We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and vCenter Orchestrator 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."Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We made the transformation to agile. Altogether with BPM, it is the total package."
"IBM BPM and Automation Anywhere working together automate manual tasks with a reduction in FTEs, creating about a 30% reduction in FTEs by automating processes."
"The process creation."
"This solution has streamlined our operation and improved the TAT of sales, operations, and underwriters."
"Its workflow and integration with SAP are the most valuable features. It is also a stable solution."
"IBM BPM is equipped with all the functionalities which are needed for building BPM enterprise-level applications."
"Provides the power to understand and automate processes."
"The most valuable feature is workflow automation."
"The storage motion is a good feature. It is a very good tool."
"If I need to do DR, VMware can enable me to use vMotion, which requires use of vCenter. You cannot do vMotion without vCenter. We do a lot of automation, orchestration, and simplification for that purpose."
"vCenter Orchestrator is very reliable and stable."
"The product's integration is good, it works well with other programs and solutions."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"It's 100% stable, it's always stable. We haven't had any bugs. The solution works very well and we haven't had any problems."
"The solution was easy to install."
"If the processing gets better, it would be more efficient."
"The debugging needs improvement. There is some confusion surrounding the debugging."
"New users will need at least six months to get comfortable with IBM BPM, at least initially. So, there's a learning curve."
"Better integration with other products in the automation suite."
"Where it can be improved is Integration. I think that the direction that IBM is taking now, to have something that is much more integrated, that can be seen as one single solution, is clearly the right way."
"The engine itself tends to accumulate a lot of data that needs to be cleaned up, and that's the kind of thing that keeps it from, in some scenarios, scaling as much as it needs to. And then, when you're building solutions, if you're not careful to keep the screens from being associated with too much data, if you're going to just do things the way that a lot of people would just assume that they can do, without having experience of having made those mistakes before, it will accumulate a lot of data, and that will cause it to perform very badly."
"I'm hearing things might be improving, to really deliver on BPM as opposed to simply workflow. That really should be emphasized a lot more than it has been, because a lot of customers will simply implement the process and leave it there, because the product maybe doesn't emphasize BPM as much as it should, as much as maybe they talk about it in the sales process. The whole idea of BPM, is to iteratively improve the process, and in order to do that you have to have the analytics tool with it. A lot of times that doesn't go as far as it should simply because there's a lot more work to be done for that to happen, and just some sort of technical limitations that don't make that as easy as it should be."
"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."
"The response time of vCenter Orchestrator's support could be improved."
"vCenter Orchestrator's debugging capacity could be improved."
"VMware tools would benefit from more automation. When installing our devices and servers, we often need to install the VMware tools manually. This process should be automated during the VM installation process."
"We would like more flexibility in sizing data storage and virtual machines, as the current options aren't very adaptable."
"Its technical support team takes a long time to escalate the issues."
"The price of this product is high and could be improved."
"The interface could be improved to bring greater user-friendliness and ease of use."
"Using this solution requires a lot of experience."
IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Process Automation with 105 reviews while vCenter Orchestrator is ranked 9th in Process Automation with 44 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while vCenter Orchestrator 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 vCenter Orchestrator writes "Enables us to do administration on a centralized layer when using multiple VMware ESX servers". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas vCenter Orchestrator is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Cisco UCS Director and ServiceNow Orchestration. See our IBM BPM vs. vCenter Orchestrator report.
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