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."One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"The number of historical events is great."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"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."
"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 integration and design are valuable features."
"Enabled us to convert most of the paper-based work into an automated workflow process, and some of them were converted into straight-through processing, with no human interaction involved whatsoever."
"The solution is stable."
"IBM BPM's most valuable features are its speed in implementing and providing any changes."
"It helps maintain, and in many instances, lower costs, as well as to maintain those costs, keeping them stable."
"Our customers use the solution as a workflow platform to manage their processes."
"Agility is the key. It gives our customers a faster way to be able to implement processes, get ownership of task, visibility into a process. The ability to modify that process, optimize that process over time, is probably the biggest benefit that they get from the software."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The product's installation was easy."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"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."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"UI is an area with a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"Importing and exporting between multiple environments is more difficult with other tools."
"IBM BPM is stable, but sometimes there are issues with the server."
"I would like it more documentation during the design phase."
"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."
"User Interface components could be further refined to enhance and extend customizations dictated by end clients."
"All our clients are changing to microservice and cloud service. However, BPM does not have a solution for microservice and cloud service."
"I'd like the tool to be more flexible."
AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 8 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, Apache Airflow, Pega BPM, Oracle BPM and IBM Business Automation Workflow, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and ServiceNow Orchestration. See our AWS Step Functions vs. IBM BPM report.
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