We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow 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."The best feature is the customization."
"Designing processes and workflows is easier, and it assists in coordinating all of the different processes."
"Apache Airflow is useful for workflow automation, making it capable of automating pipelines, data pipelines, and data warehouse processes."
"The best part of Airflow is its direct support for Python, especially because Python is so important for data science, engineering, and design. This makes the programmatic aspect of our work easy for us, and it means we can automate a lot."
"Since it's widely adopted by the community, Apache Airflow is a user-friendly solution."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"Every feature in Apache Airflow is valuable. The number of operators and features I've used are mainly related to connectivity services and integrated services because I primarily work with GCP."
"Development on Apache Airflow is really fast, and it's easy to use with the newer updates. Everything is in Python, so it's not hard to understand. They also have a graphical view, so if you are not a programmer and you are just an administrator, you can easily track everything and see if everything is working or not."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is stable because the different infrastructure elements, such as the OS and middleware have been used for a long time."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact it is highly configurable. We can do configurations very easily."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The dashboards are helpful because you can display reports directly on your screen."
"Its interface is well-designed and user-friendly"
"It has had a positive effect on decision-making in my organization. It helps us with our dispute process."
"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."
"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."
"Adding more automated components in Apache Airflow for basic things like exporting the data would be helpful."
"We cannot run real-time jobs in the solution."
"The solution could be improved by simplifying the integration process."
"We have faced scenarios where Apache Airflow becomes non-responsive, leading to job failures. To resolve such situations, we had to manually reboot Apache Airflow since it doesn't provide an option to restart within the application. This necessitated modifying some configurations to initiate a restart of all Apache Airflow components. Although Apache Airflow is generally dependable, it may occasionally encounter glitches that can disrupt production flows and batches."
"I want to see Apache Airflow have more integrations with more production-based databases since it is an area where the product lacks currently."
"The dashboard is connected into the BPM flow that could be improved."
"I would like to see it more friendly for other use cases."
"The graphical user interface can be improved."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow could improve the integration."
"One significant challenge is the lack of accessible forums or resources to seek help or information when problems arise."
"The initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"The development UI is sometimes a little slow."
"The UI of the solution is not good. They should work to update the solution and make it better and fresher."
"I would definitely like to see a unified interface between the BPM side of the house and the case side of the house. Something that just seems a bit more cohesive, because right now there is sort of a disconnect between the BPM and the case side of the house. That makes it a bit of a hard sell sometimes. That is definitely first and foremost on my wish list."
"Improvements could be made in debugging and troubleshooting."
"The main areas which need improvement are specifically around reporting and analytics."
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Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 22 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, AWS Step Functions and Bizagi, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, AWS Step Functions, IBM Case Foundation and Nintex Process Platform. See our Apache Airflow vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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