SnapLogic vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

"The initial setup is very straightforward."

"An important tool for building prototypes and MVPs than can seamlessly turn into production jobs"

"The feature I found most valuable in SnapLogic is low-code development. Low-code development has been very useful for simple processes, which is required for business users such as extracting details from a file or getting things reported by calling your web service. Calling your web service also becomes easier with SnapLogic because of the snaps available, so if you have the documentation, you can call an API. You don't have to write all those clients to call an API, so that is another feature I found very easy in SnapLogic. Configuring and managing all the file systems also become very handy with the solution."

"You can use other languages, such as Python, and easily connect to other systems."

"The vendor handles the maintenance of the solution"

"SnapLogic is an IPA tool that leverages a low code environment to connect to multiple sources, extract data, and store it in Azure data lake."

"SnapLogic is a great platform for establishing integrations among various systems or patterns by using any kind of interface. If something is not supported by predefined snaps – snaps are connectors in SnapLogic – you can create them (custom snaps) or write a script."

"The solutions ability to connect "snaps" or components to the graphic user interface is very intuitive, prevents errors, and makes implementations easy."

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

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

"It is very stable. It is a market leader, and it has connectors to many of the legacy systems. It also has enterprise cloud connectors."

"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 use the solution to develop applications."

"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."

"It is a very robust system."

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

"They should expand in terms of features for SaaS-based market requirements in different sectors."

"There is room for improvement with APM management and how task execution looks."

"The dashboards regarding scheduled tasks need further improvement."

"We'd like there to be more ways for users to get more comfortable and have more experience with the solution to make it easier to use."

"The problem is that SnapLogic doesn't offer a wide variety of connectors. For example, integrating with Salesforce is not that easy."

"Connecting to data behind enterprise firewalls has been tricky."

"The support is the most important improvement they could make."

"Ultra Pipelines provides real-time ingestion but it needs some adjustment."

"I would like the solution to be integrated into the cloud."

"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."

"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."

"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 solution’s customer support should be improved."

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

"They don't support out of the box - you have to buy adapters or you have to have the technology."

"There is room for improvement on the learning side."

"The pricing is okay."

"SnapLogic is not expensive. It's reasonably priced."

"I used the free trial."

"The license model is based on consumption."

"From the ROI perspective, the price is extremely high"

"The cost with SnapLogic is an annual license and better than Informatica."

"SnapLogic's price is high compared to the other tools available in the market."

"When comparing it with solutions like Apigee or MuleSoft, it still offers better value."

"TIBCO BusinessWorks is expensive."

"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."

"Licensing scheme is too rigid"

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

"The payments made for service are the only addition to the standard licensing fees that we pay for the solution."

"The product is not cheap."

"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."

"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."