We performed a comparison between Camunda and IBM Business Automation Workflow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The Camunda BPMN Platform is very flexible and gives several options to deploy and scale it."
"When I compare it with other BPM tools, like IBM, it is great, open source, and free when you use the community version."
"The best feature is the automation."
"I've found the active community most valuable but it also provides you with a lot of other features."
"For an internal project, this is a solution that you can install and have up and running quite quickly."
"The most valuable feature of Camunda Platform is its Microservices architecture, which is easily integrable with APIs."
"It is very user-friendly compared to IBM BPM. It's much simpler – it's more streamlined. That means even non-technical departments can use it."
"It allows me to present or to demonstrate the business process flow, visually, without having to resort to PowerPoint, Visio, or other products."
"The dashboards are helpful because you can display reports directly on your screen."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact it is highly configurable. We can do configurations very easily."
"IBM has spent a lot of time on the connections between the rules engine and its other product, the core BPM platform. They've really centralized the suite as one offering now."
"The most valuable feature is automation, which is quite strong and we are quite happy with it."
"The business process modeling is the most valuable feature."
"It's a flexible solution."
"It has integrated UI and deployment models, and it has a deep set of consultant and service provider ecosystem features."
"It performs the basic tasks that are required for the BBM solution as part of the overall integration with ECM or enterprise contact management."
"Especially when you use the open-source version, there are issues with performance."
"The solution could use some enhancements like adding connectors, improving forms and having a mobile app, but everything is an enhancement rather than a flaw."
"They could provide more documentation regarding the integration of different programming languages."
"When trying to design rule tables the solutions graphical user interface could improve, it could be more user friendly."
"Documentation can be improved."
"It would be helpful to have more readily available use cases on the internet. Camunda's documentation feels less comprehensive."
"The GUI needs to be improved, with more configuration options."
"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."
"The development UI is sometimes a little slow."
"The SCADA Systems are very sophisticated and have a hard time integrating with our older scales. The technical support in regards to the partner side needs some improvement."
"The main areas which need improvement are specifically around reporting and analytics."
"Requires a lot of customization code writing which could be reduced."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"Improvements could be made in debugging and troubleshooting."
"The UI of the solution is not good. They should work to update the solution and make it better and fresher."
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Camunda is ranked 1st in Business Process Management (BPM) with 69 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. Camunda is rated 8.2, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. 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 IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". Camunda is most compared with Apache Airflow, Bizagi, Pega BPM, IBM BPM and Oracle BPM, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions, IBM Case Foundation and Aurea CX Process. See our Camunda vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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