We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow 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."One of its most valuable features is the graphical user interface, providing a visual representation of the pipeline status, successes, failures, and informative developer messages."
"The initial setup was straightforward and it does not take long to complete."
"The reason we went with Airflow is its DAG presentation, that shows the relationships among everything. It's more of a configuration-driven workflow."
"The most valuable feature of Apache Airflow is creating and scheduling jobs. Additionally, the reattempt at failed jobs is useful."
"This is a simple tool to automate using Python."
"The best feature is the customization."
"The best part of Airflow is its direct support for Python, especially because Python is so important for data science, engineering, and design. This makes the programmatic aspect of our work easy for us, and it means we can automate a lot."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"They have some quick-win programs that are designed to come in, they'll bring a developer in and they'll work with your developer to get you started. That's what we did and that worked really great. We got an understanding of the product, we got an understanding of how to deploy the product. And when we were done with that engagement, we were off and running."
"We are receiving good assistance from the technical support."
"It helps improve your process through continual measurement."
"The reach with Integration Adapters and support for adding custom Java code are valuable features."
"IBM BPM should become cloud-native. It should also add a cloud deployment feature."
"It is a very powerful solution."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to customize your rules and put them inside the tool."
"The installation was straightforward."
"UI can be improved with additional user-friendly features for non-programmers and for fewer coding practitioner requirements."
"I have some issues with the solution's communication."
"Adding more automated components in Apache Airflow for basic things like exporting the data would be helpful."
"The graphical user interface can be improved."
"I would like to see it more friendly for other use cases."
"The automation capabilities could be improved; a visual workflow designer and a graphical tool to reduce coding would be very helpful. But for now, it's sufficient for our simple workflows."
"We need to develop our workflow description and notations because out of the box, Apache Airflow does not provide some features that are needed."
"We cannot run real-time jobs in the solution."
"This is technology, and there's always room for improvement. It would be better to have a single solution. Trying to have an overview in terms of this solution brings together the concepts of BPM processes, customer journeys, and an automation part for KPIs. All of this working together and coming up with a single solution with privacy is more commercial than anything else."
"Finding errors and bugs on the system is not easy. We can't seem to use the events or logs to find them, so it makes it difficult to debug the system. They really need to work on their debugging features to make is much, much easier. It would improve the solution considerably and should be something they add in a future release."
"It is a really powerful tool, but its entry price is so high, which makes it a very exclusive club for who gets to use it. The thing that seemed to be the most intolerable was that you could put lots and lots of users on it, and it worked fine, but if you put lots and lots of developers on it, it sure seemed to have challenges. The biggest challenge was the development because of the Eclipse tool. It just seemed like irrespective of the development team that you put together, whether it had 10 or 50 people, you would end up having to reboot the development server throughout the day when you concurrently had lots of people hammering on the system. The development server just got sluggish. This was true for every project I was on. Once you got more than about five people working on the system at the same time, it would just get slower and slower during development work, and the only way to fix it was to reboot the server. It became just like a routine. Sometimes, we would reboot at lunch or dinner time, which is silly. After the cloud instances started rolling out, I never saw that again. That was probably the one big advantage of the cloud version. Instead of using an independent Eclipse-based process development tool, we moved to web-based process and design. The web-based tool definitely had greater performance than the Eclipse-based tool. I never got onto another project after that with 50 people, so I don't know how the performance is when you get a large team on it, but it definitely seems that the cloud design tool was a massive improvement."
"There needs to be better documentation for IBM BPM in a central place. There is not any standard documentation for each component available and has been a barrier for developers."
"They should incorporate an API gateway functionality within it to simplify integrations."
"From the testing perspective and minor enhancements perspective, customization is something that is a little tedious as compared to new tools. In addition, various open-source tools that are available are not working with IBM BPM."
"Could increase vulnerability and security patches to make it more robust."
"When you have to integrate files for enterprise applications."
Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". 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". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, IBM Business Automation Workflow, AWS Step Functions and Bizagi, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and AWS Step Functions. See our Apache Airflow vs. IBM BPM report.
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