IBM BPM vs Tungsten TotalAgility comparison

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The compared IBM and Tungsten Automation solutions aren't in the same category. IBM is ranked #3 in BPM , with an average rating of 8.2, and holds a 4.1% mindshare in the category. Tungsten Automation is ranked #5 in IDP , with an average rating of 7.0, and holds a 3.8% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Tungsten Automation users who would recommend it.

IBM BPM

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91% willing to recommend

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90% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

IBM BPM

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

113

Ranking in other categories

Business Process Management (BPM) (3rd), Application Infrastructure (8th), Process Automation (6th)

Tungsten TotalAgility

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

4.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (21st), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (5th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (26th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Process, Business Automation, and Digital Transformation solutions, they serve different purposes. IBM BPM is designed for Business Process Management (BPM) and holds a mindshare of 4.1%, down 6.1% compared to last year.
Tungsten TotalAgility, on the other hand, focuses on Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), holds 3.8% mindshare, down 8.2% since last year.

Business Process Management (BPM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
IBM BPM	4.1%
Camunda	7.0%
Bizagi	3.6%
Other	85.3%

Business Process Management (BPM)

Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Tungsten TotalAgility	3.8%
ABBYY Vantage	4.7%
UiPath IXP	4.5%
Other	87.0%

Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)

Featured Reviews

Ateeq Rehman

Unit Head System Implementor at Allied Bank Limited

Automation platforms streamline processes and offer flexibility, but AI integration and version upgrades pose challenges

In the technology world, there is always room for improvement. Technologies evolve day by day, especially with the emergence of artificial intelligence and generative AI models. Although IBM BPM is a substantial product, adopting and integrating new technologies quickly is not easy due to the migration and upgrade paths involved. Every time new versions are released, we face business and production challenges that make rapid adoption challenging. The main concern bothering me today regarding IBM BPM is the integration of AI components.

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Ross Macadam

Director at iicon ltd

Has faced challenges adapting to evolving capture methods and competitive integrations

It's difficult to say what I'd improve in Tungsten TotalAgility because we haven't been actively marketing that particular product in the last probably six to nine months. The speed of product development means that my experience with it is likely out of date in terms of the product suite capabilities. The difficulty with customers nowadays is that they are subject to the winds of change in terms of the adoption of cloud technologies and the offerings those cloud technologies bring. Microsoft, for instance, is rapidly filling in the spaces between various product areas that other vendors typically owned. That makes it difficult for customers to settle on their functional requirements because the offers are competing in the same space. I look for more integration with mainstream subscription based platforms, more security integration, and possibly some more lifecycle management features. However, the difficulty with that is the competition with existing options that people have in their subscription library.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I think the best way it can be it improved, is to make it easier to install. It's a very complicated piece of software, and there are a lot of things you have to do to get it set up. It's not just running an installer. You install WebSphere. You install the BPM product, and there's a large host of other steps you have to do: run queries against the database, you have to manually configure a bunch of properties files for your environment. I think if they could streamline all that, so it wasn't a considerable effort to install, that would be very useful. Because from an engineering point of view, you want to spend as little time as possible actually installing a product."

"The integration aspects of IBM BPM are quite good, coordination across data silos is effective, and IBM BPM can be used for that purpose."

"If time matters, if your company has a lot of processes that could be automated, BPM is the right solution, definitely."

"Enabled us to convert most of the paper-based work into an automated workflow process, and some of them were converted into straight-through processing, with no human interaction involved whatsoever."

"The current system is definitely stable and the database compatibility is very reliable."

"The solution is more customizable than IBM FileNet."

"IBM's APIs are very good; we use them often, and I really like the API."

"We are implementing the tool to triple our monthly transaction volume."

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"Kofax TotalAgility is a single package. They provide you with OCR capabilities, BPM capabilities, and case manager features."

"However, if you want different capabilities and other things, then definitely, Kofax is the very best tool."

"Kofax is very easy to use, UI-friendly and allows easy data extraction."

"This is a great product, a BPM tool with capture facilities."

"Great with recognition providing a high level of confidence."

"Kofax TotalAgility is a great design tool for reading handwritten invoices."

"Being able to extract data from documents is great, and the capability of this tool is great as it can replace legacy applications and make everything very easy."

"We are currently processing over 60,000 invoices per month with no more than 25 individuals."

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Cons

"We thought there might have been a little more discussion early on about, "Hey, if you're doing this, set it up this way," or some best practices or some guidance that we didn't get."

"Its installation is complex, especially in the new version for business automation, and it could be improved."

"The analysis reports could be much better."

"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."

"The setup was quite complex because the solution was cutting-edge at that time and IBM invested considerably in the implementation, likely at a loss to themselves."

"IBM BPM lacks openness, that is, the ability to become open for new options in terms of APIs, front-end development, and ecosystem. IBM BPM has been quite closed. One of the main improvements would be to somehow embed the rules engine into IBM BPM. Merging IBM BRMS and the rules engine with IBM BPM would be helpful. If there was some simpler way to define rules without having to put IBM BRMS on top of it, it would be good. It's something that we can get out of Camunda but not out of IBM BPM."

"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."

"We had hoped that the product would provide us with plug-ins like Salesforce. Its development environment needs to improve. We expect to see elastic features like containerization. We don't just need an on-prem virtual machine."

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"Kofax should improve its handwritten extractions."

"They provide sufficient but not excellent technical support. Perhaps there is a point where they could use some improvement."

"The form development could be improved."

"Kofax needs to improve the low-code or citizen developers rather than focusing on other cloud solutions for data extraction."

"Kofax TotalAgility is quite vast and complex as a product. We came from Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation, then we started learning Kofax TotalAgility, so there are a lot of things that were quite straightforward in the Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation cross-motion modules, but to do those in Kofax TotalAgility was a bit more complex or quite long-winded and could be improved. In the next release of Kofax TotalAgility, it would be good to have a straightforward low-code or no-code process because there were instances we struggled with having to put logic into a script or a .NET script, then calling that script, instead of the process being low-code, no-code."

"It would be nice if the tool has more connectors to different systems. It is an expensive solution."

"The Transformation Designer of KTA can be made better."

"The tool is not up to the mark at all for what we needed it for."

More Tungsten TotalAgility cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is good but could be a little lower."

"We have definitely seen ROI. When we first kicked it off, we said it had to pay for itself within three years, and it did."

"The solution is highly-priced."

"I think it's a reasonably priced tool, but it's important to consider which customers should buy this solution. It's designed for enterprise customers, not small ones."

"I wish it was less expensive. I don't know why their pricing model is so high for a piece of software that could benefit so many. It just seems to me that they could have a lower cost, maybe with fewer features or whatever, but it should be possible to do a lower cost workflow software that uses the same interface and underlying engine but does not cost so much that you have to be a Fortune 50 company to buy it. It is annoying to me. There are a lot of solutions that IBM has that are really powerful but nobody can afford them. They know their business, but I still feel that there are a lot of customers who would benefit from this sort of thing. I don't know what this elitism is all about. I am sure they have people doing the money numbers, but it seems like you can make a lot more money by selling it to way more people for a little bit less."

"We have a yearly licensing model. It is not expensive. There are no addition costs to the standard license."

"Starting out with Express can also help reduce the cost for adopting the product."

"IBM BPM cannot be considered a cheaply priced product. IBM BPM is a really expensive product compared to other companies. One needs to opt for the perpetual licensing model offered by IBM."

More IBM BPM pricing and cost advice

"It is slightly more expensive than other tools."

"The price of this solution is less than some of the competition."

"The licensing cost for Kofax TotalAgility is very expensive, though I'm unable to give you the range, the sales representatives of my company say that the product is quite expensive."

"Kofax TotalAgility is very expensive."

"It has a perpetual license. You pay once in a lifetime for the volume of scans you will do and the number of users you will have. You can have participants or regular users, and you can have developers and administrators. So, once you purchase it, it is for a lifetime, and then every year, you have to pay for the maintenance. There is an annual maintenance cost, which is about 18% of the licensing cost."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	30
Midsize Enterprise	19
Large Enterprise	72

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Large Enterprise	13

Questions from the Community

Which is better, IBM BPM or IBM Business Automation Workflow?

We researched both IBM solutions and in the end, we chose Business Automation Workflow. IBM BPM has a good user interface and the BPM coach is a helpful tool. The API is very useful in providing en...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM BPM?

Once it is installed, maintaining it is not a big issue.

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What needs improvement with IBM BPM?

There are negative aspects, such as IBM BPM being quite heavy and not lightweight, and the licensing cost is higher, which has caused some companies to shift away. IBM BPM is complicated to install...

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What needs improvement with Kofax TotalAgility?

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What is your primary use case for Kofax TotalAgility?

I usually recommend Tungsten TotalAgility to any company with a business process that involves large scale capture of unstructured or semi-structured content across a range of processes that need t...

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What advice do you have for others considering Kofax TotalAgility?

I'm familiar with Tungsten TotalAgility and I will share my experience with the solution. My review rating for this solution is 7 out of 10. The difficulty they face in the marketplace is that hist...

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Also Known As

WebSphere Lombardi Edition, IBM Business Process Manager, IBM WebSphere Process Server

Kofax TotalAgility, TotalAgility, Singularity IDP, Capture Enabled BPM

Overview

IBM BPM enhances workflow efficiency with automation, integration, and a user-friendly interface, supporting reusable processes and robust analytics tools for streamlined business operations.

IBM BPM is a platform offering process automation and integration capabilities with a user-centric interface. Its design simplicity and low-code options support rapid development. The platform integrates seamlessly with other IBM products, creating a comprehensive automation suite. Its adaptability makes it easy to visualize and manage processes for efficient operations across diverse environments. IBM BPM is a reliable choice for those seeking to reduce complexity in development, enhance security, and improve scalability. However, improvements in integration, interface enhancements, and support for AI integration are desirable for an optimal experience.

What are the key features of IBM BPM?

Process Automation: Speeds up productivity with automated business tasks.
Integration: Links seamlessly with IBM products and third-party systems.
Analytics Tools: Provides robust analytics for informed decision-making.
Low-Code Development: Enables rapid development with minimal coding.
Adaptability: Customizes easily to fit various operational needs.

What benefits should users expect from IBM BPM?

Enhanced Efficiency: Streamlined workflows reduce manual efforts.
Data-Driven Decisions: Analytics tools provide actionable insights.
Improved Compliance: Aligns with industry standards.
Reduced Complexity: Simplifies operations with user-friendly design.
Scalability: Supports growing business requirements.

Organizations utilize IBM BPM to digitize workflows and automate tasks in sectors like insurance, banking, and logistics. It is effective for managing claims, opening accounts, and processing mortgage applications. The platform enables integration with legacy systems and platforms like MDM and ODM, ensuring comprehensive process management and seamless data flow across multiple applications. Companies find value in its capability to support quicker decision-making and operational efficiency.

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Tungsten TotalAgility is known for its effective integration capabilities, offering diverse deployment options, automation, and a user-friendly interface. It assists in business process management across industries, providing robust security and cloud features.

Tungsten TotalAgility focuses on streamlining workflows through automation, low-code environments, and machine learning for data extraction. Its adaptability allows for transformation without extensive customization. Though effective in many areas, there's a need for improved OCR accuracy, especially with handwritten documents and Arabic text. Users seek enhancements in low-code development, better integration, and pricing adjustments. There are also calls for improved support, learning tools, and file storage integration. Despite these areas for improvement, its integration with services like IBM Content Manager and SharePoint broadens its business applications, particularly in automation of accounts payable and invoice processing workflows.

What are Tungsten TotalAgility's key features?

Automation: Simplifies workflows and processes across departments.
Integration: Connects seamlessly with other systems like IBM Content Manager.
Low-Code Environment: Enables rapid deployment and scalability.
OCR Capabilities: Manages invoice and document processing efficiently.
Machine Learning: Enhances data extraction accuracy for structured and unstructured data.
Security: Offers robust cloud and security features for data protection.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces expenses through automation of repetitive tasks.
Enhanced Productivity: Streamlines operations, allowing focus on core activities.
Scalability: Supports business growth with flexible deployment options.
Data Accuracy: Improves information quality with advanced machine learning.
Integration Advantage: Expands capabilities by connecting with existing systems.

Tungsten TotalAgility is used in industries like finance and insurance, where it automates payment processing and document management. It's employed for capturing data through PDFs and emails, proving valuable for businesses that require efficient data handling and processing in their workflows.

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Sample Customers

Barclays, EmeriCon, Banca Popolare di Milano, CST Consulting, KeyBank, KPMG, Prolifics, Sandhata Technologies Ltd., State of Alaska, Humana S.A., Saperion, esciris, Banco Espirito Santo

AETNA, American Express, BNP Paribas, Citi, CommerzBank, Dexia, GoldmanSachs, HSBC, ING, JP Morgan, Raymond James

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