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Fortra’s Automate vs. ibi iProcess (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Fortra’s Automate

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFortra's Automate (formerly HelpSystems Automate) is a robotic process automation platform for desktop applications. According to the vendor, it offers the ability to automate almost any business process, and no technical expertise is required—IT and business users alike can understand the drag-and-drop interface.N/A

    ibi iProcess (discontinued)

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/Aibi iProcess (or TIBCO iProcess) was a BPM product used to handle human-centric and integration-centric processes. The product is no longer available for sale.N/A
    Pricing
    Fortra’s Automateibi iProcess (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Fortra’s Automateibi iProcess (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Features
    Fortra’s Automateibi iProcess (discontinued)
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Fortra’s Automate and ibi iProcess (discontinued)
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    ibi iProcess (discontinued)
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Fortra’s Automate and ibi iProcess (discontinued)
    Feature
    Fortra’s Automate
    -
    Ratings
    ibi iProcess (discontinued)
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Process designer00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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    Fortra’s Automateibi iProcess (discontinued)
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    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Robotic Process Automation
    Score8.4 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    UiPath Automation Platform
    Score8.5 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Fortra’s Automateibi iProcess (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Fortra’s Automateibi iProcess (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fortra
    It's great for repetitive or regularly scheduled activities like reports or file transfers. However, it's not so good for on-demand activities. It doesn't support task shortcuts to run specific tasks. If it did it would be perfect.
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    iProcess is a perfect BPM tool that has been able to solve complex business problems and situations, but with time newer and easier to use tools have also been developed by competing companies and thus this tool needs to evolve with the competition. Newer and more easy to use tools are also available from TIBCO as well such as AMX BPM.
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    Pros
    Fortra
    • Very detailed task builder. Easy to read step by step a task's operation even if you don't have much programming knowledge.
    • Scheduling for automation jobs is very flexible. Allows us to create all kinds of job schedules as needed.
    • Organization of jobs, tasks, conditions is done well. Allows us to easily manage our items.
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    • Performance. TIBCO iProcess is the most performant BPM I've even seen.
    • Manage large workloads. It can handle tens of thousands users and groups, hundreds of thousand or million live cases.
    • It can also manage very large and complex process definitions.
    • Very stable, once you get your business process up and running it is very stable.
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    Cons
    Fortra
    • A reporting capability on tasks: enabled, disabled, by folder, by trigger, etc. Currently there is none.
    • An "OR" in their conditional statements - currently there is only "AND".
    • Some kind of temporary backup when changing a task - separate from the current back up/restore functionality (which works well).
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    • It is complex to use.
    • The official support for the tool is not available anymore through TIBCO.
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    Usability
    Fortra
    It's just very easy to use, extremely versatile, and very reliable. It's hard to find use cases where it won't work.
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    It integrates all the BPM principles along with the great user interface and independent modules and engines. All the modules are separate and stand alone and thus provides easier understanding and ease of support.
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    Support Rating
    Fortra
    Support is very helpful and responsive, although using the tool is very user-friendly, so I hardly use the service.
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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fortra
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    iProcess is a previous generation product, it lacks OSGi and cloud so it is seen as "old". Due to this, it is difficult to choose new installations. All other options seem shiny in comparison. But regarding performance and stability, it is still unsurpassed.
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    Return on Investment
    Fortra
    • It's been a net positive as AutoMate requires less eyes on specific tasks so that people can focus attention elsewhere and do more analysis.
    • Less manual work also decreases the chances of mistakes and/or missed jobs. Since Automate can schedule everything, send email notifications, etc., there is less time wasted.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Numbers are difficult to crunch, the best impact is that you always know the status of a single business case and the system runs fast and smoothly; your users will forget what waiting is.
    • Case tracking is perfectly accurate, having that you can extract statistical data and predict and optimize your business very accurately.
    • TIBCO iProcess administrators must be quite skilled; that increases your overall costs so the ROI will be delayed a bit.
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