We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and IBM 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."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."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"Its user-friendly interface makes it straightforward to operate, offering a plethora of features for data preparation, buffering, and format conversion."
"The product integrates well with other pipelines and solutions."
"Since Apache works very well on Python, we can manage everything and create pipelines there."
"Since the solution is programmatic, it allows users to define pipelines in code rather than drag and drop."
"We have been quite satisfied with the stability of the solution."
"The solution's UI allows me to collect all the information and see the code lines."
"IBM BPM is equipped with all the functionalities which are needed for building BPM enterprise-level applications."
"Its most valuable features are usability and integration with other IBM products."
"The installation was straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"IBM BPM's best features include document sharing, management document creation, widget and barcode creation, and integration."
"Setting it up is fairly easy. If somebody has knowledge of the system, he or she will be able to do it fairly quickly."
"The most valuable feature of IBM BPM is the low code design, and ease of maintenance. Additionally, the integration is good and easy to do."
"It helps improve your process through continual measurement."
"There is a need for more features on experimental evolution steps."
"The solution could be improved by simplifying the integration process."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"There is an area for improvement in onboarding new people. They should make it simple for newcomers. Else, we have to put a senior engineer to operate it."
"The graphical user interface can be improved."
"The automation capabilities could be improved; a visual workflow designer and a graphical tool to reduce coding would be very helpful. But for now, it's sufficient for our simple workflows."
"The documentation must be improved."
"The dashboard is connected into the BPM flow that could be improved."
"IBM BPM integrated with Spark UI and the UI is now much better, but they still need to improve the UI because competitors have predefined templates and other additional features. In these competitor's solutions, you are able to use the templates, map your data, and the form is ready to use. With this solution, you need to write a lot of code to have the same quality as the competitor's templates. It would be a benefit to make this platform more towards low-code or no-code."
"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."
"Process versioning was tricky, not straightforward."
"Our developers are complaining that it's too complex to maintain."
"The interface is limited and should improve in the future."
"The options for customization could be improved. More customization using your own code would be beneficial."
"If the processing gets better, it would be more efficient."
"UI is an area with a shortcoming that needs improvement."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while IBM BPM 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 BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM Business Automation Workflow, AWS Step Functions and Bizagi, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and ServiceNow Orchestration. See our Apache Airflow vs. IBM BPM report.
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