We performed a comparison between IBM BPM, Oracle SOA Suite, and Windows Process Activation Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"IBM BPM is a stable solution."
"It has an elaborated way to explore the IBM BPM processes."
"Overall, I'm satisfied with the product. If you compare it with other products, it's probably not as easygoing or as simple to implement as the rest. But after you get used to it, it works. It has a lot of capabilities and potential, but the people, who come from different technologies, have some difficulty getting used to the way of working with IBM products."
"The designer feature, compared to other solutions is easy to use."
"The process creation."
"The initial setup is straightforward and easy. I would give it a nine out of ten."
"We use it for automating certain processes which previously took a lot of time for agents to set up different products for customers. They would have to enter a lot of different systems. This has now mostly been automated."
"The most valuable feature of the facility, as the partner link, is to try to use third-party services and logic in your own vehicle to orchestrate the information."
"This is one of the critical products for my company and we use it extensively. We currently use each and every feature of Oracle SOA."
"The ability to stand up a highly available SOA Suite, which has full DR capabilities, in a remote center and synchronize the databases using Data Guard."
"It performs better in real-time transactions."
"In case there is something that doesn't work out of the box, you have the flexibility to customize it."
"The most valuable features for us are the APIs, which we commonly use, as well as the scheduling capabilities and file transfers."
"The solution's XSLT or XSL Transformation feature was very useful."
"Valuable features include connectors and BAM."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the central console, that allows you to see all of the activated and deactivated computers."
"Initial setup is very complex. Too many steps need to be done at the database and server levels, and complex configurations. From what I see, a lot of these steps can be and should be automated."
"There needs to be better documentation for IBM BPM in a central place. There is not any standard documentation for each component available and has been a barrier for developers."
"It is a really powerful tool, but its entry price is so high, which makes it a very exclusive club for who gets to use it. The thing that seemed to be the most intolerable was that you could put lots and lots of users on it, and it worked fine, but if you put lots and lots of developers on it, it sure seemed to have challenges. The biggest challenge was the development because of the Eclipse tool. It just seemed like irrespective of the development team that you put together, whether it had 10 or 50 people, you would end up having to reboot the development server throughout the day when you concurrently had lots of people hammering on the system. The development server just got sluggish. This was true for every project I was on. Once you got more than about five people working on the system at the same time, it would just get slower and slower during development work, and the only way to fix it was to reboot the server. It became just like a routine. Sometimes, we would reboot at lunch or dinner time, which is silly. After the cloud instances started rolling out, I never saw that again. That was probably the one big advantage of the cloud version. Instead of using an independent Eclipse-based process development tool, we moved to web-based process and design. The web-based tool definitely had greater performance than the Eclipse-based tool. I never got onto another project after that with 50 people, so I don't know how the performance is when you get a large team on it, but it definitely seems that the cloud design tool was a massive improvement."
"There are a few areas, like triggering mechanisms, externally exposed variables, and changing its values."
"I would like to see a lot more case studies."
"Also, we would like to see integration with artificial intelligence, machine learning-type of technical capabilities. Right now, there are a lot Watson libraries out there. Building those integrations more, out-of-the-box, from IBM would be a good direction."
"They should incorporate an API gateway functionality within it to simplify integrations."
"We care about technology and support because support is very important and a BPM is not easy to implement."
"The web services need to be more robust."
"They supply lots of documentation but finding what we need is challenging at times."
"Its function options can be improved."
"Various parts of SOA, BPEL, and so on, each have their own consoles which need to be accessed individually with different logins. It would be better from an admin perspective if all the consoles were accessible via a single login."
"The solution’s initial setup is complex and could be improved."
"SOA, OSB, SOA Cloud Service."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"The installation and adjustment process seems too complex."
"The stability of the solution needs improvement."
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