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."It has an efficient design flow."
"Very scalable, flexible, and user-friendly."
"There is a friendly interface for configuration, and integration is made easy."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendliness of the application."
"It's a powerful application for collaboration. It has many features for customization and integration."
"I would say that the most valuable feature is the array of connectors and integration tools."
"App Connect's best feature is that it can be deployed in a container."
"The most important thing is that it is easy for developers to work with."
"Good performance and reliability."
"It is user friendly, it's not complex."
"Areas for improvement would be the cloud fitness of the product and the ease of migrating to newer versions."
"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."
"The Business Studio interface based on SCA Standards helps to show the business logic at first look and improve code maintenance."
"The OSGI console is available to debug different issues and get low level informations on the applications development, like bundle, dependencies, etc."
"One of the most valuable features is that it's a simple development. It takes a short time to get services to work."
"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."
"IBM App Connect should improve security features."
"The setup time for App Connect could be improved."
"The product should improve its support."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"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."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"The installation of containers could be simplified, as it currently requires a senior-level installer."
"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."
"The container-based image is too large and this makes auto-scaling difficult."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"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."
"The cost of this product is too expensive for smaller companies or those with a small number of integrations."
"There are multiple plugins which increase the number of product installations."
"I would like the solution to be integrated into the cloud."
"Technical support is average. It's not the best."
IBM App Connect is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Integration with 20 reviews while TIBCO BusinessWorks is ranked 18th in Data Integration with 23 reviews. IBM App Connect is rated 8.2, while TIBCO BusinessWorks is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM App Connect writes "Very flexible and user-friendly; embeds with other technologies; no dependency on queue manager". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO BusinessWorks writes "Reliable integration solution with robust communication capabilities and good scalability". IBM App Connect is most compared with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, Mule Anypoint Platform, webMethods Integration Server, IBM InfoSphere DataStage and SAP Process Orchestration, whereas TIBCO BusinessWorks is most compared with webMethods Integration Server, Mule Anypoint Platform, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Confluent and TIBCO Spotfire. See our IBM App Connect vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks report.
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