We performed a comparison between IBM BPM, Oracle SOA Suite, and SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"One of the most notable things is how you can develop use cases with the customers, internal customers, but directly within. The software process model that BPM supports is really exciting in that aspect."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The product's installation was easy."
"IBM BPM's most valuable features are its speed in implementing and providing any changes."
"Our customers use the solution as a workflow platform to manage their processes."
"This product does the job in terms of executing the workflow."
"IBM BPM and Automation Anywhere working together automate manual tasks with a reduction in FTEs, creating about a 30% reduction in FTEs by automating processes."
"I like the APIs and the BPM coach is a good tool. But if I had to pick one, it would be the API."
"Conceptually, how it integrates a lot of essential enterprise process components. That's the most valuable."
"Valuable features include web service development and cloud connectivity."
"The Oracle SOA Suite has many useful features, and different organizations may place different emphases on the importance of each feature. Certain features are particularly important to the organization, such as the ability to access databases and transform messages, as well as the use of proxy services to secure web services with usernames and passwords. These features can be critical for enabling effective integration and data exchange between systems and applications."
"The product allows you to visualize how a company is working currently by providing rich possibilities for analysis such as the audit trails and therefore shows where improvements might be valuable."
"We were able to scale out using multiple application and web servers balanced by hardware load balancers and Weblogic clustering."
"Provides connectivity between discrete systems and has availability."
"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."
"In Oracle SOA Suite some applications are not able to use REST, but it can support both SOAP and REST. You're able to integrate quite a lot of systems, which may not be able to in other solutions. You can also use XML and JSON. It is a standardizing type of tool. It doesn't matter whether I'm using JSON or XML, it can convert them."
"From the use of this solution, we have been able to establish better processes and have greater management of our company."
"Internal workflow approval around ESS and MSS leave days, capex approval as well as internal communication to the business have improved the way my organization functions."
"They integrated it with the SAP router."
"Workflow functionality and internal portal capabilities are the most important features."
"The initial setup can be tricky because IBM BPM is not based on a popular stack, and it's difficult to hire a developer for this product."
"I'd like the tool to be more flexible."
"I would like IBM to consider including AI-enabled process mining, robotic process automation, and very good OCR capabilities from the computer vision side."
"Importing and exporting between multiple environments is more difficult with other tools."
"One of the things that we are looking at is cognitive learning. IBM has another product called IBM RPA, I think, which is doing some of that stuff. We would like to see more of that with respect to cognitive learning and AI put back into the process engine to help."
"Performance on large scale requirements could also be improved."
"We have had to use Mule as an alternative integration tool because it is more flexible than IBM BPM."
"IBM BPM is stable, but sometimes there are issues with the server."
"I want to see easier integration connections with other cloud-based tools."
"It's also not developer-friendly."
"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."
"Decrease the number of internal resources which the product uses."
"Its function options can be improved."
"The product is not user-friendly."
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"The web services need to be more robust."
"Our customers expect that a page will open within one second, and I doubt this will happen. Also, opening documentation takes time. Fixing this will help the customer and help to meet their expectations."
"Due to our business, some setups were very complex."
"We encountered stability issues, especially on external functionality around its RFP capabilities."
"The user interface could be improved by making it more user-friendly."
"External portal functionality with suppliers and customers needs improvement."
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