We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and webMethods Integration Server 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."I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The product's installation was easy."
"Good user interface and good add option."
"It's a solid product. It covers most of the pain points for clients."
"Overall, I'm satisfied with the product. If you compare it with other products, it's probably not as easygoing or as simple to implement as the rest. But after you get used to it, it works. It has a lot of capabilities and potential, but the people, who come from different technologies, have some difficulty getting used to the way of working with IBM products."
"Responsive Portal + Process Federation Server. This set of solutions offers a unified worklist to our customers."
"It helps maintain, and in many instances, lower costs, as well as to maintain those costs, keeping them stable."
"Automation is the most valuable feature of IBM BPM."
"Some of the features that I like the most are team management and process performance. They are both very useful and very powerful with regard to the workflow."
"Application integration, business process integration, and B2B partner integration are valuable. But among these, I feel B2B partner integration is the most valuable. This module integrates two business partners and exchanges data through electronic data interchange messages in the form of specific standards, without any manual process needed."
"Segregation of deployment for the environments is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"A product with good API and EDI components."
"It frankly fills the gap between IT and business by having approval and policy enforcement on each state and cycle of the asset from the moment it gets created until it is retired."
"Most of the work in our organization can be more easily done using the tool."
"What I found most valuable in webMethods Integration Server is that it's a strong ESB. It also has strong API modules and portals."
"Ease of implementation and flexibility to hold the business logic are the most valuable features."
"I would say the core Web-based integrations work the best. They are the most efficient and robust implementations one can do with webMethods."
"We need process monitoring. It is somewhat complex to monitor all the processes which work."
"It needs more customization. We like to customize the screens to show more things related to our company."
"They could provide case studies to investigate and understand the functionality of business processes before development."
"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."
"IBM BPM's price could be improved."
"UI is an area with a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"IBM BPM can improve the dashboards and reports. It only has two dashboards, and reporting is very difficult to build."
"I'd like the tool to be more flexible."
"When migration happens from the one release to an upgraded release from Software AG, many of the existing services are deprecated and developers have to put in effort testing and redeveloping some of the services. It would be better that upgrade releases took care to support the lower-level versions of webMethods."
"We got the product via a reseller, and the support from the reseller has been less than desirable."
"This is a great solution and the vendor could improve the marketing of the solution to be able to reach more clients."
"Version control is not very easy. The packages and the integration server are on Eclipse IDE, but you can't compare the code from the IDE. For example, if you are working on Java code, doing version control and deployment for a quick comparison between the code isn't easy. Some tools or plug-ins are there, such as CrossVista, and you can also play with an SVN server where you have to place your package, and from there, you can check, but you have to do that as a separate exercise. You can't do it from the IDE or webMethods server. You can't just right-click and upload your service."
"The logging capability has room for improvement. That way, we could keep a history of all the transactions. It would be helpful to be able to get to that without having to build a standalone solution to do so."
"The product needs to be improved in a few ways. First, they need to stabilize the components of the whole platform across versions. Also, they should stop replacing old components with brand new ones and, rather, improve by evolution."
"In terms of improvement, it would be better if it adapted quicker to open standards. It took a while for API specification before the last version was available. The spec of version two was rather quick."
"Rapid application development has to be considered, especially for UI, where user interference is crucial."
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IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while webMethods Integration Server 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 webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and ARIS BPA, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and WSO2 Enterprise Integrator. See our IBM BPM vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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