ARIS BPA vs TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM comparison

Software AG and TIBCO are both solutions in the Business Process Management (BPM) category. Software AG is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.0, while TIBCO is ranked #29 with an average rating of 7.5. Software AG holds a 3.1% mindshare in BPM, compared to TIBCO’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Software AG users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

ARIS BPA

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89% willing to recommend

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

ARIS BPA and TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM are products in the business process management domain. ARIS BPA has the upper hand in pricing and support, while TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM excels in its feature set and perceived value.

Features: ARIS BPA includes comprehensive modeling capabilities, process optimization features, and a wide range of tools for designing, analyzing, and optimizing complex processes. It is particularly suited for detailed modeling tasks. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM offers strong integration capabilities, real-time data analytics, and adaptability for dynamic environments requiring seamless data flow.

Room for Improvement: ARIS BPA could enhance its real-time analytics and integration capabilities. Its extensive feature set might benefit from a more intuitive user interface. The on-premise deployment could be streamlined further. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM would benefit from improving documentation for ease of deployment and expanding its feature set for less technical users. Optimization for resource use during deployment and operation could also be considered.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ARIS BPA offers streamlined deployment and comprehensive documentation, making setup straightforward. Its consistent support options further enhance user experience. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM, while offering extensive customization, may require more resources and technical know-how. However, it benefits from a global presence and a specialized partner network for enhanced service.

Pricing and ROI: ARIS BPA is known for cost-effectiveness at entry-level, providing efficient process optimization and lower initial costs that lead to a positive ROI. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM involves a higher upfront investment but offers greater long-term ROI through advanced data management and integration capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

ARIS BPA

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Design (6th)

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

29th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of ARIS BPA is 3.1%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Management (BPM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
ARIS BPA	3.1%
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM	0.9%
Other	96.0%

Business Process Management (BPM)

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BeenishMustafa

Consultant at KAFD DMC

Has improved process modeling and analysis while supporting integration with organizational data

The process design in ARIS BPA does help with our operational efficiency. What we are doing is object library management for various kinds of objects that we are using in ARIS BPA during our process modeling. We are using that to do a lot of analysis on how many times a system is being used in how many processes, who are the major stakeholders, and if we enhance one system, how is it going to impact other processes and integrated processes. This is helping us a lot. Everything related to ARIS BPA is helping us with regards to enhanced processes, strengthened controls, identifying risks, assessing process capabilities, and identifying where the gaps are and what kinds of activities within the processes are automated and manual. We are doing a lot of things with regards to the processes as it is at our heart. Processes are one thing and then we have different kinds of things which are related to it, such as SLAs, guidelines, and policy. We are identifying areas of improvement in other documents as well.

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Ray Ochieng

Integration Lead at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Powerful workflow definition enhances operational stability and efficiency

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is powerful for defining workflows. It is low code, so you don't need a lot of coding, and tasks are just drag and drop. It is also very stable as we haven't had issues with it going down or encountering any operational issues for a long time. The stability and rich features in workflow definition make it a valuable tool.

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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

"ARIS BPA provides very good visibility and control of processes because we have a concurrent license system. As a result, every person in our company and group is able to look at the published processes."

"Object oriented modeling allows us to trace what's going on with the specified object."

"The shared repository allows for cross-functional cooperation instead of doing things in a silo. You can operate cross-functionally and really work end-to-end, instead of dividing everything up on a functional basis."

"The matrix model makes building relations easier."

"One of the many advantages of ARIS is that it is supported by a very strong BPM community, which is critical for us. Although it has been in business for many years, it is still at an early stage of evolution. There are so many instances where your specific use case or requirement for using ARIS hasn't necessarily been matured across the sector. So, you need access to a very active community to help you explore possible solutions and ways in which ARIS can be used to achieve those use cases."

"Everything related to ARIS BPA is helping us with regards to enhanced processes, strengthened controls, identifying risks, assessing process capabilities, and identifying where the gaps are and what kinds of activities within the processes are automated and manual."

"Objects can be reused across different BPMNs and processes, so we can design new processes quicker and easier."

"The maintenance capabilities of ARIS BPM and the strong underlying database are particularly valuable."

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"The capacity for distributing the jobs in a workflow is an important feature."

"It is the best product because of its stability. ActiveMatrix 5.x is highly stable in production, and the downtime is very low. I have worked on a lot of service projects, and the engine is very stable, robust, and scalable. The development and change requests can be pushed quickly, and the mapper activity and SSLT kind of features are also good. It is easy to do changes, testing, and deployment. Its deployment is very easy, and we can automate a lot of scripts for our on-premises solution. I work for an investment bank, and we have automated a lot of processes for our customers. Previously, we used to develop scripts and tools. With version 6.x, everything is moved to Maven and other things. Environment handling is done mostly through DevOps tools. As compared to Mulesoft, the deployment and configuration are very easy in TIBCO."

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."

"TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is powerful for defining workflows."

"The scheduling and the calendar are very useful."

"For specific situations this can be a good solution and a simplified interface to work with."

"TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is powerful for defining workflows."

Cons

"The solution's processes are huge and it is not easy to get an overview of how things work. It needs to improve the interface. I would like to see the product include a better overview of processes and improve search."

"We do experience a lot of glitches with ARIS BPA. In the past one year we have seen issues and the ARIS administrator has raised tickets with Software AG regarding these issues."

"The reporting and the information query features could do with some improvement."

"The user experience's usability (in general) should be improved as the tool is updated."

"One thing that could be improved is regarding the handling of the content itself. Maybe ARIS could provide a set of best practices, or best processes, so that people do not have to start from scratch."

"ARIS needs to make a better user interface. The user interface sucks. The problem with ARIS is that they have two interfaces for the same product."

"I use it strictly for developing the business process model. I don't use it for the actual automation. I do that with Vtenext. I have standardized on Vtenext, and I don't use ARIS BPM anymore. The Vtenext UI is just as good, and it is much more tightly coupled to the underlying object model. I can get more done in one session with Vtenext rather than first going to ARIS BPM, then importing, and having to edit it for tight coupling."

"The standard out-of-the-box solutions for modeling are not so good. You have to do some configuration to make it easier and more user-friendly."

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"ActiveMatrix is in the middle field. MuleDB is more on the engineering side with Java and other things. SnapLogic is there are on the higher side with very low coding. TIBCO stays in the middle like IBM or Oracle. TIBCO can move towards IBM's way of doing. IBM has a big market and many varieties of products and good integration, which TIBCO doesn't have. It can have better integration. TIBCO's transition to the cloud is a little slow. As compared to Dell, Boomi, and Mulesoft. TIBCO took the steps a little later. TIBCO's ID was far better and easier to work with previously. TIBCO's 5.x ID was very good, and the development environment and the transition were easy. Version 6.5 onwards, it is a stable product, but it would be good if they can do something similar to version 5.4 with version 6. They should concentrate on this API market. It will give them the strength and the ability to grab the market back."

"It is not lightweight and requires a lot of disk space, memory, and CPU."

"The maintenance of the package could be improved."

"The scalability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"Technical support needs to be streamlined."

"My experience with tech support has not been very good. Most of the time, issues are escalated to level three, where they are either unresolved or take two weeks to address."

"The product is missing some means of addressing more complex BPM constructs and should interface with more platforms easily."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The setup cost and pricing depend on the license (Modeler, Viewer, Administrator)."

"If you can afford it, it's the best so far."

"The price could be better."

"In terms of pricing, it would be nice if it were more affordable."

"From my point of view, no, it is not cheap, but it is not too expensive because you get this big organization behind it, technical support, and all those things. It's not so expensive to use. It's a Rolls Royce in this field, I know that. Even for small organizations, they can get so much effect from using this tool, in a very fast way, so the money will be back in the customer's pocket very fast."

"I would recommend the product to only enterprise companies because of the pricing."

"Usually, our company buys technical support from the Software AG site. We bought the technical support for the first year of usage for ARIS version 6 and 7. So, when we migrated to ARIS version 7, we bought support only for the first year. Then, we didn't use it the next year. Our experience was that we use it only one to three times during the first year. Therefore, there wasn't much value for us to buy this service because we have no problem with using ARIS after the first year."

"Pricing is a bit on the higher side."

More ARIS BPA pricing and cost advice

"There are some discussions about perpetual licenses and conversions, but I'm not much familiar with them."

"TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is an expensive tool compared to others."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

No data available

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	32
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	47

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ARIS BPA?

The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ARIS BPA?

It is a bit expensive regarding ARIS BPA. However, ARIS BPA does save a lot of effort because this is one tool which can be used for multiple purposes and the viewers have the capability to perform...

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What needs improvement with ARIS BPA?

We are not using any what-if scenario features in ARIS BPA. Currently, we are not using the performance monitoring and compliance checks features in ARIS BPA. We have plans to use them, but current...

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What do you like most about TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM?

The product's initial setup phase is straightforward.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM?

It is not lightweight and requires a lot of disk space, memory, and CPU. Making it lightweight so it can run on a minimum processor and less memory would be beneficial. Additionally, the current wo...

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What is your primary use case for TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM?

We are using TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM for network deployment workflows. For example, if a customer is interested in getting a NetWorker, there is a workflow where we log in, get the customer details,...

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Also Known As

ARIS, ARIS BPM

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Overview

ARIS is the market-leading solution for professional business process management and modeling. Whether you want to document the "as-is" state of your operations for quality or certification reasons or design the "to-be" in terms of continuous improvement in your transformation program, ARIS is the best choice for establishing a single source of truth regarding all process excellence topics in your organization. It is for any organization looking to digitally transform their business, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution. ARIS helps you to make the most out of your processes with Process Mining, Risk & Compliance Management, RPA and much more.

What makes the difference?

The most comprehensive platform for process excellence in the market
Easy to use
Covers business & IT architecture from all angles
Full flexibility and >100 diagram types
Customer-driven development based on best practices
Strong partner ecosystem

ARIS is the market-leading solution for any organization and ideally suited to digitally transform the organization, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution.

Software AG

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is used to develop, deploy, execute and manage Business Process Management centric applications. Use TIBCO Business Studio BPM Edition in conjunction with ActiveMatrix BPM to model business processes. It helps to encompass applications that primarily automate both: business processes (sequences of tasks) to be executed by human users, and technical processes (the flow of data) to be executed by enterprise applications.

TIBCO

Sample Customers

Tesco, Weifu, Airbus, Siemens, Proximus, Alicorp, Sekerbank, Bancor, Philips,Sky, Emirates NBD, Dubai Municipality, Suva, U.S. Army, Australia Post, Westfalen Weser Energie - ARIS serves customers across all industries and of every size worldwide. Companies trust ARIS as the market leader for process excellence with more than 30 years of experience in the market, 10 million users worldwide, from 1 user companies to the Fortune 500.

ADIS, Citi, Bank of Montreal, First Citizens Bank

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