We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and Pega BPM 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."I found the following features very useful: DAG - Workload management and orchestration of tasks using."
"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."
"It's stable."
"Apache Airflow is useful for workflow automation, making it capable of automating pipelines, data pipelines, and data warehouse processes."
"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."
"Since Apache works very well on Python, we can manage everything and create pipelines there."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its quick setup. Nowhere else you can create a good-looking application this quick. It's a fairly robust system."
"Case Management, as well as Workflow Automation, are Pega's most powerful capabilities."
"The tool reduces our costs."
"The most valuable features of Pega BPM are low code, no code, functionality, and easy development."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the various workflows."
"The interface is quite simple and easy to use, even for beginners."
"Decreased time for plane departures and landing, supported analytical insight for planning of three to six month forecasting, and helped with operational decision planning and support."
"It is a stable product."
"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."
"The dashboards could be enhanced."
"Enhancements become necessary when scaling it up from a few thousand workflows to a more extensive scale of five thousand or ten thousand workflows."
"One specific feature that is missing from Airflow is that the steps of your workflow are not pipelined, meaning the stageless steps of any workflow. Not every workflow can be implemented within Airflow."
"The solution could be improved by simplifying the integration process."
"The graphical user interface can be improved."
"There is a need for more features on experimental evolution steps."
"Programmatically, it's very good, and it doesn't have any competitors, but you cannot develop anything in Airflow UI. You need to develop everything within the program. In the market, other tools have come up recently as competitors to Airflow, and they also give graphical programming options, whereas Airflow doesn't provide that feature currently. All the DAGs you want to build need to be coded in Python."
"The way the IDE works with the chatbox and the taxonomy imports could be a little smoother."
"This is an expensive solution."
"Pega BPM could be improved by including token-based authentication and extending its integration options."
"The previous versions had good training documents but the updated versions need to improve the documentation."
"The main problem with Pega is that it is quite complex, so it is very difficult for the developer to learn."
"This is a quite expensive product."
"The cost of licensing could be improved."
"It is not fully compatible with all versions of Internet Explorer, so sometimes, it does not work."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while Pega BPM is ranked 3rd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 57 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while Pega BPM is rated 8.2. 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 Pega BPM writes "Provides built-in frameworks that can be reused and reduces time and cost". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM Business Automation Workflow and webMethods Integration Server, whereas Pega BPM is most compared with ServiceNow, Camunda, Appian, IBM BPM and Microsoft Power Apps. See our Apache Airflow vs. Pega BPM report.
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