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TIBCO® BPM Enterprise

Score7 out of 10

56 Reviews and Ratings

What is TIBCO® BPM Enterprise?

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is a business process management platform with capabilities for process automation, process documentation, human capital management, process patterns, and predictive operations analytics.

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TIBCO BPM Enterprise Login Screen
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Operational Monitoring dashboard
Organization Browser

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Top Performing Features

  • Dashboards

    Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Standard reports

    The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Custom reports

    Users can create custom reports.

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Model execution

    Ability to execute model and build code without programming skills

    Category average: 7.3

  • Process player

    Step-by-step analysis of model to validate business rules

    Category average: 8.3

  • Support for modeling languages

    Support for modeling languages like BPML, BPEL, and BMMN.

    Category average: 8.1

A major player in the BPM space and not to ignore to review if you are looking out for BPM

Pros

  • Integrate with multiple sources
  • Has mostly all the adapters to connect to legacy and new systems
  • On premise and cloud

Cons

  • Code compare to see the differences
  • Continuous integration and automate build process

Return on Investment

  • Overall TIBCO has a positive impact on us with respect to managing the process

Other Software Used

SAP NetWeaver BPM, Mule ESB

ActiveMatrix BPM to be next generation TIBCO BPM, nearly

Pros

  • Good process design, clear and new generation Eclipse interface
  • Different levels of data within the process, case management at its full extent
  • Capabilities driven task assignment, no more limits to users & groups

Cons

  • Architecture is quite complex, not that easy to set up and run
  • Still a lot of room to be as stable in production as iProcess was
  • Albeit in version 4 it still feels not mature enough for critical applications

Return on Investment

  • Project management with ActiveMatrix is more costly than it was with iProcess
  • Process definition is easier if you rely on capabilities and not user/roles
  • Can implement nearly any kind of business process, executing it really well on the very complex
  • Superb integration

Other Software Used

TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, TIBCO Rendezvous, Elasticsearch, Apache Spark, Logstash, Cloudera Manager

A precious product...

Pros

  • Workspace and Openspace Console that offers a powerful method for troubleshooting and viewing the routing within a process
  • Easy representation of the corporate organization
  • Powerful IDE to design a business process as a TIBCO Business Studio BPM Edition
  • Testing and Debugging

Cons

  • Improvement of the simulation

Return on Investment

  • The managment of the roles is very positive.
  • The resumption of the processes in error is very powerful and it has a fantastic impact.
  • The high resource consumption can to be a problem, but in any case for such a powerful product it is inevitable.

Alternatives Considered

TIBCO Service Grid, TIBCO iProcess, TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service and TIBCO Spotfire

Other Software Used

TIBCO Service Grid, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, TIBCO BusinessWorks

Little experience with a product

Pros

  • Creating a good corporate management system
  • Good phase of logging and management of every business process
  • Good correlation with database drivers

Cons

  • Limited customization of movement validation flows

Return on Investment

  • In order to create a BPM management, you need to make a very solid data management model, which becomes very important in its reuse
  • The business process is very often unconnected with the implementation logic and therefore plays in favor of the re-usability of the software
  • Large customization at log level for which managing these tools can be handled minimizing effort

Alternatives Considered

TIBCO BusinessWorks

Other Software Used

TIBCO BusinessWorks

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM Review

Pros

  • The ability to easily generate low-code apps (with low code usage) tailored to meet your organization's needs.
  • Functionalities and Relocation Case Management Templates.
  • Support speed-of-process processes for opportunistic and quick experiments when you start an instance of a new business process, or share new actions on an existing process.

Cons

  • The TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM 4.0 platform could improve in process management that implements a large amount of data management.
  • Improve the business growth management of the company that decides to make use of the product.
  • By providing graphical tools that analyze the performance of growth and maintenance of processes.
  • Improve the audit and logging system.

Return on Investment

  • Organization of the company.
  • Maintaining business processes and facilitating evolution.
  • Analysis and reporting of business growth.

Other Software Used

TIBCO BusinessConnect, TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service