We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and Microsoft .NET Framework based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Compliance with the BPMN 2.0 standard."
"IBM BPM is both scalable and stable."
"Its most valuable features are usability and integration with other IBM products."
"We like that it does not require a lot of hours to train our people."
"It's a solid product. It covers most of the pain points for clients."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The designer feature, compared to other solutions is easy to use."
"It is easy to take a requirement, put it in the code, and deploy it."
"Microsoft .NET Framework continually innovates, particularly in Visual Studio, which focuses on improving languages, debugging, and .NET functionality."
"The tool offers a lot of support, and there is a lot of knowledge material available, along with a lot of community groups."
"If we take low code, no code platform such as RPA platforms, you might end up writing 100 lines of code and you might do it in a single line of code using. NET."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft .NET Framework is debugging."
"The most valuable features for us are web frameworks like MVC, Web API, and WCS."
"Pre-programmed functions for .NET Framework are widely available."
"The solution's technical support is very good...The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable feature is customization."
"The tool's workflow function is very strong."
"Stability wavers. We have some opportunities for improvement in this space, especially as we approach our target volume of a million transactions a day. It is tough, because it is not necessarily the product. It is more around the platform and infrastructure to support it, so the connectivity to the database, web sessions, and reverse proxies in front of that."
"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."
"Better integration with other products in the automation suite."
"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."
"When you have to integrate files for enterprise applications."
"The coaches and the user interface are the areas that can be improved a lot. It is good in terms of data processing, but the UI, scripting, and coaches are not very user-friendly and developer-friendly. Performance is always an issue. The scripting and the pattern that it uses are very tedious for new developers to understand, and it takes time to master it in depth. When comparing IBM BPM with IBM APN, a lot of things are provided out of the box in IBM APN. We don't have to write code or a Java connector to make a functionality work. It would be very helpful and time-saving for developers if IBM BPM is improved in this area to provide many functionalities or drag-and-drop options so that the developers don't have to write the code."
"New users will need at least six months to get comfortable with IBM BPM, at least initially. So, there's a learning curve."
"The product's price is an area of concern, making it an area where improvements are required."
"You need to have the technical expertise to use this product."
"Improvements are needed in .NET development, particularly in a backend scenario."
"The integration could improve in Microsoft .NET Framework."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"The product is nearing its sunset, and we think that by 2028, we won't get support anymore"
"Lacking in auto-scaling."
"The runtime environment for ASP.NET needs improvement to make it more universal."
IBM BPM is ranked 7th in Application Infrastructure with 105 reviews while Microsoft .NET Framework is ranked 4th in Application Infrastructure with 47 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while Microsoft .NET Framework is rated 8.4. 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 Microsoft .NET Framework writes "Intuitive, easier to develop, maintain, and migrate from the old framework to newer versions". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas Microsoft .NET Framework is most compared with IIS, Magic xpa Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Apache Web Server and SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal. See our IBM BPM vs. Microsoft .NET Framework report.
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