Camunda vs. TIBCO® BPM Enterprise

Camunda Platform is well suited for scenarios where there are different stages in a business flow and the flow is driven by user action at each stage. For example placing of an order on an ecommerce platform. Depending on whether user was able to make the payment or not the workflow would go to dispatch or retry stage. Now the retry stage would trigger further actions like sending follow up emails etc. Likewise, dispatch stage would have a different set of actions. Since every order is important and we need to know where it stands, using Camunda Platform is imperative. Camunda Platform might not be a right choice where just a one off thing needs to be done. For example, uploading of product information by user or periodic processing of heavy images by a worker. These are all either one step processes or periodic automated processes where we can track the status without using a business modeler like Camunda Platform.

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The scenario where TIBCO ActiveMatrix is well suited is in the scenario where there are more long-term business processes and in a complex corporate organization where there are many users with different privileges to perform actions on the same processes. It's less appropriate where there are no complex business process especially if the resubmit of the task in error is not required.

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• Task orchestration
• Freeware
• Graphical interface allows normal users to understand business process model diagrams more intuitively

Incentivized

• TIBCO offers multiple ways to implement the sophisticated forms of event-driven BPM. It also balances the combination of business rules and AMX BPM for a different variety of IT Applications
• It depends on the Enterprise service bus which is message oriented middleware
• The integration of Spotfire with AMXBPM and BusinessEvents is a unique advantage

Incentivized

• Documentation - It is usually daunting for beginners because of lack of good documentation
• Simplified setup on local machine for Camunda Server would help developers test changes quickly
• Easier migration from one deployment version of a Camunda process to another deployment version would help in making changes and deploying them faster.
• Heap memory management becomes issue at times resulting in stuck processes. This needs to be resolved.

Incentivized

• One of the challenges we faced with AMX BPM is the way the data is kept and it is hard to troubleshoot when a work items goes into halted state. Either there should be better documentation of what is under the hood or simplify the way work items data are stored.
• Assigning privileges to system action where multiple organization models are used, seems to create ambiguity, as per the manual: "If different privileges are assigned to the same system action at different levels in the organization model, each level is checked when determining whether a user has the necessary privilege to be able to perform a particular system action. If the lowest level has no required privileges assigned, the parent entity is checked, and so on up the organization model hierarchy to the default, system-wide value."
• It is cumbersome to add the same system action in all org models even though it won't be used everywhere.
• When AMX BPM integrates with other products such as AMX BusinessWork, there should be a better way for the work items to handle broken communication. Data recovery seems to be an issue.

Incentivized

TIBCO BPM Enterprise can be integrated with other technologies like React UI which can be used to customize front end and TIBCO Business Works for processing. Services created in TIBCO BPM Enterprise can be exposed to REST which can be shared as API to external systems. Users can be created and modifies very easily using out of the box TIBCO BPM Openspace and Workspace. Events can be customized and this data can be used to generate reports.

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Camunda provides pretty standard product support offerings.

Because our support team is always available also for development suggestions.

Incentivized

TIBCO BPM Enterprise was selected for its easy to use features for the developers. Out of the box TIBCO BPM Openspace and Workspace is very convenient for the Admin users for managing the users and application requests. Support for scripted deployment using ANT is very useful and apart from this, deployment can also be done within the TIBCO BPM Studio for Designers by connecting to a deployment server and deployment package can be bundled in a deployment archive (DAA file) and that can be shared with the deployment team who can use TIBCO BPM Administrator for deploying the application.

Incentivized

• We've built a good business around developing and deploying Camunda for our clients over the last 7 years.
• Our clients are finding it a cost-effective way to try before they buy.
• There's an over-reliance on big offshore outsourcing shops, which hurts ROI and success rates.

• TIBCO BPM has improved efficiency for our organization, it enables our organization to determine what areas of a project appear to be lacking.
• It enables the best collaboration since our employees understand what to do, including how to respond in unusual circumstances and manage scope.
• With the TIBCO BPM Tool taking care of process routing, management, and execution, our organization can focus on core areas and increase productivity.

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