We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and WebLogic Suite 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."IBM BPM is stable."
"IBM BPM is equipped with all the functionalities which are needed for building BPM enterprise-level applications."
"Overall, I'm satisfied with the product. If you compare it with other products, it's probably not as easygoing or as simple to implement as the rest. But after you get used to it, it works. It has a lot of capabilities and potential, but the people, who come from different technologies, have some difficulty getting used to the way of working with IBM products."
"Everything is coupled together and comes as one solution."
"One thing that I love about them is that they make it easier to integrate with other systems, especially with the use of smaller files."
"By automating several tasks, we have already reduced a lot of work for the business."
"IBM's deployment box is one huge black box. We can create all the services with our own code or without a codebase, however, we have a huge amount of space with practically no limitation."
"The installation was straightforward."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
"The solution is very scalable. It's easy to add processes even if you are new to the solution."
"It easily connects to other Oracle products and services."
"The product is reliable."
"The feature that I have found to be the most valuable is the ease of deployment."
"Robust solution; console and enterprise management tools are really easy to work."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides one place where you can control all of the services."
"This is a robust solution."
"We still have a couple of issues that we are working on right now with stability. Mostly on the configuration side of the tool, and it has been about a month that we have been working to stabilize the platform."
"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."
"I hope IBM uses something from IBM Content Navigator to make the interface easier to navigate."
"IBM BPM's UI is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"There is room for improvement in the stability."
"The interface is limited and should improve in the future."
"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."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The solution needs to share more information in terms of training. There needs to be more documentation involved to help those who are completely new to the product."
"This solution doesn't have connectors to other external applications."
"The content search is not easy."
"I think the support could be much better."
"The licensing for the solution is pretty expensive. It may be the most expensive solution, if you were to compare it to the competition."
"Sometimes there are issues when we work on a VM because people use it to put all of their reports on it at the same time. Then I have to restart and rebuild the machine."
"The restart capability needs to be improved because it takes us 15 minutes to restart any application."
"I rate the scalability of WebLogic Suite an eight out of ten."
IBM BPM is ranked 7th in Application Infrastructure with 105 reviews while WebLogic Suite is ranked 11th in Application Infrastructure with 31 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while WebLogic Suite is rated 8.2. 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 WebLogic Suite writes "Simple setup, reliable, and performs well". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Pega BPM, Appian, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas WebLogic Suite is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite, Microsoft .NET Framework, Oracle WebCenter, Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus. See our IBM BPM vs. WebLogic Suite report.
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