We performed a comparison between AWS Step Functions 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."It is a scalable solution."
"The integration capability is easy, whereas building state machines is tricky."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"The number of historical events is great."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"IBM BPM is stable."
"The process creation."
"Its most valuable features are usability and integration with other IBM products."
"IBM BPM's most valuable features are its speed in implementing and providing any changes."
"We have used a lot of out-of-the-box reporting on the process performance metrics. We have been able to make suggested changes to staff for this role or streamlining by eliminate some activities where people were not requiring a lot of work in the first place."
"We can scale by increasing the infrastructure which is currently running."
"The case management and its integration with process design are good features."
"IBM's deployment box is one huge black box. We can create all the services with our own code or without a codebase, however, we have a huge amount of space with practically no limitation."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
"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."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"Some of the features are not enough for my business. We need to build custom user management for the many end users affected by BPM."
"The business would like to use the product with a lot less IT and equipment involvement."
"The setup was quite complex because the solution was cutting-edge at that time and IBM invested considerably in the implementation, likely at a loss to themselves."
"IBM BPM can improve the dashboards and reports. It only has two dashboards, and reporting is very difficult to build."
"Could increase vulnerability and security patches to make it more robust."
"They could provide case studies to investigate and understand the functionality of business processes before development."
"IBM BPM is stable, but sometimes there are issues with the server."
"We still have a couple of issues that we are working on right now with stability. Mostly on the configuration side of the tool, and it has been about a month that we have been working to stabilize the platform."
AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 9 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8, while IBM BPM 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 BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, Pega BPM, Oracle BPM, Apache Airflow and IBM Business Automation Workflow, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and SAP Signavio Process Manager. See our AWS Step Functions vs. IBM BPM report.
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