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Atos DirX Directory vs IBM BPM comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 5, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Atos DirX Directory
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
25th
Average Rating
6.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM BPM
Ranking in Application Infrastructure
6th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (7th), Process Automation (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Application Infrastructure category, the mindshare of Atos DirX Directory is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM BPM is 3.4%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Kleber Fernandes - PeerSpot reviewer
An identity management system with valuable knowledge
We use Atos DirX Directory for cybersecurity with Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions Atos DirX Directory helps take care of attacks and manage responses. It also has artificial intelligence to mitigate any attack. The most valuable feature is its knowledge. The price could be…
Muhammad Kamran - PeerSpot reviewer
Has efficient processes and intuitive workflow with many valuable features
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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution offers high performance."
"The role and attribute-based access control has been greatly improved."
"The most valuable feature is its knowledge."
"DirX Directory is the best feature of the product: a very fast, stable LDAP directory."
"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."
"It is a stale solution."
"It is efficient in reducing costs."
"Some of the features that I like the most are team management and process performance. They are both very useful and very powerful with regard to the workflow."
"This product does the job in terms of executing the workflow."
"This solution is very stable."
"We have used a lot of out-of-the-box reporting on the process performance metrics. We have been able to make suggested changes to staff for this role or streamlining by eliminate some activities where people were not requiring a lot of work in the first place."
"The initial setup process is easy."
 

Cons

"The user interface could be more convenient for people that don't know the tool too intensively."
"An overall modernization of the product is required in order to keep up with newer products."
"The price could be better. It would be better if they developed a better endpoint solution in the next release."
"The Self-Service Portal is old school and it lacks easy accessibility for users."
"Needs more available consultants and implementation partners."
"Stability wavers. We have some opportunities for improvement in this space, especially as we approach our target volume of a million transactions a day. It is tough, because it is not necessarily the product. It is more around the platform and infrastructure to support it, so the connectivity to the database, web sessions, and reverse proxies in front of that."
"They don't have a mechanism to achieve processes, data sources, and data."
"IBM BPM needs to have a better and modified interface."
"The product is extremely complex to use and administrate."
"Consider an admin console during deployment. I would like to migrate single instances, not the whole bunch at once."
"There is room for improvement in the stability."
"Needs better reporting. I do not think that we are fully taking advantage of what it already has yet."
"IBM BPM lacks openness, that is, the ability to become open for new options in terms of APIs, front-end development, and ecosystem. IBM BPM has been quite closed. One of the main improvements would be to somehow embed the rules engine into IBM BPM. Merging IBM BRMS and the rules engine with IBM BPM would be helpful. If there was some simpler way to define rules without having to put IBM BRMS on top of it, it would be good. It's something that we can get out of Camunda but not out of IBM BPM."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could be better."
"IBM BPM cannot be considered a cheaply priced product. IBM BPM is a really expensive product compared to other companies. One needs to opt for the perpetual licensing model offered by IBM."
"The solution is expensive since it is an enterprise application."
"I wish it was less expensive. I don't know why their pricing model is so high for a piece of software that could benefit so many. It just seems to me that they could have a lower cost, maybe with fewer features or whatever, but it should be possible to do a lower cost workflow software that uses the same interface and underlying engine but does not cost so much that you have to be a Fortune 50 company to buy it. It is annoying to me. There are a lot of solutions that IBM has that are really powerful but nobody can afford them. They know their business, but I still feel that there are a lot of customers who would benefit from this sort of thing. I don't know what this elitism is all about. I am sure they have people doing the money numbers, but it seems like you can make a lot more money by selling it to way more people for a little bit less."
"I rate the solution's pricing a four out of ten."
"It has a low cost to implement. You'll get your money back in the same year that you complete the project."
"I rate the tool's pricing a seven out of ten."
"We chose to purchase IBM BPM because it was bundled with the actual RPA program/solution that we decided to purchase. We decided to use Automation Anywhere tool (RPA), and it is was bundled with IBM BPM."
"Licensing is managed by the client, but we know it is yearly. Camunda is relatively cheaper. There is not much difference in pricing of IBM and PEGA. For large licensing, there are discounts as well."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Insurance Company
6%
 

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Also Known As

DirX Directory
WebSphere Lombardi Edition, IBM Business Process Manager, IBM WebSphere Process Server
 

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Sample Customers

National Savings and Investments, Vehicle and Operator Services Agency
Barclays, EmeriCon, Banca Popolare di Milano, CST Consulting, KeyBank, KPMG, Prolifics, Sandhata Technologies Ltd., State of Alaska, Humana S.A., Saperion, esciris, Banco Espirito Santo
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