We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 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."It is being able to see the process, and understanding what the process is versus having to bury it in code somewhere."
"With the tester coach wherein you can interact with the interface while you're designing the process."
"It is a very powerful solution."
"The reach with Integration Adapters and support for adding custom Java code are valuable features."
"It helps improve your process through continual measurement."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is stable."
"It has reduced a lot of manual errors and processes."
"It's convenient and barebone."
"The most valuable features of this solution are scalability and performance."
"Stable and easy to handle in terms of hosting applications."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The solution is quite stable."
"The people working on the front desk are having some problem with managing the documentation. For instance, they get a picture, and if the picture comes rotated 90 degrees, together with a picture that is not rotated, they have some problems dealing with that, technically. There are some minor aspects that on the usability side that are still lacking. That has to do with FileNet, too, I'm talking about the suite together."
"The initial setup was complex. It is not always easy to launch a new platform and it needed better coordination with IBM."
"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."
"It is a really powerful tool, but its entry price is so high, which makes it a very exclusive club for who gets to use it. The thing that seemed to be the most intolerable was that you could put lots and lots of users on it, and it worked fine, but if you put lots and lots of developers on it, it sure seemed to have challenges. The biggest challenge was the development because of the Eclipse tool. It just seemed like irrespective of the development team that you put together, whether it had 10 or 50 people, you would end up having to reboot the development server throughout the day when you concurrently had lots of people hammering on the system. The development server just got sluggish. This was true for every project I was on. Once you got more than about five people working on the system at the same time, it would just get slower and slower during development work, and the only way to fix it was to reboot the server. It became just like a routine. Sometimes, we would reboot at lunch or dinner time, which is silly. After the cloud instances started rolling out, I never saw that again. That was probably the one big advantage of the cloud version. Instead of using an independent Eclipse-based process development tool, we moved to web-based process and design. The web-based tool definitely had greater performance than the Eclipse-based tool. I never got onto another project after that with 50 people, so I don't know how the performance is when you get a large team on it, but it definitely seems that the cloud design tool was a massive improvement."
"When you have to integrate files for enterprise applications."
"I believe that if the license were cheaper, it would have a greater impact."
"We have had to use Mule as an alternative integration tool because it is more flexible than IBM BPM."
"The coaches and the user interface are the areas that can be improved a lot. It is good in terms of data processing, but the UI, scripting, and coaches are not very user-friendly and developer-friendly. Performance is always an issue. The scripting and the pattern that it uses are very tedious for new developers to understand, and it takes time to master it in depth. When comparing IBM BPM with IBM APN, a lot of things are provided out of the box in IBM APN. We don't have to write code or a Java connector to make a functionality work. It would be very helpful and time-saving for developers if IBM BPM is improved in this area to provide many functionalities or drag-and-drop options so that the developers don't have to write the code."
"This solution needs better management UI."
"Lacks some functional requirements."
"It's hard to find out the root cause of errors."
"Its architecture needs improvement."
"A graphic user interface can be added."
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IBM BPM is ranked 6th in Application Infrastructure with 105 reviews while JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is ranked 9th in Application Infrastructure with 5 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is rated 9.0. 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 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform writes "A stable and scalable solution that provides excellent technical support with a good response time". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is most compared with IBM WebSphere Application Server, Microsoft .NET Framework, Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus. See our IBM BPM vs. JBoss Enterprise Application Platform report.
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