We performed a comparison between IBM Blueworks Live and TIBCO Nimbus Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Camunda, Sparx Systems and others in Business Process Design."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 enables decisions based upon processes that we do model, and ultimately move forward with."
"Valuable features include real-time modeling and design work, the ability to perform workshops with clients in real-time with the tool, and getting instant output."
"In terms of the collaboration features, from the point of discovery, it was useful to go to load up the policies and the rule sets that the client had. And in terms of exploring options and being able to model a variety of different processes, that was incredibly useful as well."
"It is a stable solution since there has not been any downtime. Everything loads fast."
"IBM Blueworks Live is cloud-based and provides easy access to all your processes in one place."
"This solution is good at utilizing standards rules for connectivity."
"The licenses are transferrable between different users."
"It tends to get more engagement from people across the business."
"It helps clients find information when they need to know how to do their jobs effectively."
"The APIs are great, except the normal business user doesn't know how to create APIs. So it's hard because IBM comes to us as the business users and tell us to create reporting with APIs, except we don't know that, so we have to turn around and flip it to our IT people."
"I can't insert any images. For example, within the process map, if I want to put it in the box or rectangle, or circle. If I have to use one image or icon, that's not possible."
"We haven't yet been able to dabble in case management with Blueworks Live, as it is not yet offered with the product."
"The user interface is quite easy at first but process analysts soon run into roadblocks of limited functionality, which is disappointing."
"IBM Blueworks is BPMN 2.0 compliant, but it does not adapt to the overarching BPMN 2.0 concepts."
"The ability to create a very structured rule. With the capability that we have right now, Blueworks Live is more process focused. We should be able to enhance it to include a lot more of decisions as well."
"In the Blue Works Live software boxes and lines are automatically placed by the programme and can't be easily manipulated."
"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."
"This product could probably do with less features rather than more. It is overly complicated. In recent releases, it has become harder to use."
Earn 20 points
IBM Blueworks Live is ranked 12th in Business Process Design with 20 reviews while TIBCO Nimbus Control is ranked 22nd in Business Process Design. IBM Blueworks Live is rated 8.2, while TIBCO Nimbus Control is rated 5.0. The top reviewer of IBM Blueworks Live writes "An easily scalable and affordable solution that enables users to document and digitize processes with ease". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TIBCO Nimbus Control writes "It is overly complicated. It tends to get more engagement from people across the business". IBM Blueworks Live is most compared with Visio, SAP Signavio Process Manager, Lucidchart, ARIS Cloud and Camunda, whereas TIBCO Nimbus Control is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, Visio and ARIS BPA.
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