We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow, IBM BPM, and IBM Case Foundation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Camunda, Apache, Pega and others in Business Process Management (BPM)."The solution is quite configurable so it is easy to code within a configuration kind of environment."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"Since it's widely adopted by the community, Apache Airflow is a user-friendly solution."
"The best feature is the customization."
"I like the UI rework, it's much easier."
"The product is stable."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"The UI is very simple and easy to learn."
"It continues to keep up with the changing needs of the business. That is the strong value proposition of BPM. It's not a one-time automation."
"IBM's deployment box is one huge black box. We can create all the services with our own code or without a codebase, however, we have a huge amount of space with practically no limitation."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The product's installation was easy."
"Automation is the most valuable feature of IBM BPM."
"This solution has always been lacking in the user interface (UI), it needed to be improved a lot. However, from the acquisition of Spark UI, the UI is much better. Overall the solution is robust and has the ability to integrate with any product for complex workflows."
"We made the transformation to agile. Altogether with BPM, it is the total package."
"Good user interface and good add option."
"The most valuable feature for the organization is the Document Store."
"It's very easy."
"It provides us the capability of producing business processes for documents that are launched immediately when a document comes into the repository."
"The content management is great."
"The solution is scalable."
"The client and the IBM content navigation are the solution's most valuable features."
"Flexible and the ability to divide search screens, and to search for documents. The ECM feature inside the system is great."
"Case Foundation provides a strong security boost."
"The most valuable feature is its stability, which is why we are using it."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"We're currently using version 1.10, but I understand that there's a lot of improvements in version 2. In the earlier version that we're using, we sometimes have problems with maintenance complexity. Actually using Airflow is okay, but maintaining it has been difficult."
"One specific feature that is missing from Airflow is that the steps of your workflow are not pipelined, meaning the stageless steps of any workflow. Not every workflow can be implemented within Airflow."
"Adding more automated components in Apache Airflow for basic things like exporting the data would be helpful."
"Airflow should support the dynamic drag creation."
"The problem with Apache Airflow is that it is an open-source tool. You have to build it into a Kubernetes container, which is not easy to maintain, and I find it to be very clunky."
"The dashboard is connected into the BPM flow that could be improved."
"There is a need for more features on experimental evolution steps."
"Could increase vulnerability and security patches to make it more robust."
"We had hoped that the product would provide us with plug-ins like Salesforce. Its development environment needs to improve. We expect to see elastic features like containerization. We don't just need an on-prem virtual machine."
"It is not user-friendly."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"I have an interest around the robotic piece, and integrating that with the processes. I think that is certainly a good direction to be going."
"We have had to use Mule as an alternative integration tool because it is more flexible than IBM BPM."
"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."
"Importing and exporting between multiple environments is more difficult with other tools."
"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."
"IBM needs to update the user interfaces of all its products to make them more intuitive and accessible to beginners. Compared to Microsoft products, IBM solutions are less user-friendly. IBM programs are hard to master. It's a problem in my region because it's hard to find IT staff who can work with IBM."
"The service as it currently stands is out-of-date and lacks flexibility."
"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."
"There are some features that could be enhanced like the document viewer"
"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."
"90% of the feedback we receive states that the UI is not very user-friendly."
