We performed a comparison between Camunda Platform and Pega BPM, based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users show a greater preference for Camunda Platform, as Pega BPM is less stable, intuitive, and might have a less effective support team.
"I've found the active community most valuable but it also provides you with a lot of other features."
"We can share, discuss, and develop the model together — from a distance. It's really helped us during these times of isolation."
"The most valuable feature of Camunda Platform is its Microservices architecture, which is easily integrable with APIs."
"The number of client implementations and cross-language capabilities to support multiple frameworks is very pluggable compared to Pega. It's also more portable."
"The visibility – the diagrams you create – and then being able to automate based on them are valuable features. It's easy to explain and comprehend, and the integration aspects are valuable."
"Camunda's most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with different products."
"It allows me to present or to demonstrate the business process flow, visually, without having to resort to PowerPoint, Visio, or other products."
"The solution is good for data models."
"The most valuable features are case management and integration services."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"I have a lot of experience in this kind of industry, and Pega is one of the best solutions in terms of performance, capabilities, and the way we develop."
"Pega BPM has a full suite for any enterprise. It is a process orchestration platform. It has detailed features for case management and workflows."
"Pega BPM offers a lot of out-of-the-box functionalities."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility, as we can configure it to best suit our requirements."
"Application development is very rapid. A lot of code gets reused while building the applications, which is something we highly appreciate."
"Decreased time for plane departures and landing, supported analytical insight for planning of three to six month forecasting, and helped with operational decision planning and support."
"The support definitely can be improved. Apart from that, the language should be extendable to other platforms. If I want to write, I'll run a different platform, like Python code on top of it, or COBOL code on top of it, and it should support those languages."
"It would be better if the tool were made less reliant on Java."
"If they could build some scripts or some configuration to get it up and running in a Docker environment, that would be good. I didn't find anything when on Docker, however, maybe they have something and I didn't see it yet."
"There are a few things that I'm missing. For instance, the user interface creator, which I know other systems have, like Aurea or Lombardi, which are IBM solutions. The interface creator, including the data model creator or some module which would allow the users who are not programmers or business consultants and who are not technically skilled in database and Java programming, to create data models and user interfaces."
"Initial setup can be quite complex."
"It's costly and not accessible for small enterprises or startups. It would be great if Camunda offered a tier plan for smaller companies."
"They have a migration plugin that can be used to migrate from one BPM to another BPM. It is in the beta stage since last year. If they can make it available in the market, it would be great. We are going to have a couple of migration projects for migrating from IBM BPM to Camunda, and this plugin would be useful. I have already discussed this with them two weeks ago and asked them to look into this and add it as a feature. We are expecting this plugin to be available in the next version. This is the only requirement we have at present. They keep on coming up with different features, which is helping us a lot. Its latest release that came out last month was awesome."
"The Camunda Modeler installation poses a challenge, requiring local installation, which doesn't help collaboration like other online tools, for instance."
"Sometimes when we are patching some data from the database, we are getting added as a timeout."
"To learn Pega, you need to be a partner. If someone just wants to learn Pega for the sake of learning, they won't be able to do so as they don't give access to that."
"It should have integration with non-relational databases. A lot of databases are non-relational, and as a company, we are planning to move to NoSQL or open-source databases. It would be good if we are able to install and use Pega on a NoSQL database. They can also try to tailor or organize the company a bit differently and go more towards the microservice concept. I would like Pega to develop machine learning and intelligent AI algorithms. They have a good foundation in terms of the model and the stuff that we are using for some customers, and it will be good to onboard as many machine learning algorithms as possible."
"What should be included is some UI features and maybe some integrations. This includes documentation on how the UI works."
"It is not fully compatible with all versions of Internet Explorer, so sometimes, it does not work."
"Compared to other BPM products, the interface is somewhat complex, so the usability could be improved."
"There is a scarcity of resources who have worked with this solution before."
"Pega is claiming they're into low code but as per Gartner Magic Quadrant, Pega is not there now."
Camunda is ranked 1st in Business Process Management (BPM) with 71 reviews while Pega BPM is ranked 3rd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 57 reviews. Camunda is rated 8.2, while Pega BPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pega BPM writes "Provides built-in frameworks that can be reused and reduces time and cost". Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, IBM BPM, Appian and Bonita, whereas Pega BPM is most compared with ServiceNow, Appian, Microsoft Power Apps, IBM BPM and OutSystems. See our Camunda vs. Pega BPM report.
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