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Aurea CX Messenger vs TIBCO Enterprise Message Service comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Aurea CX Messenger
Ranking in Business Activity Monitoring
4th
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
9th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Message Queue (MQ) Software (11th), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (13th), SOA Governance (6th)
TIBCO Enterprise Message Se...
Ranking in Business Activity Monitoring
2nd
Ranking in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Business Activity Monitoring category, the mindshare of Aurea CX Messenger is 12.4%, up from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is 13.6%, down from 18.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Activity Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
TIBCO Enterprise Message Service13.6%
Aurea CX Messenger12.4%
Other74.0%
Business Activity Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Radhey Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Analyst at NCR Corporation
Lightweight and efficient solution
It's very good and lightweight. But, it does not provide web service communication. But it is excellent for internal connections One valuable feature is the messaging broker. If there is a disruption, it restores the messages. And when the application is running, it delivers all the messages. The…
SunilKumar26 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Persistent messaging has improved reliability while message rate and licensing still need work
One problem is the license cost. If we take Kafka, it's an open source platform, Apache Kafka, but with TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, the license cost is significantly higher. The message rate in TIBCO Enterprise Message Service needs to be increased compared to Kafka. The streaming capacity of Kafka is much better than TIBCO Enterprise Message Service. This part should be improved. The message rate per bit, per minute, and per second is much lower in TIBCO Enterprise Message Service compared to Kafka. Setup is relatively simple and not overly complex, but we do need some root access and administrator privileges. However, the problem is that once we upgrade TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, whatever services are on the primary must be taken down.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Before this, there was a separate front-end software setup for different departments in the organization, which is now clubbed together and provides a single platform for all departments functioning on different business aspects."
"The solution's stability is excellent; it's one of the best features, and we haven't experienced any bugs or glitches that have affected its performance."
"Sonic is lightweight, scalable, and does the work; easy to start, setup, and manage, and compared with Oracle much easier and cheaper."
"My advice to anyone considering Aurea CX Messenger is just try it; from my experience, it is very easy to deploy, very easy to develop and to implement in production."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is very easy to develop. Most of it is graphical, but we also have the option to add any custom call that you need."
"SDM: User-friendly tool which allows for a seamless approach to performing hotfixes, if required."
"The Messenger Broker is a really good feature."
"The solution is highly scalable, this is very important for us. It can handle a lot of messages."
"It allows us to achieve synchronous as well as asynchronous communication with the added advantage of making the communication reliable."
"We have implanted the core middleware solution for the organization using this product and it is responsible for communication between different applications."
"The Enterprise Messaging Server will store the message and wait for other subscribers to come onto the network."
"TIBCO Enterprise Message Service's most valuable features are rapid zero-code integration and its large number of adapters and plugins."
"It's a very secure and useful product wherein most of our clients are using this messaging product."
"​The initial setup is straightforward and the product documentation is very good.​"
"TIBCO Enterprise Message Service is a security and reliability product with persistent messaging, asynchronous and synchronous messaging for the queues and topics."
"The setup was done by TIBCO. It has been stable and has a server."
 

Cons

"The solution needs to improve support for new, more recent protocols on the API."
"You should not hurry with upgrades without testing the whole product completely."
"I don't know if the last version has the cloud option, but maybe that could be good. That could be something that is included."
"The improvement is that it should be on the cloud and use web services."
"I would definitely like to see marketing for this product."
"It should include/add more services with the product as per market demand. It should include custom Java services developed by any organization or provide a platform where users/developers can share ideas/custom services, etc."
"They should not be frequently upgrading the product version."
"Another issue, which again, I'm not aware if they already have because we have not updated to the latest version, but all the DevOps features would be nice to have because right now they are using their own deployment features."
"I would like to see better integration with Java and Apache Kafka."
"​Since all the communications goes through this product, it acts as a single point of failure."
"It can be improved in the sense that in the market we can see the cloud is coming, but this is not cloud compatible."
"TIBCO also has its proprietary line of cloud-based applications, but specifically, these two products are not cloud compatible."
"An area for improvement would be integration with the API layer."
"Overall, my experience with the support team has been disappointing."
"One problem is the license cost. If we take Kafka, it's an open source platform, Apache Kafka, but with TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, the license cost is significantly higher."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Much better than Oracle SOA Suite."
"You pay nothing for licensing, because the commercial model is a subscription. Other environments, such as QA and Development, are included in the subscription"
"The pricing is not so high."
"​The cost of licensing is very high. One should go for the product only if they need to ensure message reliability and they cannot afford to lose messages.​"
"In our case, we didn't pay for each product separately. We simply paid for all those companies that provided the components."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
11%
Non Profit
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
8%
University
8%
Comms Service Provider
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
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Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Enterprise Message Service?
One problem is the license cost. If we take Kafka, it's an open source platform, Apache Kafka, but with TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, the license cost is significantly higher. The message rate ...
What is your primary use case for TIBCO Enterprise Message Service?
The main use case for the product is that for the analytics we will be using TIBCO Spotfire.
What advice do you have for others considering TIBCO Enterprise Message Service?
Currently I am using TIBCO as well as I am getting trained on cybersecurity tools. I am using TIBCO Spotfire currently, the BI tool, Spotfire from TIBCO.
 

Also Known As

CX Messenger Enterprise, Aurea Sonic ESB, Aurea Sonic, Aurea Sonic MQ
Enterprise Message Service
 

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Sample Customers

Heathrow, HomeServe, Paypal, Freedom Mortgage
BNL, SunGard, TUI Group, UTi Worldwide, Yellow Pages Group
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