We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There is a component of this BPM pool - I can't recall the name. What it does is, it allows you to create various scenarios and then run them quickly, before actually putting them onto a tool. So I think that part of the tool is really fantastic, because that enables you to create scenarios, create simulations, before actually going out and putting it into the tool itself"
"We use the solution to develop and deliver products."
"This solution is very stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is stable."
"The possibility to add Java code as embedded .jar, that increases the flexibility of the solution."
"The process creation."
"The most valuable feature of IBM BPM is the low code design, and ease of maintenance. Additionally, the integration is good and easy to do."
"With NGINX, I appreciate its ability to route traffic geographically."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"The product is lightweight and fast."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"The engine itself tends to accumulate a lot of data that needs to be cleaned up, and that's the kind of thing that keeps it from, in some scenarios, scaling as much as it needs to. And then, when you're building solutions, if you're not careful to keep the screens from being associated with too much data, if you're going to just do things the way that a lot of people would just assume that they can do, without having experience of having made those mistakes before, it will accumulate a lot of data, and that will cause it to perform very badly."
"Stability wavers. We have some opportunities for improvement in this space, especially as we approach our target volume of a million transactions a day. It is tough, because it is not necessarily the product. It is more around the platform and infrastructure to support it, so the connectivity to the database, web sessions, and reverse proxies in front of that."
"We need process monitoring. It is somewhat complex to monitor all the processes which work."
"UI is an area with a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"From the testing perspective and minor enhancements perspective, customization is something that is a little tedious as compared to new tools. In addition, various open-source tools that are available are not working with IBM BPM."
"There is a lot of room for improvement of the dashboards."
"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."
"It needs more customization. We like to customize the screens to show more things related to our company."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"The KPI should be more focused on load balancing and the latency in application calling from the end system."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module. "
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
IBM BPM is ranked 7th in Application Infrastructure with 105 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 2nd in Application Infrastructure with 28 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Pega BPM, Appian, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server. See our IBM BPM vs. NGINX Plus report.
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