We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and Oracle BPEL 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."Previously, our company's business automation process was slow. IBM BPM's schedule and response functionalities are excellent...There are countless use cases in which IBM BPM proves to be a valuable tool for my clients."
"It excels at analytics. It provides visibility across all activities of a company's processes and performance."
"It is easy to take a requirement, put it in the code, and deploy it."
"There is information during the process that the analyst will look at, their procedures. We created a part of the application such that the business can change those procedures as needed, on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. As the reps go through the process, they don't necessarily know it's changing, they just know they have to refer to some documentation, and the business can keep that up to date."
"Agility is the key. It gives our customers a faster way to be able to implement processes, get ownership of task, visibility into a process. The ability to modify that process, optimize that process over time, is probably the biggest benefit that they get from the software."
"They have some quick-win programs that are designed to come in, they'll bring a developer in and they'll work with your developer to get you started. That's what we did and that worked really great. We got an understanding of the product, we got an understanding of how to deploy the product. And when we were done with that engagement, we were off and running."
"Its Analytics is the most valuable feature."
"I would say that I like its GUI designer the best."
"What I find the most valuable about Oracle BPEL is that it saves me time."
"The product has everything we need."
"The setup was quite complex because the solution was cutting-edge at that time and IBM invested considerably in the implementation, likely at a loss to themselves."
"When you have to integrate files for enterprise applications."
"It can definitely be improved in terms of performance and stability."
"I would like to see the solution be able to interact with other customer software solutions."
"Also, we would like to see integration with artificial intelligence, machine learning-type of technical capabilities. Right now, there are a lot Watson libraries out there. Building those integrations more, out-of-the-box, from IBM would be a good direction."
"They should incorporate an API gateway functionality within it to simplify integrations."
"New users will need at least six months to get comfortable with IBM BPM, at least initially. So, there's a learning curve."
"The user experience, while it has improved, should continue to improve."
"Some user-defined functions for transformation must be added to the next release of the solution."
"In the next release, I would like to see REST improved and new technologies for microservices. I'd like to see more containers for separating containers."
IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Process Automation with 105 reviews while Oracle BPEL is ranked 16th in Process Automation with 2 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while Oracle BPEL is rated 9.0. 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 Oracle BPEL writes "A highly scalable solution that provides various features for the execution of business processes". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas Oracle BPEL is most compared with Camunda, BizTalk Server and Bonita. See our IBM BPM vs. Oracle BPEL report.
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