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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Appian

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AAppian is a low-code development and business process management platform. It features drag-and-drop design for app building, automated work processes, unified data management, and cloud-based deployment.

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    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise

    Score7 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
    AppianTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Editions & Modules
    Appian Community Edition
    $0
    Application - Input-Only
    $2
    per month per user
    Application - Infrequent
    $9
    per month per user
    Application - Standard
    $75
    per month per user
    Platform
    Custom Quote Priced per user with unlimited apps.
    minimum 100 users, no maximum
    Unlimited
    Custom Quote Priced per development with unlimited apps.
    unlimited
    Platform
    Custom Quote Priced per user with unlimited apps.
    Minimum 100, no maximum
    Unlimited
    Custom Quote Priced per development with unlimited apps.
    Unlimited
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AppianTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    AppianTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Considered Both Products
    Appian
    Chose Appian
    Appian's biggest advantage over most packages is the ability to rapid develop operational processes, while maintaining a very uniformed user experience.
    Incentivized
    Chose Appian
    Appian is a much more well rounded tool that is easy to learn and provides a much cleaner user interface.
    Incentivized
    Chose Appian
    They are far inferior products to Appian. Tibco iProcess is very good but very old, it only supports BPM flows, without Case Management and other functionalities that have been incorporating the BPM over the years. Tibo AMX BPM is a very complex product to understand, develop …
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    38 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    32 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    AppianTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Appian and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Appian
    9.1
    75 Ratings
    8% above category average
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    -
    Ratings
    Visual Modeling8.873 Ratings00 Ratings
    Drag-and-drop Interfaces8.972 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Security9.271 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform User Management8.872 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reusability9.575 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Scalability9.573 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Appian and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Appian
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    10.0
    9 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Appian and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Appian
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    8.3
    16 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings9.513 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings9.514 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings6.79 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings6.711 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings9.914 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings7.914 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Appian and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Appian
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    9.0
    9 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Appian and TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Feature
    Appian
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    10.0
    12 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Content management00 Ratings10.012 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AppianTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (139 ratings)
    9.4
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (19 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (95 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (118 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AppianTIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Appian
    Appian works great for automating manual processes and integrating multiple systems through its toolset. It gives great flexibility for establishing rules for approvals, routings, escalations, and the like. Because of the low code toolset, it's very easy to deploy and make changes as needed as processes evolve and as the organization learns to utilize the system better. Minimal maintenance is required to support the applications build on the platform. Some of the automated testing integration with tools like Jenkins is limited so that may be an issue for some.
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    The scenario where TIBCO ActiveMatrix is well suited is in the scenario where there are more long-term business processes and in a complex corporate organization where there are many users with different privileges to perform actions on the same processes. It's less appropriate where there are no complex business process especially if the resubmit of the task in error is not required.
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    Pros
    Appian
    • Allows at a glance workflow documentation which assists in the need we have for information readiation.
    • Drag and drop interface for workflow development greatly speeds our apps time to market.
    • Using the advanced features of Appian, we are able to create working sites in a fraction of the time it would take to do so using "traditional" development.
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    • TIBCO offers multiple ways to implement the sophisticated forms of event-driven BPM. It also balances the combination of business rules and AMX BPM for a different variety of IT Applications
    • It depends on the Enterprise service bus which is message oriented middleware
    • The integration of Spotfire with AMXBPM and BusinessEvents is a unique advantage
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    Cons
    Appian
    • Search issues when type ahead and database search are used in the same field.
    • Buttons implementation where user is require[d] to click on the button description - if clicks on the button outside that text - button will not work.
    • Problems with using certain off-the-shelf performance tools like WebLoad or Neoload. That is because of different dynamic variables being used internally in Appian - which these tools are unable to correlate. We are still investigating using other tools like Jmeter to overcome dynamic correlation problem for performance testing.
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    • 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
    Appian
    We recently renewed our license with Appian. We are convinced that its flexibility, relative ease of use, the support they provide, there mobile advancements and their general willingness and desire to see us succeed all contributed to our reason to renew our agreement with Appian
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
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    Usability
    Appian
    Appian is a low code environment, because of this, a very good visual interface is required. Appian is providing a feature-rich dashboard [that] we can use for building the dashboards and other interfaces. Appian also provides patches and releases to enhance these features. A developer can start off development just by going through a basic course from the Appian learning community.
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    Such a BPM sw is amazing and usefull. You have a gret visibility in design and development phase.
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    Support Rating
    Appian
    Appian is one of the leading low code business automation platforms that support RPA, decision rules, case management, workflow automation, and machine learning all in a single bundle. But it is also harder to implement and replace the traditional business process.
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    Because our support team is always available also for development suggestions.
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    In-Person Training
    Appian
    As analyst I participated in a developer boot camp. At times it was hard to keep up but most of the time it made sense. Trainer took the time to explain and slowed pace down to answer questions etc.
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
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    Online Training
    Appian
    Very boring; hard to get through quickly, but rather effective in demonstrating the use of the platform.
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    Implementation Rating
    Appian
    It was really seamless. SaaS in the true definition of the word. We logged on and started using the product. Very easy.
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Appian
    Appian has enormously transformed and keeps on updating the product every quarter to meet the latest needs of the world with new innovations & technologies being integrated within the platform. What gives more pleasure than a product that keeps on continuous[ly] improv[ing]?
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    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
    Appian
    • I believe it has negatively impacted our release dates. There may have been a misunderstanding as to the learning curve, even though it is "low code."
    • The look and feel of the applications created using Appian have uniformity and it's easier to have "reuse" between applications.
    • There is less developer control when it comes to features. I think this mainly has to do with the amount of plugins available. I would think there should be many more available plugins. But again, our use case is probably different than most others.
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    TIBCO Software Inc.
    • 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

    Appian Screenshots

    Screenshot of Low-Code DevelopmentScreenshot of Business Process Management SuiteScreenshot of Dynamic Case ManagementScreenshot of Mobile App DevelopmentScreenshot of Appian RPA with Blue Prism

    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise Screenshots

    Screenshot of TIBCO BPM Enterprise Login ScreenScreenshot of Work Manager UIScreenshot of Operational Monitoring dashboardScreenshot of Organization Browser