We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and Windows Server AppFabric based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, F5, Apache and others in Application Infrastructure."We are receiving good assistance from the technical support."
"Its most valuable features are usability and integration with other IBM products."
"Its dashboard is easy to use and very good. It allows us to customize."
"It has improved my organization quite a bit. It brought awareness to what the business processes are, even to the business side, who did not necessarily know what they are."
"Technical support is good. They are very responsive. It is usually me who takes more time to get back to them than they take to get back to me, which is good."
"The initial setup is straightforward and easy. I would give it a nine out of ten."
"It provides a very robust environment to build an integration framework or workflow patterns that we have. A lot of changes or modifications have been made to this solution over the past few years. The features that they have added this time have helped developers like us to work on the developmental environment and leverage all the capabilities of the tool. This is what I like about this solution."
"The possibility to add Java code as embedded .jar, that increases the flexibility of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is AppFabric's hosting solution, which is what we need for running workflows."
"It is very usable and easy to understand. Antivirus and VPN are the main features being used now. It allows my clients to access the network from home, which was very crucial because of the pandemic."
"The product's deployment phase was very easy."
"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."
"I believe that if the license were cheaper, it would have a greater impact."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"I would like to see the solution be able to interact with other customer software solutions."
"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."
"IBM BPM's price could be improved."
"Process Server is no more available than new products out there, but in general IBM has a high cost and complex setup."
"All our clients are changing to microservice and cloud service. However, BPM does not have a solution for microservice and cloud service."
"The product is unable to connect with different cloud services."
"Microsoft will stop supporting the product next year, and we can't run unsupported programs in our systems."
"Its price and licensing policy can be improved. It could be a little cheaper. Licensing is sometimes confusing. There are so many different options. It is difficult to find out what to buy or what to choose for my necessity."
IBM BPM is ranked 6th in Application Infrastructure with 105 reviews while Windows Server AppFabric is ranked 18th in Application Infrastructure with 3 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while Windows Server AppFabric 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 Windows Server AppFabric writes "Offers good monitoring capabilities and ease of setup". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas Windows Server AppFabric is most compared with IIS.
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