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."Compliance with the BPMN 2.0 standard."
"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"
"I like the APIs and the BPM coach is a good tool. But if I had to pick one, it would be the API."
"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."
"IBM BPM's best features include document sharing, management document creation, widget and barcode creation, and integration."
"By automating several tasks, we have already reduced a lot of work for the business."
"The designer feature, compared to other solutions is easy to use."
"Initially, the process architecture studio was very helpful and it was compliant with BPMN standards."
"This is a low-code software where you can just drag and drop on the user interface. There are also a lot of quality integrations such as TMS."
"It's a flexible solution."
"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."
"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."
"IBM has spent a lot of time on the connections between the rules engine and its other product, the core BPM platform. They've really centralized the suite as one offering now."
"This product is tightly integrated with the RPA automation process."
"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."
"It provides a solution for integration orchestration. This solution is for any organization in the banking, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, and all domains and industries."
"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."
"The people working on the front desk are having some problem with managing the documentation. For instance, they get a picture, and if the picture comes rotated 90 degrees, together with a picture that is not rotated, they have some problems dealing with that, technically. There are some minor aspects that on the usability side that are still lacking. That has to do with FileNet, too, I'm talking about the suite together."
"They could provide case studies to investigate and understand the functionality of business processes before development."
"I would like IBM to consider including AI-enabled process mining, robotic process automation, and very good OCR capabilities from the computer vision side."
"I would say the scalability is very good but it's not perfect. It is much more scalable than it has been in the past but... it does require some work to keep it stable. So that is an area that should be improved."
"We are a government organization, and we are the largest government power sector in India. We generate around 30% of power in India. Therefore, our processes are quite complex. Although IBM BPM is a low-code or no-code software, if you want to have extremely complex workflows, just the business process diagrams are not helpful in creating those workflows. While implementing complex workflows, only the process flow diagrams did not help us. We had to write a lot of Java scripts and Java queries to achieve what we wanted. Its integration capabilities with the SAP environment have to be improved. At present, we are only talking at the web services environment level. Its price also needs to be improved. It is currently expensive. Previously, Active Directory required a heterogeneous environment, but now they want a homogeneous environment. We had onboarded employees through Microsoft Active Directory, and now I have to implement Microsoft AD only from the cloud for my vendors."
"I believe that if the license were cheaper, it would have a greater impact."
"The options for customization could be improved. More customization using your own code would be beneficial."
"The initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"Integrating the solution with existing systems can be complicated and it needs careful planning and execution."
"The setup and installation process could be made easier."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"The development UI is sometimes a little slow."
"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."
"The SCADA Systems are very sophisticated and have a hard time integrating with our older scales. The technical support in regards to the partner side needs some improvement."
"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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