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Informatica PowerCenter vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Informatica PowerCenter
Ranking in Data Integration
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
80
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (8th)
TIBCO BusinessWorks
Ranking in Data Integration
15th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Informatica PowerCenter is 10.9%, up from 10.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO BusinessWorks is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Lars Borchers - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 4, 2023
A stable and reliable product that provides a variety of features for data integration
We use the product for everything that's possible in data integration. We have a data warehouse, and we load each stage. We use the product for data exchange and API services. We also use it to load data into cloud platforms and generate Customer Letters The reliability of the product and the way…
Choon Hwa Khoh - PeerSpot reviewer
May 16, 2024
A java based platform, which is used for application integration and has a user-friendly GUI
TIBCO BusinessWorks is used as middleware for us I like TIBCO BusinessWorks because it has a user-friendly GUI for developing solutions. The palette offers a wide range of activities, making it easy to configure and drop activities into the solution. I haven't encountered any drawbacks with…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The technical support for Informatica PowerCenter is good."
"The interface is very clean and clear."
"What I like most about Informatica PowerCenter is that it's the best tool in the market for data integration. Currently, I work in L'Oréal, where a new system from SAP is used. Informatica PowerCenter integration with SAP is very, very fast and very, very simple, so you have the server flow from SAP, and through Informatica PowerCenter, you can ingest the data and make that data available for the business more quickly."
"The most valuable feature of Informatica PowerCenter is data transformation and user-friendliness."
"It's very easy to use it to develop mappings and workflows."
"The setup is very simple."
"It reduces a lot of legacy coding."
"Easy, scalable, robust platform to integrate heterogeneous source platform's data into the unified data warehouse."
"The most valuable part of the solution is the ease-of-use and ease of deployment."
"The tool's most valuable feature is BusinessConnect. It's an older product but still quite useful, especially for transferring files from one location to another."
"The solution is very scalable. It can handle a lot. We have encryption plus integration servers running on that platform currently."
"Customer support is very efficient."
"I work in operations, so I value BusinessWorks' performance the most."
"The most valuable features are the stability and the time to market."
"Good performance and reliability."
"We use the solution to develop applications."
 

Cons

"Integrated Reporting service should be more smoothly transitioned from view to function to be in sync with the main design."
"There is some room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"PowerCenter could integrate better with cloud applications. We had to do a lot of configuration work using API integrations to connect with cloud applications. Informatica Cloud Data Integration has a generic connector that you can use directly, so it's much easier."
"Include more instruments for LOGs analysis, interpretation, and job corrections."
"The licensing cost for Informatica is very high. Other all-in-one solutions have much lower prices than Informatica."
"Now they are migrating to a new version, and they have something that is called Informatica Developer. Previously, they just had PowerCenter. Now, when they move everything to Informatica Developer it's not as good or stable like it was when it was PowerCenter, though it has some nice features. This Developer tool could be better."
"The solution's commercial cost is very high. Other open-source tools can do the tool's functions for free. The world is moving to the cloud, but the solution hasn't updated its drivers. I presume that its downfall will start soon. The tool is trying to cross-sell or upsell without helping customers derive benefits from the existing products. They have multiple tools and licenses. It is better to bring the smaller tools in one umbrella."
"Integration with Artificial Intelligence would benefit this solution."
"Challenges with TIBCO BusinessWorks were mainly due to unclear documentation, but these were overcome by referring to comprehensive documents and raising tickets with TIBCO support."
"They don't support out of the box - you have to buy adapters or you have to have the technology."
"Cloud fitness is lacking"
"The container-based image is too large and this makes auto-scaling difficult."
"This solution's cloud could be improved. I don't know whether it was because we didn't have the internal expertise or if it was the product itself, but since they came later—I think only two or three years into the cloud—after many other iPaaS that had been in the cloud for longer, I feel that maybe they haven't matured in terms of the cloud."
"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 of this product is too expensive for smaller companies or those with a small number of integrations."
"There are not many plugins available to integrate the databases. We have to write it in Java and integrate it. The developers should have more knowledge. These are the three main aspects that they could improve."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are satisfied with the pricing."
"The pricing is a little expensive, but in the same range as IBM and other competitors."
"Our customers pay a licensing fee yearly."
"Its maintenance is expensive."
"I consider this to be an expensive product."
"The price of Informatica PowerCenter is expensive, but it does give value."
"I am not sure about the most recent price, but I think it should be $100,000 or more."
"We have a site license, but we do pay by the division."
"The license is expensive, and I would rate it one out of ten."
"TIBCO BusinessWorks is expensive."
"TIBCO licensing is yearly and very costly for a company like ours."
"I would rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."
"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."
"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."
"Licensing scheme is too rigid"
"Its price policy has changed quite a lot in the last two years. It was extremely expensive previously. Nowadays, you can buy a license for BusinessWorks for €2000. Looking at what you get in return in terms of support, TIBCO community, and stability, it is fairly reasonable. It is not too expensive."
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Comparison Review

it_user90069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 20, 2014
Informatica PowerCenter vs. Microsoft SSIS - each technology has its advantages but also have similarities
Technology has made it easier for businesses to organize and manipulate data to get a clearer picture of what’s going on with their business. Notably, ETL tools have made managing huge amounts of data significantly easier and faster, boosting many organizations’ business intelligence operations…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Insurance Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about TIBCO BusinessWorks?
The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO BusinessWorks?
TIBCO BusinessWorks is a very expensive solution. Four years ago, we purchased four products with a two-course for 20 million dollars. This is a perpetual license.
 

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Sample Customers

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, LexisNexis, Rabobank
Euler Hermes, QSuper, Scandinavian Airlines
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