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Camunda vs TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM comparison

Camunda and TIBCO are both solutions in the Business Process Management (BPM) category. Camunda is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.2, while TIBCO is ranked #32 with an average rating of 7.5. Camunda holds a 22.2% mindshare in BPM, compared to TIBCO’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Camunda users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.
Camunda
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89% willing to recommend
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM
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100% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Camunda and TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM compete in business process management. Camunda has the upper hand in pricing and support, indicating a better ROI perception among users.

Features: Camunda provides open-source flexibility and lightweight process modeling, offering customizable solutions that integrate with microservices. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is recognized for a robust architecture supporting complex enterprise processes with comprehensive monitoring and optimization capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Camunda could enhance its user interface and documentation for beginners and improve the performance for enterprise-level applications. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM might benefit from simplifying its initial setup, improving user-friendliness, and enhancing flexibility to cater to diverse deployment scenarios.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Camunda offers simpler deployment with a developer-friendly environment, allowing faster project starts and integration. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM, though promising scalability, has a complex initial setup but offers robust enterprise support.

Pricing and ROI: Camunda's cost-effective open-source model ensures minimal initial investment, suitable for quick scalability and iterative projects. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM, despite higher setup costs, delivers significant returns in extensive, complex deployment scenarios.

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Categories and Ranking

Camunda
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
77
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Design (2nd), Process Automation (1st)
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
32nd
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of Camunda is 22.2%, up from 21.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Process Management (BPM)
 

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FABIO NAGAO - PeerSpot reviewer
Reduces costs with hardware abstraction and simplifies scaling
There is an issue where, in some situations, I need to scale up by observing both CPU and memory usage of containers, yet under the current options available at Amazon, this is not possible. I have to choose between monitoring CPU or memory to scale my solution. Not every software is built for deployment as a container service, although the current architecture trend is changing this.
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GouravSuri - PeerSpot reviewer
Useful for case management and business process management, but needs to improve the documentation part
The product was implemented for process automation in our company since TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM serves as a complete integration suite that helps manage external integrations as well. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks integrates with the downstream and upstream systems while giving an endpoint that could either be REST or SOAP. With the inbuilt functionalities of the product, you need not worry about the load-managing capabilities of the tool since everything in the product is taken care of by the integration suite. Depending on the use cases, the business process management area can be used as a predefined flow. If there are factors that are going to be dependent on user actions, the flow has to be kept open-ended, after which you can use a case manager. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM can be implemented in two methods, and the product supports both ways. The business processes that got optimized from the use of the product are mostly banking processes and investment banking processes. Wherever there are a lot of processes, a lot of people, and a lot of approvals, there is a need to have quick management without much coding and case management for which rapid development tools are useful. The state management part of the product is the most valuable in the product. With the integration capabilities of the product, it is possible to integrate with any of the external SOAP services. You don't have to do anything to integrate the SOAP services since all the underlying serialization and everything else is taken care of by the tool itself. There is no need to get involved in any coding activities, meaning there is zero code integration required. In any kind of product, the database becomes the bottleneck because you can scale it, and the processing part can be scalable, but at the end of the day, there is a formation of a bottleneck wherever transactions or databases are involved. In most of the business process management cases, concurrent users are not that high. The number of nodes can be scaled up. When it comes to the tool, the processing nodes can be scaled up on individual servers and multiple boxes. Like any other Java system, the scalability of TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is node-based. There is a bottleneck when it comes to the database. To what extent the databases can be scaled up to support concurrent transactions is the only bottleneck when it comes to the solution. In the decision-making and analytics part, the new version of the product supports REST. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks manages SOAP-based integrations. The product has become simpler for new commerce to learn. The product now offers simplicity to users. The documentation and usability of the product need improvement. The solution's adoption rate can go up after the documentation gets improved and more sample-based scenarios are provided. I rate the tool a seven out of ten.
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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 most valuable feature of Camunda Platform is its Microservices architecture, which is easily integrable with APIs."
"The architectural part of Camunda for workflow design is highly valuable, especially the Camunda Modeler, which allows quick process design and implementation."
"We can easily define and deploy business processes. Camunda provides the tools that allow business people to design business processes. We don't have to have developers for it. It is so easy to use that our business people can go into the tool and model their business processes. We get time to do other things than just designing business processes."
"Camunda's most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with different products."
"The most valuable features are that it's lightweight, can be embedded in existing Java code, and keeps track of the workflow state and the instances that we need."
"The product has a good task management engine."
"Camunda serves as an automation library and provides lightweight deployment to the cloud."
"It is quite easy to build a simple process without any knowledge of programming."
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"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"The scheduling and the calendar are very useful."
"For specific situations this can be a good solution and a simplified interface to work with."
"The capacity for distributing the jobs in a workflow is an important feature."
"It is the best product because of its stability. ActiveMatrix 5.x is highly stable in production, and the downtime is very low. I have worked on a lot of service projects, and the engine is very stable, robust, and scalable. The development and change requests can be pushed quickly, and the mapper activity and SSLT kind of features are also good. It is easy to do changes, testing, and deployment. Its deployment is very easy, and we can automate a lot of scripts for our on-premises solution. I work for an investment bank, and we have automated a lot of processes for our customers. Previously, we used to develop scripts and tools. With version 6.x, everything is moved to Maven and other things. Environment handling is done mostly through DevOps tools. As compared to Mulesoft, the deployment and configuration are very easy in TIBCO."
 

Cons

"The user interface needs improvement. It should be more tailored to the end-user and offer a better user experience design over the user interface itself."
"It lacks some preset features and configurations which would make it more plug-and-play for customers."
"I'm from the .NET world and I would like to use it, rather than Java."
"I think that Camunda can try to do better when it comes to solving the complexities of all the products in its software stack."
"We have faced problems with the performance."
"Would be helpful if there were additional out-of-the-box activities."
"I would like to have a feature for audit logging, audit logs and audit log management. And some history of use for the audit logs."
"Especially when you use the open-source version, there are issues with performance."
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"The maintenance of the package could be improved."
"The product is missing some means of addressing more complex BPM constructs and should interface with more platforms easily."
"The scalability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"ActiveMatrix is in the middle field. MuleDB is more on the engineering side with Java and other things. SnapLogic is there are on the higher side with very low coding. TIBCO stays in the middle like IBM or Oracle. TIBCO can move towards IBM's way of doing. IBM has a big market and many varieties of products and good integration, which TIBCO doesn't have. It can have better integration. TIBCO's transition to the cloud is a little slow. As compared to Dell, Boomi, and Mulesoft. TIBCO took the steps a little later. TIBCO's ID was far better and easier to work with previously. TIBCO's 5.x ID was very good, and the development environment and the transition were easy. Version 6.5 onwards, it is a stable product, but it would be good if they can do something similar to version 5.4 with version 6. They should concentrate on this API market. It will give them the strength and the ability to grab the market back."
"Technical support needs to be streamlined."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I use the open-source free version."
"We use the free version."
"It is good for a startup. When we started, its price was fair, but the way we are using it to orchestrate microservices makes it expensive. When you are growing as a company, you would have more microservices, and you would have more users. There is an exponential effect when you are growing in terms of the number of conditions, processes, and users because they bill you per process. So, the price was increasing very quickly for us, and it was very difficult."
"Generally, the price could be better, as well as the licensing fees."
"While the license isn't budget-friendly, careful consideration and calculated planning for a significant number of licenses can make it more cost-effective."
"In Africa, the cost of deployment is an important factor to consider since it adds to the overall cost. This might be the only drawback to using it."
"I tried to get some information about buying the license for the solution, but I found it kind of hard to understand the business model."
"It is less cost-prohibitive than other solutions on the market. This solution was in our price range."
More Camunda pricing and cost advice
"There are some discussions about perpetual licenses and conversions, but I'm not much familiar with them."
"TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is an expensive tool compared to others."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
45%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
 

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Questions from the Community

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Which would you choose - Camunda Platform or Apache Airflow?
Camunda Platform allows for visual demonstration and presentation of business process flows. The flexible Java-based option was a big win for us and allows for the integration of microservices very...
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What do you like most about TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM?
The product's initial setup phase is straightforward.
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What needs improvement with TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM?
The product fails to offer good integration with REST, making it an area where improvements are required. The scalability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required. The d...
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What is your primary use case for TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM?
I use the solution in my company for case management and business process management. In general, there are two kinds of use cases attached to the product. For case management, you need to have sol...
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Overview

Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate processes across people, systems, and devices to continuously overcome complexity and increase efficiency. A common visual language enables seamless collaboration between business and IT teams to design, automate, and improve end-to-end processes with the required speed, scale, and resilience to remain competitive. Hundreds of enterprises such as Atlassian, ING, and Vodafone orchestrate business-critical processes with Camunda to accelerate digital transformation. To learn more visit camunda.com.

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is used to develop, deploy, execute and manage Business Process Management centric applications. Use TIBCO Business Studio BPM Edition in conjunction with ActiveMatrix BPM to model business processes. It helps to encompass applications that primarily automate both: business processes (sequences of tasks) to be executed by human users, and technical processes (the flow of data) to be executed by enterprise applications.
 

Sample Customers

24 Hour Fitness, Accruent, AT&T Inc., Atlassian, CSS Insurance, Deutsche Telekom, Generali, Provinzial NordWest Insurance Services, Swisscom AG, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VHV Group, Zalando
ADIS, Citi, Bank of Montreal, First Citizens Bank
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