Azure Data Factory vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

"The most valuable feature is the ease in which you can create an ETL pipeline."

"An excellent tool for pipeline orchestration."

"Azure Data Factory's most valuable features are the packages and the data transformation that it allows us to do, which is more drag and drop, or a visual interface. So, that eases the entire process."

"ADF is another ETL tool similar to Informatica that can transform data or copy it from on-prem to the cloud or vice versa. Once we have the data, we can apply various transformations to it and schedule our pipeline according to our business needs. ADF integrates with Databricks. We can call our Databricks notebooks and schedule them via ADF."

"It's cloud-based, allowing multiple users to easily access the solution from the office or remote locations. I like that we can set up the security protocols for IP addresses, like allow lists. It's a pretty user-friendly product as well. The interface and build environment where you create pipelines are easy to use. It's straightforward to manage the digital transformation pipelines we build."

"On the tool itself, we've never experienced any bugs or glitches. There haven't been crashes. Stability has been good."

"Data Factory's best feature is the ease of setting up pipelines for data and cloud integrations."

"For me, it was that there are dedicated connectors for different targets or sources, different data sources. For example, there is direct connector to Salesforce, Oracle Service Cloud, etcetera, and that was really helpful."

"Areas for improvement would be the cloud fitness of the product and the ease of migrating to newer versions."

"The OSGI console is available to debug different issues and get low level informations on the applications development, like bundle, dependencies, etc."

"One of the most valuable features is that it's a simple development. It takes a short time to get services to work."

"It is a very robust system."

"The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us."

"I like TIBCO BusinessWorks because it has a user-friendly GUI for developing solutions."

"Customer support is very efficient."

"XML to JSON transformations, out-of-the-box, helps to build REST services."

"The product's technical support has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."

"The user interface could use improvement. It's not a major issue but it's something that can be improved."

"The solution can be improved by decreasing the warmup time which currently can take up to five minutes."

"Some known bugs and issues with Azure Data Factory could be rectified."

"There is room for improvement primarily in its streaming capabilities. For structured streaming and machine learning model implementation within an ETL process, it lags behind tools like Informatica."

"The main challenge with implementing Azure Data Factory is that it processes data in batches, not near real-time. To achieve near real-time processing, we need to schedule updates more frequently, which can be an issue. Its interface needs to be lighter."

"We are too early into the entire cycle for us to really comment on what problems we face. We're mostly using it for transformations, like ETL tasks. I think we are comfortable with the facts or the facts setting. But for other parts, it is too early to comment on."

"User-friendliness and user effectiveness are unquestionably important, and it may be a good option here to improve the user experience. However, I believe that more and more sophisticated monitoring would be beneficial."

"A possible improvement could be to give the capability to use different profiles for each AppNode when an application is deployed on an AppSpace."

"There are multiple plugins which increase the number of product installations."

"Could be more user friendly in the development area."

"The initial setup is not easy."

"Improve Business Studio's stability to further minimize development time."

"Its price can be improved. For medium enterprises, it is a very expensive tool. In the market, you won't get many resources for this solution. You won't find many developers in the market very easily. The latest version of TIBCO (6.4 or 6.x) is not very stable. It has got many issues. We have raised this with TIBCO, and they are taking a lot of time to come up with a fix, which is making us move away from this product. Some of the performance-tuning aspects are also missing in version 6. They should provide performance-related fixes, which will be helpful for the customers. If you are migrating from the current version to the container-supported version, it is quite expensive. The product has evolved, but it is very pricey. That's one of the challenges. They have provided all the features that are there in other products, but this is a platform upgrade. The platform has completely been changed from 5.x to 6.x, and we can't use the same environment. We can't run both versions on the same server as VM. The development environment is entirely different. In version 5.x, there was a proprietary designer. Now, it has common plug-ins developed on top of Eclipse."

"The cost has room for improvement."

"The technical support's turnaround time is an area where TIBCO needs to consider improvements...Getting support from TIBCO on a particular issue takes a lot of turnaround time."

"This is a cost-effective solution."

"The price you pay is determined by how much you use it."

"Our licensing fees are approximately 15,000 ($150 USD) per month."

"I rate the product price as six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"Pricing appears to be reasonable in my opinion."

"ADF is cheaper compared to AWS."

"The licensing model for Azure Data Factory is good because you won't have to overpay. Pricing-wise, the solution is a five out of ten. It was not expensive, and it was not cheap."

"The price is fair."

"TIBCO licensing is yearly and very costly for a company like ours."

"The product is not cheap."

"The cost depends on the components required."

"I give the cost of the solution a four out of ten."

"It is a bit expensive for medium-sized companies. If you are migrating from the current version to the container-supported version, it is quite expensive. The existing licensing will not work because the product platform itself is different."

"I don't have the prices of the products, but I know that TIBCO is not a cheap solution. I think that this solution is more suitable for large companies because I don't think that small- or medium-sized companies would have the money for this solution. WSO2 has the community version for free, so many of the smaller companies can use it. I'm not sure what the prices are for support, though, so I suppose the support for WSO2 is not cheap either."

"I would rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"Licensing scheme is too rigid"