ADONIS vs IBM Case Foundation comparison

BOC Group and IBM are both solutions in the Business Process Management (BPM) category. BOC Group is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.5, while IBM is ranked #31 with an average rating of 8.0. BOC Group holds a 2.8% mindshare in BPM, compared to IBM’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of BOC Group users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of IBM users who would recommend it.

ADONIS

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90% willing to recommend

IBM Case Foundation

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86% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

IBM Case Foundation and ADONIS compete in the enterprise software market. ADONIS has the upper hand with its feature-rich offering, although IBM Case Foundation excels in affordability and support.

Features: IBM Case Foundation is known for efficient document management and robust process automation, allowing seamless workflow management. It enhances decision-making capabilities through its advanced document analytics and maintains stability ideal for handling complex data environments. ADONIS offers a comprehensive BPM suite with intuitive modeling tools that enable efficient process optimization. It provides a user-friendly interface with drag-and-drop design functionality and supports detailed business analytics and reporting.

Room for Improvement: IBM Case Foundation can improve by enhancing its user interface for better usability, expanding its BPM focus to match evolving industry standards, and providing more customization options in search functionalities. ADONIS could benefit from more competitive pricing options, improved integration with non-process-oriented tools, and an expansion of predefined templates to facilitate faster deployment.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Case Foundation integrates smoothly with IBM products, supported by comprehensive services helping organizations leverage existing infrastructure. Its deployment can be complex for non-IBM systems. ADONIS offers cloud-based deployment praised for its simplicity and effective integration strategies. It provides proactive customer service noted for its responsiveness and practical support methods.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Case Foundation presents lower upfront costs and gradual ROI focusing on documentation cost reduction. ADONIS requires a higher initial investment but offers faster ROI by enhancing process efficiency and strategic BPM enhancements, appealing to organizations focusing on long-term benefits over immediate savings.

To learn more, read our detailed ADONIS vs. IBM Case Foundation Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

ADONIS

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

20th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Case Foundation

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

31st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of ADONIS is 2.8%, up from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Case Foundation is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Business Process Management (BPM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
ADONIS	2.8%
IBM Case Foundation	0.5%
Other	96.7%

Business Process Management (BPM)

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Teguh Surya

AVP B2B Business Process Excellence at PT. Indosat Tbk

Process capabilities impress while user setup requires streamlining

I stopped using ADONIS because it is not capable of integrating and automating business processes for the POC. I see that Camunda is more capable for our POC project to orchestrate business processes. We also plan to integrate with UiPath because currently, we are focusing on task automations, not process orchestrations. In the future, we plan to implement process orchestrations. I see that Camunda can integrate UiPath into the process, process model, and process integrations. ADONIS needs improvement mainly in user-friendliness, setup, and installations. As an administrator at that time, I found it quite difficult to manage users because I needed to open specific software, possibly Java-based, which is not web-based and should be installed first to manage the users.

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Nouman Nawaz

Deputy Director - IT(Plans) at DHA Lahore

Mature product in terms of security and stable product

The architecture is a bit difficult, but in BAW, they introduced the Business Automation Workflow. It's a bit easier compared to Case Manager. Currently, we use Case Manager, so it's a bit difficult to upgrade and handle, but BAW is comparatively much better and easier to handle. The limitation is only for customization because IBM doesn't support it. In some scenarios, if you want some business processes to be customized, we have already spoken two or three times with IBM representatives that we have to customize some of the features in this business process. They would say that if you want to do this automation at your own end, then okay, fine, go ahead, but we are not supporting all this customization. The only thing is the customization because it's a complete standard application.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We haven't ever needed to take service breaks and we can scale it throughout our company without any problem."

"The product is useful for designing business processes and for repositories."

"ADONIS supports the project hierarchy and allows collaboration through methodological reviews and comments, enhancing decision-making."

"It's easy to handle the solution thanks to being drag and drop"

"It's a very complete solution."

"It seems that the process mapping and modeling features are well and thoroughly covered."

"The best features of the system include good analytics for business processes including the calculation of time and cost."

"Flexible and the ability to divide search screens, and to search for documents. The ECM feature inside the system is great."

"It provides us the capability of producing business processes for documents that are launched immediately when a document comes into the repository."

"The most valuable feature is the content manager part of the file as it is very stable, robust, and reliable."

"A valuable feature includes seamless integration with the document management system, along with robust capabilities in analytics and reporting."

"The content management is great."

"It's very easy."

"The solution is scalable."

"The client and the IBM content navigation are the solution's most valuable features."

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Cons

"Rearranging things to get information from the objects and the model together to get a report out of them could be done better."

"We have to use a different solution to automate our business processes."

"There is a function to check if the model BPMN is being used correctly, but the report from the check is not always very clear."

"ADONIS needs improvement mainly in user-friendliness, setup, and installations. As an administrator at that time, I found it quite difficult to manage users because I needed to open specific software, possibly Java-based, which is not web-based and should be installed first to manage the users."

"If there's no WiFi connection, you can't access ADONIS."

"The solution is in English and we have added certain parts in Russian as this is easier for our students. It would be useful to have the system in Russian."

"ADONIS needs improvement in its user interface functionality."

"This solution would be improved if 24/7 support were available."

"Once a workflow is launched then it stays static forever, which is a problem because if there is a change in the business then you cannot change the workflow."

"90% of the feedback we receive states that the UI is not very user-friendly."

"There is a need for more open and flexible integration capabilities, allowing seamless collaboration with a broader spectrum of business process management solutions, beyond the confines of IBM's document management offerings."

"The place of improvement is merging or combining all of the workflow functionality into one seamless tool. Now, there are multiple installations that are different. Case Foundation, before you can put Case Manager and you've got IBM BPM, and the roadmap is there to merge them altogether. But that's the struggle at the moment, it's having multiple installations and disparate workflow applications."

"The cloud version could use more stability."

"We are now using microservices but there are some areas where the coordination with FileNet is problematic."

"Comparing the solution with other interfaces, IBM BPM is much better than Case Foundation. They need to make this solution's interface more user-friendly."

"There are some features that could be enhanced like the document viewer"

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product's pricing is medium, so I rate it a five out of ten."

"The product’s price is quite competitive."

"This is not an expensive solution and we are using the standard license."

"IBM Case Foundation is a little expensive."

"The price falls in the middle range—not overly expensive but not extremely affordable either."

"Pricing is in the mid-range, it is not cheap, but it's not expensive."

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Small Business	3
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Small Business	5
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Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ADONIS?

It's easy to handle the solution thanks to being drag and drop

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What needs improvement with ADONIS?

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What is your primary use case for ADONIS?

We are using Camunda for process modeling, some collaborations for process development, and for the process documentation repository, we use SharePoint. We have used ADONIS process modeler, not jus...

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What do you like most about IBM Case Foundation?

A valuable feature includes seamless integration with the document management system, along with robust capabilities in analytics and reporting.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Case Foundation?

The tool is expensive for my customers; it is very expensive, more than other solutions. Some customers say it is more expensive. The license cost for Cloud Pak is per user and increases with the n...

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What needs improvement with IBM Case Foundation?

We face some challenges with IBM Case Foundation from our customers, particularly with administration and configuration. We face many issues and open tickets with IBM regarding that, especially som...

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Also Known As

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Case Foundation, FileNet Business Process Manager

Overview

ADONIS BPM suite is users' best-rated tool for process management, analysis and optimization, trusted by SMEs and large corporations worldwide. It helps you transform your business and create competitive advantage by streamlining processes, enhancing operational efficiency, boosting transparency and creating a customer-centric organization. You can start creating your digital twin with ADONIS already today, as the cloud-based ADONIS:Community Edition is available for free. For more information please visit www.boc-group.com/en/adonis/.

BOC Group

IBM Case Foundation is for organizations that need to harness unstructured information and integrate it with business processes to drive critical business decisions. It enables organizations to create, manage and optimize case-based processes and is designed to decrease development costs while significantly improving process performance. Case Foundation links specific pieces of content with a structured workflow. It's an on ramp for organizations that choose to move from document-centric workflow solutions to the advanced capabilities of IBM Case Manager.

IBM

Sample Customers

Trusted by small to large enterprises worldwide: ABB, Allianz, Comcast, ERGO, Emerson, Glencore, Lincoln Financial Group, Marel, Raiffeisen bank, Schroders, Southern Water, Stadt Wien, UNIQA, VAUDE, Voestalpine, Volksbank, Vorwerk

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