TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo) Utilities Reviews & Insights

Score8.9 out of 10

502 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Ease of Integration: Users consistently praise the system for its seamless integration with various systems, citing the extensive ecosystem of connectors as a key advantage that simplifies complex processes and enhances connectivity across platforms. This streamlined integration process has been highlighted by users as a time-saving feature that fosters collaboration between different applications.

Efficient Data Handling: The system's ability to handle data replication and synchronization tasks efficiently has been commended by users for streamlining operations, ensuring data accuracy, and facilitating real-time decision-making. Reviewers have specifically noted the system's capability to manage large volumes of data without compromising speed or accuracy.

User-Friendly Interface: Reviewers value the user-friendly graphical interface for its intuitive design, making it easy to navigate through different functions and customize workflows according to specific business requirements. The interactive nature of the interface allows users to easily visualize data flows and make quick adjustments, improving overall productivity and ease of use.

TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo) Reviews

5 Reviews

UtilitiesUtilities5

Not overwhelmingly pleased

Rating: 3 out of 10

Incentivized

June 10, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Scribe is being used by the sales department in our organization to synchronize data between the ERP system and the CRM system we use to make sales.

Pros

It offers standard connectors for a lot of systems.
It offers a web UI to configure processes, so no need for coding knowledge.
It allows custom connectors to be added.

Cons

The UI is clumsy. For instance, all links are javascript links which cannot be copied or opened in a new window.
The UI is horribly slow and buggy making the configuring processes tedious sometimes.
It integrates with Dynamics 365 CRM, but it can't start workflows or actions.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's good for quick and dirty integrations as its very easy to set up, but not so for very large integrations. Having a lot of maps makes the environment slow and unreliable.

Verified User

Professional in Sales (Utilities company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Ease of use Integration Process

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 6, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, my team manages TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks for many years for a good number of integration projects. It allows you to quickly and easily connect applications, with reliability and scalability. Our integration platform is made up of thousands of processes of every kind type (eg. finance, banking, assurance, energy, doc manage, etc..). We are also responsible for maintenance and updates. If the integration platform is easy to use, The project will be more scalable.

Pros

Ease of use—Integration activities
Short deployment Processes
Scalability and extensibility of Projects
Drag-and-drop graphical development environment

Cons

Energy and Utilities area: we faced situations to respond an increasing demand, and through TIBCO BusinessWorks we reduced costs and job time.
Bank Area: through TIBCO BusinessWorks we connected and unified banking business processes across applications and data sources.
Finance Area: The integration project was ready to go to production within a realistic timeframe and deploying from development to a running project went smoothly.

Likelihood to Recommend

Short deployment cycle processes are the best choice for an integration project for lots of reasons. Through TIBCO. BusinessWorks you could connect process to Database or simply Soap Request so the project will be flexible and adaptable and you can potentially adapt it to multiple activities. Of course, it is not used for long deployment running processes (see TIBCO. Active Matrix).

Sebastiano Manzella

Solution Developer in Information Technology at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa (Utilities, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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TIBCO tool is good for middle and big companies

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 27, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tibco is used to implement interfaces among different systems in different departments.

Pros

It works very well between SAP and other systems that cannot talk directly to SAP.
It can help us to increase/reduce the number of interfaces running at the same time and balancing the load between different servers in different places.

Cons

Programming is harder at the beginning since there are a lot of new concepts and tools.
The programmer needs to know how to handle xml and how to transform it.
Handling errors is not good compared with other environments. The product still needs to improve in this area.

Likelihood to Recommend

TIBCO is a very expensive tool. It needs a lot of servers with lot of resources to work well. Training is also expensive.

Luis Sanchez

Software Developer in Information Technology at OGE (Utilities, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Possibly 6.x can provide opportunity to transform, if journey from Tibco BW 5.x to leading edge products is made smooth technically as well as cost-wise

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

August 4, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Tibco BW is used as one of the core middleware components for interfacing with multiple enterprise systems within the organisation. It interfaces with outside vendors for file transfer, accessing services on the web. It also exposes services using standard protocols to internal systems.

Its used in one department.

Provides the key roles in data transfer and transformation for Market Systems of utilities industry.

Pros

Relatively easy to develop / design the processes.
Easy to deploy and monitor.
Quite a few options to solve the problem to satisfy business needs and to align with policies of company.

Cons

There is no clear path to migration to newer versions ( 6.x from 5.x) of Tibco BW. Too much risk and cost is prohibitive. This makes it difficult to use the new features and capabilities of BW.
Licensing cost of add on components is prohibitive. There are no tangible benefits to business, but can make a huge difference to operations. Simply said IT wants it, but cost doesn't allow business to purchase these licenses.

Likelihood to Recommend

When guaranteed delivery of messages are required to one of more systems, Tibco BW suite of applications can be very useful. Many times the end systems are down, but when these systems are back; business wants these messages to be delivered to the end system as a normal message.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (Utilities company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

TIBCO BusinessWorks Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 21, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

TIBCO BusinessWorks is being used by IT division for application integration at Denver Water Utilities.

Pros

Application data Integration batch/real-time
Web service
Very quick time to market and ROI. Development time is very fast.

Cons

Migration to BusinessWorks 6 from BusinessWorks 5 is a real challenge to date.
As Rest services take a lot of space nowadays BusinesWorks 5 should include a rest plugin by default. Customers are not willing to pay extra for that.
Another thing is SFTP. BusinessWorks must include SFTP activity as well in version 5.
JDBC Query, or update or SQL direct should have the place to use multiple JDBC connections dynamically. For example, if I have multiple databases that have the same table structure to query, I want to write a single JDBC query and loop through different databases. Currently I'm achieving that using Java code (extra coding effort, extra time consuming).

Likelihood to Recommend

[Well suited for] Day to day business integrations mostly for all different organizations. TIBCO BusinessWorks can implement any functionality in very little amount of time.

But migrating from BusinessWorks5 to BusinessWorks6 is still a pain area. The migration tool still needs to be made more effective or else moving to the cloud (BWCE) will be tough for customers.

Sandip Banerjee

Sr Tibco consultant in Information Technology at Denver Water (Utilities, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

13 years of experience

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