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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ansible

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.

    $5,000

    per year

    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
    AnsibleTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Editions & Modules
    Basic Tower
    5,000
    per year
    Enterprise Tower
    10,000
    per year
    Premium Tower
    14,000
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AnsibleTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    AnsibleTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
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    Red Hat
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    Cloud Software Group
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    265 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    210 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    263 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    166 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    201 Answers
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    Features
    AnsibleTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    -
    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 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    -
    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 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    -
    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 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    10.0
    12 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Content management00 Ratings10.012 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AnsibleTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (292 ratings)
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (184 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AnsibleTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Red Hat
    I think it's the best defacto orchestrator for automation because it's so easy to integrate in other tools to it (dynatrace, cyberark, terraform, etc). It is a lot for a new or smaller team to use so I wouldn't recommend it to a new team using Ansible, in that case using Ansible navigator is a better start to understanding playbooks/inventories before diving into the complexity of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. EDA also takes a lot of connectivity between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and target systems to get working which can be difficult in very locked down envs unless you have approval from many other teams like networking and security.
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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
    Red Hat
    • Standardize controls and visibility for automation.
    • Provide RBAC and Vault for improved automation security and support.
    • Job Scheduling is much more effective than Cron or other home-grown solutions.
    • The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform API is one of the best features as it makes automation accessible from any other platform.
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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
    Red Hat
    • Ansible is still not truly declarative like Terraform.
    • Simple automation is fine, but creating complex, scalable automation scripts is very difficult to learn.
    • For a higher number of nodes, Ansible consumes a lot of resources. It needs the paid version of AAP, which requires a cost.
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Red Hat
    We are extremely happy with the use of AAP. It's better than expected, There is almost no limit when thinking of automation. The only problem is that the day to day is consuming a big part of our time. Patching and checking vulnerabilities are virtually killing us. But we can only improve with AAP.
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    Cloud Software Group
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    Usability
    Red Hat
    Everything has room for improvement, but Ansible is the best tool out there for what it does and what it can do. There are plenty of features and capabilities that can be added, but it's just a matter of time before it happens.
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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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    Performance
    Red Hat
    Great in almost every way compared to any other configuration management software. The only thing I wish for is python3 support. Other than that, YAML is much improved compared to the Ruby of Chef. The agentless nature is incredibly convenient for managing systems quickly, and if a member of your term has no terminal experience whatsoever they can still use the UI.
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    Cloud Software Group
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Red Hat
    There is a lot of good documentation that Ansible and Red Hat provide which should help get someone started with making Ansible useful. But once you get to more complicated scenarios, you will benefit from learning from others. I have not used Red Hat support for work with Ansible, but many of the online resources are helpful.
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    Cloud Software Group
    Because our support team is always available also for development suggestions.
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    Implementation Rating
    Red Hat
    I spoke on this topic today!
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    Cloud Software Group
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Red Hat
    AAP compares favorably with Terraform and Power Automate. I don't have much experience with Terraform, but I find AAP and Ansible easier to use as well as having more capabilities. Power Platform is also an excellent automation tool that is user friendly but I feel that Ansible has more compatibility with a variety of technologies.
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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
    Red Hat
    • First, it keeps our entire server infrastructure aligned with our standards and reduces the time and effort needed to maintain our systems.
    • Automate routine IT tasks to save time, reduce errors, and ensure every server is configured and updated consistently.
    • Tasks that used to take our teams weeks to complete manually now run automatically and reliably, with full visibility, making our infrastructure management more effective and our compliance tracking much easier.
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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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    ScreenShots

    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise Screenshots

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