We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and WorkFusion 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."Provides the power to understand and automate processes."
"Our customers use the solution as a workflow platform to manage their processes."
"IBM BPM's best features include document sharing, management document creation, widget and barcode creation, and integration."
"We like that it does not require a lot of hours to train our people."
"I like the APIs and the BPM coach is a good tool. But if I had to pick one, it would be the API."
"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."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Its most valuable features are usability and integration with other IBM products."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to use."
"WorkFusion helps by speeding up processes. The process takes time. It has business costs associated because there are people waiting to take the next steps in the process. The end result of waiting, whether it is an internal or external team, is that they are delayed. Therefore, it helps us in speeding up business processes and improving employee morale, as people don't have to do repetitive work anymore."
"The cognitive features of this solution are good."
"The automation process is the most valuable feature."
"In terms of stability, it's quite good. It's an internal IP product."
"We can see that its competitive ability is quite good."
"We have been very pleased with the speed and decisiveness of WorkFusion, which is able to quickly provide a disposition note or escalate to a human for additional review."
"The Robotic Desktop Automation Express component allows us to do rapid development outside the normal, time-consuming processes."
"IBM BPM lacks openness, that is, the ability to become open for new options in terms of APIs, front-end development, and ecosystem. IBM BPM has been quite closed. One of the main improvements would be to somehow embed the rules engine into IBM BPM. Merging IBM BRMS and the rules engine with IBM BPM would be helpful. If there was some simpler way to define rules without having to put IBM BRMS on top of it, it would be good. It's something that we can get out of Camunda but not out of IBM BPM."
"Also, we would like to see integration with artificial intelligence, machine learning-type of technical capabilities. Right now, there are a lot Watson libraries out there. Building those integrations more, out-of-the-box, from IBM would be a good direction."
"They don't have a mechanism to achieve processes, data sources, and data."
"The business would like to use the product with a lot less IT and equipment involvement."
"We would appreciate more user-friendly definitions of processes with a more user-friendly interface for documenting processes."
"The user experience, while it has improved, should continue to improve."
"There is room for improvement in the stability."
"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."
"The most common issue we have is with the OCR, but that also depends on the quality of the documents your scanning. Still, I would say the OCR is comparable to other solutions. I wouldn't say it's better or worse than other OCR engines."
"We are having some database issues, but we are addressing them."
"The user experience could be better both from an RPA perspective and from a business perspective."
"We have had some problems in the past with the Inspector tool that looks at the elements on the screen. Replacing it or improving it is needed."
"Because the data is coming from offline, paper-based invoices and sometimes from Excel, data accuracy is the main challenge... Sometimes, WorkFusion has lacked the functionality for extracting the right information from the invoices and we have had to manually correct the format."
"It should integrate with more ERP solutions like SAP. It doesn't currently have that ability."
"A better graphical user interface that allows business users to perform automation would make this solution number one in the market."
"So far, we have developed only one automation using machine learning. The results were less than optimal. Part of this could be because of the use case that was selected. Overall, our experience was suboptimal. WorkFusion was an outstanding partner in terms of providing their experts for free to help us on that particular use case, but we still have a lot of things to figure out in terms of how to use its machine learning capability."
IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Process Automation with 105 reviews while WorkFusion is ranked 14th in Process Automation with 30 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while WorkFusion 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 WorkFusion writes "Helps improve our accuracy and compliance, but the analytics module can be confusing". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas WorkFusion is most compared with UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere (AA), Microsoft Power Automate and ELMA 365. See our IBM BPM vs. WorkFusion report.
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