ARIS BPA vs TIBCO Business Studio comparison

Software AG and TIBCO are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. Software AG is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.9, while TIBCO is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.5. Software AG holds a 7.0% mindshare in BPD, compared to TIBCO’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Software AG users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

ARIS BPA

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89% willing to recommend

TIBCO Business Studio

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288 Comparison Views

50% willing to recommend

ARIS BPA

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We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and TIBCO Business Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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ARIS BPA vs. TIBCO Business Studio

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Categories and Ranking

ARIS BPA

Ranking in Business Process Design

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Management (BPM) (8th)

TIBCO Business Studio

Ranking in Business Process Design

21st

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of ARIS BPA is 7.0%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Business Studio is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Design Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
ARIS BPA	7.0%
TIBCO Business Studio	0.6%
Other	92.4%

Business Process Design

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Tamer Eldamanhouri

Software Engineering & Manager at Arab Infromation Management Services

Empowers teams with robust business process modeling capabilities

They should examine competitor solutions to identify differentiators. One issue related to ARIS BPA is its integration with AI; it has AI features for cloud solutions, yet many in the government sector in Kuwait do not view the cloud as viable. Software AG should focus on developing AI models for ARIS BPA on-premises, particularly in user interfaces, as well as creating predefined business processes for common areas such as HR and finance. This aspect is crucial for adapting to the market's needs and streamlining custom solutions. While they have been helpful regarding pricing, I cannot compare ARIS BPA to other business process modeling tools because I understand some competitors have significantly lower costs than ARIS BPA. To maintain market share, good discounts should be provided to customers.

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FabioFerri

Managing Director at Catenate

Customer service remains reliable but evaluation of code quality with AI needs enhancement

I am only using the licenses. We are a consulting company, so we use the solution to configure solutions for other customers An artificial intelligence feature that evaluates the quality of the code developed with one click would definitely be good. I have been using the solution for ten years…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The stability of the ARIS BPM platform is quite good. The nice thing about it is the central database, where we can use all of our data. We can even manage users."

"The technical support is good."

"Objects can be reused across different BPMNs and processes, so we can design new processes quicker and easier."

"In addition to our applications, we have also stored, in ARIS, the footprint of where those applications have been implemented. That means we know in which country a given application has been implemented. With embedded geolocation, we have a very visual world map, where we can see the footprint of each application."

"Aris BPA has a lot of tools that are more professional than Bizagi."

"The solution has come up with a web portal that makes it easy to model and show to clients."

"The tool has good navigation."

"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

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"The setup cost is definitely reasonable."

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."

"The setup cost is definitely reasonable."

Cons

"Making it more customizable and easy to learn would be a benefit."

"Newer versions (9.x) are technically more difficult to maintain."

"Since this is a design tool, seamless interface to make the process flows executable."

"The integration between ARIS, webMethods, and project versions needs improvement."

"There is not enough documentation provided for the tool's support or administration."

"Improvement should be made as per customer requirements."

"I had a hard time with ARIS's access and licensing policy. It requires you to pay for each step you want to take forward with the solution."

"An area where it lacks and can be considered for improvement in the future is if we can somehow automate or learn how we can automate different processes."

More ARIS BPA cons

"An artificial intelligence feature that evaluates the quality of the code developed with one click would definitely be good."

"The interface is actually quite confusing."

"An artificial intelligence feature that evaluates the quality of the code developed with one click would definitely be good."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is expensive."

"We have a concurrent license system."

"Usually, our company buys technical support from the Software AG site. We bought the technical support for the first year of usage for ARIS version 6 and 7. So, when we migrated to ARIS version 7, we bought support only for the first year. Then, we didn't use it the next year. Our experience was that we use it only one to three times during the first year. Therefore, there wasn't much value for us to buy this service because we have no problem with using ARIS after the first year."

"You will never get a fixed price for this product because they will go in and ask you what kind of environment would you like to set up? How many people will you work with? How big is your organization? Today, they have a fixed price to say, "Okay, just to start the business area, buy two licenses for modeling and eight people that can look into the product." They have this kind of fixed price. It's 50,000 Danish Krone. If you divided that by about six, then you get the pricing in dollars. Still, when you are going out, negotiate and find the right price. You will never get a fixed price: "It costs this and, if you take ten of these, seven of these and eight of these, and then it costs this." No, you negotiate every time."

"The setup cost and pricing depend on the license (Modeler, Viewer, Administrator)."

"ARIS has different licensing mechanisms for different modules, but they are perpetual licenses. So you pay once."

"It depends on different parameters."

"This is absolutely not the cheapest solution in the market, but for large companies, the price is fine."

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"For my company, the tool costs about 2,0,000 Euros for three years...If one is bad and ten is good, I rate the price as one out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	32
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	47

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ARIS BPA?

The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ARIS BPA?

Pricing for ARIS BPA is average, not cheap or expensive. It's cost-effective and worth the money we pay.

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What needs improvement with ARIS BPA?

ARIS BPA needs to be more accurate when generating documents. While it covers many blueprints and functions that I need, the document generation feature could be enhanced for better accuracy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Business Studio?

The setup cost is definitely reasonable. It is now reasonable since they changed it recently with the new TIBCO platform. Enterprise is completely different.

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What needs improvement with TIBCO Business Studio?

An artificial intelligence feature that evaluates the quality of the code developed with one click would definitely be good.

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What is your primary use case for TIBCO Business Studio?

I am only using the licenses. We are a consulting company, so we use the solution to configure solutions for other customers.

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Also Known As

ARIS, ARIS BPM

Business Studio

Overview

ARIS is the market-leading solution for professional business process management and modeling. Whether you want to document the "as-is" state of your operations for quality or certification reasons or design the "to-be" in terms of continuous improvement in your transformation program, ARIS is the best choice for establishing a single source of truth regarding all process excellence topics in your organization. It is for any organization looking to digitally transform their business, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution. ARIS helps you to make the most out of your processes with Process Mining, Risk & Compliance Management, RPA and much more.

What makes the difference?

The most comprehensive platform for process excellence in the market
Easy to use
Covers business & IT architecture from all angles
Full flexibility and >100 diagram types
Customer-driven development based on best practices
Strong partner ecosystem

ARIS is the market-leading solution for any organization and ideally suited to digitally transform the organization, increase operational excellence and customer experience and ensure compliance in execution.

Software AG

TIBCO Business Studio is a standards-based business process modeling environment that enables business experts and process authors to collaborate to create process models, organization models, data models, forms and pageflow models for deployment to TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM. It is also the common Eclipse-based environment for building composite applications across the entire ActiveMatrix family, including business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications.

TIBCO

Sample Customers

Tesco, Weifu, Airbus, Siemens, Proximus, Alicorp, Sekerbank, Bancor, Philips,Sky, Emirates NBD, Dubai Municipality, Suva, U.S. Army, Australia Post, Westfalen Weser Energie - ARIS serves customers across all industries and of every size worldwide. Companies trust ARIS as the market leader for process excellence with more than 30 years of experience in the market, 10 million users worldwide, from 1 user companies to the Fortune 500.

Airbus Helicopters, Bank of Montreal, BroadReach Healthcare, Caesars Entertainment, CargoSmart, Children's Hospital, Citibank Brazil, Citihub, Colonial Life, Con-way, Consorsbank, Deutsche Bahn, EDF Energy, FrieslandCampina, Hellmann Logistics, Ignite, Istrabenz Plini, Sage Human Capital, Siemens Healthcare

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ARIS BPA vs. TIBCO Business Studio

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