We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and Windows Process Activation Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, F5, Apache and others in Application Infrastructure."The solution has helped us automate business processes."
"We made the transformation to agile. Altogether with BPM, it is the total package."
"There is information during the process that the analyst will look at, their procedures. We created a part of the application such that the business can change those procedures as needed, on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. As the reps go through the process, they don't necessarily know it's changing, they just know they have to refer to some documentation, and the business can keep that up to date."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The product's installation was easy."
"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."
"Responsive Portal + Process Federation Server. This set of solutions offers a unified worklist to our customers."
"The installation was straightforward."
"I liked its robustness the most. It was a very robust platform in my experience. It seemed like a very stable and powerful tool for handling lots of concurrent users and hammering at the system."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the central console, that allows you to see all of the activated and deactivated computers."
"The initial setup can be tricky because IBM BPM is not based on a popular stack, and it's difficult to hire a developer for this product."
"We would appreciate more user-friendly definitions of processes with a more user-friendly interface for documenting processes."
"When you have to integrate files for enterprise applications."
"We are a government organization, and we are the largest government power sector in India. We generate around 30% of power in India. Therefore, our processes are quite complex. Although IBM BPM is a low-code or no-code software, if you want to have extremely complex workflows, just the business process diagrams are not helpful in creating those workflows. While implementing complex workflows, only the process flow diagrams did not help us. We had to write a lot of Java scripts and Java queries to achieve what we wanted. Its integration capabilities with the SAP environment have to be improved. At present, we are only talking at the web services environment level. Its price also needs to be improved. It is currently expensive. Previously, Active Directory required a heterogeneous environment, but now they want a homogeneous environment. We had onboarded employees through Microsoft Active Directory, and now I have to implement Microsoft AD only from the cloud for my vendors."
"They don't have a mechanism to achieve processes, data sources, and data."
"Needs better reporting. I do not think that we are fully taking advantage of what it already has yet."
"We have been experiencing bad performance and instability."
"There are a few areas, like triggering mechanisms, externally exposed variables, and changing its values."
"The stability of the solution needs improvement."
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IBM BPM is ranked 6th in Application Infrastructure with 105 reviews while Windows Process Activation Services is ranked 23rd in Application Infrastructure. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while Windows Process Activation Services is rated 4.0. The top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Process Activation Services writes "Central console enables us to see all of the activated and deactivated computers but it has poor alerts and frustrating technical support". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and Apache Airflow, whereas Windows Process Activation Services is most compared with Microsoft .NET Framework and IIS.
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