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TIBCO BusinessWorks pros and cons

Vendor: TIBCO
4.1 out of 5
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PROS

Customer support is very efficient with TIBCO BusinessWorks.
TIBCO BusinessWorks offers XML to JSON transformations out-of-the-box, aiding in building REST services.
Stability and time to market are regarded as its most valuable features.
High availability, tolerance, load balancing, and scalability features are top-notch in TIBCO BusinessWorks.
The low-code platform in TIBCO BusinessWorks facilitates easy and quick service development.

CONS

TIBCO BusinessWorks should improve performance-related fixes and provide more stability, as the latest version has many issues.
The cost is deemed too expensive, especially for small to medium enterprises, making it challenging to justify the investment.
Learning TIBCO BusinessWorks presents a steep learning curve and could be more user-friendly.
Technical support is considered average, with a need for faster issue resolution and better communication.
Improvements are needed in cloud integration and scaling features.
 

TIBCO BusinessWorks Pros review quotes

Ray Ochieng - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 10, 2021
One of the most valuable features is data transformation. We have some legacy systems which are in old technology, like SOAP, whereas the new ones are in REST. So we use BusinessWorks to transform data from one format to another, from SOAP to REST.
RP
Jun 26, 2022
Good TIBCO BusinessWorks features are the admin console and the ability to roll back to the previous version.
reviewer1520868 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 4, 2021
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.
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reviewer1265133 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 30, 2020
The most valuable part of the solution is the ease-of-use and ease of deployment.
Kobie Smith - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 26, 2023
It is a very robust system.
itadmin435408 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 24, 2023
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.
reviewer1241190 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 24, 2021
One of the most valuable features is that it's a simple development. It takes a short time to get services to work.
reviewer748035 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 18, 2019
The solution is stable. We haven't had any serious technical issues.
AN
Aug 8, 2023
The initial setup of TIBCO BusinessWorks was straightforward since we have used the solution in our organization for a long time.
reviewer1456392 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 26, 2020
The most important thing is that it is easy for developers to work with.
 

TIBCO BusinessWorks Cons review quotes

Ray Ochieng - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 10, 2021
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.
RP
Jun 26, 2022
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.
reviewer1520868 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 4, 2021
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.
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reviewer1265133 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 30, 2020
The container-based image is too large and this makes auto-scaling difficult.
Kobie Smith - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 26, 2023
There is room for improvement on the learning side.
itadmin435408 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 24, 2023
Though it is a stable product, if we have an issue with the product, it gets difficult, and it gets really difficult to explain the issue to the support team. Also, it takes a long time to get resolved.
reviewer1241190 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 24, 2021
TIBCO BusinessWorks could be improved with cloud support.
reviewer748035 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 18, 2019
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.
AN
Aug 8, 2023
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.
reviewer1456392 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 26, 2020
The cost of this product is too expensive for smaller companies or those with a small number of integrations.