We performed a comparison between AWS Step Functions and IBM Business Automation Workflow 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."AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"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."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It helps develop applications very quickly. Once clients get used to it and familiar with the methodology, then they don't feel so locked in. It is able to add this element of agility to our clients' software development lifecycle. That is my favorite thing about it: You're not so locked in as you used to be when developing applications."
"The dashboards are helpful because you can display reports directly on your screen."
"The workflow of BAW's automation is handled inside of BPM, so we can see what state it is at and how things are processing through."
"The solution reduces the time to the resolution which is essential for businesses."
"It has integrated UI and deployment models, and it has a deep set of consultant and service provider ecosystem features."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow provides a seamless streamlined collaboration within the organizations."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact it is highly configurable. We can do configurations very easily."
"It gives us the ability to create toolkits and use them across many different applications. It allows us to write things one time, instead of having to write a diary for every single different application. We can write at once and reuse it."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"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 solution's data size limit can be improved."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"In terms of improvement, it could be less complex."
"I feel that the features are not user-friendly."
"Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities."
"Requires a lot of customization code writing which could be reduced."
"The initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
"Improvements could be made in debugging and troubleshooting."
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AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 9 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 22 reviews. AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.8. 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 IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Pega BPM, Oracle BPM and Boomi AtomSphere Flow, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, Apache Airflow, IBM Case Foundation and Nintex Process Platform. See our AWS Step Functions vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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