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We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IQ and Pega BPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Process Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"F5 BIG-IQ reduces the propensity for error.""F5 BIG-IQ has always provided us with great support.""The best aspect of the solution is that we can have everything integrated with a rather large capacity in order to personalize and configure specific rules.""Scalability: To move from larger boxes to smaller boxes, along with virtualization. So, we are not locked into a particular size.""The most valuable features are load balancing and WAF.""We use this solution on a daily basis, and it is very stable.""The GUI is fine, at least from an engineer's perspective.""Features like AFM, the gateway, and Global DNS are the coolest features that save work for us."

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"Fast prototyping.""Pega is a local platform that has evolved from a BPM perspective. This allows teams using this solution to address complexities without having deep knowledge in a specific development area.""Pega BPM offers a lot of out-of-the-box functionalities.""The solution provides us with a very good dashboard.""The solution has very helpful technical support.""There is a feature to accelerate the development so that business analysts can directly create their user stories and assign the task to the developers.""The product helps you to build faster.""The user interface and the ease of developing the workflow for an application are valuable features."

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Cons
"Sometimes the solution does not work.""There are a lot of scripts available on the internet for people who know how to use them, but with a graphical interface, it would be easier for new users.""I had trouble with high availability deployment in my environment.""The solution's rSeries has been made free, and iSeries should be made free as well.""Integration with VAS is something that they need to work on.""F5 BIG-IQ should improve by being a complete certificate management solution because currently, it is only for Venafi. Other automation platforms, should be added.""They could use YAML or JSON if they wanted to make it a little bit easier for us.""The shell, kernel, or Linux has something like a delay, especially with the Virtual Edition, when you are trying to implement it in the cloud and you want to access it remotely with web management. It would be great if they could improve their kernel. It was difficult for me, especially when I got started with BIG-IP. I was struggling to find which commands work with it. If you want to work with it, you have to be a Linux guy."

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"I think there is room for improvement in the low code/ no code environment that they're promoting now. That needs to be aligned a little bit more. I still feel that it is not that friendly for a person who has no experience with Pega to just go in and try to create something.""The previous versions had good training documents but the updated versions need to improve the documentation.""Pega BPM can improve product management, case management, omnichannel, CDH, and the customer data hub. All the major domains can improve. Additionally, more AI functionality and proper integrations with Pega RPA would be helpful.""The local development approach is good in Pega, however, cost-wise, it's getting expensive. That needs to be addressed.""Pega BPM's documentation should be improved, especially for freshers or new trainees.""The main problem with Pega is that it is quite complex, so it is very difficult for the developer to learn.""Sometimes when we are patching some data from the database, we are getting added as a timeout.""Pega should work on redefining their model and creating a demand for their skills."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I would like the product to be cheaper."
  • "There is only one licensing fee for F5 BIG-IQ and everything is included in the price."
  • "F5 BIG-IQ is a cheap solution."
  • "Users have to pay an annual subscription fee for the solution's iSeries."
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  • "Licensing is expensive. You need to wisely select between per user and per case."
  • "They have both on-premise and cloud licensing. If you are a small to medium company, go for the cloud option because that eliminates a lot of the setting up of your DevTest and performance environments, multiple environments, because you can buy that from Pega with the cloud option. So your setup time really goes down. If you're a large company, then you're better off putting it within your company. You have other skill resources within your company to create environments."
  • "They need to come up with licensing options. Right now they do have a cloud-based option, but the cloud prices I've seen are much more expensive compared to competing products."
  • "The licensing fees are based on the number of users."
  • "May be somewhat more expensive than other solutions initially, but should have enhanced return on investment."
  • "The price of this solution, including installation and configuration, is comparable to competing vendors."
  • "The pricing is pretty good, compared to other similar products."
  • "It's a user-based license where, as you scale the numbers of users, the price increases."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:F5 BIG-IQ is a central management system for the BIG-IP.
    Top Answer:F5 BIG-IQ is a complex solution, and it cannot manage everything related to BIG-IPs. It's a little bit complex with respect to statistics gathering.
    Top Answer:You do need some preparation to be able to use all functions of Pega BPM. However, all users of this platform are in luck as it comes with good documentation and you can learn pretty much everything… more »
    Top Answer:My company has been using this tool for years and the only issue we have had, if you can call it that, was while setting it up. When we were setting it up initially, we had some drawbacks and could… more »
    Top Answer: Pega BPM can be considered overpriced for some; it all depends on the size of your company and the requirements of your customers. Sure, there are products out there that do the things that Pega BPM… more »
    Ranking
    24th
    out of 64 in Process Automation
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    287
    Rating
    6.7
    2nd
    out of 64 in Process Automation
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    7,303
    Comparisons
    5,496
    Reviews
    25
    Average Words per Review
    515
    Rating
    8.2
    Comparisons
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    Also Known As
    Pegasystems, SmartBPM
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    Overview

    F5® BIG-IQ® Centralized Management provides a unified point of visibility and control for the entire F5 portfolio, ensuring administrators remain aware on the pulse of F5 devices, modules, and licenses and enabling them to deliver optimal application availability, performance, and security.

    BIG-IQ manages policies,licenses, SSL certificates, BIG-IP images, and configurations for F5 appliances and for the following BIG-IP moduals across hardware and virtual editions:

    • BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM)
    • F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall™ (WAF)
    • BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager™ (AFM)
    • F5 SSL Orchestrator®
    • F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender®
    • BIG-IP Access Policy Manager® (APM)
    • F5 Secure Web Gateway Services
    • BIG-IP DNS

    Pega BPM is a low-code process automation software product that helps organizations quickly build business applications that deliver the demanded experience by customers. This product is a business process management (BPM), process automation, rapid application development, and low-code development tool.

    Pega utilizes business process management (BPM) - a methodology to manage processes and workflows in an organization with the aim to increase work process results. The product implements BPM in the following steps:

    • Analysis: Through comprehensive analysis, the processes that can be created or optimized to meet business needs are identified.

    • Design: The design of a process aims to reduce errors and maintain relevant standard operating procedures.

    • Modeling: The process design can be modeled using various software tools.

    • Execution: The process model execution can be governed through a business rules engine.

    • Monitoring: Monitoring is performed to detect any issues and collect relevant data.

    • Optimization: The collected data is used to optimize and improve processes.

    Pega BMP utilizes this methodology to automate and simplify operations for companies and improve business agility. The solution can automate business operations such as business rules, mobile application development, reporting, case management, security, integration, and predictive and adaptive analytics. It can be employed on premises and in the cloud and allows for automating services such as accounts, marketing, and sales.

    Pega BPM Features

    Pega BPM has various features through which businesses can automate processes and reduce operational costs. Some of these features include:

    • Adaptive Decision Management: Through the support of data analysis concepts, this product feature allows users to make crucial decisions. It supports the retrieval of data automatically, facilitating real-time decision-making. It also provides the ability to make decisions at all times, depending on changes in the processes.

    • Automatic Code Generation: The programming time at a company can be reduced through this feature, as it generates application codes automatically. The feature offers industry-specific solution frameworks for developing applications and visual development tools, allowing business users to build apps. This enables the simplification of complex business processes by converting them.

    • Pega Omni-channel UI: The user interface (UI) of Pega BPM is a design-once and deploy-anywhere model. This means that any channel can be interfaced with the UI, as designs can be adapted to various parameters, including device, channel, or user.

    • Pega Live Data: This feature of the tool integrates all the business’s data, analyzes it, and summarizes it into formats suitable for presentation. The feature has a caching option, which improves data management by reducing the load on external applications.

    • Pega Situational Layer Cake: Through this feature of the solution, business processes can be adjusted regarding changes in customer type, departments, products, geographies, time, languages, and channels.

    • Pega Pulse: Through Pega Pulse, employees, partners, and customers can collaborate and solve issues simultaneously.

    Pega BPM Benefits

    Pega BPM has various benefits for businesses. They include the following:

    • Accelerates business processes by building applications in a timely manner.

    • Provides automatically tailored screens and forms for customers to improve user experience and engagement.

    • Can be utilized on various sources, including being moved from a data center to the cloud and vice versa.

    • The low-code functionality decreases the need for developer intervention and reduces the costs of outsourcing IT assistance and maintenance.

    • The tool offers a flexible UI that allows users to switch from web to mobile during all times of product usage.

    • The platform offers business scalability incrementation through quick application development.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Amarender C., a feature lead at a financial services firm, thinks Pega BPM is easy to set up with great documentation and training.

    Anoop S., a delivery manager at LanceSoft, rates the product highly because it is user-friendly and has case management and claims management functions; has good documentation and a community portal that help in learning the product and resolving issues.

    Sample Customers
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    The State of Maine, ANZ, Coca-Cola, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), ME, New South Wales, OptumRx, Texas Department of Transportation, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Insurance Company8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company32%
    Financial Services Firm29%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Government7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business58%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise17%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise75%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise78%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise74%
    Buyer's Guide
    F5 BIG-IQ vs. Pega BPM
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about F5 BIG-IQ vs. Pega BPM and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    F5 BIG-IQ is ranked 24th in Process Automation with 12 reviews while Pega BPM is ranked 2nd in Process Automation with 55 reviews. F5 BIG-IQ is rated 7.4, while Pega BPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IQ writes "A central management system to manage and monitor a bunch of different BIG-IP devices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pega BPM writes "Low code with great APIs and good flexibility". F5 BIG-IQ is most compared with ServiceNow Orchestration, whereas Pega BPM is most compared with ServiceNow, Camunda, Appian, Microsoft Power Apps and IBM BPM. See our F5 BIG-IQ vs. Pega BPM report.

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