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."The tool is user-friendly."
"The initial setup was straightforward and it does not take long to complete."
"The solution is quite configurable so it is easy to code within a configuration kind of environment."
"The solution's UI allows me to collect all the information and see the code lines."
"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."
"Since Apache works very well on Python, we can manage everything and create pipelines there."
"Apache Airflow is in Python language, making it easy to use and learn."
"The best part of Airflow is its direct support for Python, especially because Python is so important for data science, engineering, and design. This makes the programmatic aspect of our work easy for us, and it means we can automate a lot."
"The most valuable feature is automation, which is quite strong and we are quite happy with it."
"One of the most valuable features is the way that they are adapting to the market. Initially, it was doing only workflow. Now it has started bringing all the other components like rules within the workflow and then the integration with RPA."
"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."
"It has had a positive effect on decision-making in my organization. It helps us with our dispute process."
"It is the only product that includes capture content management and a process suite, as well as rules in RPA."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact it is highly configurable. We can do configurations very easily."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The tool streamlines operations, especially from an operational perspective, by facilitating decision-making and ensuring timely approvals. This helps prevent delays in the approval process, where business process management adds significant value for us."
"Enhancements become necessary when scaling it up from a few thousand workflows to a more extensive scale of five thousand or ten thousand workflows."
"The platform's stability needs improvement, particularly regarding occasional interruptions due to networking issues."
"For admins, there should be improved logging capabilities because Apache Airflow does have logging, but it's limited to some database data."
"Programmatically, it's very good, and it doesn't have any competitors, but you cannot develop anything in Airflow UI. You need to develop everything within the program. In the market, other tools have come up recently as competitors to Airflow, and they also give graphical programming options, whereas Airflow doesn't provide that feature currently. All the DAGs you want to build need to be coded in Python."
"We cannot run real-time jobs in the solution."
"We need to develop our workflow description and notations because out of the box, Apache Airflow does not provide some features that are needed."
"I would like to see some no-code capabilities and drag and drop abilities in Airflow."
"The problem with Apache Airflow is that it is an open-source tool. You have to build it into a Kubernetes container, which is not easy to maintain, and I find it to be very clunky."
"Improvements could be made in debugging and troubleshooting."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow could improve the integration."
"In terms of improvement, it could be less complex."
"The initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
"While everything is integrated into one platform, I'd like guidelines on when and how to use ODM. This applies not only to implementation but also to automation processes. Additionally, proper instructions should be provided when installing on the cloud."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow can improve UI flexibility and integration. Additionally, the solutions from IBM have to provide a paperless solution, allowing for digital versions of documents."
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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 22 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while IBM Business Automation Workflow 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 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, AWS Step Functions, IBM Case Foundation and Nintex Process Platform. See our Apache Airflow vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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