TIBCO BusinessWorks vs WSO2 Enterprise Integrator comparison

TIBCO BusinessWorks vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

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Categories and Ranking

TIBCO BusinessWorks

Ranking in Data Integration

18th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator

Ranking in Data Integration

31st

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of TIBCO BusinessWorks is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration

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Moustafa Fares

Senior Analyst at Etisalat

Connects systems securely, simplifies data communication, and benefits from AI integration potential

I would like to see an AI project with BusinessWorks. I haven't worked with cloud architecture using BusinessWorks, so I would like to work with it as a cloud architect. I am still learning the documentation, so I don't have a complete experience with TIBCO. The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods.

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Ritesh_Shah

Senior Solution Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Decreases the development timeframe and costs

The main issue with the product is pricing. It uses core-based pricing for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator and API Manager. It would be best if you had APIM by default. It provides many connectors for easy integration with third-party systems. Often, customers decide to develop using open-source tools like Spring Boot if there aren't many connectors required to avoid increasing costs. They'll develop this way and then deploy using APIM, the bare minimum needed. It is mainly required for very complicated setups with many connectors. In the implementations I've seen, people often used open-source tools because there weren't many third-party systems involved—just their organization's own systems. From WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, I expect them to bring up more and more connectors in the future. That's the main expectation. Having more connectors in various areas will help us when discussing new requirements. I don't have any specific use case right now, so I can't name a particular connector. But, as new technologies emerge, the relevant connectors should be there for those. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator mainly helps with the integration part, which can be simplified only if you have relevant connectors for whatever you're doing.

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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

"I like TIBCO BusinessWorks because it has a user-friendly GUI for developing solutions."

"The most valuable features are the stability and the time to market."

"It is user friendly, it's not complex."

"Drag and drop make it easier to build the service end to end."

"The most valuable part of the solution is the ease-of-use and ease of deployment."

"BusinessWorks reduces development time, helping developers to focus on business logic."

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

"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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"The drag-and-drop features for connectors are very valuable."

"The productivity is the most valuable feature. It is very easy to write remediations."

"The solution's customer service is good."

"It's a consolidated product. It works and it does its job pretty well."

"In my opinion, the most valuable aspect of this solution is its extensive range of adaptors and connectors. This feature holds significant importance and provides great value to users."

"The solution basically conforms to our standards."

"It was mostly easy to set up the product."

"The customer service executives are very responsive."

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Cons

"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."

"Its price can be improved. For medium enterprises, it is a very expensive tool. In the market, you won't get many resources for this solution. You won't find many developers in the market very easily. The latest version of TIBCO (6.4 or 6.x) is not very stable. It has got many issues. We have raised this with TIBCO, and they are taking a lot of time to come up with a fix, which is making us move away from this product. Some of the performance-tuning aspects are also missing in version 6. They should provide performance-related fixes, which will be helpful for the customers. If you are migrating from the current version to the container-supported version, it is quite expensive. The product has evolved, but it is very pricey. That's one of the challenges. They have provided all the features that are there in other products, but this is a platform upgrade. The platform has completely been changed from 5.x to 6.x, and we can't use the same environment. We can't run both versions on the same server as VM. The development environment is entirely different. In version 5.x, there was a proprietary designer. Now, it has common plug-ins developed on top of Eclipse."

"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."

"The learning curve takes time compared to webMethods."

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

"TIBCO BusinessWorks could be improved with cloud support."

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

"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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"They should introduce better pricing for small companies."

"One of the reasons that we are looking for a replacement is their way of defining integration. The language of the XML structures that I use to describe the integrations are not that standard, and it's not easy to find people who are familiar with this approach."

"The micro integrator should be improved. There is room for enhancement considering alternative integration components."

"WSO2 libraries are not mature enough. For example, if you want to integrate with Kafka using its Kafka library, it often has many bugs."

"There are a lot of security settings that when you apply you have to re-apply again every time you modify a setting. It is something that really needs to be enhanced."

"The server is very specific and it is very difficult to get experience with it."

"The setup can be difficult for those not familiar with the solution."

"You cannot include the validation of XPath."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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 give the cost of the solution a four out of ten."

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

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

"Licensing scheme is too rigid"

"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."

"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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"It is a low-cost solution."

"The cost is better than IBM Cloud Pak."

"The pricing of WSO2 Enterprise Integrator for enterprise subscriptions can be considered expensive, especially from the perspective of someone who prefers open-source software."

"I rate the product price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"The open-source, unsupported version is available free of charge."

"The solution costs about 20,000 or 30,000 euros per year, per instance."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Computer Software Company

24%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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 do you like most about TIBCO BusinessWorks?

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

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO BusinessWorks?

Pricing is for an enterprise application, so the company pays for it with a company license. Everything comes packaged with the license.

What do you like most about WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

WSO2's analytics capability is good, considering the ELC support they provide.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

The product has reasonable and competitive pricing for enterprise customers. It is expensive for small businesses especially. They are using the open-source solution, and they find it expensive sin...

What needs improvement with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator?

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Overview

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

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, core to the WSO2 Integration Agile Platform, is an open source Integration product for cloud native and container-native projects. It enables enterprise integration experts to build, scale, and secure sophisticated integration solutions to achieve digital agility. Unlike other integration products, WSO2 Enterprise Integrator already contains integration runtimes, message brokering, business process modeling, analytics and visual tooling capabilities.

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Sample Customers

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TIBCO BusinessWorks vs. WSO2 Enterprise Integrator