Oracle SOA Suite vs. TIBCO BusinessEvents

In comparison to Open source products like Apache Camel and Mule ESB, Oracle ESB is more robust and offers better enterprise capabilities. However, the licensing costs are fairly prohibitive and are preventing widespread product adoption. At our university, we had already purchased the Oracle Campus Solutions ERP suite and hence had little problems integrating their OSB as well.

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BusinessEvents is not very well suited for Cloud native solutions, but it is suitable for traditional enterprise self-maintained data center deployment. And it gives the business the power to define/modify/update the business rules, in a visualized way, instead of asking IT team to maintain them. Generally speaking it is a very comprehensive rule engine solution, but not suitable for "hook on" some other complex computation/data processing logic

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• It is lightweight and one can easily integrate with different applications, databases, JMS, or Web services through different protocols.
• It helps in building reusable, well-defined services.

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• Business users have the capability of changing rules dynamically without downtime in the application.
• Real-time processing capability decreases latency and increases the efficiency of the features developed in TIBCO BE.
• Capability of caching the data as well as managing it as an independent entity as TIBCO Active Spaces is a huge addition.

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• Service implementation is not agile like microservices.
• The architecture is so complex and could result in higher latency with so many layers to traverse.
• Deployment of multiple web services in one session

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• We had to write our own business rules interface that matched how our previous systems operated. Web Studio has gone through some great changes but in that time we have made a decision to move to Kafka, Kinesis, and Spark for our events streaming solution in AWS.
• We did not modify our business process flow to take advantage of BE. If you are not truly running an adaptive business process effort, then BE could be overkill.

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We have had not many issues with Oracle Service Bus and it's very stable for our requirements. It's highly available and helps us implement Tier1 applications on it.

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It's an excellent enterprise service bus and has very stable features. We have been using it since 2008. We did hit into some issues. But, recreating the service helped fix many issues. Also, deployment to various environments was easy. Also, the plugin on Eclipse helps to build proxy and business services quick and easy.

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We had some issues with MQ connectivity through OSB and our experience was poor with the support team. They do respond. But, it felt like we are ignored and we had bad support. We had to escalate and things used to get dragged for weeks before we get more quality questions on how to pursue investigation.

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Mule ESB is an open source tool and would definitely cost less, however is not as sophisticated a product for the business functionality we need at US Cellular.. I have reviewed IBM WebSphere Message Broker, is very cumbersome and not very user friendly. Despite some of the license cost concerns, Oracle Service Bus stands out as an ideal Enterprise Service Bus solution at US Cellular

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Drools is an open source alternative for CEP solutions, that provides a business rules engine. Unfortunately it comes without support, while the TIBCO support for BusinessEvents is very efficient. Additionally, TIBCO BusinessEvents suite provides several additional components that could satisfy many requirements, and it can be integrated with existing TIBCO stack, giving great interoperability with other TIBCO products. As well as could be used in stand alone way.

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• We were able to increase efficiency in our lead generation process.
• Improved data driven decisions.
• Reduction in processing time by aligning resources on time.

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• Positive: dashboard is very informative and extremely powerful
• Negative: we need to have more capability for data integration - OR for prototyping data integration and analytics, without resorting to something complex and big like StreamBase (which is truly amazing) but requires too much specific knowledge for industrial application. something easier to learn would be great. for example, I was able to learn KNIME and prototype a solution in a week. But StreamBase is too complex.

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