AWS Step Functions vs Red Hat Polymita Business Suite comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Red Hat are both solutions in the Business Process Management (BPM) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.1, while Red Hat is ranked #62. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 2.1% mindshare in BPM, compared to Red Hat’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

AWS Step Functions

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Step Functions

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Workload Automation (12th)

Red Hat Polymita Business S...

Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)

62nd

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of AWS Step Functions is 2.1%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Polymita Business Suite is 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Carlos Alberto Marangon

Senior AWS Tech Lead at Nextios

Automate complex workflows with seamless AWS integration

Step Functions provide seamless integration with AWS services, which enhances the speed of application development. The JSON app launched recently allows us to define data execution more easily. The Standard Workflows feature includes error replay capabilities, which are crucial for efficient error management. The Amazon State Language (ASL) in JSON format facilitates workflow automation and accelerates the deployment of Step Functions.

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Luis Yndigoyen

Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Gives you the ability to design the screens outside the software and connect them as a component with the BPM engine

On the improvement part, I think the documentation for the tool, the official documentation, is not as strong as in other tools. You have lot of community. That is good. But sometimes you need - when you are working on a big client or a critical process - to be certain about certain things. So I think that the documentation for the tool, from the company, could be a little stronger. Also, the size of the team within Latin America. The size of the team that, in each country, knows about BPM - because of the size of Red Hat in comparison with the size of IBM or Oracle - is very little. You have maybe three or four people in the company, in Red Hat Mexico, that know about BPM; and in Peru, maybe one, who also needs to know about five other tools. You have help there, but sometimes you don't need that kind of help. You need to sit down with someone and take a good amount of time and discuss a process to solve a problem. It's a consequence of the size. IBM and Oracle are monsters. They have, say, 100 more employees than Red Hat. That is the problem. But on the other side, the price is good. You could pay four times less, five times less, in an average implementation with Red Hat than with IBM. So there is a trade-off.

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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

"AWS Step Functions offers advanced workflows that save time and enhance efficiency by reducing delays and ensuring consistent orchestration among various services."

"The JSON app launched recently allows us to define data execution more easily."

"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 is a scalable solution."

"AWS Step Functions acts as a high-level layer, allowing us to seamlessly integrate with microservices."

"If you want to create a workflow to call one Lambda function after another, and other serverless features, it could save you a ton of money. That's for sure."

"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."

"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."

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"The main factor that separates Red Hat software from Oracle, IBM, Pegasystems, is the ability that it gives you to design the screens outside the software and connect it as another component with the BPM engine."

Cons

"Increasing the payload size would be beneficial."

"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."

"If AWS Step Functions keeps adding more integrations, it would be even better."

"One area for improvement is the payload size. Currently, I sometimes have to save data as a file since I cannot pass it within Step Functions, necessitating caching in processes."

"There is room for improvement in terms of integration with other products. It would benefit from more integration with different applications or services."

"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."

"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."

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"I think the documentation for the tool, the official documentation, is not as strong as in other tools. You have lot of community. That is good. But sometimes you need - when you are working on a big client or a critical process - to be certain about certain things. So I think that the documentation for the tool, from the company, could be a little stronger."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's price is reasonable."

"The solution is expensive."

"Without any discount, you need tools that cost roughly between $80,000 to $100,000. That is less than with IBM. And on top of that you need the consulting. That will be another $200,000. So a quarter to a third of a million dollars is needed to use get started with BPM. So I usually recommend to my clients that they begin with a little project, with the community version. That way they don't spend $200,000 or $300,000, they spend $150,000 and zero on software."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Step Functions?

The integration capability is easy, whereas building state machines is tricky.

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What is your primary use case for Amazon Step Functions?

The primary use case was the execution of scripts and data migration related to data lakes. We were using Python and other AWS Step Functions ( /products/aws-step-functions-reviews ).

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What advice do you have for others considering Amazon Step Functions?

I would recommend AWS Step Functions to others. Overall, I rate AWS Step Functions an eight out of ten.

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Also Known As

Amazon Step Functions, Step Functions

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Overview

AWS Step Functions enables orchestration of complex workflows, parallel task execution, and seamless integration with AWS services, simplifying ETL automation and data pipeline management.

With AWS Step Functions, developers streamline task automation and ensure smooth microservices orchestration. It simplifies development and manages interdependencies, validates data, and integrates AWS services for cost-effective workflows. It offers a user-friendly graphical interface for creating pipelines, scalable parallelization via the "map" state, control over historical events, and visualization with JSON. Enhanced by a dashboard-like view, it aids in visual workflows and debugging.

What are the most valuable features?

Seamless AWS Integration: Easily integrates with the entire AWS suite for efficient workflow creation.
User-Friendly Graphical Interface: Simplifies creating and managing workflows with visual tools.
Scalable Parallelization: Utilizes the "map" state for efficient parallel processing tasks.
Control Historical Events: Manages and controls historical data and events effectively.
Visualization and Debugging: Provides a dashboard-like view to enhance understanding and debugging.

What are the benefits and ROI to look for?

Streamlined Development: Simplifies orchestration and automates task management.
Cost-Effective Workflows: Creates efficient, cost-saving workflows by integrating with AWS services.
Enhanced Data Validation: Ensures data correctness by managing interdependencies.
Automation of ETL Jobs: Automates data extraction, transformation, and loading processes seamlessly.

In specific industries such as finance, healthcare, and e-commerce, enterprises implement AWS Step Functions to manage data pipelines, orchestrate microservices, and automate complex ETL jobs. They benefit from seamless integration with AWS services, enhanced data validation, and streamlined development, resulting in efficient and cost-effective workflows tailored to their operational needs.

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Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite combines business process management (BPM), business rules management (BRM), business resource planning, and complex event processing (CEP) technologies into a single, integrated, open source platform. JBoss BPM Suite lets project stakeholders collaborate to build business automation solutions with a choice of modeling tools. This includes a web-based authoring environment for business experts and an Eclipse plug-in for developers. A rich set of tools for process and decision management covers the full process life cycle - from modeling, simulation, and testing to deployment, monitoring, and optimization. Process and decision logic can be modeled and automated together, without the need to learn multiple tools or develop custom integrations between disparate environments.

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Sample Customers

Alpha Apps, The Guardian, SGK, Bigfinite

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