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'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."
"The most valuable feature is the security."
"It has different type of interfaces that can integrate with companies."
"Provides good security features."
"The solution is fast and supports Open UI 3.0 certification."
"It's stable to use, connect with the cloud, and to deploy."
"It can handle API conversions with mapping and transformation rules, simplifying the development process."
"Customer support is very efficient."
"The Business Studio interface based on SCA Standards helps to show the business logic at first look and improve code maintenance."
"The most valuable feature is the low-code platform."
"The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us."
"It is a seamless and sophisticated tool."
"It is a very robust system."
"The most important thing is that it is easy for developers to work with."
"XML to JSON transformations, out-of-the-box, helps to build REST services."
"The addition of string functionality would be a benefit, particularly in the ESQL space that IBM already uses internally."
"Plugins for the repositories are difficult to find."
"Updates are constantly delayed."
"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."
"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."
"They reply in one or two hours at most, but they could be better."
"In the next release, I would like to get some quality connectors."
"When we do a version upgrade of the system, the platform is kind of complicated."
"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."
"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."
"The cost of this product is too expensive for smaller companies or those with a small number of integrations."
"The initial setup is not easy."
"Improve Business Studio's stability to further minimize development time."
"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."
"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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