We performed a comparison between IBM Business Automation Workflow and ProcessMaker 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."It provides a solution for integration orchestration. This solution is for any organization in the banking, telecommunications, healthcare, manufacturing, and all domains and industries."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is stable because the different infrastructure elements, such as the OS and middleware have been used for a long time."
"The most valuable feature is automation, which is quite strong and we are quite happy with it."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow provides a seamless streamlined collaboration within the organizations."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Business Automation Workflow is cost management."
"It gives us the ability to create toolkits and use them across many different applications. It allows us to write things one time, instead of having to write a diary for every single different application. We can write at once and reuse it."
"No matter what somebody's technical experience level is, the tool can start adding value immediately. Even if that is just an analyst who doesn't have any technical background, they can use some of these no quote accelerators to get things from ideation to deployment in a matter of minutes."
"Its interface is well-designed and user-friendly"
"Its performance, stability, and security are fine."
"What I like most is the seamlessness of the workflow capabilities."
"Improvements could be made in debugging and troubleshooting."
"I would like to see more streamlined install and provisioning; preferably containerized IBM BPM would be helpful."
"One significant challenge is the lack of accessible forums or resources to seek help or information when problems arise."
"From what I understand, in the next release they're actually going to combine all of this together as one integrated solution... If we could have one unified way to build a solution, that would really help."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
"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."
"Every client is moving to the cloud. We are still a little behind with IBM, but we are catching up from my point of view."
"Its interface should be a bit more user-friendly."
"This solution only supports basic text, but we would like to be able to insert components such as rich text, graphs, charts, pictures, and other objects."
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IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews while ProcessMaker is ranked 37th in Business Process Management (BPM). IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6, while ProcessMaker is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ProcessMaker writes "Easy to learn, automates our manual processes to make things easier, and saves us time and money". IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, Apache Airflow, IBM Case Foundation and AWS Step Functions, whereas ProcessMaker is most compared with Camunda, Apache Airflow, Bonita and Appian. See our IBM Business Automation Workflow vs. ProcessMaker report.
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