SAP Replication Server vs TIBCO BusinessWorks comparison

SAP and TIBCO are both solutions in the Data Integration category. SAP is ranked #35 with an average rating of 8.5, while TIBCO is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.7. SAP holds a 0.6% mindshare in DI, compared to TIBCO’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of SAP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

SAP Replication Server

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TIBCO BusinessWorks

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

SAP Replication Server and TIBCO BusinessWorks compete in data replication and integration. SAP Replication Server has the upper hand in robust data replication, whereas TIBCO BusinessWorks leads in integration capabilities suitable for comprehensive process automation.

Features: SAP Replication Server offers reliable data replication, real-time synchronization, and cross-database replication, enhancing data consistency across databases. TIBCO BusinessWorks supports complex data transformations, diverse protocol integration, and enterprise cloud connectors, making it versatile for intricate enterprise needs.

Room for Improvement: SAP Replication Server could improve by simplifying deployment processes, enhancing its integration capabilities, and expanding protocol support. TIBCO BusinessWorks would benefit from optimizing pricing structures, enhancing user interface intuitiveness, and expanding legacy system compatibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: TIBCO BusinessWorks is praised for its user-friendly installation and extensive documentation, facilitating quick deployment. It offers responsive customer service. SAP Replication Server offers stable deployment but often requires specialized expertise, though it receives high marks for customer support.

Pricing and ROI: SAP Replication Server involves high initial costs but provides excellent ROI for large-scale database environments focused on data replication. TIBCO BusinessWorks, with its comprehensive integration capabilities, may have a higher initial expenditure but yields substantial ROI for companies prioritizing broad integration.

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Categories and Ranking

SAP Replication Server

Ranking in Data Integration

35th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database Development and Management (19th)

TIBCO BusinessWorks

Ranking in Data Integration

15th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of SAP Replication Server is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO BusinessWorks is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
TIBCO BusinessWorks	1.0%
SAP Replication Server	0.6%
Other	98.4%

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Imran Rafi

SAP HXM & Integration consultant at Kaar Technologies

Foolproof stability and robust system

SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience. One of its notable features is real-time replication, which ensures that data changes are replicated immediately. This is particularly advantageous when we need to execute full processes promptly.

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AftabAlam

E2E Delivery Expert - Ignite Delivery & Technical Enablement at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

User benefits from reliable support and seamless orchestration capabilities

The best features of TIBCO BusinessWorks compared to other products are that it is a roadmap product. The company has proper support. We have similar products in the market, including open source options, but they don't have any support beyond community feedback. TIBCO BusinessWorks is a standard product widely used by many companies. It is more stable, has future releases, and is compliant with new technologies. The significant advantage is that it is a standardized product with a proper, well-planned roadmap, support, and R&D. The positive impact I have experienced from installing TIBCO BusinessWorks is that it is reliable and has better support. It is easy to use and saves overall support costs. The real-time data exchange capability of TIBCO BusinessWorks has helped mission-critical systems because the uptime is superb. We have implemented it in a Kubernetes cluster with auto-scaling. If any systems go down, we have pods that automatically restart and spawn new pods which start taking the load. Earlier deployments used to be on VMs where infrastructure was limited, making scaling difficult. With Kubernetes, you can provision in advance and scale up or down based on requirements. The graphical user interface of TIBCO BusinessWorks is very easy to use. You can configure all components efficiently. Previously, configuration required opening XML files, which wasn't easy to understand without complete specifications knowledge. The graphical interface makes it easy to understand what needs to be configured and is straightforward to use.

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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

"SAP Replication Server is an application that I consider to be a robust system. It has proven to be highly reliable in my experience."

"It's pretty good at handling replication, even under high load. It also provides cross-database replication, for example, from Sybase to Oracle."

"It speeds up the performance in terms of how fast you are able to access the data, look at it, get it reported to you, and send it to somebody. It also reduces the amount of storage."

"We can customize any workflow and we also like the business domain modeling that can be done."

"SAP is renovating different things. We are using external tools to connect as of now. It is going well, and now the new generation integration platforms are going to be pretty easy."

"Customer support is very efficient."

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

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

"Areas for improvement would be the cloud fitness of the product and the ease of migrating to newer versions."

"XML to JSON transformations, out-of-the-box, helps to build REST services."

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

"The initial setup of TIBCO BusinessWorks was straightforward since we have used the solution in our organization for a long time."

"The solution is stable. We haven't had any serious technical issues."

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Cons

"Improvement is a never ending story, and HANA is doing some improvements. We are able to adopt that, and we have to do it by integration with HANA. They are very major changes that we need to see."

"I would like to see it become mobile-friendly."

"If someone wants to replicate their data from Sybase to a newer technology for data warehousing or other purposes, it would be better if they supported those."

"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing and faster support."

"The private solution is expensive. If you're in a situation where you're paying IBM or AWS or somebody just to host you specifically, you're paying people to run it and you're taking care of all the upgrades."

"The container-based image is too large and this makes auto-scaling difficult."

"TIBCO BusinessWorks needs to improve its digital IDs and data processing capabilities. It will benefit small and medium businesses."

"The cost has room for improvement."

"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."

"The solution’s customer support should be improved."

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

"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."

"Though it is a stable product, if we have an issue with the product, it gets difficult, and it gets really difficult to explain the issue to the support team. Also, it takes a long time to get resolved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a very expensive solution."

"You can pick one of the hosted cloud services as opposed to owning it and doing it yourself. Your cost of ownership on the hardware, the data storage, and the maintenance all go down. It depends on what service you use."

"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 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."

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

"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."

"Licensing scheme is too rigid"

"TIBCO BusinessWorks is expensive."

"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

Manufacturing Company

13%

Retailer

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	23

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Replication Server?

It's a pretty good product and stable.

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What needs improvement with SAP Replication Server?

SAP can provide better support for cross-database replication to newer technologies. The product supports Oracle, but I am not aware of what other technologies it supports. If someone wants to repl...

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What is your primary use case for SAP Replication Server?

It's basically to transfer data from one server to another. It's used for this purpose.

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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?

The current licensing cost for the product involves our resource sourcing team for negotiations. It depends on the type of licenses being used, whether perpetual or not. Sourcing manages these aspe...

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What needs improvement with TIBCO BusinessWorks?

There could be improvement areas in TIBCO BusinessWorks because every area needs to improve as the industry is demanding and traffic is increasing. Performance and latency could be enhanced. Additi...

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Overview

Information and data-driven insight is what powers business today. But to get the most from your enterprise data, you need a way to bring transactional, streaming, social media, and other data together – regardless of its format and whether it’s structured or unstructured – and be able to analyze it. The challenge is moving, replicating, and centralizing a wide variety of data efficiently, cost-effectively, and quickly enough to meet business demands for active insight. SAP® Replication Server® can help. SAP Replication Server enables the continuous movement of mission-critical application data.

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

Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone

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