ActiveMatrix BPM to be next generation TIBCO BPM, nearly
December 14, 2018

ActiveMatrix BPM to be next generation TIBCO BPM, nearly

Juan Francisco Tavira | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM

TIBCO ActiveMatrix has been used as a TIBCO iProcess replacement as a BPM for business processes managing direct sales with the customer (those that are complex and cannot be solved within a day or a single call).
  • Good process design, clear and new generation Eclipse interface
  • Different levels of data within the process, case management at its full extent
  • Capabilities driven task assignment, no more limits to users & groups
  • Architecture is quite complex, not that easy to set up and run
  • Still a lot of room to be as stable in production as iProcess was
  • Albeit in version 4 it still feels not mature enough for critical applications
  • Project management with ActiveMatrix is more costly than it was with iProcess
  • Process definition is easier if you rely on capabilities and not user/roles
  • Can implement nearly any kind of business process, executing it really well on the very complex
  • Superb integration
ActiveMatrix BPM is is (or was, as its future is uncertain) a TIBCO replacement for iProcess. It is not as fast and reliable but it has a new generation of capabilities such as application server architecture, capabilities task routing, process patterns and so on.
It feels it is nearly to be finished. Appian sells a cloud [solution' but it doesn't say that it is only a public cloud and relies on third-party software.
It is well suited on heavily integrated scenarios where it takes advantage of BW integration and therefore it is easy to connect to everything. Complex business processes are welcome also. But if your organization has several environments (DEV, TEST, QA, STAGGING, PROD) and your dev/deploy/admin roles are isolated, promoting software is a bit difficult.

TIBCO® BPM Enterprise Feature Ratings

Process designer
9
Process simulation
7
Business rules engine
7
SOA support
9
Form builder
8
Model execution
7