We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow 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."Its user-friendly interface makes it straightforward to operate, offering a plethora of features for data preparation, buffering, and format conversion."
"Apache Airflow is easy to use and can monitor task execution easily. For instance, when performing setup tasks, you can conveniently view the logs without delving into the job details."
"The solution's UI allows me to collect all the information and see the code lines."
"It's stable."
"We have been quite satisfied with the stability of the solution."
"We're running it on a virtual server, which we can easily upgrade if needed."
"The UI is very simple and easy to learn."
"The best feature is the customization."
"It is easy to take a requirement, put it in the code, and deploy it."
"The solution has helped us automate business processes."
"There is information during the process that the analyst will look at, their procedures. We created a part of the application such that the business can change those procedures as needed, on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. As the reps go through the process, they don't necessarily know it's changing, they just know they have to refer to some documentation, and the business can keep that up to date."
"Its Analytics is the most valuable feature."
"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 most valuable feature of IBM BPM is the low code design, and ease of maintenance. Additionally, the integration is good and easy to do."
"The solution is stable."
"With the Process Center, I can go to one place and view what all the environments are doing."
"For admins, there should be improved logging capabilities because Apache Airflow does have logging, but it's limited to some database data."
"Enhancements become necessary when scaling it up from a few thousand workflows to a more extensive scale of five thousand or ten thousand workflows."
"One specific feature that is missing from Airflow is that the steps of your workflow are not pipelined, meaning the stageless steps of any workflow. Not every workflow can be implemented within Airflow."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement."
"The solution could be improved by simplifying the integration process."
"The platform's stability needs improvement, particularly regarding occasional interruptions due to networking issues."
"We need to develop our workflow description and notations because out of the box, Apache Airflow does not provide some features that are needed."
"Programmatically, it's very good, and it doesn't have any competitors, but you cannot develop anything in Airflow UI. You need to develop everything within the program. In the market, other tools have come up recently as competitors to Airflow, and they also give graphical programming options, whereas Airflow doesn't provide that feature currently. All the DAGs you want to build need to be coded in Python."
"I would say the scalability is very good but it's not perfect. It is much more scalable than it has been in the past but... it does require some work to keep it stable. So that is an area that should be improved."
"There are a few areas, like triggering mechanisms, externally exposed variables, and changing its values."
"We have had to use Mule as an alternative integration tool because it is more flexible than IBM BPM."
"UI is an area with a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"The initial setup was complex. It is not always easy to launch a new platform and it needed better coordination with IBM."
"I would like to see a lot more case studies."
"Performance in the development environment space. I know that they have been taking it off the desktop version and putting on the web, and it is not 100% yet."
"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."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". 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". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM Business Automation Workflow, AWS Step Functions and Bizagi, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and AWS Step Functions. See our Apache Airflow vs. IBM BPM report.
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