Compare Camunda BPM vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow
Camunda BPM is ranked 4th in Business Process Management with 8 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 12th in Business Process Management with 6 reviews. Camunda BPM is rated 7.8, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Camunda BPM writes "BPMN 2.0 compliant, and the fact it's open source enables us to modify functionality, add features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "The tool is great for rolling processes out quickly without being too locked into them". Camunda BPM is most compared with Bonita, Bizagi and IBM BPM, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with Camunda BPM, IBM BPM and Apache Airflow. See our Camunda BPM vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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The number of client implementations and cross-language capabilities to support multiple frameworks is very pluggable compared to Pega. It's also more portable. I've found the active community most valuable but it also provides you with a lot of other features. We are documenting all of the processors and VPN. Then we are sharing it with our business users. For an internal project, this is a solution that you can install and have up and running quite quickly. We have a lot of users, almost 1,800, and we needed something affordable, stable and something that could be used by a large financial company. This solution truly fit the bill. We have the ability to modify the product if we need to, and that comes in handy whenever we need to add new functionality and features. It is quite easy to build a simple process without any knowledge of programming. The flexibility characteristic in a BPMS, through BPMN and DMN, is undoubtedly the most interesting feature for our business. | It gives us the ability to create toolkits and use them across many different applications. It allows us to write things one time, instead of having to write a diary for every single different application. We can write at once and reuse it. The workflow of BAW's automation is handled inside of BPM, so we can see what state it is at and how things are processing through. It has had a positive effect on decision-making in my organization. It helps us with our dispute process. It has integrated UI and deployment models, and it has a deep set of consultant and service provider ecosystem features. 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. It helps develop applications very quickly. Once clients get used to it and familiar with the methodology, then they don't feel so locked in. It is able to add this element of agility to our clients' software development lifecycle. That is my favorite thing about it: You're not so locked in as you used to be when developing applications. IBM has spent a lot of time on the connections between the rules engine and its other product, the core BPM platform. They've really centralized the suite as one offering now. |
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The user interface needs improvement. It should be more tailored to the end-user and offer a better user experience design over the user interface itself. I would say that Camunda should actually focus on small cases as well. There's a lot of space out there, for small businesses. If they can, they should cater to them. When you search for Camunda BPM resources or books on how to utilize Camunda BPM, it is lacking. When it comes to Alfresco, there are thousands of resources that can help you to utilize within AWS and its Group Services. I would like to see the usage of Camunda BPM on Amazon Web Services be improved. The GUI needs to be improved, with more configuration options. If Camunda could develop something that creates user forms that would be a great feature to have. They also need to improve the UI. Like all BPM tools, they're very bad with proprietary UIs. In general, anyone who uses BPM tools should not expect to use their proprietary UI. Customization and tech stack could be up-to-date. I think it would be important to internationalize the Cockpit and the Admin as well as with the Tasklist. | The development UI is sometimes a little slow. Every client is moving to the cloud. We are still a little behind with IBM, but we are catching up from my point of view. I would like to see more streamlined install and provisioning; preferably containerized IBM BPM would be helpful. 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. 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. The main areas which need improvement are specifically around reporting and analytics. |
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It is less cost-prohibitive than other solutions on the market. This solution was in our price range. | Nowadays, clients are looking at pricing as one of the major factors. For IBM products, they always think it is expensive for them. We are still educating our clients on the IBM FlexPoints licensing. There is still a relatively high total cost of ownership to actually implement, support, and stand up solutions. The solution has saved us time. |
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| Business Automation Workflow | |
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Overview | |
Camunda BPM is a light-weight, open source platform for Business Process Management. It is a perfect match for general software development and provides powerful business-IT-alignment based on BPMN for structured workflows, CMMN for less structured cases and DMN for business rules. Typical use cases for Camunda BPM are:
| IBM Business Automation Workflow combines business process management and case management capabilities in one workflow solution. It integrates the capabilities of business process and case management into a single workflow offering. It unites information, process, and users to provide a 360-degree view of work to drive more successful optimized business outcomes. IBM Business Automation Workflow on Cloud provides the same capabilities that are offered in the IBM Business Automation Workflow offering, all within a ready-to-use, cloud-based environment that is hosted in IBM Cloud data centers and managed by IBM. |
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Sample Customers | |
| AT&T Inc., Allianz Indonesia, Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG, CSS Insurance, Provinzial NordWest Insurance Services, VHV Group, freenet Group, Swisscom AG, Zalando SE, Accruent | Key Bank, Barclays, Control€xpert, MIR Insurance Brokers, Conqord Oil |
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Financial Services Firm21% Software R&D Company19% Comms Service Provider11% Energy/Utilities Company8% | No Data Available |
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Small Business40% Midsize Enterprise10% Large Enterprise50% Small Business5% Midsize Enterprise13% Large Enterprise82% | No Data Available |
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