We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and Microsoft .NET Framework based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is straightforward and easy. I would give it a nine out of ten."
"IBM BPM should become cloud-native. It should also add a cloud deployment feature."
"IBM BPM is equipped with all the functionalities which are needed for building BPM enterprise-level applications."
"The installation was straightforward."
"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."
"It makes the company business processes work more efficiently."
"IBM BPM is stable."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The product's installation was easy."
"It facilitated the streamlined scheduling process by amalgamating inputs from various sources, including location data and other systems."
"The most valuable features for us are web frameworks like MVC, Web API, and WCS."
"The Windows Communication Foundation is the biggest advantage we get from the .NET Framework."
"It's easy to create and integrate things."
"It is a stable solution."
"Initial setup is straightforward. All the components are readily available."
"Microsoft Platform is the only viable solution when I wish to do something that is not supposed to be cross-platform."
"In my opinion, the best thing about Microsoft .NET is the fully featured framework. It provides most of the things which a normal developer requires of any application out of the box."
"It needs more customization. We like to customize the screens to show more things related to our company."
"Finding errors and bugs on the system is not easy. We can't seem to use the events or logs to find them, so it makes it difficult to debug the system. They really need to work on their debugging features to make is much, much easier. It would improve the solution considerably and should be something they add in a future release."
"They could provide case studies to investigate and understand the functionality of business processes before development."
"Stability wavers. We have some opportunities for improvement in this space, especially as we approach our target volume of a million transactions a day. It is tough, because it is not necessarily the product. It is more around the platform and infrastructure to support it, so the connectivity to the database, web sessions, and reverse proxies in front of that."
"IBM BPM integrated with Spark UI and the UI is now much better, but they still need to improve the UI because competitors have predefined templates and other additional features. In these competitor's solutions, you are able to use the templates, map your data, and the form is ready to use. With this solution, you need to write a lot of code to have the same quality as the competitor's templates. It would be a benefit to make this platform more towards low-code or no-code."
"The people working on the front desk are having some problem with managing the documentation. For instance, they get a picture, and if the picture comes rotated 90 degrees, together with a picture that is not rotated, they have some problems dealing with that, technically. There are some minor aspects that on the usability side that are still lacking. That has to do with FileNet, too, I'm talking about the suite together."
"IBM BPM's price could be improved."
"The price and the overall installation process could be improved."
"If AI could be incorporated in Microsoft .NET Framework it would be helpful."
"One thing that could be improved is the tooling and IDE for .NET in non-Windows environments like Mac."
"The pricing is a bit expensive."
"You need to have the technical expertise to use this product."
"Needs stronger security with respect to cloud issues."
"The product is nearing its sunset, and we think that by 2028, we won't get support anymore"
"They should try to improve their Blazor WebAssembly."
"Improvements are needed in .NET development, particularly in a backend scenario."
IBM BPM is ranked 6th in Application Infrastructure with 105 reviews while Microsoft .NET Framework is ranked 4th in Application Infrastructure with 47 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while Microsoft .NET Framework is rated 8.4. 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 Microsoft .NET Framework writes "Intuitive, easier to develop, maintain, and migrate from the old framework to newer versions". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas Microsoft .NET Framework is most compared with IIS, Magic xpa Application Platform, Apache Web Server, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and IBM DataPower Gateway. See our IBM BPM vs. Microsoft .NET Framework report.
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