We performed a comparison between AWS Step Functions 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."What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"It's a general solution that you can adapt to your own needs and is simple to use. We like that it can be integrated with everything in the AWS suite, and that the creation of the pipeline can be done using the graphical user interface."
"The number of historical events is great."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The stability has been good. We haven't had any issues."
"This solution is useful for business process management if you have any banking solutions or need to manage a process."
"The most valuable feature is the situational layer cake."
"The workflow designing and integration are the most valuable features. Also, the UI design was pretty easy."
"It's a good tool for workflow automation."
"There are a lot of frameworks in the product. I use Pega PRPC the most."
"It is a stable product."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"It wasn't easy to understand the licensing model. It's like if you use just a little, it's cheap, but it becomes more expensive as you use more. It's like a hook that ties you inside the Amazon ecosystem. So, it creates a dependency."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"Pega BPM could improve the UI, it is poorly designed to have a good UX experience."
"From a technical point of view, it would be helpful to have some advanced analytics to help with configuration. We have a lot of unwanted features and it would be good to configure it more appropriately so that we are using just exactly what we need."
"Pega BPM could be improved by including token-based authentication and extending its integration options."
"It should have integration with non-relational databases. A lot of databases are non-relational, and as a company, we are planning to move to NoSQL or open-source databases. It would be good if we are able to install and use Pega on a NoSQL database. They can also try to tailor or organize the company a bit differently and go more towards the microservice concept. I would like Pega to develop machine learning and intelligent AI algorithms. They have a good foundation in terms of the model and the stuff that we are using for some customers, and it will be good to onboard as many machine learning algorithms as possible."
"Sometimes when we are patching some data from the database, we are getting added as a timeout."
"The biggest thing I have seen is when going from one version to another and upgrading to the latest version, it takes a pretty long time for an organization to go through an upgrade process. I think that's an area where they can make it a little smoother."
"Business specific functionality is needed."
"Pega is claiming they're into low code but as per Gartner Magic Quadrant, Pega is not there now."
AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 8 reviews while Pega BPM is ranked 3rd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 55 reviews. AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8, while Pega BPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AWS Step Functions writes "Simplifies complex task automation and enhances development workflows while offering user-friendly interface, seamless scalability and efficient workflow orchestration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pega BPM writes "Low code with great APIs and good flexibility". AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow, Oracle BPM and IBM Business Automation Workflow, whereas Pega BPM is most compared with ServiceNow, Camunda, Appian and Microsoft Power Apps. See our AWS Step Functions vs. Pega BPM report.
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