TIBCO BusinessWorks vs ibi Open Data Hub for Mainframe comparison

"All staff members and users can request an account which can be accessed from all PCs on the company’s network."

"I like TIBCO BusinessWorks because it has a user-friendly GUI for developing solutions."

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

"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."

"The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us."

"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."

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

"Performance and the stability are both good features."

"It is a seamless and sophisticated tool."

"DataHub is volatile; the records are completely re-loaded each day, which puts a burden on the system."

"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."

"In TIBCO BusinessWorks, the problem is that there are multiple plugins that increase the number of product installations."

"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."

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

"The communication protocols could be improved."

"The creation of XSDs should be much simpler."

"Improve Business Studio's stability to further minimize development time."

"Technical support is average. It's not the best."

"The product is not cheap."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The cost depends on the components required."

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

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

"TIBCO licensing is yearly and very costly for a company like ours."