Oracle BPM Reviews

Oracle BPM is a whole development platform (stack) used to create your BPM application. It is well-integrated with WebLogic Server and JDeveloper as IDE is for development. Of course, all of this is quite complex, but once you get it, it is very powerful.

The default Workspace does not meet all our needs and sometimes you need to create your own custom Workspace.

Alternatively, you can customize it, but you can hardly find examples for it.

More than five years.

On par with other enterprise supports.

Just standard web applications.

The learning curve is steep, but it is a complex technology.

Oracle has changed its licensing policy and incentivises for you to select Oracle Cloud over other cloud providers, which sometimes might not be what you want.

When starting a project, get at least one super-experienced consultant to draft your architecture and project plan. Once you have the vertical slice, you can replicate it for the different processes you need.

The integration of the solution is very good with other Oracle products.

The solution needs to offer better integration with third-party systems.

The solution should focus more support towards new department methods that assist with the architecture of the deployment itself.

I've been using the solution for 12 years.

From a BPM perspective, the stability is fine, but it depends on how the database is installed.

Scalability is okay, but it depends on the configuration of the setup. We have customers that have users on the system that range from 10-20 users all the way up to 200-300 users.

The initial setup is straightforward.

We use the on-premises deployment model and work with various versions of the solution.

For customers with an already existing market footprint, I'd recommend the solution. For those that don't, I'd suggest Cloud Pack Automation.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

• Very solid implementation of BPMN 2.0 standards, in all its aspects.
• It has developmental accelerators, which allow for virtually any customization needs which you may require.
• That it is Java based is definitely a plus, in our view.
• It has a rich out-of-the-box feature set.

We built solutions based on this product in pretty much all domains, from retail to banking and finance, communications and utilities, and various industries (namely, the aerospace industry), as well as public sector, from applications, which deal mainly with approval processes and auditing needs, to a full blown Service Management ERP for a large retailer.

Their Case Management set of features is severely lacking and should be a target for immediate improvement dealing with unpredictable processes inside of organizations.

We’ve been using this with our customers for the past seven years. We've been using the 12c version for the past three years.

We had quite a few problems regarding stability, namely in the 11g version. From 12c onwards, we registered a significant quality hike with the latest incarnations being very stable.

No. We have customers generating more than 150,000 processes per day without performance issues.

Technical support is an Achilles' heel for all Oracle products, and this is no exception. It takes forever (several months) to have an issue resolved.

Yes, we used Microsoft technology-based process platforms, such as K2 and Captaris Workflow, but they just didn’t cope with standards (BPMN 2.0) and were particularly weak when you needed a full-fledged, all guns blazing solution.

Setup process improved immensely with the 12c version, and it’s very well documented. No issues.

As with all Oracle products, the licensing over VMware is an issue. You have to license the whole hardware, not just the amount of CPUs you actually use. I would suggest to go to Oracle VM if you need to virtualize this platform.

Also, check the current Oracle process-based platform in the cloud (Oracle Process Cloud Service), as it may serve your needs, and it’s much cheaper to start and run.

Yes. IBM BPM, Appian, K2, and Captaris.

Get a few guys very good an Oracle’s application server suite of products, namely WebLogic, as well as good Oracle DBAs. They will ensure very good platform health and no technical issues with the product.

The database access feature is valuable for us.

It has not improved the way we work in our organization.

The operations and credit analysis areas need to be improved.

We have been using the product for less than a month.

We had stability issues. We found several issues in the development and production environments.

Not applicable.

I would rate the technical support at a four out of 10.

We switched solutions because we wanted a solution which provides agile flexibility in our credit process.

Oracle solutions are highly priced when compared to competitors.

We did not evaluate any alternative solutions.

Evaluate any other solutions first. Oracle BPM has a lack of vision and is very complex to develop and maintain. Support is also very expensive.