# TIBCO Data Virtualization Reviews **Vendor:** Cloud Software Group **Category:** [Data Virtualization Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-virtualization) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 32 ## About TIBCO Data Virtualization An enterprise data virtualization solution that orchestrates access to multiple and varied data sources and delivers the data sets and IT-curated data services foundation for nearly any analytics solution ## TIBCO Data Virtualization Reviews ### 1. A Powerful Tool with Advanced Features but Complex Setup **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priyanka A. | Internship Trainee, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2023 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** It enables users to create a unified data model that can be used by multiple applications and business users without the need to move or copy data. It connect to a wide variety of data sources, including relational databases, NoSQL databases, flat files, and web services. This allows users to easily access and combine data from multiple sources, which can save time and effort when creating data models. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** There is nothing to dislike, but this tool may be complex to set up and configure, which may require specialized knowledge and skills. Apart from this, this tool is good to use. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Another benefit of TIBCO Data Virtualization is its support for real-time data integration, which allows users to access and update data in near real-time. This can be especially useful for organizations that need to make quick decisions based on up-to-date data. ### 2. Tibco Data Virtualization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ratiranjan N. | Sr Data Engineer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** We used Tibco Data Virtualization for creating an API , that will transfer the data from one source to another source or systems. It acts as an middle layer communication center between the source and target. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** It has few connection components that are free. It should have more connectors for cloud components and that should be free. TIBCO Data Virtualization UI should be improved for better usage of the product. There should be some inbuilt connectors for testing. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping as a middle layer to make the data flow easier with a transformed data that's being directly used by the business models for the reporting purposes. ### 3. Stable data orchestration application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julie W. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2022 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** The platform monitors data from all the sources of the organization. It filters out contaminated data that can affect performance and integrate useful data with other architectural tools for planning. TIBCO Data Virtualization creates unified ecosystem for controlling and analyzing data. The WEB UI gives members an opportunity to search data and make personal decisions based on set goals. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** The cost of running this platform efficiently is high. The data management capacity has impressed all the teams. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps all the departments to plan and manage available data in regard to set objectives. It provides comprehensive security to data to enhance effective workflow and block any unauthorized access. We are able to develop data model designs that suits our demands from the Studio Design Tool. ### 4. TIBCO Data Virtualization on hand benifits **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elmer D. | Senior Integration Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2023 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Is enable us to integrate data from multiple sources/data sources into a single collective view, thus reducing replication and complexity in managing our data. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Complexity: TIBCO Data Virtualization can be complex to implement and manage, requiring specialized technical skills and resources. Performance: Virtualizing data can have an impact on performance, especially for complex queries or large data sets. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** TIBCO Data Virtualization simplifies data management by reducing the need for multiple data copies, reducing data complexity, and improving data governance. ### 5. Tibco Data virtualization review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravindra C. | Tibco Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2022 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** We able easily data views from the source of data. This help to view data in a tabular or chats so that we can easily analyse the data. It can alos able to collect the data from various sources through protocals as JDBC, Rest and SOAP API. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Efficiency and user friendly need to be improved. It also doesnt have feature to export the saved data into excel. we are unable to alter the data as well. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using tibco data visualization in our organization to help with clients to visualize the data. we collect data from various sources and analyse the data and store it in data base. ### 6. Tibco data Virtualization review after 4 years TDV use in multiple room **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek N. | TIBCO Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2022 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** TDV has below best point 1. it allows connecting heterogeneous database platforms. 2. We can make common datamart from heterogeneous database 3. We can provide this common database in the form of a virtual database as well as a web service. 4. we can create a custom adaptor using Java lang 5. less physical code needs to write as drag and drop do most of the work 6. This tool is agile, and flexible to expand for further projects **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** What I dislike about TDV is the newer version Tibco release is not as stable as the 2 generations back like TDV 8.4 had lots of bugs in web UI. they have launched web UI. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its solves the problem where data is stored on multiple database systems, TDV helps us to get that data into a uniform manner, while doing this we can restructure, design data and can also do business logic on data ### 7. Fantastic Data Virtualization tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sahil K. | Senior Data Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2022 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** • Capable of handling Huge volume of data • Real time data Virtualizaion • Data Integration is easy • InteractiveVisual • Fast and reliables • Secure to use • service and support is exceptional **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** None so far as we are able to resolve the problem now Tibco has created the tool which is exceptional and helping data data analytics team and organisation who are data driven **Recommendations to others considering TIBCO Data Virtualization:** As per our experience this is the one stop solutions for data analytics It can easily connect virtually with any data sources **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a large data set and changing over real time. Earliest it was taking huge amount to time and resources to do cleansing and data. Since the time we have start using it it just plug and play kind of experience ### 8. Security Architect advises it for building your SIEM! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2022 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** The cost of subscription is very reasonable, and the quality is worth it! **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Support was not so reactive in response; sometimes, you have to wait more than one day. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** My company used TIBCO Data Virtualization to get different data from several data sources for running our SIEM system. The current solution met our needs. ### 9. Best app for report creation from raw data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keyur P. | Distribution Planner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** I am using this app for open order data analysis for specific time. One can easily convert reports in different format. Real time data analysis can be done. Easy to use without any technical glitches. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** More data analysis tools like different types of graphs, Bars can be added for better visualisation. Also need to add user customisation option for using software as they like to use. **Recommendations to others considering TIBCO Data Virtualization:** Use this app once to deal with reports that contains larger amount of data **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using this app in retail sector organisation where real time report generation is required for pending orders or different kinds of status of orders. It hives you data of whole months orders which is quite big numbers on few moments. ### 10. Real time data Virtualization made easier ! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tejeshwar R. | DevOps Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** For any data virtualization, it is very important to manage resources and save unwanted costs to store required data in warehouses. Tibco data virtualization evaluates the data in real-time instead of storing it at some warehouses and also could be connected to multiple data sources and still make it secure for end-user to create views as per their requirement. It's a lightweight component compared to other data virtualization platforms. The administration and user management are pretty simple and connecting to the traditional database is easier. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** The user interface is not up to the mark and should be improved in future releases. There should be more analytics options for end-users at this price. Also, the help wiki should be updated with more options and content. **Recommendations to others considering TIBCO Data Virtualization:** If looking for minimization of the data movement process, this could be the best option. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is indeed a very effective data virtualization platform to analyze and manipulate large amounts of data in real time. Many data connectors are available so it can be connected virtually to any databases, web API, flat files, etc. ### 11. Best Visualization Capabilities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Archit P. | Senior Product Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** TThe ability to write custom calculations and writing iron Python scripts has made the tool more flexible , in terms of showing complex visualizations **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** There is scope of improvement of UI. The look and feel can be improved. **Recommendations to others considering TIBCO Data Virtualization:** It a go to tool for best integration for visualizations with your servers. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to create dashboards for sales and marketing teams using the tool ### 12. Best app for data analyse **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi I. | Production Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** It contains features of data filtering and content analysis with various kinds of graphs and charts. Also it has facilities of data displays nd report generation **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** It should Haa some features of open order report which can be used for real time data analysis also one can handle all the features at same time when it generate from another app **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using for data analysis and report generation also handles data of orders of retail industry ### 13. pretty good **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emin K. | Managing Partner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Easy to use without any technical support. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** A little bit slow when you work with huge data sets **Recommendations to others considering TIBCO Data Virtualization:** It's all about your needs, if you have complex data and virtualization ,consider well when making your choice. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trying to work with multiple data sources ### 14. Technology development RAN Optimization Engineer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Masood A. | RAN Development Optimization Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Visualization and their forecasting analysis **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Scheduling alerts and rules for alarms and KPI thresholds **Recommendations to others considering TIBCO Data Virtualization:** Very useful tool used for data virtualization and analysis **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analysing day to day and longer trend of performance KPI's ### 15. The experience was a mixed bag. Some positive some negative. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sagar K. | Data Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** The data blending of this software is really amazing and second to none. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** When you add more than 2 data sources, the steps of data ingestion increase which doesn't make sense because we are following the same steps as before. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mainly use this software with data integration and blending. The blending part is certainly better than other products in the market right now. ### 16. Performance & Visials Quality **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gajendra K. | Technical Team Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2022 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** I personally liked the visuals quality and easy representation of data with minimal supervision. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** It's complex to understand if you are new in the area of data visualization. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** I created several descriptive reports and able to show the trends from the past data easily. ### 17. Avoiding ETL using TIBCO Data Virtualization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naga Ravi Teja D. | Senior Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Perfomance of complex queries Time taken to implement. Savings on ETL jobs. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Implemention on SAP not on par with RDBMS. Data Lake support integration is not on par. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Avoiding writing ETL jobs for moving data from platform to another. Simplifying architecture removing some avoidable storage compartments. Deduplication of data. ### 18. Real Time data virtualization and security expert **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pallavi T. | Software Quality engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** 1. Deliver data faster and cheaper 2. Protects data 3. Increase in productivity **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** 1. Expensive for small scale industry 2. UI needs to improve 3. Modern methodology should be integrated **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use TIBCO for our real-time data analysis and its real-time analysis as well. We use this tool to secure disparate data sources and their usage across different networks and platforms. ### 19. It's very user friendly and very simple to create interactive dashboards with spotfire **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** P K. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** I liked creating the interactive dashboards more in spotfire **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Sometimes facing slowness while loading the information links **Recommendations to others considering TIBCO Data Virtualization:** Please use this data visualization tool, it is having very good features as compared to other similar details. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualising the data using spotfire, the benefits are it is giving us a smooth way to create interactive dashboards ### 20. Best data visualization product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taraka R. | Senior Business Systems Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** I like the way how it handles robust data and simplifies reading data otherwise which is not possible **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** I like everything about this product and there is nothing to dislike about this product **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** robust data that is hard to read and make meaningful use of it is being used now with this tool to create visualizations and to make sense of it. ### 21. User friendly, Recommended **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Simple UI, user friendly, easy to pick up, reliable. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** occupies much space, it runs slowly sometimes especially when the data is large. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** I utilize TIBCO to make report, it demonstrates clearly and easy to understand. ### 22. TIBCO Data Virtualization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** TIBCO Data Virtualization supports various data sources, on-premise or in the cloud, and helps in easy access, integrated and published for use by analytical users or other applications. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Performance and UI aspects can be further enhanced. **Recommendations to others considering TIBCO Data Virtualization:** Good tool in Hybrid IT world. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collecting data from hybrid cloud sources and getting single view and management. ### 23. Tibco data virtualization review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Integrate disparate data review in real time.Its a great tool. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Nothing I can think of. But is not compatible with many software and tools **Recommendations to others considering TIBCO Data Virtualization:** We used primarily used for integration **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** I helps a lot in real time analytics which can expedite deciaion makong process. ### 24. Visualization is too good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** User friendly attributes and simple and visualization is good **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Sql queries should be auto corrected ,this is not available **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used other products,but look and feel of tibco is too good ### 25. Tibco data virtualization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Working with real time data. Integration with data source in real time **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Cost and licencing of the product rest all are good **Recommendations to others considering TIBCO Data Virtualization:** Best tool for the data virtualization **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zero replication: integration od data draw from multiple sources without moving or replicating ### 26. Secure integration **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Data Protection Faster and Cheaper information delivery **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** First time setup is burdensome. User Interface is not good **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data management ### 27. Easy to use data virtualization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edward M. | Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** The UI is easy to use and the ability to use query editor in TDV Studio is awesome **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Progress in increasing functionality has been held back due to recent acquisitions and AWS native data sources are lacking behind competitors now **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating an abstraction layer of data across different data sources to be used by various BI tools ### 28. Good tool for virtualization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jamal E. | Senior Technology Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** The ability to expose your data as a service. ability to use the product as an ETL tool **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Performance and some bottle necks. Sometimes doesn't integrate well with other programming languages in terms of connection and querying **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Joining your data data from different sources. use it as an ETL tool to bring data from different sources ### 29. Good on virtualization; Deployments could use some work **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Tibco is a great way to quickly set up federated queries across heterogeneous sources. **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** The migration/deployment capabilities are a little funky especially when trying to deploy a particular service within a web service container. We also have difficulties with race conditions when different teams deploy the same object at different deployment intervals. Also, A lot of end users get confused about how to optimize their queries and understanding how to leveraqe the explain plans. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Federating different sources. Quick way to integrate without having to create complex ETL jobs ### 30. Moderate **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sohail W. | Engineering Head, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** I like the User interface - that help in navigation **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Some times if we have huge data sets - latency issues **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualization ### 31. Good product **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Matches the business use case .IT has potential **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Complex environment , deploying the solution was not an easy one **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Tibco silver fabric for containerization ### 32. Good Product but... **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Ability to add multiple sources, on-premise **What do you dislike about TIBCO Data Virtualization?** Better connectivity for Cloud Platforms. **What problems is TIBCO Data Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bringing in multiple sources together for users ## TIBCO Data Virtualization Discussions - [What is Tibco data virtualization?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-tibco-data-virtualization) - 1 comment - [View TIBCO Data Virtualization pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/tibco-data-virtualization/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-25+16%3A58%3A48+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7ba66285-d764-46d5-87b8-c904cb1676c7&secure%5Btoken%5D=67c230e3a260ca5b3922da33e7d1f502a5cd862732355fa75c34fd347d810144&format=llm_user) ## TIBCO Data Virtualization Features **Administration** - Database Management - Access Control - Data Security **Federation** - Architecture - Provisioning - Orchestration - API / Integrations **Transformation** - Data Visualization - Application Performance - Data Modeling ## Top TIBCO Data Virtualization Alternatives - [Denodo](https://www.g2.com/products/denodo/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (39 reviews) - [SAP HANA Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-hana-cloud-2025-10-01/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (522 reviews) - [AWS Glue](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-glue/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (194 reviews)