simpler.

Using TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)

  • Easy installation
  • New functions

Evaluating TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) and Competitors

TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) Support

The support is fast and it can help
ProsCons
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Not kept informed
Escalation required
Tibco supported me in a big issue with the date format on BW. It was solved in the next fix of the bw stack.

Using TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)

Development environment and ease of Deployment was very simple, flexible and knowledge transfer to the other team members can be done easily. Testing and Debugging becomes very simpler.

ProsCons
Like to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Requires technical support
Lots to learn
  • Soap Integration
  • FTP transfer
  • REST API

Integrating TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)

It'easy and fast to develop and implement a good integration
  • SAP
  • DB
  • FTP
The biggest problem is be able to 'make speak' the systems to integrate.
I mean that we are in the middle of the integration and every kind of problem is always at first on you.
  • File import/export
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)