We performed a comparison between IBM Datacap and Pega Robotic Process Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's resiliency. There are multiple ways of identifying what you are looking for. There are multiple export formats."
"The solution automates manual data entry."
"I work for an insurance company, and we use Datacap for document processing."
"The solution offers many features that are beneficial for customers."
"The second thing that I like about Datacap is the fingerprint capture which is easy to configure on Datacap. From the form of the document, if a document is redundant in the same department, we can configure the capture based on the form of the documents"
"Both Datacap Studio and Datacap Navigator are great features."
"The most valuable features of IBM Datacap is the capturing and recognizing of pages, documents as well as the scanner and barcodes."
"The standout feature of this intelligent product is its remarkable capability."
"The initial setup is pretty easy and quite fast."
"Pega is very mature. It's very old. They have grown with time, and they have learned. Other robotic process automation solutions are basically focused on only doing the automation, whereas Pega also gives you a workflow system so that you can create a workflow."
"Pega Robotics offers all the required features to build end-to-end process automation like any other similar tools. It's unique development style using data line and control flow line makes it easy to debug through the flow."
"The solution's ability to create adapters quickly is its most valuable feature."
"The workflow system is very intuitive."
"The most valuable features are the loops to lookup tables to read the data."
"It helped cut short the release cycle by almost 40% compared to the previous solution."
"Pega Robotic Process Automation's most valuable feature is that it is robust. Additionally, they have plenty of online documents that are good and Pega Academy is helpful, they are doing a great job. They give training on practical use cases. They take domain use cases, and they are great."
"Currently, when you are entering invoices, you have to enter multiple rows. In Captiva the multiple rows will be dynamically added. This would be a beneficial feature for IBM to add."
"Its weaknesses are primarily tied to the lack of available resources and expertise in the market to effectively support and provide solutions and services to each customer for seamless implementation."
"Datacap has performance issues when processing large volumes of documents. We're doing 18,000 pages daily. Scanning takes almost 20-30 minutes, but it normally takes one or two minutes. We informed IBM and opened a ticket for that. They forwarded the issue to developers but didn't give a specific timeline for it to be resolved. Version 8.1 is already at the end of support."
"Its weaknesses are primarily tied to the lack of available resources and expertise in the market to effectively support and provide solutions and services to each customer for seamless implementation. Expertise in this specific product is rare throughout the market. One key reason is the product's limited downloads. Additionally, archiving solutions are often perceived as complex and challenging, dissuading many companies from venturing into this domain. Consequently, partners who specialize in archiving solutions are always seeking straightforward, uncomplicated options that are easy to manage and meet customer expectations."
"Reporting and analytics seem to often be something of an afterthought. With Datacap, they've started building out some dashboards, but one thing we hear from our clients a lot is, "Well, gee, we really love reports. What Datacap has is not really helpful. We'd like something better. We'd like more dashboards." That's one area where we've seen some feedback that the product could do better."
"They have to stop focusing on new development and stabilize the latest release. It is not stable."
"We have page requirements where some values must be copied on each page. For example, say I need to scan a bunch of documents, and the name will be a field on every page. We don't have a default functionality in Datacap to copy the field value on the first page to all the pages. That feature would make the documents easy to prepare."
"The solution's scalability needs improvement."
"The way integration classes are created could be improved."
"In Pega, the UI has to be improved because that is the most challenging area that most of our customers ask for because we have to depend on some other React JS or some other tool to bring that kind of UI experience. So, there is a lot of room for improvement in terms of UI and UX."
"The ease-of-use could be improved."
"It's difficult not knowing when alerts will arrive."
"Pega Robotic Process Automation can improve the OGR area. You don't have a feature to read documents in computer voices."
"I feel like it doesn't get updated frequently enough. There aren't a lot of new features or a clear roadmap for future improvements."
"The orchestration needs to be better."
"The new players such as UiPath and ABBYY are moving very quickly, but Pega is not. I'd definitely like to see Pega doing a few more interesting things on the AI or machine learning front so that we can use the platform for multiple things."
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IBM Datacap is ranked 6th in Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) with 26 reviews while Pega Robotic Process Automation is ranked 9th in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 22 reviews. IBM Datacap is rated 7.6, while Pega Robotic Process Automation is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Datacap writes "The ability to connect this information with the appropriate database and recognize it irrespective of the format or source is an extremely valuable feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pega Robotic Process Automation writes "Great for UI creation, helpful support services, and reliable". IBM Datacap is most compared with ABBYY Vantage, Microsoft Power Automate, Tungsten TotalAgility, HyperScience and OpenText Intelligent Capture, whereas Pega Robotic Process Automation is most compared with UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere (AA), Microsoft Power Automate and Pega CRM. See our IBM Datacap vs. Pega Robotic Process Automation report.
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