We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and Nintex Process Platform 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."It continues to keep up with the changing needs of the business. That is the strong value proposition of BPM. It's not a one-time automation."
"With the tester coach wherein you can interact with the interface while you're designing the process."
"It helps maintain, and in many instances, lower costs, as well as to maintain those costs, keeping them stable."
"It is being able to see the process, and understanding what the process is versus having to bury it in code somewhere."
"Automating the whole workflow process to give our data steward the ability to take actions rapidly, and making sure we have all the data synced within the different platforms that we are using."
"Our customers use the solution as a workflow platform to manage their processes."
"It provides a very robust environment to build an integration framework or workflow patterns that we have. A lot of changes or modifications have been made to this solution over the past few years. The features that they have added this time have helped developers like us to work on the developmental environment and leverage all the capabilities of the tool. This is what I like about this solution."
"This solution is very stable."
"It creates workflows to handle business processes. It allows us to route approvals to users without human intervention."
"The SharePoint feature is a really good connection, there are many features that are good."
"I really like the visual representation. It actually looks like a flow chart, which is nicer than a SharePoint Designer workflow, which doesn't have that ability."
"The solution helped us automate several processes we used to do manually."
"It saves time as tasks are automated."
"The solution has helped us to automate our business processes, our approval systems, and automation for quickly developing on SharePoint on-prem and SharePoint online."
"It's easy to learn. However, there is very little content available for the Nintex also, but they are providing their own documentation and all. So, it's easy to learn also."
"This solution is very easy to use and customize, using almost zero coding. It's built on SharePoint which many companies in our country have experience with. This made it easy to adapt the application in our environment."
"IBM BPM lacks openness, that is, the ability to become open for new options in terms of APIs, front-end development, and ecosystem. IBM BPM has been quite closed. One of the main improvements would be to somehow embed the rules engine into IBM BPM. Merging IBM BRMS and the rules engine with IBM BPM would be helpful. If there was some simpler way to define rules without having to put IBM BRMS on top of it, it would be good. It's something that we can get out of Camunda but not out of IBM BPM."
"Could increase vulnerability and security patches to make it more robust."
"IBM BPM uses JavaScript as a programming language for the server-side. I don’t know why it’s not Java, as it’s more powerful and the JavaScript part is translated into Java anyway."
"Initial setup is very complex. Too many steps need to be done at the database and server levels, and complex configurations. From what I see, a lot of these steps can be and should be automated."
"I would like to see the front-end support improved because it should be fully integrated and supported."
"We thought there might have been a little more discussion early on about, "Hey, if you're doing this, set it up this way," or some best practices or some guidance that we didn't get."
"One of the things that we are looking at is cognitive learning. IBM has another product called IBM RPA, I think, which is doing some of that stuff. We would like to see more of that with respect to cognitive learning and AI put back into the process engine to help."
"This is technology, and there's always room for improvement. It would be better to have a single solution. Trying to have an overview in terms of this solution brings together the concepts of BPM processes, customer journeys, and an automation part for KPIs. All of this working together and coming up with a single solution with privacy is more commercial than anything else."
"Nintex is still at the starting point of integrating with AI. It has integrated with a very small piece of artificial intelligence., like only integrated with the Google Cloud. There is a benefit, like a no-code and low-code solution. But, again, if you are a developer, especially if you are a hardcore developer, you are using your code knowledge, its skills, and all. And, suddenly, you are moving into the low-code solution, and then you will feel, like, so many things you can't achieve with the low-code solution."
"Bring all features available from the on-premise product into the cloud version and the workflow error reporting."
"Difficult to include external partners with the solution deployed on-premise."
"The license pricing is too high currently for Nintex Workflow."
"The licensing needs to be improved. Right now, we find it's getting more expensive to use the product."
"Nintex seems to be very server intensive. It is one of the reasons that we are moving to a different product on the SharePoint 2016 platform."
"Currently, it's taking quite some time to deploy a package, it needs improvement"
"The security features for this solution need to be improved."
IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews while Nintex Process Platform is ranked 9th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while Nintex Process Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nintex Process Platform writes "Offers good integration capabilities and easy to learn and good stability". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Oracle BPM, whereas Nintex Process Platform is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, SAP Signavio Process Manager and Bizagi. See our IBM BPM vs. Nintex Process Platform report.
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