We performed a comparison between TIBCO BusinessWorks and webMethods Integration Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Integration solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the low-code platform."
"Areas for improvement would be the cloud fitness of the product and the ease of migrating to newer versions."
"I work in operations, so I value BusinessWorks' performance the most."
"It is a very robust system."
"The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us."
"The high availability, tolerance, and load balancing features are top-notch. Its scalability features are also pretty cool."
"XML to JSON transformations, out-of-the-box, helps to build REST services."
"The solution is very scalable. It can handle a lot. We have encryption plus integration servers running on that platform currently."
"Ease of implementation and flexibility to hold the business logic are the most valuable features."
"It integrates well with various servers."
"The product is very stable."
"From a user perspective, the feature which I like the most about Integration Server is its designer."
"Best feature is Insight for monitoring, and as a debugging tool. It has saved us a lot of time during crisis situations."
"Application integrations are offered out-of-the-box, and that is extremely important to us. This is one of the main use cases that we have for it. It is about 60 to 70 percent of the workload in our application today."
"The stability is good."
"The synchronous and asynchronous messaging system the solution provides is very good."
"A possible improvement could be to give the capability to use different profiles for each AppNode when an application is deployed on an AppSpace."
"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."
"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 communication protocols could be improved."
"Technical support is average. It's not the best."
"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."
"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."
"They don't support out of the box - you have to buy adapters or you have to have the technology."
"This product is for larger companies. Compared to TIBCO I think webMethods is better in terms of ease of use and support."
"It could be more user-friendly."
"This solution could be improved by offering subscription based licensing."
"Documentation needs tuning. There is a lot of dependency with SoftwareAG. Even with the documentation at hand, you can struggle to implement scenarios without SAG’s help. By contrast, IBM’s documentation is self-explanatory, in my opinion."
"Rapid application development has to be considered, especially for UI, where user interference is crucial."
"We'd like for them to open up to a more cloud-based solution that could offer more flexibility and maybe a better rules engine or more integration with rules engines."
"Technical support is an area where they can improve."
"This is a great solution and the vendor could improve the marketing of the solution to be able to reach more clients."
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TIBCO BusinessWorks is ranked 17th in Data Integration with 23 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. TIBCO BusinessWorks is rated 8.0, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of TIBCO BusinessWorks writes "Reliable integration solution with robust communication capabilities and good scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". TIBCO BusinessWorks is most compared with Mule Anypoint Platform, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Talend Open Studio, IBM App Connect and Confluent, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, Boomi iPaaS and Oracle Service Bus. See our TIBCO BusinessWorks vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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