Once, TIBCO was a leading middleware company. They brought us the publish-subscribe mechanism, and made it perform at scale. Today, however, The Information Bus Company has lost most of its former luster.
After much turmoil, with a series of changes in ownership and more recently a merger with Citrix, TIBCO is struggling to adopt the technologies that shape today’s operating environments. They have so far failed to make their price model work with modern microservice architectures. And their pace of adding new integration features lags the competition by a mile.
Consequently, many companies have classified their BusinessWorks implementation as ‘legacy’ and are considering alternatives.
The TIBCO itch
There can be many reasons to start looking for a TIBCO alternative to:
- Develop agentic AI solutions, while you’re waiting for your integration platform to fully support MCP services.
- Embrace contemporary standards such as MQTT, gRPC, and webhooks.
- Use an integration platform that suits your agile way of working, where ownership and lifecycle management of integration logic is firmly attributed to product teams, and the pace of integration is no longer constrained by slow development cycles.
- Use elegant governance mechanisms to keep control while delegating your outsourcing integration responsibilities.
- Migrate older integrations and gracefully decommission your legacy bus.
- Adopt an API-first strategy, where much of the integration logic is API bound and where you can easily control your policies.
- Implement a highly available integration platform that resonates well with modern cloud platforms and their simple storage solutions, and that facilitates a DevSecOps way of working.
- Retain your most valuable TIBCO engineers by offering them an alternative and prestigious career opportunity.
- Use generative AI and advanced low-code practices to create integrations quickly, safely, and at much lower costs.
- Create a tighter integration between your access governance practice and your integrations – for instance having an externalized authorization management service implementing fine-grained access control policies.
Or you’re simply fed up with the skyrocketing costs that far outpace the value added over the years; the flood of breaking changes, and the renaming that makes increasingly less sense.
Whatever your reasons are, we are here to help you out. Here is how.
Yenlo migration strategy
Any divorce is painful. Therefor we developed a migration strategy to ease the pain as much as possible. We started with the principle that you, as the client, are in charge of your future architecture. You can decide if you’re migrating towards an open source system or a closed platform, if you’re aiming for proven, low code middleware or full, pro code cloud-native microservices, and if you want to run your integrations in your own datacenter, your own virtual private cloud, or as a service from our enterprise-grade Connext cloud.
From that starting point, we developed a flexible code migration assistant, capable of ingesting integration code from any version of BusinessWorks, transform it into an implementation neutral representation, and from there to generate the integration logic for your target runway. Our team has made a significant effort in designing and validating our Yenlo Intermediate Representation Schema, an integration domain specific and technology independent language for defining any integration logic. We also developed an agentic system to accelerate the migration effort and take out as much friction as technically feasible.
In the migration process, we generate useful documentation, test cases, and run the tests. Whenever possible, we run the same scripts on your existing test environment and the newly created counterparts, and make sure there are no meaningful differences in outcome. If you already have your own scripts available, all the better.
Yenlo migration factory
But we didn’t stop at tool development. We wanted to create a frictionless migration experience, where we assume there will always be details that differ from case to case. Perhaps you’re using a version we’ve not worked with before. Or you’ve created custom adapters, with special technologies. Or your target environment requires special attention.
We also assume that technologies will keep evolving. Especially in the AI sphere, things are still changing at a rapid pace. Target platforms will also see changes. We want to embrace these changes whenever you can benefit from them.
We created a dedicated migration factory tasked with continuously optimizing the migration experience. A team of specialists that will fix the migration for you, whatever it takes.
After the migration, when there’s a need to make use of all the new, cool technologies at your disposal, Yenlo has got you covered as well. After all, state-or-the-art integrations are our bread and butter, and have been so since our inception.
Next steps
When you’re interested in learning more, let’s discuss your challenges, your ambitions, your preferences, and see if they align with our offerings. If so, and you have not finalized your target architecture yet, our strategy workshop is the best next step to take. In it, our architects will use our migration strategy template to discover your current challenges, and discuss the various future options in depths, with their pros and cons. We’ll make a substantiated recommendation, tailored to your specific situation and preferences.
Once you’ve made the foundational decisions, we’ll plan a formal intake to iron out the necessary details and perform a trial migration to both prove our abilities and to better estimate the total effort required. As soon as we have the initial results, we’ll work with you to create a customized roadmap for your migration. We’ll simply take it from there, together.
Are you ready to scratch your itch?
