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."The number of historical events is great."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"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."
"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 solution's most valuable aspect is the fact it is highly configurable. We can do configurations very easily."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Business Automation Workflow is cost management."
"One of the most valuable features is the way that they are adapting to the market. Initially, it was doing only workflow. Now it has started bringing all the other components like rules within the workflow and then the integration with RPA."
"Its interface is well-designed and user-friendly"
"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 is the only product that includes capture content management and a process suite, as well as rules in RPA."
"The tool streamlines operations, especially from an operational perspective, by facilitating decision-making and ensuring timely approvals. This helps prevent delays in the approval process, where business process management adds significant value for us."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"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 solution's data size limit can be improved."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"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 initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow can improve UI flexibility and integration. Additionally, the solutions from IBM have to provide a paperless solution, allowing for digital versions of documents."
"From what I understand, in the next release they're actually going to combine all of this together as one integrated solution... If we could have one unified way to build a solution, that would really help."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
"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."
"The development UI is sometimes a little slow."
"The SCADA Systems are very sophisticated and have a hard time integrating with our older scales. The technical support in regards to the partner side needs some improvement."
"In terms of improvement, it could be less complex."
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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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