TIBCO during age of technology disruption
Updated November 27, 2018

TIBCO during age of technology disruption

Vivek Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO BusinessWorks

Having used TIBCO BusinessWorks as a developer, bug fixer, application support professional, designer, analyst for several implementations in Logistics, Transport, Telecom, Energy & Utilities, Malpractice & Insurance domain, I can bet it's one of best No Code Platforms in the current IT landscape where code management, maintenance and deployment are painful to maintain.

Pros

  • REST/JSON and SOAP support
  • JMS compliance is excellent
  • Less development time if design is well thought out and addressed well for use case

Cons

  • Better integrated testing support
  • CI support is progressing well and needs to be made more flexible and easy to integrate
  • Less number of developers required with respect to any other technology
  • Low code maintenance
  • Webmethods, Intellio and Mulesoft
Having used Webmethods, Intellio and Mulesoft, I find TIBCO BusinessWorks more stable and easy to manage. TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition looks promising for cloud and containerized environments like any other new generation product.
More stress should be on application integration than application development.

Innovation, Integration and Support

TIBCO support is really good when it comes to problem solving. Unlike open source tooling where one becomes helpless during roadblock, TIBCO ensures problem is resolved in timely manner with minimal impact on business. This offers credibility and peace of mind compared to other open source software in market
Support for all systems with pluggin/ adapter offering. TIBCO businessworks supports huge ecosystem in IT space and has been used across all verticles. Hence, the experience of dealing with such systems has brought maturity to the tool.
  • Integration with open source tooling for load balancing, high availability at entry points
  • As a data migration tool
  • Lighter layer for entry to CEP implementation
  • Monitoring within an integration tool on small capacity resources or infrastructure
  • As business layer before message processing by Kafka and integration with kafka for heavy stream of messages
  • All systems in company landscape
Integration is really good with most of systems.

TIBCO BusinessWorks Support

ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
Immediate help available
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
Not Sure - I get required support and didn't ever need to check our support contract while is likely platinum support
Yes - Yes, I use the most recent version and TIBCO facilitates us in upgrading to latest and greatest.
During Production incident which occurred due to a hardware failure, one of their most capable staff gave us timely support and we were able to solve problem without business getting affected.

Using TIBCO BusinessWorks

It can be improved further by having better editting of source code, stability of business studio. Overall, tool works great and has great functionalities to facilitate system integration, microservices implementation
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • New age microservices, Rest Implementation
  • SOA, ESB, EAI, system integration
  • Code maintainability and ease of deployment
  • Business Studio is still not at its best.
  • Studio could be better optimised like bw5, streambase
  • Administration could be improved with better support for bwagent. Support for databases for bwagent, documentation is only specific to postgress sequel
  • Editting source code is buggy in latest version like older bw5 version
No - It's not UI based tool and can be used in combination with UI based tool.

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