TIBCO FTL connects with TIBCO eFTL, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, TIBCO Messaging, Apache Kafka Distribution and TIBCO Messaging, Eclipse Mosquitto Distribution providing one platform to address all inter-application communication needs and receive data from IoT devices via MQTT and publish into Kafka streams. It caters a centralized monitoring and management streamlines an administrator's job. Other features including InfluxDB historical statistics and Grafana dashboards make for maintenance and downtime. TIBCO FTL is cloud-ready with Docker images provided for deployment in the PaaS of your choice for your applications development. It's optimized to leverage the latest advancements in hardware and networking technologies such as 10GbE, RDMA, 40Gb Infiniband and OFED and it uses a content-based filtering for data distribution.
As of August 2025, the mindshare of TIBCO FTL in the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) category
stands at 7.6%, up from 6.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
It's an ESB for both server-side as well as with eFTL, we are exposing messages to clients over web/mobile.
How has it helped my organization?
From the current direct socket architecture, we moved to an FTL based messaging layer which allowed us to not worry about individual functions but work on a single message/framework.
*Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. We are TIBCO Partner but the review comments are basis on our implementation at a customer site.
