Confluent vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

The compared Confluent and TIBCO solutions aren't in the same category. Confluent is ranked #6 in SA , with an average rating of 7.5, and holds a 6.6% mindshare in the category. TIBCO is ranked #20 in DI , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Confluent users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

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TIBCO BusinessWorks

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91% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Confluent and TIBCO BusinessWorks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Confluent

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Streaming Analytics (6th)

TIBCO BusinessWorks

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (20th)

Mindshare comparison

Confluent and TIBCO BusinessWorks aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Confluent is designed for Streaming Analytics and holds a mindshare of 6.6%, down 8.2% compared to last year.
TIBCO BusinessWorks, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 1.0% mindshare, down 1.1% since last year.

Streaming Analytics Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Confluent	6.6%
Apache Flink	8.9%
Databricks	8.1%
Other	76.4%

Streaming Analytics

Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
TIBCO BusinessWorks	1.0%
SSIS	3.7%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	3.6%
Other	91.7%

Data Integration

Featured Reviews

PavanManepalli

AVP - Sr Middleware Messaging Integration Engineer at Wells Fargo

Has supported streaming use cases across data centers and simplifies fraud analytics with SQL-based processing

I recommend that Confluent should improve its solution to keep up with competitors in the market, such as Solace and other upcoming tools such as NATS. Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about Confluent charging high fees while not offering features that match those of other tools. They need to improve in that direction by not only reducing costs but also providing better solutions for the problems customers face to avoid frustrations, whether through future enhancement requests or ensuring product stability. The cost should be worked on, and they should provide better solutions for customers. Solutions should focus on hierarchical topics; if a customer has different types of data and sources, they should be able to send them to the same place for analytics. Currently, Confluent requires everything to send to the same topic, which becomes very large and makes running analytics difficult. The hierarchy of topics should be improved. This part is available in MQ and other products such as Solace, but it is missing in Confluent, leading many in capital markets and trading to switch to Solace. In terms of stability, it is not the stability itself that needs improvement but rather the delivery semantics. Other products offer exactly-once delivery out of the box, whereas Confluent states it will offer this but lacks the knobs or levers for tuning configurations effectively. Confluent has hundreds of configurations that application teams must understand, which creates a gap. Users are often unaware of what values to set for better performance or to achieve exactly-once semantics, making it difficult to navigate through them. Delivery semantics also need to be worked on.

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Vinod_Parmar

Lead Solutions Architect at UNSW Australia

Long-term integration has supported real-time data exchange and simplified adapter-based workflows

The challenges I have faced with TIBCO BusinessWorks mostly relate to financial applications that do not come with those adapters, so that requires custom coding. The features currently in TIBCO BusinessWorks are good enough, but going forward, as we are doing a lot of AI-based integrations, I would like to see TIBCO come up with more prompt-driven configurations rather than people having to understand deep technology. AI-driven features in TIBCO BusinessWorks would be beneficial, so that our business tech BA can do the development rather than needing programmers. More artificial intelligence functionality would help so people do not have to code.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Some of the best features are that it's very quick to set up, very easy to have a centralized area that gives us a history of changes, and the ability to give feedback on any information placed onto the pages."

"Having used SharePoint in the past, when I compare with traditional, old document repositories, like SharePoint, I would definitely recommend Confluent."

"Confluent is an amazing tool that is highly configurable, integrates very well with Jira, and lets you create nice documentation for various products while also supporting reporting and online content hosting."

"We primarily use Confluent for service desk and task management, and it is also good for knowledge base management."

"The benefit is escaping email communication. Sometimes people ignore emails or put them into spam, but with Confluence, everyone sees the same text at the same time."

"One of the best features of Confluent is that it's very easy to search and have a live status with Jira."

"Implementing Confluent's schema registry has significantly enhanced our organization's data quality assurance."

"With Confluent Cloud we no longer need to handle the infrastructure and the plumbing, which is a concern for Confluent. The other advantage is that all portfolios have access to the data that is being shared."

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"TIBCO 6 is richer in terms of integration technology and has more modern architecture."

"We are using only plugins for the database and SAP."

"It is very valuable for my work, helping me communicate with other branches, parse data, and change data formats to respond to the front channels with the correct format."

"It is a seamless and sophisticated tool."

"The Business Studio interface based on SCA Standards helps to show the business logic at first look and improve code maintenance."

"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 seamless and sophisticated tool, we can operate everything and scale up and down the instances, and it is also very user-friendly with a good overall experience."

"One of the most valuable features is that it's a simple development. It takes a short time to get services to work."

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Cons

"I am not very impressed by Confluent. We continuously face issues, such as Kafka being down and slow responses from the support team."

"Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about Confluent charging high fees while not offering features that match those of other tools."

"The solution could have an extra plugin or upgrading feature. In addition, it could have more integration with different platforms and be more compatible."

"The pricing model should include the ability to pick features and be charged for them only."

"Currently, in the early stages, I see a gap on the security side. If you are using the SaaS version, we would like to get a fuller, more secure solution that can be adopted right out of the box. Confluence could do a better job sharing best practices or a reusable pattern that others have used, especially for companies that can not afford to hire professional services from Confluent."

"Areas for improvement include implementing multi-storage support to differentiate between database stores based on data age and optimizing storage costs."

"It could be improved by including a feature that automatically creates a new topic and puts failed messages."

"In Confluent, there could be a few more VPN options."

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"I don't think I would recommend this solution to others."

"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."

"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."

"Pricing is not one of its strengths. Using Tibco BusinessWorks implies adopting a non-trivial set of products (Hawk, Rendez-vous, EMS in most cases), and previous cost models enabled scalability on installation and deployment."

"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."

"The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Confluent has a yearly license, which is a bit high because it's on a per-user basis."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is low pricing and ten is high pricing, I would rate Confluent's pricing at five. I have not encountered any additional costs."

"You have to pay additional for one or two features."

"Confluent is expensive, I would prefer, Apache Kafka over Confluent because of the high cost of maintenance."

"Regarding pricing, I think Confluent is a premium product, but it's hard for me to say definitively if it's overly expensive. We're still trying to understand if the features and reduced maintenance complexity justify the cost, especially as we scale our platform use."

"The solution is cheaper than other products."

"The pricing model of Confluent could improve because if you have a classic use case where you're going to use all the features there is no plan to reduce the features. You should be able to pick and choose basic services at a reduced price. The pricing was high for our needs. We should not have to pay for features we do not use."

"Confluent is an expensive solution as we went for a three contract and it was very costly for us."

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"Licensing scheme is too rigid"

"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."

"TIBCO BusinessWorks is a very expensive solution."

"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 cost depends on the components required."

"I give the cost of the solution a four out of ten."

"I don't have the prices of the products, but I know that TIBCO is not a cheap solution. I think that this solution is more suitable for large companies because I don't think that small- or medium-sized companies would have the money for this solution. WSO2 has the community version for free, so many of the smaller companies can use it. I'm not sure what the prices are for support, though, so I suppose the support for WSO2 is not cheap either."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Retailer

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	16

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	24

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Confluent?

They charge a lot for scaling, which makes it expensive.

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What needs improvement with Confluent?

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What is your primary use case for Confluent?

The main use cases for Confluent are log aggregation and streaming. I'm familiar with Confluent stream processing with KSQL. KSQL helps in terms of data analytics strategies because if we are the d...

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How does TIBCO BusinessWorks compare with Mule Anypoint Platform?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether TIBCO BusinessWorks or Mule Anypoint platform integration and connectivity software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mule...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO BusinessWorks?

Because we have enterprise licenses, the pricing for TIBCO BusinessWorks is quite reasonable for us, so we do not see any issue.

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Overview

Confluent offers scalable, open-source flexibility and seamless data replication, supported by strong cloud integration. Key features like Kafka Connect and real-time processing make it valuable for data streaming projects while ensuring high availability with a Multi-Region Cluster.

Confluent is a robust data streaming platform that enables efficient management and integration of real-time data pipelines. Its message-driven architecture and fault tolerance provide reliability, while a user-friendly dashboard and connectors support diverse data sources. Cloud integration reduces costs, and extensive documentation, plugins, and monitoring capabilities enhance collaboration and revision management. Despite some areas needing improvement, including security in the SaaS version and integration flexibility, Confluent remains a staple in industries requiring vast data processing and task automation.

What are Confluent's key features?

Scalability: Handles large volumes of data, ensuring continuous performance.
Kafka Connect: Enables seamless data integration across multiple systems.
Real-time Processing: Facilitates instant data insights for rapid decision-making.
Multi-Region Cluster: Maintains data availability across different geographical locations.
Cloud Integration: Reduces operational costs and enhances deployment flexibility.
User Dashboard: Simplifies management with an intuitive interface.

What benefits and ROI should users consider in reviews?

Cost-Efficiency: Improved processes reduce operational expenses.
Data Reliability: Ensures consistent and accurate data handling.
Increased Collaboration: Boosts team efficiency with comprehensive documentation and management tools.
Scalability: Supports business growth without compromising performance.
Integration Flexibility: Seamlessly connects with diverse data sources and systems.

Confluent is commonly implemented in finance, insurance, and software industries for applications like fraud detection, ETL tasks, and enterprise communication. It supports real-time data processing, project management, and task automation, often integrating with project management tools like Jira, providing valuable solutions for business processes.

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TIBCO BusinessWorks provides robust integration with a user-friendly graphical interface, known for its high stability and scalability. Its drag-and-drop capabilities simplify development while supporting extensive real-time data processing and communication through versatile adapters and EMS.

TIBCO BusinessWorks is designed for efficient integration and middleware tasks, providing key functionalities such as real-time data processing and support for numerous technologies. Users can build services leveraging SOA principles, enabling communication between diverse systems like SAP and AS/400. It features high availability, load balancing, and effective cloud connectors, promoting seamless data transformations. The platform is largely intuitive and supports quick deployment with its low-code nature, though it faces challenges in user training, documentation, and stability. Price and licensing may present hurdles for smaller businesses, with container image size and memory usage limiting cloud capabilities.

What features make TIBCO BusinessWorks stand out?

Robust Integration: Facilitates seamless system connectivity.
User-Friendly Graphical Interface: Simplifies navigation and development.
Real-Time Data Processing: Enables instant data operations.
Extensive Adapters: Supports connection to various systems.
High Availability: Ensures consistent operational performance.
Low-Code Nature: Speeds up implementation and simplifies operations.

What benefits should users consider?

Stability and Scalability: Offers reliable performance and growth.
Simplified Development: Drag-and-drop tools enhance ease of use.
Quick Deployment: Reduced time to market through low-code features.
Efficient Cloud Integration: Enhances functionality with cloud connectors.
Extensive Data Transformation: Manages complex data processes seamlessly.

TIBCO BusinessWorks is widely employed in industries like banking, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications for managing operations, transforming data, and enhancing application integration across on-premises and cloud environments. It facilitates communication between SAP, EMEA systems, and legacy applications such as AS/400 or COBOL, utilizing APIs for synchronous or event-based architectures.

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Sample Customers

ING, Priceline.com, Nordea, Target, RBC, Tivo, Capital One, Chartboost

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