SAP Process Orchestration vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

SAP Process Orchestration vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Process Orchestration

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business-to-Business Middleware (7th)

TIBCO BusinessWorks

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (20th)

Mindshare comparison

SAP Process Orchestration and TIBCO BusinessWorks aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. SAP Process Orchestration is designed for Business-to-Business Middleware and holds a mindshare of 5.1%, down 8.7% compared to last year.
TIBCO BusinessWorks, on the other hand, focuses on Data Integration, holds 0.9% mindshare, down 1.0% since last year.

Business-to-Business Middleware Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP Process Orchestration	5.1%
IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services	13.2%
SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite	10.9%
Other	70.80000000000001%

Business-to-Business Middleware

Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
TIBCO BusinessWorks	0.9%
SSIS	3.6%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	3.6%
Other	91.9%

Data Integration

Featured Reviews

Vasanth Kumar Sabaapathi

Senior Lead Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Simplified integrations bring flexibility and efficiency to diverse industries through comprehensive features and robust support

SAP is already trying to make improvements for SAP Process Orchestration by releasing updates every quarter, including patches and modules, and from a security standpoint, while it's a tightly coupled tool, they are introducing a lot of enhancements aligned with current market trends. There are standard contents readily available for starting integrations, which suit around 90% of every industry across verticals including pharma, manufacturing, and employee data central with SuccessFactors integration. Regarding functionality-wise improvements in SAP Process Orchestration, they are now incorporating the Salesforce system. Previously, we needed to rely on a third-party adapter for integration within SAP, but now they are building their own adapters to connect with Salesforce. Additionally, there are options like data connectors using Ariba coming up with SAP Process Orchestration. There's much more to explore, especially as they release new patches, enhancements, and adapters each quarter.

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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

"In my opinion, SAP PO is the most mature suite of tools to integrate processes across SAP environments at this moment. It's really unbeatable because it allows you to integrate whatever scenarios you can imagine."

"The most valuable feature is the seamless integration with backend systems."

"With the latest version what I find to be the most valuable are the REST, SuccessFactors, and Ariba Network adapters."

"The solution is working well; we don't have any operational problems with it at all."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"The solution makes it easy to solve integration problems."

"The most valuable features of SAP Process Orchestration are the standard APIs that we can use."

"The solution's technical support is good."

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"Performance and the stability are both good features."

"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."

"There hasn't been a single day that we had any problems because of the product stability."

"The most important thing is that it is easy for developers to work with."

"If you see the amount of work that we do with it and the kind of revenue and customer experience because of the value that we get from TIBCO, the high rating is warranted."

"The OSGI console is available to debug different issues and get low level informations on the applications development, like bundle, dependencies, etc."

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

"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."

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Cons

"Some configurations can be a little tricky."

"The monitoring governance offered by SAP is too technical; only the consultants that have technical skills or development skills are able to manage this product."

"I think the main area that SAP PO should improve on is offering pre-delivered content like they do when you use SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI)."

"The solution is not very scalable because it is at the end of its life."

"It's very difficult to find errors in a simple way."

"It is scalable and it requires some maintenance."

"It is not a scalable solution for the cloud. I would not recommend this for organizations that are primarily cloud-based."

"The solution could improve by making it more user-friendly by limiting the code required. We have to add some code in some cases where we need complex logic or some other functions. If this was able to be done in a more simplified manner then it would save a lot of effort and time."

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"Cloud fitness is lacking"

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

"There are not many plugins available to integrate the databases. We have to write it in Java and integrate it. The developers should have more knowledge. These are the three main aspects that they could improve."

"There are multiple plugins which increase the number of product installations."

"The cost of this product is too expensive for smaller companies or those with a small number of integrations."

"The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods."

"The cost of this product is too expensive for smaller companies or those with a small number of integrations."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is highly-priced."

"The price of SAP Process Orchestration was reasonable."

"My company deals with different pricing models of the product, according to which we don't pay for the solution directly, but we do pay for the maintenance part."

"The cost of SAP products is quite high but the quality is really good."

"The product is not a low-priced solution, but I can say that it is competitively priced in the market."

"It is a very expensive solution. We only pay for the license."

"There are fees in addition to the licensing."

"The pricing for this solution is fine."

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"I think BusinessWorks is more expensive compared to other products. We have the ELA, so at least we have some sort of bargain or discount with that. But for a start-up, it's very expensive compared to other ESBs."

"The product is not cheap."

"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."

"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."

"I would rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"The solution is too expensive. It's one of the most expensive solutions out there, particularly because there are so many open-source competitors on the market. I don't know the exact numbers, however."

"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."

"The license is expensive, and I would rate it one out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Retailer

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	26

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 SAP Process Orchestration?

The price for SAP Process Orchestration is a little high when compared to market trends, which is just how the business is. I would rate it an eight.

What needs improvement with SAP Process Orchestration?

What is your primary use case for SAP Process Orchestration?

The main use case for SAP Process Orchestration is that it's an SAP proprietary tool which integrates within SAP and outside SAP. It's the most familiar middleware tool which is used for integrations.

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...

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.

What needs improvement with TIBCO BusinessWorks?

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Also Known As

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration, NetWeaver Process Integration

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Overview

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration facilitates the integration of business processes that span different departments, organizations, or companies. SAP PI is based on general standards so as to enable 3rd-party systems to be integrated. At the center of SAP PI is an XML-based communication that uses HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). Irrespective of the scenario used, the application-specific contents are transferred in messages in user-defined XML eXtensible Markup Language) from the sender to the receiver either via the Integration Server, or directly between the systems involved. SAP PI can be installed in different ways: Dual usage type installation: Based on both AS ABAP and AS Java. and Advanced Adapter Engine Extended (AEX): Based on AS Java only.

SAP

TIBCO BusinessWorks allows to connect applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud, providing proven reliability and scalability, out-of-the-box. With a drag-and-drop graphical development environment, TIBCO BusinessWorks eliminates the pain and cost of point-to-point application integration, connecting and unifying business processes across applications, data sources, and APIs, with access to real-time data across all your platforms.

TIBCO

Sample Customers

Lenovo, Dansk Supermarked A/S, Ego Pharmaceuticals Pty. Ltd, Kaeser Kompressoren

Euler Hermes, QSuper, Scandinavian Airlines

SAP Process Orchestration vs. TIBCO BusinessWorks