ibi iProcess (discontinued) vs. SAP NetWeaver BPM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ibi iProcess (discontinued)
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
ibi 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
SAP BPM
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management is a business process management offering and application infrastructure. It supports joint modeling of processes, central process execution via a Java-based engine, provision of interfaces for users, and integration of business rules into processes.N/A
Pricing
ibi iProcess (discontinued)SAP NetWeaver BPM
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ibi iProcess (discontinued)SAP BPM
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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ibi iProcess (discontinued)SAP NetWeaver BPM
Features
ibi iProcess (discontinued)SAP NetWeaver BPM
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ibi iProcess (discontinued)
7.7
1 Ratings
2% below category average
SAP NetWeaver BPM
10.0
2 Ratings
24% above category average
Dashboards9.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Standard reports7.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Custom reports7.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
ibi iProcess (discontinued)
8.4
2 Ratings
1% above category average
SAP NetWeaver BPM
10.0
2 Ratings
18% above category average
Process designer9.02 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Process simulation9.02 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Business rules engine8.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
SOA support9.02 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Process player8.02 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Support for modeling languages7.02 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Form builder8.02 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Model execution9.02 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
ibi iProcess (discontinued)
-
Ratings
SAP NetWeaver BPM
10.0
2 Ratings
18% above category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
ibi iProcess (discontinued)
-
Ratings
SAP NetWeaver BPM
10.0
2 Ratings
21% above category average
Content management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
ibi iProcess (discontinued)SAP NetWeaver BPM
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ibi iProcess (discontinued)SAP NetWeaver BPM
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
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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SAP
It is well suited when we need to integrate business processes with SAP ERP and SAP CRM - the solution can be integrated with business rules/procedures defined in SAP ERP/CRM and NetWeaver can be used to monitor the rules and flag off exceptions. When there are multiple workflows running, it tends to slow down running of these processes. Also, it entirely depends on SAP portal for it to run efficiently.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • 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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SAP
  • Virtual paper trail. Iterations of process and current documentation are all stored as "artifacts", leaving a great trail.
  • Configuration of users. BPM somewhat magically determines which users will be impacted and automates rules.
  • A pro (that is also a con) is the design interface. If you know what you are doing, it is incredibly powerful and malleable.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • It is complex to use.
  • The official support for the tool is not available anymore through TIBCO.
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SAP
  • Live readings would be nice.
  • Easier to maneuver
  • Work with all systems with the press of one keystroke
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
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SAP
As a big fan of SAP in general, the BPM solution fits right in with all the other things SAP does well, and does it with incredible efficiency
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Usability
Discontinued Products
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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SAP
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
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SAP
We have our own tech support for systems, I would say they probably could use more training on it, I don't really think it's anything regarding the SAP system, but more the knowledge they have on the system itself. It seems to take longer for them to fix any issues we may come across.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
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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SAP
I found the initial setup of NetWeaver is much simpler than other products especially in an SAP environment where we have SAP ERP/HRM/CRM as it can be well integrated with other SAP products. The only drawback is the need/dependency on SAP Portal. It is better suited in an environment where SAP ERP is running.
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Return on Investment
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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SAP
  • Helped us harness integrated benefit from having SAP ERP/CRM by leveraging NetWeaver to define business processes/rules and monitor exceptions
  • Did not have any negative experience except for the fact that at times when multiple rules run, it can be somewhat slow
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