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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Emptoris

    Score5.5 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $59

    Per User Per Month

    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ATIBCO Cloud Nimbus was a business process analysis offering, from Palo Alto-headquartered in TIBCO. The product was sunsetted in 2024.

    $199

    per month

    Pricing
    EmptorisTIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Emptoris
    $59.00
    Per User Per Month
    Essentials
    $199
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EmptorisTIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    EmptorisTIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Contract Authoring
    Comparison of Contract Authoring features of Emptoris and TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Feature
    Emptoris
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Contract creation9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract templates7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Clause library/saved fields8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Guided logic8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract Collaboration
    Comparison of Contract Collaboration features of Emptoris and TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Feature
    Emptoris
    7.9
    4 Ratings
    4% below category average
    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Contract sharing8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract editing8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaborating on contracts7.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    MS Word plug-in7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Approval process8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interdepartmental workflows7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract Monitoring
    Comparison of Contract Monitoring features of Emptoris and TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Feature
    Emptoris
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Contract database7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract search7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract milestone reminders & alerts8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom contract reports7.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tracking contract status8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance check7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Emptoris and TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Feature
    Emptoris
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Emptoris and TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Feature
    Emptoris
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    7.9
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Emptoris and TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Feature
    Emptoris
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    EmptorisTIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    EmptorisTIBCO Cloud Nimbus (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    If you have a highly bureaucratic organization that is heavily focused on procurement, Emptoris can provide some value. It seemed to be very good at linking the contract information to procurement for better spend control. If you are trying to implement a standalone contract management solution that allows you to easily create contracts and store them in a central location, this isn't the tool for you. There doesn't appear to be a simplified implementation. In general, when a SaaS solution has a complicated and expensive implementation, I am very skeptical. This does not show that the vendor is trying to move customers forward on a single code base. If that many things need to be done during implementation, you are starting to customize the solution for every customer. This hurts the vendor's ability to scale and make improvements in the future.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    TIBCO Cloud Nimbus is a business app for process documentation. It gives visualization of how people, processes and systems should interact. People from your organization can generate diagrams and how things should be processed. Good for technical and IT people to draw up diagrams so they know what they can follow for their IT process. Good for big IT teams. Could be little complex for some people. Might not feed everyone's needs but it's helpful for IT teams that want to document and diagram their technical work. You can create a step-by-step workflow management for tech people and also have non technical people follow the diagrams. It takes some time but you get the hang of it sooner or later.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Document protection - the Check Out contract feature is a great way to allow external parties to make modifications to contract language without the ability to accept those changes. Those redlines can then be imported back into Emptoris and reviewed or further modified as needed.
    • Notifications & reminders - you can trigger an email manually from within the system, or you can configure automated notifications andreminders to alert users when a new task is received or has aged a given amount of days, etc.
    • Interview wizard - there is a lot of value in the interview wizard. Administrators can configure screens with selecting options via check boxes, radio buttons, or typed-in values. Variables and conditions can be used to selectively populate fields within the contract or apply other options, making for a quick and convenient method to generate contracts conforming to corporate standards.
    • Field customization - administrators can customize a list of options for various fields including contract substatus, address type, and user created business term variables.
    • Approvals - many different options are available to configure approvals to trigger automatically upon presenting and/or executing the contract including specific individuals, one or more approver groups, or based upon various criteria including terms within the contract, type of contract, or the contract's owning organization.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Team collaboration.
    • Nice diagrams.
    • Solids functions.
    • Pretty easy to use.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Reporting, Emptoris comes with standard reports which can not always can be fit into our business. This needs to be improved. I hope Emptoris is addressing this issue in their latest releases.
    • Though the feature of editing language in MS word is excellent, loading MS word takes time.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Could use more integrations.
    • Customer support could be better.
    • UI could be better.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    There are a lot of new, exciting products coming out in every field and I believe that there is always something better right over the horizon. If it was my choice, I would review my usage of Emptoris and other software periodically to make sure I'm using the most efficient software possible.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    IBM
    Emptoris is a pretty robust tool overall. Learning curve is small and it is simple to use
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    IBM
    The above rating for the overall support from Emptoris is for their product / product support, roll out training and refresher training / ongoing training, which is not only good but superior. There is no major or reconizable bad review that can be given to Emptoris at this point in time, from where is stands.
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    I am a fan of Ariba to be used for the entire lifecycle of Sourcing. From RFX's to cutting PO's. I feel Emptoris misses the boat on the idea of a "One Stop Shop" for all of your Sourcing/Purchasing needs
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • We won the 2005 Baseline Magazine Award for best ROI related to a technology implementation with an ROI 5544% (see 2005 Baseline ROI Awards, GlaxoSmithkline).
    • We always felt we could do "two times the work, with half the people and deliver double the savings".
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    Discontinued Products
    • Clear documentations.
    • Clear communication to IT team.
    • Quicker workflow.
    Incentivized
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