We performed a comparison between AWS Step Functions and IBM BPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"It's a general solution that you can adapt to your own needs and is simple to use. We like that it can be integrated with everything in the AWS suite, and that the creation of the pipeline can be done using the graphical user interface."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"The number of historical events is great."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"Its Analytics is the most valuable feature."
"IBM BPM is stable."
"Agility is the key. It gives our customers a faster way to be able to implement processes, get ownership of task, visibility into a process. The ability to modify that process, optimize that process over time, is probably the biggest benefit that they get from the software."
"It helps improve your process through continual measurement."
"We use the solution to develop and deliver products."
"It provides a very robust environment to build an integration framework or workflow patterns that we have. A lot of changes or modifications have been made to this solution over the past few years. The features that they have added this time have helped developers like us to work on the developmental environment and leverage all the capabilities of the tool. This is what I like about this solution."
"This solution is very stable."
"IBM BPM is equipped with all the functionalities which are needed for building BPM enterprise-level applications."
"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."
"It wasn't easy to understand the licensing model. It's like if you use just a little, it's cheap, but it becomes more expensive as you use more. It's like a hook that ties you inside the Amazon ecosystem. So, it creates a dependency."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"They don't have a mechanism to achieve processes, data sources, and data."
"The user experience, while it has improved, should continue to improve."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"IBM BPM uses JavaScript as a programming language for the server-side. I don’t know why it’s not Java, as it’s more powerful and the JavaScript part is translated into Java anyway."
"It is not user-friendly."
"Some of the features are not enough for my business. We need to build custom user management for the many end users affected by BPM."
"We have had to use Mule as an alternative integration tool because it is more flexible than IBM BPM."
"The constant switch between Eclipse and its web versions can be annoying and confusing."
AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 8 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AWS Step Functions writes "Simplifies complex task automation and enhances development workflows while offering user-friendly interface, seamless scalability and efficient workflow orchestration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, Apache Airflow, Pega BPM, Oracle BPM and IBM Business Automation Workflow, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Pega BPM, Appian, IBM Business Automation Workflow and ServiceNow Orchestration. See our AWS Step Functions vs. IBM BPM report.
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