TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) at a glance!

We are using TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) for providing various accounting services to our clients and in addition to this, we are also using TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) for providing a consolidated, single user experience for better and aligned engagements within our organization. The major scope is to benefit from the cloud features like scalability, flexibility and high availability and at the same time cater to our client needs. We really like that TIBCO Cloud Integration (including BusinessWorks and Scribe) works seamlessly with our legacy systems and with some effort we are moving in the right direction by migrating on premises services to cloud platform.

We are still working on POC and haven't integrated with other TIBCO products that we are using. However, we do have a plan to integrate TIBCO BPM Enterprise going forward. The solution is being thought and we will hope to start on the same very soon.
Little early to comment on the impact of integration on the organization but definitely it is on the cards and something we are planning for the future.

We are actively using TIBCO EMS queues and topics apart from the TIBCO BPM Enterprise dependency on TIBCO EMS. We have created workflows in TIBCO BPM and our custom front end interacts with TIBCO BPM Enterprise and TIBCO BusinessEvents (using it as a rule based engine) through TIBCO BusinessWorks. There is a parallel project going on for migration to cloud and we plan to use TIBCO Cloud Integration to achieve the cloud migration.

TIBCO BPM Enterprise is the main component for some of our current projects and it has a huge dependency in TIBCO EMS Server. Using TIBCO BPM Enterprise along with TIBCO BusinessWorks makes it easier to separate core functionality and focus on the strengths each product has to offer. TIBCO BusinessWorks sits at the center and interacts with TIBCO BPM Enterprise, TIBCO EMS and TIBCO Business Events.

We have mainly deployed the TIBCO Product suite on Linux platform which is an on-prem environment. We have some instances where we have deployed some of the TIBCO products on AWS cloud platform. Microsoft Azure is not being used as a platform for TIBCO products as of now. It is very easy to install the TIBCO products using GUI version for TCT or the TIBCO Configuration Tool. There is an option to install using command line as well.

We are happy to use to plugins available for TIBCO BusinessWorks which make it easier to get things done. The out of the box administrator available with the TIBCO products is easy to understand and helps in monitoring and managing the applications deployed. Many of us like to use the Openspace and the Workspace application which are part of the TIBCO BPM Enterprise which helps in connecting to the corporate LDAP and manage users and groups, all from a single point of contact. We have been using TIBCO BusinessWorks and TIBCO BPM Enterprise to create REST APIs for our applications.

We have been able to achieve good performance without any issues. There have been times where we had a huge number of active cases (close to a million) and there was no problem from a technical perspective. The ability to create fault tolerant and highly available environment is a great plus point. We are using active-active environment for TIBCO BPM enterprise and active-passive environment for other TIBCO products like TIBCO BusinessWorks and TIBCO EMS.

We identified the requirement for some product that offers integration with the corporate active directory or the LDAP and got to know about TIBCO BPM Enterprise. TIBCO BPM Enterprise depends heavily on database and TIBCO EMS for messaging which we were already using. TIBCO BPM provided the solution for LDAP integration and create logical groups for users and also segregate the users based on roles which made it easier to assign the work to user based on their roles and groups.