We performed a comparison between Bonita and IBM BPM 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."Development of forms and flows."
"The most valuable features of Bonita are the connectors, detailed documentation, and web applications. The documentation was useful because it is how I learned how to use it."
"Compared to other products on the market, Bonita presents a pretty acceptable level of robustness."
"Process automation with Bonita BPM is really easy."
"The solution is stable. Even the older versions are stable."
"The user interface is easy to use."
"One of the most valuable features is you can create without coding, it is a low code platform."
"Its user-friendliness, along with the availability of comprehensive and clear documentation on the website is the most valuable."
"IBM BPM is a stable solution."
"I think the best way it can be it improved, is to make it easier to install. It's a very complicated piece of software, and there are a lot of things you have to do to get it set up. It's not just running an installer. You install WebSphere. You install the BPM product, and there's a large host of other steps you have to do: run queries against the database, you have to manually configure a bunch of properties files for your environment. I think if they could streamline all that, so it wasn't a considerable effort to install, that would be very useful. Because from an engineering point of view, you want to spend as little time as possible actually installing a product."
"The integration and design are valuable features."
"The solution has helped us automate business processes."
"IBM BPM is equipped with all the functionalities which are needed for building BPM enterprise-level applications."
"IBM BPM is both scalable and stable."
"With the Process Center, I can go to one place and view what all the environments are doing."
"The Process Designer is good. We like how we can drag and drop and link the processes up, that works out great for us."
"Installation could be made easier."
"Automation in vacation of a human resources replacement would be a good improvement in the product."
"I should be able to park the tasks that are within a process in a kind of container, and dynamically, a super admin should be able to connect these processes. This kind of feature might be helpful."
"Bonita must add a rule engine. We are a 360-degree partner of Bonita. We can integrate with any kind of rule engine. We have a dashboard related to engine performance, but getting a configurable dashboard for the Buildium or transactional data will add value."
"The main issue with Bonita is that the workspace crashes sometimes."
"I have run into a lot of problems because there is not enough documentation."
"The dashboard has limited features."
"It is missing some important features that other products have."
"Process versioning was tricky, not straightforward."
"We had a weird problem that whenever the database would go down, even for a few seconds, it broke the connection. It would not come back up as it was supposed to. However, working with IBM, we were able to figure out a fix, then it came back up, even after an interruption of the database."
"The options for customization could be improved. More customization using your own code would be beneficial."
"You must have good experience to work with it. It is not that easy. Its installation is complex, especially in the new version for business automation, and it could be improved. It has a safety application embedded inside it, and you need to do a lot of configuration to install it. I have been working for two days to resolve an issue."
"We would like better performance and more visibility on each step of the tool."
"IBM BPM can improve the dashboards and reports. It only has two dashboards, and reporting is very difficult to build."
"The coaches and the user interface are the areas that can be improved a lot. It is good in terms of data processing, but the UI, scripting, and coaches are not very user-friendly and developer-friendly. Performance is always an issue. The scripting and the pattern that it uses are very tedious for new developers to understand, and it takes time to master it in depth. When comparing IBM BPM with IBM APN, a lot of things are provided out of the box in IBM APN. We don't have to write code or a Java connector to make a functionality work. It would be very helpful and time-saving for developers if IBM BPM is improved in this area to provide many functionalities or drag-and-drop options so that the developers don't have to write the code."
"I would like it more documentation during the design phase."
Bonita is ranked 11th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 27 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. Bonita is rated 8.2, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Bonita writes "A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". Bonita is most compared with Camunda, Bizagi, Apache Airflow, Appian and ProcessMaker, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow. See our Bonita vs. IBM BPM report.
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