We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow 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 best feature is the customization."
"The product is stable."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"Its user-friendly interface makes it straightforward to operate, offering a plethora of features for data preparation, buffering, and format conversion."
"The best part of Airflow is its direct support for Python, especially because Python is so important for data science, engineering, and design. This makes the programmatic aspect of our work easy for us, and it means we can automate a lot."
"I found the following features very useful: DAG - Workload management and orchestration of tasks using."
"The UI is very simple and easy to learn."
"The tool is user-friendly."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow provides a seamless streamlined collaboration within the organizations."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Business Automation Workflow is cost management."
"It is the only product that includes capture content management and a process suite, as well as rules in RPA."
"This product is tightly integrated with the RPA automation process."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact it is highly configurable. We can do configurations very easily."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is useful for helping us design custom user interfaces and processes we require."
"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."
"No matter what somebody's technical experience level is, the tool can start adding value immediately. Even if that is just an analyst who doesn't have any technical background, they can use some of these no quote accelerators to get things from ideation to deployment in a matter of minutes."
"Apache Airflow could be improved by integrating some versioning principles."
"We're currently using version 1.10, but I understand that there's a lot of improvements in version 2. In the earlier version that we're using, we sometimes have problems with maintenance complexity. Actually using Airflow is okay, but maintaining it has been difficult."
"I want to see Apache Airflow have more integrations with more production-based databases since it is an area where the product lacks currently."
"Apache Airflow should have better integration with cloud platforms."
"The problem with Apache Airflow is that it is an open-source tool. You have to build it into a Kubernetes container, which is not easy to maintain, and I find it to be very clunky."
"Airflow should support the dynamic drag creation."
"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."
"We need to develop our workflow description and notations because out of the box, Apache Airflow does not provide some features that are needed."
"In terms of improvement, it could be less complex."
"The initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"Improvements could be made in debugging and troubleshooting."
"Requires a lot of customization code writing which could be reduced."
"The main areas which need improvement are specifically around reporting and analytics."
"I feel that the features are not user-friendly."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities."
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Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. 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 Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM BPM, AWS Step Functions and Bizagi, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, AWS Step Functions, IBM Case Foundation and Aurea CX Process. See our Apache Airflow vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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