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TIBCO EBX pros and cons

Vendor: TIBCO

4.0 out of 5

21 reviews
90% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

TIBCO EBX offers a valuable API and data model, providing easy initial setup, excellent workflow modeling, and numerous use cases for Master Data Management. The tool is highly flexible and customizable. However, it struggles with big data handling, lacks scalability, and has limited documentation and community support. Pricing is high, and performance issues, such as latency and downtime during bulk updates, reduce its efficiency and appeal compared to alternatives.

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PROS

API and data model are very valuable features of TIBCO EBX.

TIBCO EBX is extremely flexible and offers good data quality.

Data governance and workflow modeling capabilities in TIBCO EBX are very good.

TIBCO EBX allows for complete control and is 100% customizable.

With TIBCO EBX, users can organize data for an accurate and consistent view of physical business data.

CONS

TIBCO EBX needs to support big data and improve its scalability.

Documentation and community support for TIBCO EBX require development.

Pricing for TIBCO EBX could be improved to be more competitive.

TIBCO EBX has observed latency and performance issues, especially with bulk updates and data replication.

The lack of native functionality to join tables without code is a limitation for TIBCO EBX.

TIBCO EBX Pros review quotes

reviewer1516866

Lead Data Modeler - Enterprise Data Strategies and Services at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 1, 2021

The data modeling is very good.

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reviewer2731320

Associate Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jun 27, 2025

TIBCO EBX saves a lot of time and gives considerable flexibility to business users who might not be completely technical but can work on it in specific areas.

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reviewer1602030

Data Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 26, 2021

The product is extremely flexible.

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MDM Tibco EBX Consultant at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Jul 16, 2025

It is easy to code, especially because it is coded in Java.

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CEO at daconti

Oct 3, 2023

The most valuable features of TIBCO EBX are that is a complete tool and everything can be done inside, including data governance. We are able to model everything according to the needs of the company. If the company needs five people to agree to a change in data, they can do it with TIBCO EBX. They can model it with any particular rules. Additionally, there is dynamic data modeling, simple workflows using the GUI that comes from the server.

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reviewer2731026

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy

Jun 26, 2025

We decided to switch to TIBCO EBX because we can organize the data, and it helps manage this data for an accurate and consistent view of the physical business data.

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Sr Technical Architect at Hexaware Technologies Limited

Oct 22, 2021

The data quality is very good.

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Lourens Janse Van Rensburg

Consultant/data engineer at A2zconsulting

Nov 3, 2023

It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution.

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Senior Presales Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 19, 2022

This solution allows the user to have complete control, and is 100% customizable.

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reviewer1442247

Business Enabler at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Dec 10, 2024

EBX is cost-effective as it is a web-based application.

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TIBCO EBX Cons review quotes

reviewer1516866

Lead Data Modeler - Enterprise Data Strategies and Services at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Apr 1, 2021

The documentation needs improvement.

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reviewer2731320

Associate Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jun 27, 2025

With the latest update of TIBCO EBX, there are a few issues with the workflow that need improvement. When going through a workflow, there are functionalities to upload files, and sometimes you need to attach files for evidence. That section of EBX had certain issues.

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reviewer1602030

Data Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 26, 2021

The product does not scale well horizontally. We find the scalability to be quite inferior to other options.

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reviewer2734176

Systems Integration Specialist at NTT DATA

Jul 3, 2025

TIBCO EBX has performance issues, particularly with speed. Replicating data can take several hours even with normal median data.

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CEO at daconti

Oct 3, 2023

Everything is updated through forms, and working with UI web forms. It's more record-based processing. It is not mass-based processing. This is one of the things that are not good for TIBCO EBX. Another problem is we cannot join tables and prepare a view where the tables are joined. Someone can code it but it is not a feature of the solution without code. You have to take data from a table, combine it with data from another table and then present it. This could be done better.

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reviewer2731026

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy

Jun 26, 2025

We observe performance issues lately. If we perform any bulk update or use the bulk functionality to update the data, during that time, the index rebuild happens in the back end. The operations team faces issues, including downtime or slowness, and we monitor it, performing any required actions such as restarting applications.

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Sr Technical Architect at Hexaware Technologies Limited

Oct 22, 2021

The initial setup can be a bit complex.

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Lourens Janse Van Rensburg

Consultant/data engineer at A2zconsulting

Nov 3, 2023

Currently, users can't use Plain SQL queries in TIBCO EBX.

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Senior Presales Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oct 19, 2022

We would like to see the community an documentation for this solution be developed. At present there is very little tutorial documentation available, and limited community support for issues with the product.

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reviewer1442247

Business Enabler at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Dec 10, 2024

Marketing could be improved, as EBX wasn't well-presented in Turkey.

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