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TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM vs Tungsten TotalAgility comparison

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Categories and Ranking

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (22nd)
Tungsten TotalAgility
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
4.6
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (20th), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (5th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (26th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Process, Business Automation, and Digital Transformation solutions, they serve different purposes. TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is designed for Business Process Management (BPM) and holds a mindshare of 0.9%, up 0.7% compared to last year.
Tungsten TotalAgility, on the other hand, focuses on Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), holds 3.9% mindshare, down 8.3% since last year.
Business Process Management (BPM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM0.9%
Camunda7.2%
IBM BPM4.3%
Other87.6%
Business Process Management (BPM)
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Tungsten TotalAgility3.9%
ABBYY Vantage4.8%
UiPath IXP4.5%
Other86.8%
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)
 

Featured Reviews

Ray Ochieng - PeerSpot reviewer
Integration Lead at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Powerful workflow definition enhances operational stability and efficiency
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is powerful for defining workflows. It is low code, so you don't need a lot of coding, and tasks are just drag and drop. It is also very stable as we haven't had issues with it going down or encountering any operational issues for a long time. The stability and rich features in workflow definition make it a valuable tool.
Ross Macadam - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at iicon ltd
Has faced challenges adapting to evolving capture methods and competitive integrations
It's difficult to say what I'd improve in Tungsten TotalAgility because we haven't been actively marketing that particular product in the last probably six to nine months. The speed of product development means that my experience with it is likely out of date in terms of the product suite capabilities. The difficulty with customers nowadays is that they are subject to the winds of change in terms of the adoption of cloud technologies and the offerings those cloud technologies bring. Microsoft, for instance, is rapidly filling in the spaces between various product areas that other vendors typically owned. That makes it difficult for customers to settle on their functional requirements because the offers are competing in the same space. I look for more integration with mainstream subscription based platforms, more security integration, and possibly some more lifecycle management features. However, the difficulty with that is the competition with existing options that people have in their subscription library.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is powerful for defining workflows."
"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."
"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."
"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 scheduling and the calendar are very useful."
"The customization is the most valuable feature, the BPM is very good, the interface is very user-friendly, and I like that it's an end-to-end product and complete solution."
"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."
"KTA will connect all the systems and lead the intelligent automation."
"Now it has an OCR, optical character recognition, engine where it can extract data from the document."
"We have automated more than five business process using this tool."
"What I find most valuable in Kofax TotalAgility is its OCR feature. I also find its workflow and business process management capabilities valuable. Kofax TotalAgility also has good integration with other solutions and has an API call feature."
"One feature I like is that it makes the matrix easy for an unstructured document."
"Being able to extract data from documents is great, and the capability of this tool is great as it can replace legacy applications and make everything very easy."
"Most customers benefit from multichannel capture, business processes, along with image processing capabilities, and centralized administration and reporting."
"Its integration capabilities are valuable. It has low code/no code features. You have to do minimal coding."
 

Cons

"The scalability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It is not lightweight and requires a lot of disk space, memory, and CPU."
"Sometimes it's not stable, but it is a complete solution."
"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."
"The maintenance of the package could be improved."
"TIBCO's transition to the cloud is a little slow. As compared to Dell, Boomi, and Mulesoft, TIBCO took the steps a little later."
"The solution is crazy-expensive."
"Technical support needs to be streamlined."
"The tool is not up to the mark at all for what we needed it for."
"Kofax TotalAgility could improve the OTR engine. The page OTR engine is not accurate in predicting the data properly. If you provide many features which are good for business process management without an accurate OTR engine people will not want it."
"Sometimes there isn't enough accuracy when it comes to extracts."
"The form development could be improved."
"Kofax should improve its handwritten extractions."
"Kofax TotalAgility is quite vast and complex as a product. We came from Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation, then we started learning Kofax TotalAgility, so there are a lot of things that were quite straightforward in the Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation cross-motion modules, but to do those in Kofax TotalAgility was a bit more complex or quite long-winded and could be improved. In the next release of Kofax TotalAgility, it would be good to have a straightforward low-code or no-code process because there were instances we struggled with having to put logic into a script or a .NET script, then calling that script, instead of the process being low-code, no-code."
"The one thing I would like to see more of right now: is a simplified form creation. That would be the most significant improvement I would like to see in their product."
"Kofax needs to improve the low-code or citizen developers rather than focusing on other cloud solutions for data extraction."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is an expensive tool compared to others."
"There are some discussions about perpetual licenses and conversions, but I'm not much familiar with them."
"Kofax TotalAgility is very expensive."
"It has a perpetual license. You pay once in a lifetime for the volume of scans you will do and the number of users you will have. You can have participants or regular users, and you can have developers and administrators. So, once you purchase it, it is for a lifetime, and then every year, you have to pay for the maintenance. There is an annual maintenance cost, which is about 18% of the licensing cost."
"The licensing cost for Kofax TotalAgility is very expensive, though I'm unable to give you the range, the sales representatives of my company say that the product is quite expensive."
"It is slightly more expensive than other tools."
"The price of this solution is less than some of the competition."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Healthcare Company
16%
Construction Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Large Enterprise13
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM?
It is not lightweight and requires a lot of disk space, memory, and CPU. Making it lightweight so it can run on a minimum processor and less memory would be beneficial. Additionally, the current wo...
What is your primary use case for TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM?
We are using TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM for network deployment workflows. For example, if a customer is interested in getting a NetWorker, there is a workflow where we log in, get the customer details,...
What advice do you have for others considering TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM?
The overall rating for TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM is eight out of ten. Although it is a very powerful workflow tool, it is expensive, and only companies with sufficient resources can afford it.
What needs improvement with Kofax TotalAgility?
It's difficult to say what I'd improve in Tungsten TotalAgility because we haven't been actively marketing that particular product in the last probably six to nine months. The speed of product deve...
What is your primary use case for Kofax TotalAgility?
I usually recommend Tungsten TotalAgility to any company with a business process that involves large scale capture of unstructured or semi-structured content across a range of processes that need t...
What advice do you have for others considering Kofax TotalAgility?
I'm familiar with Tungsten TotalAgility and I will share my experience with the solution. My review rating for this solution is 7 out of 10. The difficulty they face in the marketplace is that hist...
 

Also Known As

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Kofax TotalAgility, TotalAgility, Singularity IDP, Capture Enabled BPM
 

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