We performed a comparison between AWS Step Functions and Camunda 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 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."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"The integration capability is easy, whereas building state machines is tricky."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"The speed and execution of DMN was a big selling point for us. It's very good at conducting business processes that are easily modeled and presented in a way that's easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature is the scheduling."
"The visibility – the diagrams you create – and then being able to automate based on them are valuable features. It's easy to explain and comprehend, and the integration aspects are valuable."
"For an internal project, this is a solution that you can install and have up and running quite quickly."
"The Camunda BPMN Platform is very flexible and gives several options to deploy and scale it."
"The graphical interface is very beneficial."
"Camunda's most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with different products."
"The solution is easily compatible with HTML forms and HTML language programming and that is the most significant part."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"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 price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
"I'm from the .NET world and I would like to use it, rather than Java."
"The support definitely can be improved. Apart from that, the language should be extendable to other platforms. If I want to write, I'll run a different platform, like Python code on top of it, or COBOL code on top of it, and it should support those languages."
"I would like to see the forms engine available in the open-source version of this solution."
"The latency of API could be decreased."
"When trying to design rule tables the solutions graphical user interface could improve, it could be more user friendly."
"Without a proper frontend, the business cannot effectively use the platform."
"Camunda could be improved by making it easier to modify a process. You can program it to follow a process, but it is difficult to modify the process when the application is in use. It could also be improved by making it easier to use the visual platform without needing to be informed on that. Sometimes, we programmers haven't used it in the past, and it's a bit difficult to learn it."
"Lacking in forms visualization."
AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 9 reviews while Camunda is ranked 1st in Business Process Management (BPM) with 71 reviews. AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8, while Camunda 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 Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". AWS Step Functions is most compared with IBM BPM, Apache Airflow, Pega BPM, Oracle BPM and IBM Business Automation Workflow, whereas Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM and SAP Signavio Process Manager. See our AWS Step Functions vs. Camunda report.
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