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AWS Step Functions vs Agiloft Workflow and BPM comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Agiloft Workflow and BPM
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
58th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
AWS Step Functions
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
12th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Workload Automation (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of Agiloft Workflow and BPM is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of AWS Step Functions is 1.3%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Process Management (BPM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AWS Step Functions1.3%
Agiloft Workflow and BPM0.5%
Other98.2%
Business Process Management (BPM)
 

Featured Reviews

AC
Professor - General Management and Project Management at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Easy to use with a high degree of security and excellent flexibility
Any kind of software has its issues and any kind of software can improve. Agiloft does not have a good user interface. It can surely improve. Usually, the users don't like its interface. However, once they understand the potential of this platform, they love it. As it is a very sophisticated solution, it's not the easiest one to use. There are other platforms that are much easier to use even though Agiloft presents itself as a low-code platform where you don't need to program. To configure a solution, for example, to create a BPM, is not that simple. They also are implementing some features based on artificial intelligence that seems to be very, very powerful, however, the price of using artificial intelligence in the systems for our reality and I'm talking about the Brazilian market - is very expensive. In practical terms, it doesn't seem to me that it is feasible to use due to the price. I don't have any information about any organization that it's using Agiloft in Brazil with artificial intelligence features. Another important feature for us that sometimes is an issue is that usually when you build your workflow you need access to a lot of documents, and these documents come in several formats. Sometimes you have Microsoft Office documents and sometimes you have PDFs. You have also many drawn files. Sometimes when you need to see the content of any file, it's very easy. You just click and it opens. However, when it comes to special kinds of files, you may have some problems integrating software that allows you to visualize what's inside the file.
YM
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Central orchestration has streamlined complex data workflows and now drives timely aviation alerts
The best features AWS Step Functions offers include the ability to deploy it via code. It helps us orchestrate anything that we want. Even if we have Glue jobs for another use case or Lambda that we are currently looking forward to, we are using Lambda to take DynamoDB data for real-time sales monitoring, then it goes to our S3 bucket. We have multiple workflows that are orchestrated by AWS Step Functions, and at the core, the main functionality is based on different frameworks. We have an Athena complete workflow, Glue job-based workflow, and a separate Lambda-based workflow. All of these are separately handled in AWS Step Functions. This is a good point and again with the inbuilt facilities of it, including how we can construct those workflows and add up a catch state or roll back or do multiple iterations using the Map state, that is very helpful for us.The Map state feature has specifically helped my team create a rollback state of the data since we were dropping some of our data assets. In case we want them back, we just wanted to do this. We took a particular layer and provided the data list, including the tables list, and using the Map state, we iterated over this list and one by one we did the backups of this data at the concurrency of five tables in a single execution. The Catch state, on the other hand, allows us to identify any error immediately. If we encounter an error, the Catch state immediately picks it up and we integrated webhooks or email notifications. That is how we are able to identify immediately if we face any error. At the core of our data engineering platform, AWS Step Functions sit at the topmost core of whatever pipelines we have. It is a main orchestration tool for us and helps us save costs. It is a key component of our engineering platform.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's very safe. It has a high degree of security, much better than many other solutions I have researched."
"You can use Agiloft as a central point to store all the information of an enterprise and all the workflows."
"AWS Step Functions was stable, and there were no problems that I can recall."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"The integration capability is easy, whereas building state machines is tricky."
"It has enabled my organization to create workflows with a lot of different AWS services; it's a general solution that you can adapt to your own needs and is simple to use."
"Overall, I would rate AWS Step Functions at least nine out of ten."
"The JSON app launched recently allows us to define data execution more easily."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
 

Cons

"Agiloft does not have a good user interface. It can surely improve."
"It is difficult to suggest improvements at the moment."
"I think AWS Step Functions is good, but the UI in the console can be much more user-friendly."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
"Increasing the payload size would be beneficial."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"AWS Step Functions' fault tolerance capabilities can be improved, but if managed well in orchestration, then the impact is minimal."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The last time I saw the information it was something around $50 to $60 per month per user."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution's price is reasonable."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
21%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Insurance Company
6%
 

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Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise6
 

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What is your primary use case for Amazon Step Functions?
My main use case for AWS Step Functions is in our data platform where we are trying to generate alerts. For generating the alerts, we are getting the data on a daily basis. This is mainly for the a...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon Step Functions?
I rate AWS Step Functions a nine out of ten on a scale of one to ten. I chose a nine out of ten because it is basically everything that we are really looking for. It is a great service and a great ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Step Functions?
AWS Step Functions helps us save costs as it is a self-managed service and is serverless. We look out for the inbuilt services that are orchestrated via AWS Step Functions, and we only pay for that...
 

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