We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and IBM BPM 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 solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"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."
"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."
"We're running it on a virtual server, which we can easily upgrade if needed."
"The best feature is the customization."
"The tool is user-friendly."
"We have been quite satisfied with the stability of the solution."
"Apache Airflow is useful for workflow automation, making it capable of automating pipelines, data pipelines, and data warehouse processes."
"It's a solid product. It covers most of the pain points for clients."
"Initially, the process architecture studio was very helpful and it was compliant with BPMN standards."
"Scalability is good. In the time that I have been there, we have added more JVMs to help with the increased workload, so it does scale."
"This solution is very stable."
"The case management and its integration with process design are good features."
"IBM BPM is equipped with all the functionalities which are needed for building BPM enterprise-level applications."
"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."
"There is a component of this BPM pool - I can't recall the name. What it does is, it allows you to create various scenarios and then run them quickly, before actually putting them onto a tool. So I think that part of the tool is really fantastic, because that enables you to create scenarios, create simulations, before actually going out and putting it into the tool itself"
"The platform's stability needs improvement, particularly regarding occasional interruptions due to networking issues."
"I would like to see it more friendly for other use cases."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"One specific feature that is missing from Airflow is that the steps of your workflow are not pipelined, meaning the stageless steps of any workflow. Not every workflow can be implemented within Airflow."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement."
"We cannot run real-time jobs in the solution."
"The dashboard is connected into the BPM flow that could be improved."
"The documentation must be improved."
"New users will need at least six months to get comfortable with IBM BPM, at least initially. So, there's a learning curve."
"They could provide case studies to investigate and understand the functionality of business processes before development."
"Except for the Lucene the index - we had a couple of issues in the Process Portal where the Lucene index went out of sync, and we had to work at least 15 - 20 hours to have it back in sync with the database."
"Finding errors and bugs on the system is not easy. We can't seem to use the events or logs to find them, so it makes it difficult to debug the system. They really need to work on their debugging features to make is much, much easier. It would improve the solution considerably and should be something they add in a future release."
"It's a bit technical, related to the instance of migrations. It's a tough thing to handle, in every new release, in every upgrade, that we have to do things in the applications or in the product. I think IBM is working on it but I know there are a lot of requests coming in from different organizations on this."
"Could increase vulnerability and security patches to make it more robust."
"The setup was quite complex because the solution was cutting-edge at that time and IBM invested considerably in the implementation, likely at a loss to themselves."
"There needs to be better documentation for IBM BPM in a central place. There is not any standard documentation for each component available and has been a barrier for developers."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. 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 BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM Business Automation Workflow, AWS Step Functions and Bizagi, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and ServiceNow Orchestration. See our Apache Airflow vs. IBM BPM report.
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