We performed a comparison between BizTalk Server and IBM BPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Process Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I rate the tool's stability a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of BizTalk Server is that it will turn XML into flexible transactions."
"Essentially, you can do whatever you like with these systems, and you do not have to take care about the scaling because if one server is overloaded, it just forwards the message to the next server, even if it were designated to a specific server. It weeds out the messages according to the load. If you want to scale it, you just add new servers."
"BIzTalk's integration with Visual Studio is the most valuable feature of this product."
"There is information during the process that the analyst will look at, their procedures. We created a part of the application such that the business can change those procedures as needed, on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. As the reps go through the process, they don't necessarily know it's changing, they just know they have to refer to some documentation, and the business can keep that up to date."
"The most valuable features come in the bundle, the design process, creating services, creating BPDs, creating coaches, and UI/UX."
"By automating several tasks, we have already reduced a lot of work for the business."
"There are a lot of things that you get out-of-the-box: Timers and so on, which took a lot of effort and code before."
"It has improved my organization quite a bit. It brought awareness to what the business processes are, even to the business side, who did not necessarily know what they are."
"Integration is a big plus for me."
"One thing that I love about them is that they make it easier to integrate with other systems, especially with the use of smaller files."
"The initial setup is straightforward and easy. I would give it a nine out of ten."
"The deployment could be simplified."
"It's a complex product because you have many degrees of freedom to connect different parts together. Whether it's sensible or not, is up to you, but the machine does allow it. But because of the vast degrees of freedom, it's complex."
"BizTalk Server is an outdated legacy system that does not support messaging."
"BizTalk is in the past, Microsoft is not going to evolve it any further or add any new features."
"The initial setup can be tricky because IBM BPM is not based on a popular stack, and it's difficult to hire a developer for this product."
"Performance on large scale requirements could also be improved."
"IBM BPM integrated with Spark UI and the UI is now much better, but they still need to improve the UI because competitors have predefined templates and other additional features. In these competitor's solutions, you are able to use the templates, map your data, and the form is ready to use. With this solution, you need to write a lot of code to have the same quality as the competitor's templates. It would be a benefit to make this platform more towards low-code or no-code."
"I would like to see the front-end support improved because it should be fully integrated and supported."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The people working on the front desk are having some problem with managing the documentation. For instance, they get a picture, and if the picture comes rotated 90 degrees, together with a picture that is not rotated, they have some problems dealing with that, technically. There are some minor aspects that on the usability side that are still lacking. That has to do with FileNet, too, I'm talking about the suite together."
"The constant switch between Eclipse and its web versions can be annoying and confusing."
"It can definitely be improved in terms of performance and stability."
BizTalk Server is ranked 23rd in Process Automation with 8 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Process Automation with 105 reviews. BizTalk Server is rated 7.0, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BizTalk Server writes "Helps us implement complex mapping and integration, but deployment could be simplified". 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". BizTalk Server is most compared with IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, SAP Process Orchestration, Camunda, SEEBURGER Business Integration Suite and Appian, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, IBM Business Automation Workflow, Pega BPM, Appian and Apache Airflow. See our BizTalk Server vs. IBM BPM report.
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