IBM App Connect vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

IBM and TIBCO are both solutions in the Cloud Data Integration category. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

IBM App Connect

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100% willing to recommend

TIBCO BusinessWorks

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90% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between IBM App Connect and TIBCO BusinessWorks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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IBM App Connect vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks

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Categories and Ranking

IBM App Connect

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

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Cloud Data Integration (11th)

TIBCO BusinessWorks

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

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Data Integration (14th)

Featured Reviews

Mehdi El Filahi

Co-Founder at tenekit

Offers flexible adapters, good scalability but logging can be difficult at times

There is room for improvement in the logging messages. Sometimes, if you put someone new into App Connect, they can abandon it the same day. The logging is really painful. However, IBM has made efforts to integrate with Elasticsearch for logging, so that's an improvement. Overall, the logging can be difficult at times. 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. Back in 2013, I worked with Sonic ESB, and even then, it had CI/CD with Maven. With App Connect, you need to build everything yourself when using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, or CircleCI. IBM really needs to provide official support for this.

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Moustafa Fares

Senior Analyst at Etisalat

Connects systems securely, simplifies data communication, and benefits from AI integration potential

I would like to see an AI project with BusinessWorks. I haven't worked with cloud architecture using BusinessWorks, so I would like to work with it as a cloud architect. I am still learning the documentation, so I don't have a complete experience with TIBCO. The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."

"I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's likely an adapter for that."

"It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy."

"Technical support is good."

"When using IBM stacks, IBM App Connect is suitable and integrates well with other IBM products like WebSphere."

"The most valuable feature is the security."

"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."

"Provides good security features."

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

"I work in operations, so I value BusinessWorks' performance the most."

"The most valuable part of the solution is the ease-of-use and ease of deployment."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten…On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy, I rate the initial setup a nine."

"We are using only plugins for the database and SAP."

"It is a seamless and sophisticated tool."

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

"BusinessWorks reduces development time, helping developers to focus on business logic."

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Cons

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

"IBM App Connect should improve security features."

"The product should improve its support."

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

"The user interface of IBM App Connect can be a little bit more user-friendly, I would say because the first-time developer is onboarded while using IBM App Connect, he or she may get a little intimidated or daunted looking at all the options available or the pipelines, et cetera."

"IBM needs to enhance and have a stronger offering for the event streaming part because this is the future needed for the containerization and the new integration requirement."

"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."

"It is not easy to deploy. It requires someone with a high level of knowledge in the solution to deploy it, not just anyone can do it."

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"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."

"The communication protocols could be improved."

"The creation of XSDs should be much simpler."

"Scaling with the solution is costly because if we need to scale up, we have to buy more memory. That means more money. Solutions like Camel or Pulsar come with built-in options to scale horizontally, vertically, region-wide or country-wide."

"Cloud fitness is lacking"

"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."

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

"The cost has room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The price could be better."

"App Connect is not cheap."

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

"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."

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

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

"The cost depends upon the consumer."

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

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

"The product is not cheap."

"I think BusinessWorks is more expensive compared to other products. We have the ELA, so at least we have some sort of bargain or discount with that. But for a start-up, it's very expensive compared to other ESBs."

"TIBCO BusinessWorks is expensive."

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

"The cost depends on the components required."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

54%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM App Connect?

I like the adapters. The adapters help us achieve scalability. If you want to connect to SAP, there's an adapter. Salesforce? There's an adapter. You want to connect to another system? There's like...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM App Connect?

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

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What is your primary use case for IBM App Connect?

Our company has a big project for delivery and e-commerce sites. We use IBM App Connect to deliver information to our end users after they buy our products. We get information from many places, suc...

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How does TIBCO BusinessWorks compare with Mule Anypoint Platform?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether TIBCO BusinessWorks or Mule Anypoint platform integration and connectivity software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mule...

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What do you like most about TIBCO BusinessWorks?

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

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO BusinessWorks?

Pricing is for an enterprise application, so the company pays for it with a company license. Everything comes packaged with the license.

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Overview

Rapidly connect public clouds, private clouds and on-premises application

App Connect Professional is IBM’s cloud integration offering which delivers an integration solution
• With ease-of-use, flexibility and increased responsiveness to the evolving business needs, while removing the daunting complexities of integration.
• Provides the powerful combination of a ‘simple integration experience’ for business users looking to automate how their applications talk to each other; coupled with a ‘configuration based integration’ approach for IT.
• App Connect Professional is for the teams and integration developers who need to solve more complex problems and need powerful tooling for integration scenarios

IBM

TIBCO BusinessWorks allows to connect applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud, providing proven reliability and scalability, out-of-the-box. With a drag-and-drop graphical development environment, TIBCO BusinessWorks eliminates the pain and cost of point-to-point application integration, connecting and unifying business processes across applications, data sources, and APIs, with access to real-time data across all your platforms.

TIBCO

Sample Customers

United Way of Allegheny County, Saint-Gobain CPS, Ricoh, SunTrust Banks Inc.

Euler Hermes, QSuper, Scandinavian Airlines

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IBM App Connect vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks

March 2025

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