We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and IBM DataPower Gateway 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."Agility is the key. It gives our customers a faster way to be able to implement processes, get ownership of task, visibility into a process. The ability to modify that process, optimize that process over time, is probably the biggest benefit that they get from the software."
"Setting it up is fairly easy. If somebody has knowledge of the system, he or she will be able to do it fairly quickly."
"IBM BPM is stable."
"Initially, the process architecture studio was very helpful and it was compliant with BPMN standards."
"Good user interface and good add option."
"Responsive Portal + Process Federation Server. This set of solutions offers a unified worklist to our customers."
"The most valuable features come in the bundle, the design process, creating services, creating BPDs, creating coaches, and UI/UX."
"It has an elaborated way to explore the IBM BPM processes."
"The product is stable...The product is scalable."
"The API Connect gateway service and the SQL injection feature is good."
"I like all of the features in this product and it does what it's supposed to do."
"The performance is good. It's been very stable."
"The most valuable features for our business include the ability to monitor and log data transactions and handle multiple request at an enterprise level."
"Since it is a gateway, it provides a lot of security features."
"What I like most is the stability."
"You don't have to have a separate DMC proxy because DataPower Gateway is an appliance and will take care of a lot of security features. These include data validations, encryption, as well as XML or any type of scripting or security threats that are present."
"I would like to see a lot more case studies."
"Integration with web services, especially in the standard version of the product."
"The front end is not customised for a good user experience."
"You must have good experience to work with it. It is not that easy. Its installation is complex, especially in the new version for business automation, and it could be improved. It has a safety application embedded inside it, and you need to do a lot of configuration to install it. I have been working for two days to resolve an issue."
"Process Server is no more available than new products out there, but in general IBM has a high cost and complex setup."
"IBM BPM's UI is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The initial setup was complex. It is not always easy to launch a new platform and it needed better coordination with IBM."
"Some of the features are not enough for my business. We need to build custom user management for the many end users affected by BPM."
"The initial setup isn't so easy, you need who has experience working with the solution to help."
"Its support services could be better."
"An area for improvement in IBM DataPower Gateway is its price point because it's a relatively expensive product. Sometimes, when the customer use case is just a very small subset of what's being offered in IBM DataPower Gateway, then the product can be expensive, making my company lose some of the opportunities because of the expensive pricing. A lower price point for IBM DataPower Gateway, even if that results in a less feature-rich version, would be appreciated. In terms of additional features that I'd like to see in the next release of IBM DataPower Gateway, nothing specific comes to mind because IBM constantly improves its standards and provides quarterly updates to the product, so it's quite fine."
"The product should be more adapted to the DevOps process."
"The product's cost for data appliances or hardware is quite high. It needs improvement."
"The IBM community does not have much engagement from the IT community in Saudi Arabia and developers for this solution are difficult to find."
"They should improve the solution's clustering features."
"Some pre-packaged connectors for integration with various applications, such as SaaS offerings, would be a useful addition."
IBM BPM is ranked 6th in Application Infrastructure with 105 reviews while IBM DataPower Gateway is ranked 7th in Application Infrastructure with 26 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while IBM DataPower Gateway is rated 8.4. 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 IBM DataPower Gateway writes "Easy to use, plenty of functionality, but expensive". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas IBM DataPower Gateway is most compared with IBM API Connect, Apigee, Microsoft Azure API Management, Mule ESB and IBM Integration Bus. See our IBM BPM vs. IBM DataPower Gateway report.
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