We performed a comparison between AWS Step Functions and IBM Business Automation Workflow 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."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."
"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."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"One of the most valuable features is the way that they are adapting to the market. Initially, it was doing only workflow. Now it has started bringing all the other components like rules within the workflow and then the integration with RPA."
"It performs the basic tasks that are required for the BBM solution as part of the overall integration with ECM or enterprise contact management."
"The most valuable feature is automation, which is quite strong and we are quite happy with it."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow provides a seamless streamlined collaboration within the organizations."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is stable because the different infrastructure elements, such as the OS and middleware have been used for a long time."
"It's a flexible solution."
"It provides a solution for integration orchestration. This solution is for any organization in the banking, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, and all domains and industries."
"This is a low-code software where you can just drag and drop on the user interface. There are also a lot of quality integrations such as TMS."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"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."
"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."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"The initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"Requires a lot of customization code writing which could be reduced."
"The development UI is sometimes a little slow."
"The setup and installation process could be made easier."
"From what I understand, in the next release they're actually going to combine all of this together as one integrated solution... If we could have one unified way to build a solution, that would really help."
"Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities."
"The main areas which need improvement are specifically around reporting and analytics."
"I would definitely like to see a unified interface between the BPM side of the house and the case side of the house. Something that just seems a bit more cohesive, because right now there is sort of a disconnect between the BPM and the case side of the house. That makes it a bit of a hard sell sometimes. That is definitely first and foremost on my wish list."
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AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 8 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. 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 Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow, Pega BPM and Boomi AtomSphere Flow, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, Apache Airflow, IBM Case Foundation and Aurea CX Process. See our AWS Step Functions vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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