We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and IBM Business Automation Workflow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the UI rework, it's much easier."
"I found the following features very useful: DAG - Workload management and orchestration of tasks using."
"The tool is user-friendly."
"One of its most valuable features is the graphical user interface, providing a visual representation of the pipeline status, successes, failures, and informative developer messages."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"Every feature in Apache Airflow is valuable. The number of operators and features I've used are mainly related to connectivity services and integrated services because I primarily work with GCP."
"Development on Apache Airflow is really fast, and it's easy to use with the newer updates. Everything is in Python, so it's not hard to understand. They also have a graphical view, so if you are not a programmer and you are just an administrator, you can easily track everything and see if everything is working or not."
"Its user-friendly interface makes it straightforward to operate, offering a plethora of features for data preparation, buffering, and format conversion."
"It has integrated UI and deployment models, and it has a deep set of consultant and service provider ecosystem features."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact it is highly configurable. We can do configurations very easily."
"The business process modeling is the most valuable feature."
"IBM has spent a lot of time on the connections between the rules engine and its other product, the core BPM platform. They've really centralized the suite as one offering now."
"It performs the basic tasks that are required for the BBM solution as part of the overall integration with ECM or enterprise contact management."
"This is a low-code software where you can just drag and drop on the user interface. There are also a lot of quality integrations such as TMS."
"No matter what somebody's technical experience level is, the tool can start adding value immediately. Even if that is just an analyst who doesn't have any technical background, they can use some of these no quote accelerators to get things from ideation to deployment in a matter of minutes."
"The most valuable feature is automation, which is quite strong and we are quite happy with it."
"The automation capabilities could be improved; a visual workflow designer and a graphical tool to reduce coding would be very helpful. But for now, it's sufficient for our simple workflows."
"We're currently using version 1.10, but I understand that there's a lot of improvements in version 2. In the earlier version that we're using, we sometimes have problems with maintenance complexity. Actually using Airflow is okay, but maintaining it has been difficult."
"I would like to see some no-code capabilities and drag and drop abilities in Airflow."
"The scalability of the solution itself is not as we expected. Being on the cloud, it should be easy to scale, however, it's not."
"We need to develop our workflow description and notations because out of the box, Apache Airflow does not provide some features that are needed."
"The graphical user interface can be improved."
"Apache Airflow should have better integration with cloud platforms."
"Adding more automated components in Apache Airflow for basic things like exporting the data would be helpful."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
"I feel that the features are not user-friendly."
"One significant challenge is the lack of accessible forums or resources to seek help or information when problems arise."
"The main areas which need improvement are specifically around reporting and analytics."
"Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities."
"I would definitely like to see a unified interface between the BPM side of the house and the case side of the house. Something that just seems a bit more cohesive, because right now there is sort of a disconnect between the BPM and the case side of the house. That makes it a bit of a hard sell sometimes. That is definitely first and foremost on my wish list."
"The UI of the solution is not good. They should work to update the solution and make it better and fresher."
"The setup and installation process could be made easier."
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Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, AWS Step Functions and Bizagi, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, IBM Case Foundation, AWS Step Functions and Nintex Process Platform. See our Apache Airflow vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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