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Pros
"The most valuable part of SAS/ACCESS is what it is made for: connecting to remote systems that are not part of your physical SAS environment.""The most valuable feature is you have native access to the external databases.""The most valuable aspect of the solution is the ease of access to the data in those databases."

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"It is a very robust system.""Good performance and reliability.""Areas for improvement would be the cloud fitness of the product and the ease of migrating to newer versions.""The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us.""BusinessWorks reduces development time, helping developers to focus on business logic.""The OSGI console is available to debug different issues and get low level informations on the applications development, like bundle, dependencies, etc.""The most valuable features are the stability and the time to market.""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."

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Cons
"The solution can provide access to the newer databases that come out sooner.""I can't really recall any missing feature or general improvement that is needed. We don't really add too many new kinds of databases and therefore our needs are already met.""The pricing model needs to be reconsidered and adjusted."

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"The initial setup is not easy.""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.""A possible improvement could be to give the capability to use different profiles for each AppNode when an application is deployed on an AppSpace.""I would like the solution to be integrated into the cloud.""They don't support out of the box - you have to buy adapters or you have to have the technology.""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.""The cost of this product is too expensive for smaller companies or those with a small number of integrations.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing model is complex and is based on modular packages as well as the size of the applicable environment."
  • "The solution's pricing and licensing are expensive."
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  • "My understanding is that the licensing is very costly."
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "Licensing scheme is too rigid"
  • "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 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 give the cost of the solution a four out of ten."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is you have native access to the external databases.
    Top Answer:The solution's pricing and licensing are expensive. It is not the cheapest software. However, SAS systems are solutions that customers use over decades of time and you can rely on the solution being… more »
    Top Answer:The solution can provide access to the newer databases that come out sooner.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:The ability to link to different technologies is valuable to us.
    Top Answer:The product is not cheap. However, the pricing is reasonable.
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    Also Known As
    SAS/Access
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    Overview
    SAS/ACCESS is an out-of-the-box solution for integrating SAS and third-party databases. You can read, write and update data regardless of the database or platform. Because the data appears native to SAS, there is no need to learn Structured Query Language (SQL) or any other database-specific query languages.
    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.
    Sample Customers
    Los Angeles County, West Midlands Police, Credit Guarantee Corporation, Canada Post, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Insurance Company10%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government7%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm37%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Transportation Company16%
    Insurance Company11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Energy/Utilities Company5%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise5%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise76%
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    SAS Access is ranked 38th in Data Integration with 3 reviews while TIBCO BusinessWorks is ranked 17th in Data Integration with 23 reviews. SAS Access is rated 9.0, while TIBCO BusinessWorks is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SAS Access writes "The solution is stable, scalable, and flexible". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO BusinessWorks writes "Reliable integration solution with robust communication capabilities and good scalability". SAS Access is most compared with Delphix, SSIS and Zapier, whereas TIBCO BusinessWorks is most compared with webMethods Integration Server, Mule Anypoint Platform, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Confluent and Informatica PowerCenter.

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