We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and Oracle BPEL based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Process Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This is one of the best tools to support the business and the way we work, and the numerous processes we need to implement."
"It has improved my organization quite a bit. It brought awareness to what the business processes are, even to the business side, who did not necessarily know what they are."
"The initial setup is straightforward and easy. I would give it a nine out of ten."
"IBM BPM's most valuable features are its speed in implementing and providing any changes."
"IBM BPM is easy to deploy."
"Its most valuable features are usability and integration with other IBM products."
"The possibility to add Java code as embedded .jar, that increases the flexibility of the solution."
"It's a solid product. It covers most of the pain points for clients."
"What I find the most valuable about Oracle BPEL is that it saves me time."
"The product has everything we need."
"We had hoped that the product would provide us with plug-ins like Salesforce. Its development environment needs to improve. We expect to see elastic features like containerization. We don't just need an on-prem virtual machine."
"User Interface components could be further refined to enhance and extend customizations dictated by end clients."
"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."
"Where it can be improved is Integration. I think that the direction that IBM is taking now, to have something that is much more integrated, that can be seen as one single solution, is clearly the right way."
"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."
"All our clients are changing to microservice and cloud service. However, BPM does not have a solution for microservice and cloud service."
"The product is extremely complex to use and administrate."
"The solution can improve integration with SAP, CRM, and Salesforce, which is not capital-intensive."
"In the next release, I would like to see REST improved and new technologies for microservices. I'd like to see more containers for separating containers."
"Some user-defined functions for transformation must be added to the next release of the solution."
IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Process Automation with 105 reviews while Oracle BPEL is ranked 18th in Process Automation with 2 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while Oracle BPEL 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 Oracle BPEL writes "A highly scalable solution that provides various features for the execution of business processes". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Pega BPM, Appian, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas Oracle BPEL is most compared with Camunda, BizTalk Server, Bonita and Pega BPM. See our IBM BPM vs. Oracle BPEL report.
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