TIBCO Business Studio vs iServer comparison

Orbus Software and TIBCO are both solutions in the Business Process Design category. Orbus Software is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.4, while TIBCO is ranked #20 with an average rating of 7.5. Orbus Software holds a 1.6% mindshare in BPD, compared to TIBCO’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Orbus Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of TIBCO users who would recommend it.

iServer

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85% willing to recommend

TIBCO Business Studio

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50% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between iServer 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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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

iServer

Ranking in Business Process Design

13th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Architecture Management (7th)

TIBCO Business Studio

Ranking in Business Process Design

20th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Business Process Design category, the mindshare of iServer is 1.6%, down from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TIBCO Business Studio is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Antonios Lazanakis

Senior IT Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Flexible, easy to use, and easy to import data

We use iServer to establish an enterprise architecture function in our organization iServer is a very flexible platform for defining your own enterprise architecture model. It is very easy to import data, and we also have good integration with Visual Drawing Tools and SharePoint. The solution is…

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Choon Hwa Khoh

Head of Product Test at ams AG

Offers good flexibility to users

Improvements are required in the tool licensing area as it is a bit expensive. The tool's user interface needs improvement. If you don't know the tool as a beginner, it is very hard for you to design the workflow. The interface is actually quite confusing. There are a lot of places we need to configure here and there since there are multiple locations involved. The features or functions available are good enough for me to implement for my business activities. The tool can include topics like AI. I encountered an issue with the tool during the deployment into production. The server itself experienced a slowness-related issue caused by the configuration, where the resources were not enough for TIBCO, not because of the physical server. I raised a ticket with the support team and got some advice from them. I then went to study the server configuration, and finally, I found out that there will be a need to increase the threats in order for the server to process the multiple parallel incoming requests.

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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

"It has helped having data lineage in the business cluster, which is used as control artifacts."

"The initial setup is easy."

"This is a flexible tool compared to some other solutions."

"Good and effective reporting features, which help in decision making."

"There were lots of different requirements, and collaboration and review is one of the biggest things. There is also Office 360 integration, and there's flexibility to use it as a database as well."

"iServer is a very flexible platform for defining your own enterprise architecture model."

"I have to think less with this solution. It's simple."

"This flexibility is the most helpful part in the standard version."

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"The setup cost is definitely reasonable."

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

Cons

"More visualization techniques and ways to report the data might be helpful."

"The one issue is that if you want to import predefined work, you need to put the licensing model in. So if you wanted to import work that was done before, you then need to buy a separate product for that."

"The migration tool needs to be included in the main package, and not as a separate license."

"iServer is a solid tool. Occasionally, we needed to contact the vendor to clarify details such as porting issues, missing components, and model specifics."

"We could allocate permissions to use only specific components to the users rather than the entire instance."

"It runs relatively slowly."

"There are other solutions out there that have a better user interface."

"The performance is slow, which is something that should be improved."

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"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 price of iServer is reasonable compared to other solutions."

"The product has a moderate pricing."

"The solution is cheaper than its competitors."

"They offer annual subscriptions for developing countries, which are not affordable for small or medium businesses."

"Aim for the exact number of people who shall define/review approve and view the processes, as it will impact the cost."

"It's about 13K to set up and 9K for the license for three months. I think it's about 20K a year, but we haven't firmed up on pricing yet because the price depends on how long we commit to the solution."

"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

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Educational Organization

34%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about iServer?

iServer has valuable features for workflow and document management.

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What needs improvement with iServer?

iServer should invest in enhancing the capabilities of the embedded drawing tool, draw.io. draw.io is a drawing tool used to draw architectural diagrams, flow diagrams, etc. It is an alternative to...

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What is your primary use case for iServer?

We use iServer to establish an enterprise architecture function in our organization.

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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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Overview

iServer is a unified software platform and enterprise modeling environment that extends and enhances the familiar, market leading Microsoft Visio and Office products. Core capabilities provided by iServer include an enhanced Microsoft Visio diagramming interface, a powerful central repository for all enterprise architecture or business process models and documentation, and a range of tools for visualization, analysis and decision making.

Orbus Software

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

Barclays, Cathay Pacific, Deloitte, British Gas, MasterCard

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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TIBCO Business Studio vs. iServer

April 2025

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