We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow 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."Its user-friendly interface makes it straightforward to operate, offering a plethora of features for data preparation, buffering, and format conversion."
"The initial setup was straightforward and it does not take long to complete."
"I found the following features very useful: DAG - Workload management and orchestration of tasks using."
"The reason we went with Airflow is its DAG presentation, that shows the relationships among everything. It's more of a configuration-driven workflow."
"We have been quite satisfied with the stability of the solution."
"The product integrates well with other pipelines and solutions."
"Apache Airflow is useful for workflow automation, making it capable of automating pipelines, data pipelines, and data warehouse processes."
"The solution is quite configurable so it is easy to code within a configuration kind of environment."
"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."
"IBM has spent a lot of time on the connections between the rules engine and its other product, the core BPM platform. They've really centralized the suite as one offering now."
"It has had a positive effect on decision-making in my organization. It helps us with our dispute process."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is useful for helping us design custom user interfaces and processes we require."
"It provides a solution for integration orchestration. This solution is for any organization in the banking, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, and all domains and industries."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is stable because the different infrastructure elements, such as the OS and middleware have been used for a long time."
"This is a low-code software where you can just drag and drop on the user interface. There are also a lot of quality integrations such as TMS."
"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."
"I want to see Apache Airflow have more integrations with more production-based databases since it is an area where the product lacks currently."
"We have faced scenarios where Apache Airflow becomes non-responsive, leading to job failures. To resolve such situations, we had to manually reboot Apache Airflow since it doesn't provide an option to restart within the application. This necessitated modifying some configurations to initiate a restart of all Apache Airflow components. Although Apache Airflow is generally dependable, it may occasionally encounter glitches that can disrupt production flows and batches."
"Programmatically, it's very good, and it doesn't have any competitors, but you cannot develop anything in Airflow UI. You need to develop everything within the program. In the market, other tools have come up recently as competitors to Airflow, and they also give graphical programming options, whereas Airflow doesn't provide that feature currently. All the DAGs you want to build need to be coded in Python."
"The solution could be improved by simplifying the integration process."
"The documentation must be improved."
"It would be beneficial to improve the pricing structure."
"The platform's stability needs improvement, particularly regarding occasional interruptions due to networking issues."
"Airflow should support the dynamic drag creation."
"Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities."
"Every client is moving to the cloud. We are still a little behind with IBM, but we are catching up from my point of view."
"Integrating the solution with existing systems can be complicated and it needs careful planning and execution."
"I would definitely like to see a unified interface between the BPM side of the house and the case side of the house. Something that just seems a bit more cohesive, because right now there is sort of a disconnect between the BPM and the case side of the house. That makes it a bit of a hard sell sometimes. That is definitely first and foremost on my wish list."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow could improve the integration."
"The UI of the solution is not good. They should work to update the solution and make it better and fresher."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
"I feel that the features are not user-friendly."
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Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, AWS Step Functions and Bizagi, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, AWS Step Functions, IBM Case Foundation and Nintex Process Platform. See our Apache Airflow vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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