TIBCO during age of technology disruption
Updated November 27, 2018
TIBCO during age of technology disruption
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.
- REST/JSON and SOAP support
- JMS compliance is excellent
- Less development time if design is well thought out and addressed well for use case
- 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
TIBCO BusinessWorks is very stable and provides a lot of flexibility to developers compared to other integration technologies which need a lot of code management.
They are quite simpler and state forward to map visually compared to other integration products
It can be integrated well SOAPUI (JMS Hermes). Newer version 6.x has better testing support but can be improved. There's a trade off in new version 6.x vs 5.x for designer based testing during compile time.
- 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.
Innovation, Integration and Support
- 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
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
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
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
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.