IBM BPM Pricing
It is expensive. It is pricey.
View full review »We found the product to be on the higher side. We recently purchased it last year, and, when you purchase the whole product, about ten years back, that was a very reasonable amount. However, now, this time, we see that the amount could have been better - although we still went ahead and bought it. That said, it could have been better.
We pay for the solution annually.
View full review »The product is expensive considering the hardware and software costs.
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IBM BPM
March 2024
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IBM BPM is expensive, so most large companies opt for IBM based on their licensing options. They have user-level and server-level access and can choose to renew their license in either an Opex or CapEx model. We have an annual license.
Licensing is managed by the client, but we know it is yearly.
Camunda is relatively cheaper. There is not much difference in pricing of IBM and PEGA. For large licensing, there are discounts as well.
View full review »IBM BPM cannot be considered a cheaply priced product. IBM BPM is a really expensive product compared to other companies. One needs to opt for the perpetual licensing model offered by IBM.
View full review »I give the pricing an eight out of ten. The solution is a bit expensive.
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Yasser Ahmad
Infrastructure Manager at Dts
Price wise, IBM BPM is cheaper than other similar solutions and has excellent pricing.
View full review »The price is good but could be a little lower.
View full review »In terms of licensing, we have to make it free for the developers so more people can install and use it. It is important to make at least licensing free to try in the cloud, not just for IBM BPM but for any of the IBM products.
This can help companies start to push through solutions and proposals. For example, licensing could be free, providing developers something to try in the cloud. Because there are regular audits in all companies when you install, some companies may see this as harmful. Therefore, a provision to try it free on the cloud can increase the number of skilled PA developers.
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reviewer1028712
Professional Services Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I think it's a reasonably priced tool, but it's important to consider which customers should buy this solution. It's designed for enterprise customers, not small ones. Small customers may opt for another solution, a small one, or a resource. However, it's a reasonable tool for enterprise customers, especially for governance purposes in their space. Also, according to IBM's policies, the cost of the solution will increase as the need for it grows. Therefore, the cost varies for different companies. We have been working with many solutions for over 25 years, and we have a lot of enterprise customers in Saudi Arabia. Some of our customers have been with us for 25 years.
View full review »I already compared some solutions related to business process management, and I saw that the cost of IBM BPM is more expensive compared with that of Camunda, for example.
We also pay for support.
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Blake Smith
Unemployed at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I wish it was less expensive. I don't know why their pricing model is so high for a piece of software that could benefit so many. It just seems to me that they could have a lower cost, maybe with fewer features or whatever, but it should be possible to do a lower cost workflow software that uses the same interface and underlying engine but does not cost so much that you have to be a Fortune 50 company to buy it. It is annoying to me. There are a lot of solutions that IBM has that are really powerful but nobody can afford them. They know their business, but I still feel that there are a lot of customers who would benefit from this sort of thing. I don't know what this elitism is all about. I am sure they have people doing the money numbers, but it seems like you can make a lot more money by selling it to way more people for a little bit less.
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Pedro-Peres
Senior Manager at Celfocus
It's expensive. All software is always extremely high. The manufacturing cost that we have compared to the selling cost, it's not like you're building a house or building a car. But putting that aside, considering that it's expensive, it's a lot of money. If you compare it with some of the other alternatives in the market, it's a similar price. For instance, if you compare it with Pegasystems, it's a similar price.
If you're talking about smaller companies or smaller clients, probably they're going for something more simple like Comunda or something else because it's much cheaper. Even the support becomes much cheaper than getting a full IBM BPM solution.
If you're a very big company or a bank or don't want any headaches, you would probably prefer IBM. You know the old saying that no one has ever been fired for buying IBM. It's one of those things, and that rule still applies.
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Velly Nusmir
Senior Manager at PT Permata Anugerah Abadi
We have a yearly licensing model. It is not expensive. There are no addition costs to the standard license.
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Santosh Vaidya
Vice President at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I rate the tool's pricing a seven out of ten.
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Mohamed Ghazali
Senior BPM Manager at Inspire
On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a ten. It is an expensive product compared to other tools.
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Anand Venkateshwaran
Head Enterprise Platforms at Mashreq
I'm pretty sure licensing is on the pricier side, but it depends on the use case and the benefits that you realize from your investment. There are different versions of the product; a standard edition and an advanced edition. Each is based on the number of PC users, CPU's that you license out, and the cost varies based on your instrumentation and the number of processes.
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reviewer1495326
Team Lead at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Its price is on the higher side, and it can be improved. Its licensing is on a yearly basis. There are no additional costs.
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SuhasVasudevamurthy
BPM Architect at GBM
The price of the solution is fair for an enterprise solution that has both cloud and on-premise deployments and when comparing to competitors. Recently IBM has introduced Cloud Pak which allows for more flexible licensing options for automation and other features.
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reviewer1078374
Digital Banking & Innovation Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a very expensive product.
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reviewer1948521
Técnico sênior at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is expensive. The company may not be of the opinion it is expensive, however, it is expensive when I look at the total cost. I'd rate it eight out of ten in terms of how expensive it is.
View full review »I don’t have information about the IBM BPM licensing but the process discovery tool, i.e., IBM Blueworks Live has three levels of licenses: Editor, Contributor, and Viewer (there is also a Community Member license but I don’t know what that is for). The Editor licenses are for around £80 per user per month. The Collaborator licenses are very valuable for increasing BPM maturity by enabling the stakeholders (particularly the process managers) to collaborate on the process capture and design. Blueworks does not allow a free HTML publishing option, but instead, a Viewer license is required which is relatively inexpensive but has to be bought in packages of 500 licenses. However, it may be cheaper for organizations to pay for the Viewer licenses that are immediately up and running in the cloud, rather than paying for someone to administer publishing to an intranet.
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reviewer1522974
Manager - Systems and Services Delivery at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The licensing is a bit expensive for a main process automation platform. Maybe it's because of our background, however, we found it to be a bit pricey.
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Abdelrahman Tabeel
Senior J2EE Developer at DataServe
The solution is expensive since it is an enterprise application.
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reviewer2022852
Director, Digital Transformation at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The pricing is very high. On a scale of one to ten, if ten is high, I would say it's an eight. The total cost of ownership over a period of time is very high.
It is usually a one-year license. Last time, for a better price, we paid for three years upfront.
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reviewer908325
Head of IT System Integration at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We had a yearly license. I believe that if the license were cheaper, it would have a greater impact.
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Zoran Cerkez
Owner/CEO at IT SPHERE
IBM BPM is not for every company. This is a solution is for a company that has at least 500 people and more employees. I don't expect a company with only 100 people to invest a half-million dollars into the licensing and the same in the services. A company like that should look into other open-source options.
IBM BPM's price could be improved.
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Thong Huynh
BPM Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Usually, it's best for customers to start out with the Express edition to understand and see what value the product provides. Then they can upgrade to Advanced if their requirements increase and they know how to use the product properly. Starting out with Express can also help reduce the cost for adopting the product.
View full review »The solution is highly-priced.
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Kudzanayi Manjera
Senior Services Engineer at KENAC COMPUTER SYSTEMS
The pricing is high.
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Luis Yndigoyen
Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The price is not great.
The cloud and license of the subscription model for IBM BPM can be complex. There are a lot of alternatives to choose from, like a VAR, partner, or sales team from IBM. There might also be push back from the hardware team to be on-premise.
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Abdelrahman Tabeel
Senior J2EE Developer at DataServe
When considering the features of the solution the price is expensive compared to competitors.
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Omark
Department Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Process Server is no more available than new products out there, but in general IBM has a high cost and complex setup.
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reviewer1386273
Development Team Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is on the expensive side.
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BharathiRaja
Application Development Team Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I am unclear about the pricing and licensing as I do not deal with such matters. I only develop things from the tool.
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AhmedGhareeb
TETRA & GSM Engineer at a government with 201-500 employees
The pricing is quite high, I would rate it two out of five.
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IBM BPM
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about IBM BPM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.