Data and Challenges of Data
December 14, 2022

Data and Challenges of Data

Savan Almelkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Data Virtualization

The business problem was client was having data distributed across
multiple data silos/ data sources..The data was also generated
by multiple departments / locations across the company. Since the data
was generated by multiple channels, the management was facing problem
with multiple version of same data with incomplete information. There
was need to have a single source of data , so the data can be a trusted
data and can be used across each departments with each
channel/department contributing additional info of the data. So the
company wanted to build a data lake , so as to have single source of
data for better data governance and use this data for growth of company.
To implement this there was need to connect to all the data sources of
the company which was spread in different geographic locations at on
premises and cloud. Since the data was spread across different
geographical locations in few locations data was stored in legacy
system, where there was no scope to upgrade or move the data to other
data storage. So these were critical applications where there was need to get this data without impacting the existing business which depended on this legacy systems. The standard way of getting data through
ETL was also taken into consideration, but there was lot of limitations
and disadvantages. So after analyzing all the available technologies it
was decided to implement the data virtualization which itself has lot
of benefits from technology wise and from cost wise.So the company
decided to implement TIBCO Data Virtualization as it was perfect tool
which had all the industry
standard adapters readily available to connect to cloud and on premises
data. Now after implementing TIBCO Data Virtualization, the company can
get any new data source which is implemented at their different
geographical locations into their main data lake within fraction of
time. This gives freedom for the the IT team at different geographical
location to implement their IT needs without worrying about the Data
related technologies or storage. Based on the resource availability and
IT budget the IT team can now implement or procure hardware/software where as TIBCO Data Virtualization is playing a important role of connecting to all these data source and presenting this data has single unified layer of data which is further utilized to build the data lake.
  • Connecting to different data silos and presenting the data as a singled unified layer of data.
  • Exposing data to Technical and non technical users through Web UI or reporting tools
  • Secured exposure of data as web services.
  • Row level and column level data security
  • Multi tenancy data security.
  • Real time data by connecting to the operational databases
  • Historical data generation
  • Data Catalog feature can be improved where User can also connect to external data which is not part of the Tibco DV so when required User can analyze the external data with Tibco DV Data
  • Data Discovery can also be improved where relationship between tables should automatically generated by doing sample profiling of the data.
  • For better governance of data using other tibco tools like ebx , bw , spotfire there should be adapters available which can be used to communicate with other tibco tools.
  • Implementing TIBCO DV helped organization to analyze data at border level and increase the revenue.
  • has helped organization for better decision based on the factual information of data.
  • Helped for better forecasting and predictive analytics by reducing cost and overall increasing the ROI
  • Easy access and better data governance and data security for IT Security team.
Since TIBCO Data Virtualization is not storing any data and is directly getting data from the underlying data sources there are issues of of performance, if TIBCO Data Virtualization is not implemented in proper way. Since TIBCO Data Virtualization provides multiple solutions to overcome performance related issues like Caching, Multiple Parallel Processing , Bulk Loading Processing of data and running TIBCO DV on multiple instances. Proper use of these techniques will help to overcome the problem of Performance.
Yes we are currently using the TIBCO Data Virtualization where 70% of data is on premise while 30% of data is on cloud like AWS S3 and Athena.Since the industry standard data which are published by large government agencies across world are used for bench marking are mostly stored in cloud , so as to be easily accessible. So this requires the organization to connect this data on cloud, analyze this data along with the data generated by their organization and which is stored on premises. Presently this both data as single unified layer helps the data science engineer to build data models which is very highly beneficial for the growth of organization and need of the hour.
Since TIBCO Data Virtualization can be implemented with wide range of products with other TIBCO Products so this makes TIBCO stand out from other products.

Do you think TIBCO Data Virtualization delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with TIBCO Data Virtualization's feature set?

Yes

Did TIBCO Data Virtualization live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of TIBCO Data Virtualization go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy TIBCO Data Virtualization again?

Yes

TIBCO Data Virtualization is well suited where you have a need to bring data from different data silos and also present this data as single unified layer without h storing this data in a traditional data warehouse.It also recommended ins scenarios where you need to implement data security on your data based on role or at tenancy level. Tibco Data Virtualization is recommended for organization who don't have the infrastructure or budget where they don't want to invest in huge data centers or data storage, but still want to provide single layer of unified data. TIBCO Data Virtualization is not a data warehouse and is not recommended if any organization wants to replace their existing data warehouse with data virtualization.