We performed a comparison between AWS Step Functions 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."The number of historical events is great."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"It's a general solution that you can adapt to your own needs and is simple to use. We like that it can be integrated with everything in the AWS suite, and that the creation of the pipeline can be done using the graphical user interface."
"The integration capability is easy, whereas building state machines is tricky."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The dashboards are helpful because you can display reports directly on your screen."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The workflow of BAW's automation is handled inside of BPM, so we can see what state it is at and how things are processing through."
"The solution reduces the time to the resolution which is essential for businesses."
"This product is tightly integrated with the RPA automation process."
"It has integrated UI and deployment models, and it has a deep set of consultant and service provider ecosystem features."
"It gives us the ability to create toolkits and use them across many different applications. It allows us to write things one time, instead of having to write a diary for every single different application. We can write at once and reuse it."
"It is the only product that includes capture content management and a process suite, as well as rules in RPA."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"It wasn't easy to understand the licensing model. It's like if you use just a little, it's cheap, but it becomes more expensive as you use more. It's like a hook that ties you inside the Amazon ecosystem. So, it creates a dependency."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"Improvements could be made in debugging and troubleshooting."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
"The initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities."
"The UI of the solution is not good. They should work to update the solution and make it better and fresher."
"The SCADA Systems are very sophisticated and have a hard time integrating with our older scales. The technical support in regards to the partner side needs some improvement."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"Integrating the solution with existing systems can be complicated and it needs careful planning and execution."
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AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 9 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of AWS Step Functions writes "Simplifies complex task automation and enhances development workflows while offering user-friendly interface, seamless scalability and efficient workflow orchestration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow, Pega BPM and TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, Apache Airflow, IBM Case Foundation and Nintex Process Platform. See our AWS Step Functions vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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