IBM App Connect vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."

"Technical support is good."

"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."

"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."

"The solution is very fast-paced when it comes to making things right. We can quickly download what we need if we need any app migrations for our software business. We can download it plenty of times when we need to use it. It gives us very high speed for delivering any development."

"We use IBM App Connect for the integration between the applications."

"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."

"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."

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

"Good performance and reliability."

"The solution is stable. We haven't had any serious technical issues."

"Drag and drop make it easier to build the service end to end."

"It is a very robust system."

"Good TIBCO BusinessWorks features are the admin console and the ability to roll back to the previous version."

"The most valuable feature is the low-code platform."

"The high availability, tolerance, and load balancing features are top-notch. Its scalability features are also pretty cool."

"IBM App Connect should improve security features."

"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."

"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."

"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."

"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."

"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."

"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."

"One more important point is that if IBM improves its CI/CD capabilities, it will make a big difference. Right now, I have to create my own CI/CD setup from scratch for every client, which is inefficient."

"The Business Studio tool can be improved, which is the tool for designing the processes. Improving the Business Studio tool will make this solution more stable. It has a steep learning curve, and it is pretty tough to learn."

"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."

"Technical support is average. It's not the best."

"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."

"TIBCO BusinessWorks needs to improve its digital IDs and data processing capabilities. It will benefit small and medium businesses."

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

"I'd like to see a new cloud approach in the next release. They need to work on integrations, stability and management issues on their cloud platform."

"The creation of XSDs should be much simpler."

"IBM App Connect's pricing is high compared to other products."

"The licensing cost for IBM App Connect is very high."

"Initially, App Connect was quite expensive because the cost was based on the number of processors we used. However, it's now based on containers, which means we can be more specific about our consumption and get a better price."

"The price could be better."

"App Connect is not cheap."

"It is very expensive if we want to scale."

"The solution's pricing isn't cheap, but you can get good discounts based on your competitive deal."

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

"The solution is too expensive. It's one of the most expensive solutions out there, particularly because there are so many open-source competitors on the market. I don't know the exact numbers, however."

"The license is expensive, and I would rate it one out of ten."

"TIBCO BusinessWorks is a very expensive solution."

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

"The product is not cheap."

"My understanding is that the licensing is very costly."

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