TIBCO Good SW easy to use
December 06, 2018

TIBCO Good SW easy to use

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

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO BusinessWorks

We have a specilized unit with deep knowledge of the whole Tibco's Suite.

We use it to implement mostly the middleware/Integration layer of the clients IT infrastructure.

Pros

  • The strength of Tibco is that it can be easly used by someone who never wrote a line of code. Obviously everything you do with BusinessWorks you can do with Java, but having a Software that can make invisible most of the problems of OOP and can be used just with drag and drop make it easier to teach.
  • I think that for SOA Services is one of the best Integration SW. It can easly handle every kind of comunication.
  • There are many plugins, one for every needs.

Cons

  • I think that it should better implement a test suite. Maybe someting for UnitTest
  • Make the IDE (BW Studio) more customizable
  • Online training
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught
I'm a very good learner and I don't think that my experience in learning is a good standard of comparison.
What i can say is that when i had to teach to other colleagues it was very easy. And i consider that the First strength of the product.
  • I cannot answer because my role do not include review of business objectives
Yes for sure Tibco visual mode is very useful and speed up every integration develop.
Comparing it with other technologies it is much better and easy to use.

The only problem is that sometimes, to avoid some bugs or some features that are not implemented yet, we should use java or other sw as workaround. Instead it could be better to have the possibilities of customize the sw under tibco itself.
It is the easiest to use.
I've tried many WSO2, JBoss Fuse, Software AG. Nothing compared to TIBCO.

Off course for a programmer used to write tons of line code, have it substituted with palettes and datamapping can be difficult to accept at the begin.

But what I use to say is: A good programmer will create good Tibco SW if he forget that is not writing code but continue to apply every practice he learned in programming.
The integration test are very easy to perform.
I do not see any problems. As i said in the some questions ago, I should consider to improve the 'unit test' part.
Many Clients prefer TIBCO because its solid background and very good support team.
As I said, in my experience (I've tried different competitors SW) TIBCO is the best suited SW for SOA integration.

Nowaday the business is moving to a different vision of integration and it's moving from SOA to Microservices.
In this field, TIBCO still have to improve even if with the Container Edition the trend is good.

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