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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Drools

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ADrools is an open source business rules management system developed by Red Hat.N/A

    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ATIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is a business process management platform with capabilities for process automation, process documentation, human capital management, process patterns, and predictive operations analytics.N/A
    Pricing
    DroolsTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DroolsTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Features
    DroolsTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Drools and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Drools
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    7.3
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Drools and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Drools
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    8.1
    17 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings10.015 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings9.513 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings6.79 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings7.015 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Drools and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Drools
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    7.0
    10 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Drools and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Drools
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    10.0
    12 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Content management00 Ratings10.012 Ratings
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    DroolsTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
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    Score4 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DroolsTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DroolsTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    As an open source rule engine and product suite, Drools is well suited for the small and middle scale business to manage and integrate the rules to build the rule-driven system which can process the business-critical data and events to produce the automated decision. It is better to use Drools in the well-secured environment (back-end behind the DMZ), not putting it on the customer-facing front or exposing it directly the to public where may bring direct security risk in the enterprise environment. Drools still needs a lot hardening on the security side.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO BPM Enterprise allows integration with Corporate LDAP and at the same time define Role Based Access Control which helps in authentication and authorization of the users. It supports both default database and custom database. Drag and drop feature allows easy and faster way to do the development. It has support for deployment from design studio and scripted deployment as well. TIBCO BPM Enterprise has a wide range of plugins for development.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Writing rules with business focus
    • Rules evolution and maintenance
    • separate business logic from program code
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    Cloud Software Group
    • 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
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Fusion doesn't support persistence of working memory, which brings some extra high availability risk to our business.
    • Guvnor still has a lot room to be implemented, it is not so user-friendly for non-technical people, so a lot of business users complain it is hard to master.
    • Rule execution server doesn't even have JMX implemented, hard to be monitored.
    • Drools is still lacking support for key Web services standards.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • A little bit too conservative. Not really anything leading edge. [Tibco] has plenty of customers, and that means they will probably be around forever, but [product enhancements] seem to be more [abundant in competitor product offerings].
    • It would be great to have some pre-defined themes. Pie chart labels - it would be great to get more options for sizing and placement.
    • I find it hard to trust the online portal too much. I doubt the security that is offered by this software.
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    Usability
    Open Source
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    Cloud Software Group
    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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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Cloud Software Group
    Because our support team is always available also for development suggestions.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    I did not participate in drools choice. I can only compare drools with the previous situation which was using nothing.
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    Cloud Software Group
    For BPM we looked at some IBM products suites, BPM Online, Oracle products and Pega Systems. The decision to go with AMX BPM was based on the evaluation by the software architect team and the cost of acquiring the TIBCO suites.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • The IT department quickly adopted Drools as it is a very good java-based rule engine, which saves a lot of time to meet the project timeline and balanced our business requirements.
    • Recently we start considering the OpenRules, which may be more business user-friendly.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • 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
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