We performed a comparison between Camunda and IBM Blueworks Live based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ease with which I can define workflows is most valuable. The latest updates and flexibility that it provides around a task activity are interesting for me."
"The BPMN diagram is valuable. For our use case of transferring money from one account to another, the connections have to be done in the traditional financial ways. There are a lot of unexpected errors and a lot of instability with this kind of system, and we are using Camunda in order to have clear flows. With BPMN, I can show a flow to my business partner, and the business team can easily understand what's going on. The technical team can understand what the implementation is, and we can model different errors and the process for recovering from these errors."
"It's user friendly, much better than most tools I have seen."
"It is very user-friendly compared to IBM BPM. It's much simpler – it's more streamlined. That means even non-technical departments can use it."
"The most valuable features are the workflow, the task list, and the modeler where we use VPN."
"Easy to use and easy to integrate into the products and applications we provide for our customers."
"We are using the BPMN engine of Camunda; we are not using the user interface. We are using just the engine, the back end of this. For us, it is working quite well."
"We like the idea of working with Cawemo because it enables us to keep on working, remotely or not. It allows us to collaborate between areas. It's easy to model and easy to use"
"The stability is pretty good. It is highly available, which is key. You don't lose your work and can autosave."
"The reporting that we can generate from IBM Blueworks Live has been interesting. We found the KPIs, risks, process modeling, format, and colors, to be very good. We use the EY template and it is interesting to generate reporting in this format."
"The solution is easy to operate. Also, there is an automatic mode to make the business flow. You don't have to put any lines or arrows in a decision point in IBM Blueworks Live; it's very automatic."
"It enables decisions based upon processes that we do model, and ultimately move forward with."
"You can use if from your mobile device or you can be on the desktop. It doesn't matter. You are always connected. It is cloud-based, so you don't have to install anything."
"It is a stable solution since there has not been any downtime. Everything loads fast."
"Business users understand it really well, which means we can then help them automate their business processes."
"The licenses are transferrable between different users."
"Community support is basically what I'm looking for. Other than that, it is okay for now."
"The Camunda Modeler installation poses a challenge, requiring local installation, which doesn't help collaboration like other online tools, for instance."
"Customization and tech stack could be up-to-date."
"If they could build some scripts or some configuration to get it up and running in a Docker environment, that would be good. I didn't find anything when on Docker, however, maybe they have something and I didn't see it yet."
"I would also like a very easy to use form builder."
"The solution could use some enhancements like adding connectors, improving forms and having a mobile app, but everything is an enhancement rather than a flaw."
"Lacking in forms visualization."
"Collaborations and process documentation in Camunda Platform are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The font size is really, really small and it's really not useful to print out process models because you cannot read what's written in different boxes. This makes it necessary for people to have access to the tool. We view licenses to see how the printing or output is. It's not very good."
"Some of the import functionality was a bit restrictive, in terms of loading data in from other data sources. Something as simple as Excel, loading data tables from Excel, wasn't great. And vice-versa. Some of the export and import functionality with something like Visio - which, I know it's a slightly different tool - but being able to work seamlessly with those other tool sets would've been quite useful. I know it was something that was in the pipeline to be looked at. So that would be useful."
"The objects that the solution creates are not unique."
"In the Blue Works Live software boxes and lines are automatically placed by the programme and can't be easily manipulated."
"The solution is a very basic discovery product so it doesn't have that much modeling capability. This can be improved."
"We'd also like to see it be Six Sigma or Lean compatible, a lot of people have asked about that."
"The initial setup is neither straightforward nor complex however you do need to know what you are doing."
"I wish Blueworks Live had simulations built in, but it doesn't. It also lacks a feature of reporting; ad hoc, drag and drop reporting. A lot of senior people are always asking for reports, and there's no reporting feature within IBM Blueworks."
Camunda is ranked 2nd in Business Process Design with 69 reviews while IBM Blueworks Live is ranked 12th in Business Process Design with 20 reviews. Camunda is rated 8.2, while IBM Blueworks Live is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Blueworks Live writes "An easily scalable and affordable solution that enables users to document and digitize processes with ease". Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM and Appian, whereas IBM Blueworks Live is most compared with Visio, SAP Signavio Process Manager, Lucidchart, ARIS Cloud and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. See our Camunda vs. IBM Blueworks Live report.
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