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."Our customers use the solution as a workflow platform to manage their processes."
"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."
"Automating the whole workflow process to give our data steward the ability to take actions rapidly, and making sure we have all the data synced within the different platforms that we are using."
"IBM BPM is equipped with all the functionalities which are needed for building BPM enterprise-level applications."
"It provides value and simplifies processes."
"The most valuable feature for the organization is the Document Store."
"Initially, the process architecture studio was very helpful and it was compliant with BPMN standards."
"We like that it does not require a lot of hours to train our people."
"The product is resilient."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"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."
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"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"Better integration with other products in the automation suite."
"The product is extremely complex to use and administrate."
"IBM BPM needs to have a better and modified interface."
"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."
"It is not user-friendly."
"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."
"We had a weird problem that whenever the database would go down, even for a few seconds, it broke the connection. It would not come back up as it was supposed to. However, working with IBM, we were able to figure out a fix, then it came back up, even after an interruption of the database."
"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."
"The scalability could be improved."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
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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