Live fast with BusinessWorks
Updated December 10, 2019
Live fast with BusinessWorks
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)
It is used by a department for manufacturing electronic system. It keeps separate logic from implementation, making it easy for application to call services. Logging and centralization let us easily detect problems.
We use TIBCO Rendezvous protocol behind BusinessWorks
For example, we use a service to retrieve data between different systems and though different protocols (FTP, shell script...) making all transparent to clients.
- Abstraction of logic
- Robustness (very high)
- Good maintainance
- Versatility
- Usability of GUI (too many settings in too many places)
- Slow management interface
- Difficult to learn
- Robustness of the product helped keeping business running 24/7
- Good code reuse
- Big initial cost
TIBCO BusinessWorks is a more high level application. You do not have to know how to code, it has a very high flexibility and robustness. Logging is very detailed and verbose.
- We were able to integrate old systems with new frontend thanks to webservices
- Be robust thanks to fault tolerance
- In-person training
The training was good to understand all the environment, but the exercises where too easy and banal, not really a real world cases.
Using TIBCO Cloud Integration core features
Database connectors: we are plenty of legacy systems. Dozens of databases are now accessible with the APIs.
Portability: because our business runs on a mix of on-premises systems and cloud applications, we can easily work in "local", design and testing and then deploying continously in an "agile" way.
Flogo: we use realtime event driven features, to enrich static data with dynamic items.
REST APIs are around since many years but in a static manufacturing environment like ours, where management is very very reluctant to invest in new technologies, were diffucult to use. With new BusinessWorks releases, we now do everything with them, in many times faster.Again, even non IT people are able to work with data with their own favourite clients.
TIBCO is a real warranty in terms of support and robustness. We rely on them for many years, their infrastructure is fast and reliable. The possibility to speak with a single interlocutor is fundamental for the continuity of the business. critical applications can thus be moved to the cloud without hesitation. infrastructure savings allow us to work as hard as possible on the cloud.
Using TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)
- Removing all old interfaces, unix scripts, power off old servers.
- centralization of processes
- Monitoring of calls, to ensure requests are used.
TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) Support
Using TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Easy to use Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Familiar | Unnecessarily complex Requires technical support Cumbersome |
- Data mapping , database accessing is very performing and easy to maintain
- Fault tolerance / Load balancing is very robust, thanks to lower layer based on Rendezvous (or EMS)
- Thanks to the graphical flow of processes, everyone can easily understand what a given process do. Even if she is not the author and there is no documentation.
- The domain part. Joining multiple machines in a single environment. Primary/Secondary instances on BW. Too cumbersome, need to be trained.
- Installation. too many packages with similar but not configurations.
- Deployment of EAR files is still very manual.
Integrating TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe)
- Oracle DB
- rendezvous messaging
- webservices call
The integration was done in different phases. First, we tried on developing systems, then thanks to rendezvous we could stay in listening on the same subjects of the old system (a homemade script). The big effort was to certify that the new BusinessWorks process did the same things the old one did. The built-in test system is ok for testing the process but lacks some TIBCO Rendezvous simulation parts.