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IBM System Architect vs TIBCO Business Studio comparison

IBM and TIBCO are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. IBM is ranked #23, while TIBCO is ranked #20 with an average rating of 7.5. IBM holds a 0.4% mindshare in BPD, compared to TIBCO’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 50% of TIBCO users are willing to recommend the solution.
IBM System Architect
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Categories and Ranking

IBM System Architect
Ranking in Business Process Design
23rd
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TIBCO Business Studio
Ranking in Business Process Design
20th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of IBM System Architect is 0.4%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Business Studio is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

it_user542103 - PeerSpot reviewer
It has helped in supporting the development of an Enterprise Data Model
Data model development: This has built-in ways to create multiple, separate solution data models, including ways to link to an Enterprise Data Model (EDM). Other objects are encyclopedia-wide and need a different approach for managing solution-specific diagrams with an ability to query, e.g…
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Choon Hwa Khoh - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers good flexibility to users
Improvements are required in the tool licensing area as it is a bit expensive. The tool's user interface needs improvement. If you don't know the tool as a beginner, it is very hard for you to design the workflow. The interface is actually quite confusing. There are a lot of places we need to configure here and there since there are multiple locations involved. The features or functions available are good enough for me to implement for my business activities. The tool can include topics like AI. I encountered an issue with the tool during the deployment into production. The server itself experienced a slowness-related issue caused by the configuration, where the resources were not enough for TIBCO, not because of the physical server. I raised a ticket with the support team and got some advice from them. I then went to study the server configuration, and finally, I found out that there will be a need to increase the threats in order for the server to process the multiple parallel incoming requests.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Business Studio?
The setup cost is definitely reasonable. It is now reasonable since they changed it recently with the new TIBCO platform. Enterprise is completely different.
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What needs improvement with TIBCO Business Studio?
An artificial intelligence feature that evaluates the quality of the code developed with one click would definitely be good.
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What is your primary use case for TIBCO Business Studio?
I am only using the licenses. We are a consulting company, so we use the solution to configure solutions for other customers.
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Also Known As

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Overview

IBM Rational System Architect is an enterprise architecture tool, that you can use to visualize, analyze, and communicate all aspects of an enterprise architecture by applying industry-standard frameworks, notations, and methods. After you capture and understand an architecture, you can plan and implement its future improvements intelligently.
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TIBCO Business Studio is a standards-based business process modeling environment that enables business experts and process authors to collaborate to create process models, organization models, data models, forms and pageflow models for deployment to TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM. It is also the common Eclipse-based environment for building composite applications across the entire ActiveMatrix family, including business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications.
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Sample Customers

Wuxi Lake Cloud, Nationwide, ETI, IDS Scheer
Airbus Helicopters, Bank of Montreal, BroadReach Healthcare, Caesars Entertainment, CargoSmart, Children's Hospital, Citibank Brazil, Citihub, Colonial Life, Con-way, Consorsbank, Deutsche Bahn, EDF Energy, FrieslandCampina, Hellmann Logistics, Ignite, Istrabenz Plini, Sage Human Capital, Siemens Healthcare
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