Alfresco vs. ibi iProcess (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alfresco
Score 9.9 out of 10
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The Alfresco platform, from Hyland, delivers comprehensive cloud-native content services. It is used to intelligently activate processes and content to accelerate the flow of business.N/A
ibi iProcess (discontinued)
Score 7.1 out of 10
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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
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Alfresco
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
ibi iProcess (discontinued)
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Ratings
Content capture & imaging3.10 Ratings00 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Document management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Records management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content search & retrieval10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content publishing & creation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated workflows9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Artificial intelligence8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile support3.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Alfresco
-
Ratings
ibi iProcess (discontinued)
7.7
Ratings
6% below category average
Dashboards00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Alfresco
-
Ratings
ibi iProcess (discontinued)
8.4
Ratings
0% above category average
Process designer00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Alfrescoibi iProcess (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Square 9 Softworks
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Square 9 Softworks
Square 9 Softworks
Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
MediaValet
MediaValet
Score 9.1 out of 10
Square 9 Softworks
Square 9 Softworks
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
MediaValet
MediaValet
Score 9.1 out of 10
CMW Platform
CMW Platform
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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8.0
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Usability
9.9
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8.0
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Support Rating
7.0
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7.0
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
If you have regulatory or business needs that require saving email into Alfresco and you are using Outlook for Mac, you may need to perform significant customization to make it work. Additionally, if you will have users that will be members to a large numbers of sites over time, you need to thoroughly explore what functionality will be degraded or lost and how to mitigate the impact. Other than these two scenarios, I cannot think of any scenarios where Alfresco would not be well suited to an organization's needs.
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TIBCO iProcess is a very nice option if your process is large, complex, has a lot of cases (instances) or huge number of users. It is really performant. Also thanks to "Technology plug-ins" add-in it has wonderful integration with TIBCO Buinessworks, what opens you BPM to any kind of external system integration. But if you are managing only small, local, departmental processes it feels too big and too complex, there are other more suitable products.
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Pros
  • Integration with other applications, namely Drupal and Moodle, was simple and works beautifully.
  • The UI is intuitive, clean, and friendly. Users have required little training for basic functionality.
  • We have been pleased with the overall system performance of Alfresco Enterprise Content Management.
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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
  • Alfresco Process Services and Alfresco Application Development Framework integration makes for best functionality/application of ECM.
  • Use case alignment - Marketing content and documentation of specific business requirements and user stories being available as reference material/documentation.
  • Integration with multiple silos for content.
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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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Likelihood to Renew
As per the current market and the line of products that are available for content and document management system, Alfresco is a very good option compared to other systems in terms of features and cost. Plus the community support is great. Also since the product is open source, it can be extended or understood in a better way.
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Usability
The UI is very intuitive, most of our users figure out how to use the platform by themselves, so there's not much training needed.
You can upload files by using the web drag and drop, WebDAV, FTP, and more.
Most of the platform already works as-is so you can just deploy it using Docker and it's mostly ready to go.
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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
I am not big fan of Alfresco Content Services' support; it works on its own speed and sometimes it becomes challenging to achieve business needs. However, I appreciate regular delivery of security patches and updates
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Implementation Rating
Process was relatively smooth and overall, downtime minimal. MSI was very responsive to our needs and made the transition easier than it otherwise might have been.
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Alternatives Considered
The integration is very easy and can be done with minimal time. The features like sending email, inbuilt integration with CAMEl, MULE, BOX, etc. In addition to this, the adoption of activiti-7 (the microservice version) wins the race against other tools. As the infrastructure and application modules can be deployed independently.
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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
  • It definitely has a positive ROI in the overall business, as content management has become easier and more centralized.
  • Video and image content management has become a major plus, as they play an important role in dynamic digital marketing. Once the code is written to accommodate image and videos, we can change this content any time depending on the season of the year, what products we are looking to market, and to what type of clients.
  • It helps with easy control of the system with the business teams rather than having control with the technology teams. Hence it makes it easy to customize and make changes at any time. This also reduces the overlap that technology has with business and helps treat both of them as separate entities.
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  • Tibco iProcess has helped automate numerous processes and reduced manual intervention to a minimal.
  • High ROI.
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