We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IQ and IBM BPM 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."F5 BIG-IQ has always provided us with great support."
"Scalability: To move from larger boxes to smaller boxes, along with virtualization. So, we are not locked into a particular size."
"F5 BIG-IQ is a central management system for the BIG-IP."
"F5 BIG-IQ reduces the propensity for error."
"We use this solution on a daily basis, and it is very stable."
"The best aspect of the solution is that we can have everything integrated with a rather large capacity in order to personalize and configure specific rules."
"The backup, monitoring and logging are the best features."
"The most valuable features are load balancing and WAF."
"We have used a lot of out-of-the-box reporting on the process performance metrics. We have been able to make suggested changes to staff for this role or streamlining by eliminate some activities where people were not requiring a lot of work in the first place."
"It continues to keep up with the changing needs of the business. That is the strong value proposition of BPM. It's not a one-time automation."
"The solution offers great notifications."
"Process Modelling, simulation and optimization, integration, UI components."
"It helps improve your process through continual measurement."
"Technical support is good. They are very responsive. It is usually me who takes more time to get back to them than they take to get back to me, which is good."
"We use the solution to develop and deliver products."
"IBM BPM is stable."
"The shell, kernel, or Linux has something like a delay, especially with the Virtual Edition, when you are trying to implement it in the cloud and you want to access it remotely with web management. It would be great if they could improve their kernel. It was difficult for me, especially when I got started with BIG-IP. I was struggling to find which commands work with it. If you want to work with it, you have to be a Linux guy."
"F5 BIG-IQ should improve by being a complete certificate management solution because currently, it is only for Venafi. Other automation platforms, should be added."
"The solution should improve pricing. It's expensive in comparison to other American solutions."
"There are a lot of scripts available on the internet for people who know how to use them, but with a graphical interface, it would be easier for new users."
"Sometimes the solution does not work."
"I had trouble with high availability deployment in my environment."
"They could use YAML or JSON if they wanted to make it a little bit easier for us."
"F5 BIG-IQ is a complex solution, and it cannot manage everything related to BIG-IPs."
"User Interface components could be further refined to enhance and extend customizations dictated by end clients."
"If the processing gets better, it would be more efficient."
"Performance in the development environment space. I know that they have been taking it off the desktop version and putting on the web, and it is not 100% yet."
"I would like IBM to consider including AI-enabled process mining, robotic process automation, and very good OCR capabilities from the computer vision side."
"Importing and exporting between multiple environments is more difficult with other tools."
"Process Server is no more available than new products out there, but in general IBM has a high cost and complex setup."
"I would like it more documentation during the design phase."
"I would like to see more inclusion of RPA technologies. If we have more manual processes, we can use robotic process automation and integrate that in with the solution."
F5 BIG-IQ is ranked 24th in Process Automation with 12 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Process Automation with 105 reviews. F5 BIG-IQ is rated 7.4, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IQ writes "A central management system to manage and monitor a bunch of different BIG-IP devices". 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". F5 BIG-IQ is most compared with ServiceNow Orchestration, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow. See our F5 BIG-IQ vs. IBM BPM report.
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