We performed a comparison between AWS Step Functions and IBM Business Automation Workflow 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."It is a scalable solution."
"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."
"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."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"The number of historical events is great."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The solution reduces the time to the resolution which is essential for businesses."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow provides a seamless streamlined collaboration within the organizations."
"Its interface is well-designed and user-friendly"
"It helps develop applications very quickly. Once clients get used to it and familiar with the methodology, then they don't feel so locked in. It is able to add this element of agility to our clients' software development lifecycle. That is my favorite thing about it: You're not so locked in as you used to be when developing applications."
"The business process modeling is the most valuable feature."
"It has had a positive effect on decision-making in my organization. It helps us with our dispute process."
"The workflow of BAW's automation is handled inside of BPM, so we can see what state it is at and how things are processing through."
"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."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"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 interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"The pricing of the solution can be improved."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow could improve the integration."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow can improve UI flexibility and integration. Additionally, the solutions from IBM have to provide a paperless solution, allowing for digital versions of documents."
"The SCADA Systems are very sophisticated and have a hard time integrating with our older scales. The technical support in regards to the partner side needs some improvement."
"Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities."
"I would definitely like to see a unified interface between the BPM side of the house and the case side of the house. Something that just seems a bit more cohesive, because right now there is sort of a disconnect between the BPM and the case side of the house. That makes it a bit of a hard sell sometimes. That is definitely first and foremost on my wish list."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"I feel that the features are not user-friendly."
"One significant challenge is the lack of accessible forums or resources to seek help or information when problems arise."
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AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 8 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. 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 Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Apache Airflow, Pega BPM and Boomi AtomSphere Flow, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, Apache Airflow, IBM Case Foundation and Aurea CX Process. See our AWS Step Functions vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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