We performed a comparison between IBM BPM, Microsoft System Center, and Windows Server AppFabric based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, F5, Apache and others in Application Infrastructure."Scalability is good. In the time that I have been there, we have added more JVMs to help with the increased workload, so it does scale."
"Setting it up is fairly easy. If somebody has knowledge of the system, he or she will be able to do it fairly quickly."
"One of the reasons for adopting this solution ten years ago was its ease of use. It had a lot of off-the-shelf functionality, and it did not need to be developed specifically for the project that we were implementing. That was the main reason for adopting it in the beginning."
"I would say that I like its GUI designer the best."
"We can scale by increasing the infrastructure which is currently running."
"This tool is very useful when it comes to enterprise-grade automation and governmental processes for the security aspects, performance, and reliability."
"It is a stale solution."
"Agility is the key. It gives our customers a faster way to be able to implement processes, get ownership of task, visibility into a process. The ability to modify that process, optimize that process over time, is probably the biggest benefit that they get from the software."
"The deployment and asset management features are the most valuable. These are the product's main features."
"System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"Good for managing and administering the infrastructure."
"The solution is easily available. That's its most valuable aspect."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"Step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"The most valuable feature is AppFabric's hosting solution, which is what we need for running workflows."
"The product's deployment phase was very easy."
"It is very usable and easy to understand. Antivirus and VPN are the main features being used now. It allows my clients to access the network from home, which was very crucial because of the pandemic."
"The pricing is a little bit high. It's gone up in cost."
"It's a bit technical, related to the instance of migrations. It's a tough thing to handle, in every new release, in every upgrade, that we have to do things in the applications or in the product. I think IBM is working on it but I know there are a lot of requests coming in from different organizations on this."
"IBM BPM's UI is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The initial setup process is complex for basic users."
"IBM BPM can improve the dashboards and reports. It only has two dashboards, and reporting is very difficult to build."
"Some of the features are not enough for my business. We need to build custom user management for the many end users affected by BPM."
"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."
"I would say the scalability is very good but it's not perfect. It is much more scalable than it has been in the past but... it does require some work to keep it stable. So that is an area that should be improved."
"Less server consumption would help, as would better, more flexible reports."
"Implementation and integration in the case of multi-tenant environments needs improvement."
"Something super important that we need is this integration via Intune Configuration Manager."
"We have some bugs but it's stable. It doesn't break every day. It works. Like other applications, it has a lot of bugs but they're manageable."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."
"Could be more user friendly."
"In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times."
"Its price and licensing policy can be improved. It could be a little cheaper. Licensing is sometimes confusing. There are so many different options. It is difficult to find out what to buy or what to choose for my necessity."
"The product is unable to connect with different cloud services."
"Microsoft will stop supporting the product next year, and we can't run unsupported programs in our systems."
