Spring Cloud Data Flow vs Tungsten RPA comparison

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The compared Broadcom and Tungsten Automation solutions aren't in the same category. Broadcom is ranked #33 in DI , with an average rating of 7.5, and holds a 1.0% mindshare in the category. Tungsten Automation is ranked #7 in RPA , with an average rating of 9.0, and holds a 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Tungsten Automation users who would recommend it.

Spring Cloud Data Flow

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83% willing to recommend

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Spring Cloud Data Flow

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (33rd), Streaming Analytics (18th)

Tungsten RPA

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (7th)

Mindshare comparison

Spring Cloud Data Flow and Tungsten RPA aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Spring Cloud Data Flow is designed for Data Integration and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, down 1.2% compared to last year.
Tungsten RPA, on the other hand, focuses on Robotic Process Automation (RPA), holds 1.8% mindshare, down 2.2% since last year.

Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Spring Cloud Data Flow	1.0%
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)	3.7%
SSIS	3.6%
Other	91.7%

Data Integration

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Tungsten RPA	1.8%
UiPath Platform	9.5%
Microsoft Power Automate	5.8%
Other	82.9%

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Featured Reviews

NitinGoyal

Engineering Lead at Naukri.com

Has a plug-and-play model and provides good robustness and scalability

The solution's community support could be improved. I don't know why the Spring Cloud Data Flow community is not very strong. Community support is very limited whenever you face any problem or are stuck somewhere. I'm not sure whether it has improved in the last six months because this pipeline was set up almost two years ago. I struggled with that a lot. For example, there was limited support whenever I got an exception and sought help from Stack Overflow or different forums. Interacting with Kubernetes needs a few certificates. You need to define all the certificates within your application. With the help of those certificates, your Java application or Spring Cloud Data Flow can interact with Kubernetes. I faced a lot of hurdles while placing those certificates. Despite following the official documentation to define all the replicas, readiness, and liveliness probes within the Spring Cloud Data Flow application, it was not working. So, I had to troubleshoot while digging in and debugging the internals of Spring Cloud Data Flow at that time. It was just a configuration mismatch, and I was doing nothing weird. There was a small spelling difference between how Spring Cloud Data Flow was expecting it and how I passed it. I was just following the official documentation.

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Jamil Milhem

Project Manager-Senior RPA Specialist at DEWA

Automates browsing tasks without needing a server connection

I have worked with Microsoft Power Platform and UiPath. Kofax RPA offers a comprehensive solution with built-in capabilities for executing tasks like running Excel files and web automation without additional servers. They provide their browsers and extensions. For functions such as OCR, image processing, and data extraction, Kofax has built-in features powered by their engine, eliminating the need for subscriptions to external technologies like Microsoft Cognitive Services or Google Search. One of Kofax RPA's strongest features is its on-premise solution, which is particularly beneficial for organizations operating in regions with data regulations, such as the UAE.

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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

"The best thing I like about Spring Cloud Data Flow is its plug-and-play model."

"This product will assist us in saving costs in many ways: No longer need to continue paying high fees for proprietary software, reduce the number of software engineers needed to support the product, and achieve faster time to market by using this product for our middleware."

"The dashboards in Spring Cloud Dataflow are quite valuable."

"Overall, Spring Cloud Data Flow is a really good solution and a lot cheaper than a lot of infrastructure provided by big companies like Google or Amazon."

"The solution's most valuable feature is that it allows us to use different batch data sources, retrieve the data, and then do the data processing, after which we can convert and store it in the target."

"The ease of deployment on Kubernetes, the seamless integration for orchestration of various pipelines, and the visual dashboard that simplifies operations even for non-specialists such as quality analysts."

"There are a lot of options in Spring Cloud. It's flexible in terms of how we can use it. It's a full infrastructure."

"The most valuable feature is real-time streaming."

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"Kofax RPA has allowed us to create a program in which the top 100 forms used across the organization are extracted and pushed into a database, from which any team globally can extract the information from those forms."

"The best part of Kofax is that they have a whole concept; it's one product, but also has extra elements that can be integrated, and if you take the whole package with the extra products you can digitize it using RPA and also by using the other products they provide."

"The most valuable feature is the robotic process."

"The end user only has to click once to preserve the entire email conversation."

"It is stable and scalable."

"You can automate browsing tasks without needing a server connection. The platform provides its browser, allowing you to run anything inside it."

"The product provides end-to-end solutions for different business problems."

"Kofax RPA has provided our organization with a lot of savings in many different areas and we have improvements in data quality."

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Cons

"Spring Cloud Data Flow could improve the user interface. We can drag and drop in the application for the configuration and settings, and deploy it right from the UI, without having to run a CI/CD pipeline. However, that does not work with Kubernetes, it only works when we are working with jars as the Spring Cloud Data Flow applications."

"The visual user interface could use some help; it needs improvement."

"On the tool's online discussion forums, you may get stuck with an issue, making it an area where improvements are required."

"The documentation on offer is not that good."

"There were instances of deployment pipelines getting stuck, and the dashboard not always accurately showing the application status, requiring manual intervention such as rerunning applications or refreshing the dashboard."

"The solution's community support could be improved."

"Spring Cloud Data Flow is not an easy-to-use tool, so improvements are required."

"The configurations could be better. Some configurations are a little bit time-consuming in terms of trying to understand using the Spring Cloud documentation."

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"Its documentation is not widely available on the web. When there is a problem, the channels through which I can get a solution are limited."

"The solution needs to be scalable."

"Kofax RPA needs to improve integration with SAP and Microsoft. The professional services offered by the tool's team is below par. Its licensing needs to be more modular."

"The solution could use some AI integrated features."

"Concatenation of error messages."

"For additional features, I'd like to see a recording function and a more simple interface."

"The scalability has room for improvement."

"The process discovery could be a bit better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution provides value for money, and we are currently using its community edition."

"This is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."

"If you want support from Spring Cloud Data Flow there is a fee. The Spring Framework is open-source and this is a free solution."

"I don't have complete insight at this point in time, but I would guess that Kofax is a lot less expensive than Automation Anywhere. I would expect its license to be on a yearly basis."

"The pricing model for automation solutions like Automation Anywhere, UiPath, and Microsoft Power Platform is subscription-based, where costs are calculated based on factors such as the number of hours used and the scale of automation required.......With Kofax, you purchase a license upfront, and that's all you need. You can create as many automation workflows as you require without additional costs for individual use cases."

"There is a standard license needed to use Kofax RPA and the price is reasonable."

"Its pricing is reasonable given the product capabilities. Kofax has a wide range of products, and it can sometimes be confusing to understand which capabilities come with which product set. One of the key facets that we've been looking into recently is cognitive document recognition that was a core pile of some of their other technologies such as Kofax transformation modules (KTM)."

"The cost depends on the number of licenses and the number of RPAs."

"Kofax RPA's licensing costs are yearly and expensive."

"The solution’s license is not expensive."

"I give the price of the solution a six out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

10%

Retailer

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Construction Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	18

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Spring Cloud Data Flow?

There were instances of deployment pipelines getting stuck, and the dashboard not always accurately showing the application status, requiring manual intervention such as rerunning applications or r...

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What is your primary use case for Spring Cloud Data Flow?

We had a project for content management, which involved multiple applications each handling content ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and storage for different customers independently. We want...

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What advice do you have for others considering Spring Cloud Data Flow?

I would definitely recommend Spring Cloud Data Flow. It requires minimal additional effort or time to understand how it works, and even non-specialists can use it effectively with its friendly docu...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kofax RPA?

I am not a user of Tungsten RPA; I sell this product for our company.

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What needs improvement with Kofax RPA?

The negative side is that UiPath has a really large community on the RPA side, and Tungsten RPA doesn't have any community for the developer side, which is a red flag for us and for customers.

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What is your primary use case for Kofax RPA?

Tungsten RPA reduces manual work, especially in financial services and HR solutions.

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Also Known As

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Kofax RPA, Kofax Kapow, Kapow

Overview

Spring Cloud Data Flow is a toolkit for building data integration and real-time data processing pipelines.
Pipelines consist of Spring Boot apps, built using the Spring Cloud Stream or Spring Cloud Task microservice frameworks. This makes Spring Cloud Data Flow suitable for a range of data processing use cases, from import/export to event streaming and predictive analytics. Use Spring Cloud Data Flow to connect your Enterprise to the Internet of Anything—mobile devices, sensors, wearables, automobiles, and more.

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Tungsten RPA offers a sophisticated automation platform designed for seamless integration with enterprise systems. It's known for its robust functionalities in document processing, web automation, and delivering efficient business workflows.

Designed to streamline complex operations, Tungsten RPA supports integrations with major platforms like SAP and ERP tools, known for enhancing business efficiency. It provides powerful OCR capabilities and is characterized by a low-code environment, which simplifies automation tasks. Despite its strengths, there's a need for improvements in community support, documentation, and emerging AI functionalities. Expanding its desktop automation, scalability, and system connections, especially with Microsoft and Citrix, is imperative for broader adoption.

What are the key features of Tungsten RPA?

Third-Party Integrations: Seamlessly connects with systems like SAP and ERP for streamlined operations.
Low-Code Platform: Simplifies automation with easy-to-use programming and deployment options.
OCR Capabilities: Processes low-DPI documents effectively for accurate data extraction.
Web Automation: Streamlines repetitive web-based tasks and browser interactions.
Modular Structure: Facilitates efficient management of business processes and workflows.

Why consider Tungsten RPA for automation?

Comprehensive Automation: Reduces manual workload with reliable execution of repetitive tasks.
Enhanced Efficiency: Increases productivity by automating intricate processes.
Robust Error Handling: Minimizes disruptions with efficient error management strategies.
Flexibility: Adapts to specific business requirements with customizable components.
Low Development Time: Speeds up project timelines due to its low-code nature.

Tungsten RPA is employed across sectors like finance, healthcare, aviation, and logistics for automating crucial business functions. It aids in automating repetitive tasks, data extraction, and process automation in ERP and SharePoint systems. Businesses leverage its capabilities for website automation, handling employee data, and streamlining operations in finance and HR. It enhances customer service operations, document processing, and market data collection, effectively reducing manual workload and boosting operational efficiency.

Tungsten Automation

Sample Customers

Information Not Available

Aetna, BNP Paribas, Citi, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, ING, Aviva, Humana, Willis, Merck, University Hospitals, CardinalHealth, American Red Cross, Alegri, Capita

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