We performed a comparison between Camunda Platform and Pega BPM, based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users show a greater preference for Camunda Platform, as Pega BPM is less stable, intuitive, and might have a less effective support team.
"For an internal project, this is a solution that you can install and have up and running quite quickly."
"Using the BPMN helps us to have a common shared communication language when discussing processes."
"The most valuable feature is that, with a visual system, you can try to have a process client before beginning the programming for the application."
"Its flexibility stands out as the most valuable feature."
"It is open-source. It supports microservice orchestration. This is what we are really interested in. We can customize our products depending on the use cases."
"The speed and execution of DMN was a big selling point for us. It's very good at conducting business processes that are easily modeled and presented in a way that's easy to understand."
"It has been a stable solution so far since it meets our needs, including data modeling, which we need to do before we embark on analyzing and optimizing the business processes."
"Overall, the solution has been very solid."
"The ability to define processes, build reports, and get insights or analytics on data is most valuable. It is a powerful platform."
"Fast prototyping."
"The solution is able to support the size and scale required."
"The technical support of Pega BPM is very good."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Allowed us to develop and quickly release with confidence using cloud technologies."
"Can do a lot of things with minimum time and cost."
"The workflows are the most valuable features, particularly for us, because we were attempting to automate processes by utilizing workflows to provide a hands-off comparison between the bot and the human."
"Would be helpful if there were additional out-of-the-box activities."
"If Camunda could develop something that creates user forms that would be a great feature to have. They also need to improve the UI."
"The documentation could use improvement."
"The support definitely can be improved. Apart from that, the language should be extendable to other platforms. If I want to write, I'll run a different platform, like Python code on top of it, or COBOL code on top of it, and it should support those languages."
"The product's initial setup phase is difficult for beginners."
"I would say that Camunda should actually focus on small cases as well. There's a lot of space out there, for small businesses. If they can, they should cater to them."
"Especially when you use the open-source version, there are issues with performance."
"In the future, I would definitely like to see the process administration (migration, audit, tracking) and process evaluation (optimize) features added to the community edition."
"It's called a local platform but on the other hand, it needs a lot of experience. It's not all that easy to click and plug and play. If you really want to use all the features out of this platform, you definitely need a lot of experience and a lot of training to get there."
"I think there is room for improvement in the low code/ no code environment that they're promoting now. That needs to be aligned a little bit more. I still feel that it is not that friendly for a person who has no experience with Pega to just go in and try to create something."
"Pega currently is trying to add chatbots to their systems, and it's still quite immature. This part definitely needs to be improved."
"An area for improvement in Pega BPM is security. It's secure, but it still has a lot of vulnerabilities. Pega BPM is robust, but it still needs some improvement performance-wise."
"The workflow automation can be slow, so there is room for improvement there."
"Pega BPM's documentation should be improved, especially for freshers or new trainees."
"Pega Cloud early adoption and use for cross enterprise capability was new to many. The early adoption meant version 2.0 of their cloud service may require refactoring and redesign of some services."
"There is a scarcity of resources who have worked with this solution before."
Camunda is ranked 1st in Business Process Management (BPM) with 69 reviews while Pega BPM is ranked 3rd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 55 reviews. Camunda is rated 8.2, while Pega BPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Camunda writes "Open-source, easy to define new processes, and easy to transition to new business process definitions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pega BPM writes "Low code with great APIs and good flexibility". Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, IBM BPM, Appian and Bonita, whereas Pega BPM is most compared with ServiceNow, Appian, Microsoft Power Apps, IBM BPM and OutSystems. See our Camunda vs. Pega BPM report.
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