Simple review for TIBCO BW
November 01, 2017
Simple review for TIBCO BW
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO BusinessWorks
I used to support TIBCO BW for a retailer client. They used to use TIBCO across the whole organization, but they are switching from TIBCO to IIB. There is nothing wrong with TIBCO. The only complaint from the client was the price of the TIBCO product. Even though they might end up spending more for support on IIB, they do not seem to see it now.
- TIBCO is very easy to use. User friendly.
- Trouble shooting is very straightforward. You can figure out the issue from designer very easy.
- If something goes wrong with the process, it is easy to reprocess the data most of the time.
- TIBCO is a pretty expensive product.
- It seems like there are a lot of issues for BW 6 so far.
- The Client used it to connect to eCommerce which brings in a lot of profit.
- For a period of time, the system was using TIBCO BW and IIB. It seems BW runs better than IIB.
- TIBCO is a middle man. It can see processes between integrations which is an advantage but also a disadvantage. When something happens, another team usually comes to the TIBCO team. TIBCO team usually can help to find out the source of the issues.
The data mapping is pretty straightforward in TIBCO most of time. I have learned IBM IIB. It seems like it's more complicated to use. When using TIBCO, you only need to set up schema. After that, you can just map everything directly. As far as I know, IIB does not use schema. It would need to do extra work, if the integration needs to validate the data.
The testing in TIBCO is very clear. This is the part I like about TIBCO BW. You can find out what causes the problem very easily most of the time from the designer. I may not know IIB that well. When I learn it, I think that is way harder to find out the problem.
I have learn Mulesoft. The application seems more focused on online services. IBM IIB is a free application, but it seems you need to spend more money to support it. It might need more time to make the product more efficient and user friendly. TIBCO BW is easy to get into it. Easy to support. Only problem is price for the product also higher.