We performed a comparison between IBM BPM 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."Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"One of the most notable things is how you can develop use cases with the customers, internal customers, but directly within. The software process model that BPM supports is really exciting in that aspect."
"Automation is the most valuable feature of IBM BPM."
"By automating several tasks, we have already reduced a lot of work for the business."
"The solution has helped us automate business processes."
"The possibility to add Java code as embedded .jar, that increases the flexibility of the solution."
"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 most valuable feature of IBM BPM is the low code design, and ease of maintenance. Additionally, the integration is good and easy to do."
"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 helps develop applications very quickly. Once clients get used to it and familiar with the methodology, then they don't feel so locked in. It is able to add this element of agility to our clients' software development lifecycle. That is my favorite thing about it: You're not so locked in as you used to be when developing applications."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow provides a seamless streamlined collaboration within the organizations."
"The business process modeling is the most valuable feature."
"The solution reduces the time to the resolution which is essential for businesses."
"This product is tightly integrated with the RPA automation process."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is useful for helping us design custom user interfaces and processes we require."
"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."
"The solution can improve integration with SAP, CRM, and Salesforce, which is not capital-intensive."
"I would like to see a lot more case studies."
"You must have good experience to work with it. It is not that easy. Its installation is complex, especially in the new version for business automation, and it could be improved. It has a safety application embedded inside it, and you need to do a lot of configuration to install it. I have been working for two days to resolve an issue."
"It can definitely be improved in terms of performance and stability."
"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."
"Needs better reporting. I do not think that we are fully taking advantage of what it already has yet."
"New users will need at least six months to get comfortable with IBM BPM, at least initially. So, there's a learning curve."
"The engine itself tends to accumulate a lot of data that needs to be cleaned up, and that's the kind of thing that keeps it from, in some scenarios, scaling as much as it needs to. And then, when you're building solutions, if you're not careful to keep the screens from being associated with too much data, if you're going to just do things the way that a lot of people would just assume that they can do, without having experience of having made those mistakes before, it will accumulate a lot of data, and that will cause it to perform very badly."
"The UI of the solution is not good. They should work to update the solution and make it better and fresher."
"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."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
"Every client is moving to the cloud. We are still a little behind with IBM, but we are catching up from my point of view."
"In terms of improvement, it could be less complex."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"From what I understand, in the next release they're actually going to combine all of this together as one integrated solution... If we could have one unified way to build a solution, that would really help."
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IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 22 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.8. 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 IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, Apache Airflow and ServiceNow Orchestration, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with Camunda, Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, IBM Case Foundation and Nintex Process Platform. See our IBM BPM vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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