We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and NGINX Plus 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."It excels at analytics. It provides visibility across all activities of a company's processes and performance."
"This solution has always been lacking in the user interface (UI), it needed to be improved a lot. However, from the acquisition of Spark UI, the UI is much better. Overall the solution is robust and has the ability to integrate with any product for complex workflows."
"The solution has helped us automate business processes."
"Some of the features that I like the most are team management and process performance. They are both very useful and very powerful with regard to the workflow."
"Technical support is pleasant to work with and always available."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The product's installation was easy."
"I think the best way it can be it improved, is to make it easier to install. It's a very complicated piece of software, and there are a lot of things you have to do to get it set up. It's not just running an installer. You install WebSphere. You install the BPM product, and there's a large host of other steps you have to do: run queries against the database, you have to manually configure a bunch of properties files for your environment. I think if they could streamline all that, so it wasn't a considerable effort to install, that would be very useful. Because from an engineering point of view, you want to spend as little time as possible actually installing a product."
"It helps maintain, and in many instances, lower costs, as well as to maintain those costs, keeping them stable."
"I find the solution’s community support and documentation most valuable. Compared to HAProxy, have found a lot of documentation and community support on Quora. If you would be asking me as a developer whether to choose this product, I would recommend this since it has good community support, documentation, and signature updates. The configuration of HAProxy is also very tedious. However, NGINX’s configuration is very simple."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
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"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"Nginx is simple to configure, very stable in a highly utilized environment and very modular, allowing DevOps to create it's own modules for interactive use with Nginx."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"The product is extremely complex to use and administrate."
"From the testing perspective and minor enhancements perspective, customization is something that is a little tedious as compared to new tools. In addition, various open-source tools that are available are not working with IBM BPM."
"I would like to see the front-end support improved because it should be fully integrated and supported."
"We need process monitoring. It is somewhat complex to monitor all the processes which work."
"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."
"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."
"I'd like the tool to be more flexible."
"There are a few areas, like triggering mechanisms, externally exposed variables, and changing its values."
"The user interface could be improved."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"I would like it to have a more user-friendly graphical interface."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
IBM BPM is ranked 7th in Application Infrastructure with 105 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 2nd in Application Infrastructure with 28 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server. See our IBM BPM vs. NGINX Plus report.
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