We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and vCenter Orchestrator based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Process Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The integration and design are valuable features."
"There are a lot of things that you get out-of-the-box: Timers and so on, which took a lot of effort and code before."
"I think the best way it can be it improved, is to make it easier to install. It's a very complicated piece of software, and there are a lot of things you have to do to get it set up. It's not just running an installer. You install WebSphere. You install the BPM product, and there's a large host of other steps you have to do: run queries against the database, you have to manually configure a bunch of properties files for your environment. I think if they could streamline all that, so it wasn't a considerable effort to install, that would be very useful. Because from an engineering point of view, you want to spend as little time as possible actually installing a product."
"Its most valuable features are usability and integration with other IBM products."
"Good user interface and good add option."
"The most valuable feature of IBM BPM is the low code design, and ease of maintenance. Additionally, the integration is good and easy to do."
"It has improved my organization quite a bit. It brought awareness to what the business processes are, even to the business side, who did not necessarily know what they are."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The hardware abstraction layer, being able to make the VMs portable when moving to a different platform or over a WAN."
"We have excellent technical support. They have always been helpful when we have needed them."
"The most valuable feature is that it's simple and very ergonomic to use the product compared to other virtualizing product. Out of Microsoft, Red Hat, and IBM, we found VMware to be the best one."
"The open, flexible architecture has brought in the agile computing environment along with better Dr capabilities. Automation management and operational tasks across VMware and third-party applications, like our HMIS and other business productivity applications, have delivered peace of mind."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the workflow creation."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It's 100% stable, it's always stable. We haven't had any bugs. The solution works very well and we haven't had any problems."
"This is technology, and there's always room for improvement. It would be better to have a single solution. Trying to have an overview in terms of this solution brings together the concepts of BPM processes, customer journeys, and an automation part for KPIs. All of this working together and coming up with a single solution with privacy is more commercial than anything else."
"There is a lot of room for improvement of the dashboards."
"I would like to see a lot more case studies."
"Importing and exporting between multiple environments is more difficult with other tools."
"IBM BPM uses JavaScript as a programming language for the server-side. I don’t know why it’s not Java, as it’s more powerful and the JavaScript part is translated into Java anyway."
"Initial setup is very complex. Too many steps need to be done at the database and server levels, and complex configurations. From what I see, a lot of these steps can be and should be automated."
"We would like better performance and more visibility on each step of the tool."
"IBM BPM needs to have a better and modified interface."
"I would like to have an interface that can manage both on-premises and cloud solutions from a single console, where we can easily manage the resources that are being used or at least applications. Whereby clicking here and there from on-premises to cloud, or cloud to on-premises, depending on the requirements. If that can be accomplished, it will be extremely beneficial."
"In the next release, to make it easier to write the workflows, I would l like to see more HTML GUIs."
"A feature to review and setup tasks should be added."
"The solution's price could be cheaper."
"Using this solution requires a lot of experience."
"The product’s cost needs improvement."
"I did not do the initial setup. However, it was complex at the beginning."
"When the SSO certificate needs to be renewed, the upgrading and testing are quite complicated."
IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Process Automation with 105 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 45 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while vCenter Orchestrator is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and SaltStack. See our IBM BPM vs. vCenter Orchestrator report.
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