Oracle BPEL vs WorkFusion comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Oracle BPEL and WorkFusion compete in business process automation. WorkFusion appears to have the upper hand due to its superior automation and analytics features.

Features: Oracle BPEL is known for robust integration, support for human tasks, and error-handling capabilities like catch and catchAll functions. WorkFusion provides advanced AI-driven analytics, cognitive document processing, and flexible robotic process automation that enhances scalability and business intelligence capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Oracle BPEL can enhance its cognitive capabilities and modernization to better support non-Oracle integrations. WorkFusion could improve cost-effectiveness for specific enterprise needs and simplify some complex tasks to increase accessibility for business users. Simplifying setup and reducing resource consumption would also benefit WorkFusion.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle BPEL's integration within Oracle's ecosystem eases deployment for existing Oracle users. WorkFusion offers flexible cloud-based deployment options and is noted for its responsive customer service during setup, benefiting organizations leaning towards cloud strategies.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle BPEL offers competitive pricing for Oracle-aligned businesses, resulting in promising ROI through efficient integrations. WorkFusion has higher initial costs but demonstrates significant ROI potential through advanced automation, which reduces operational redundancies and increases process efficiencies.

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Oracle BPEL vs. WorkFusion

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle BPEL

Ranking in Process Automation

25th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

WorkFusion

Ranking in Process Automation

14th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (8th), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Process Automation category, the mindshare of Oracle BPEL is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WorkFusion is 0.5%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Process Automation

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Posham Nampelli

Architecture and Consulting at Synaptics Inc

A highly scalable solution that provides various features for the execution of business processes

I'm a consultant. I do architecting, designing, and development. I have used two versions, 1.1 and 2.0. I’m unsure about the prices because I oversee the development and implementation. I'll highly recommend the product depending on an organization’s requirements. As someone who has worked with BPEL for 13 years, I highly recommend the product for an on-premise or hybrid integration. Multiple products or alternate solutions have come into the integration domain. However, the product has been in the industry from SOA 11g to SOA 12c and OIC. Though there are multiple competitors, the product has been here for a long time and has been helping multiple customers improve their business. Overall, I rate the solution a nine or nine and a half out of ten.

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Shamus Cardon

IT Engineer III at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

It has improved our accuracy since we are eliminating the human error element. There could be better version control through their web platform.

We only have our engineering team writing code and developing business processes since it is very technical. In terms of data extraction and training the ML models, we deployed that to our accounts payable department, which has fewer technical users than our engineering team. After a handful of training sessions, they were able to get in there and use it with decent accuracy. It could be better, but it is definitely better than nothing. One of the big upgrades that I know is happening in version 10 is an improvement to their tagging interface. That is definitely something that I am excited about to sort of reinvigorate our more non-technical users in information extraction from our documents. There could be better version control through their web platform. That is something that could be improved on. Integration from the IDE, e.g., from WorkFusion Studio directly into Control Tower, would be nice to have too.

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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 solution is very seamless and fast."

"What I find the most valuable about Oracle BPEL is that it saves me time."

"The most valuable feature is the support for human tasks."

"The product has everything we need."

"It is useful that WorkFusion provides the entire infrastructure, which allows me to focus on writing code without worrying about maintenance."

"The Control Tower enables us to create and use workflows. It helps us run processes. There are a lot of small features, but the Control Tower is a very good feature, wherein we can create bots and schedule them as well as create different instances of them to run in different regions."

"This solution has great document recognition capabilities."

"In terms of stability, it's quite good. It's an internal IP product."

"We can see that its competitive ability is quite good."

"The solution is stable, we have not had any glitches or problems."

"It takes care of simple tasks so users can focus more on exceptions than on regular use cases. They only focus on orders where they need to handle an exception, some information was not given, or there is an issue that they had to focus on. The rest of it goes straight through without human touch. We want to see our employees as engineers, wherein they think and solve problems, not necessarily have to do repetitive tasks. I think WorkFusion helps with avoiding repetitive tasks."

"It really does help by either freeing up people's time to focus on more value-added tasks or reducing headcount. We generally have other things that we can get people to do, helping make the employees' work more meaningful since they are not having to do the mundane stuff."

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Cons

"In the next release, I would like to see REST improved and new technologies for microservices. I'd like to see more containers for separating containers."

"The solution's integration with SAP should be seamless because some formats are not accepted in SAP but are accepted in Oracle BPEL."

"They need to have support for new protocols like GraphQL and possibly some out-of-the-box adapters for SAP and other big systems."

"Some user-defined functions for transformation must be added to the next release of the solution."

"The product needs to be "simple and easy" to use. A good example of this is the use of Python code to perform automations. It is free and the skills transfer is able to happen quickly and the operation and initiation of the completed automation is easy to execute."

"Machine learning models for document-heavy processes have room for improvement because they require significant effort to train and update."

"One thing we didn't like was their OCR solution. We felt it's somewhat inefficient."

"If we're talking from a developer perspective, the task of actually building automation is not ideal. That's not their strong side."

"The problem with the solution is that it is agnostic, so it's not made for banks. Sometimes we are challenged because of this. We have to make everything from scratch to make it work for our clients."

"We had some issues in the past, but it is fairly stable now. From what I hear, it is more stable in the later versions. With version 10.1.4, there were some issues relating to load distribution. However, it is good now."

"We have had some problems in the past with the Inspector tool that looks at the elements on the screen. Replacing it or improving it is needed."

"Where it can be improved is the speed. I built two bots, one with WorkFusion and the same thing with Python. My feeling was that the speed at which Python did things, how fast it did them, was quite cool. It was faster."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is moderately priced."

"The solution's pricing is moderate and not expensive."

"The overall cost could come down a bit in terms of maintaining the servers. Because it can handle complicated things in big use cases, the infrastructure is also correspondingly big. It would be nice to bring that cost down."

"My client is using RPA Express, which is available for them to use free of charge."

"We are on an annual contract to use the solution."

"Find it online."

"I can't speak to pricing. It's a contract signed by upper management."

"They have a very expensive license compared to any other automation tool. For instance, at $50,000 - $60,000, you can bring in an Automation Anywhere solution. For this solution, you need at least $250,000 to get something going."

"We have a good deal from WorkFusion. We have an unlimited global licensing deal with WorkFusion. For us, it is a no-worry solution. We can go ahead and use it as much as possible anywhere we need it. If WorkFusion has a different kind of a deal for licensing with others, then their business decisions need to be evaluated based on that."

"In addition to the licensing fee, there is also an implementation cost for each use case and technical support costs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

15%

Government

Insurance Company

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle BPEL?

The product has everything we need.

What needs improvement with Oracle BPEL?

They need to have support for new protocols like GraphQL and possibly some out-of-the-box adapters for SAP and other big systems. It should be better if the SAP adapter were included in the bundle.

What is your primary use case for Oracle BPEL?

We primarily use Oracle BPEL for process automation. It is used for workflows for documents, data transfers, and other processes implemented for our customers.

What do you like most about WorkFusion?

If you compare it to its competitors in the market, it is more Java-native.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for WorkFusion?

WorkFusion is cheaper than Kofax, but I cannot compare it to UiPath ( /products/uipath-reviews ) without exact pricing. It is worth the money as a tool.

What needs improvement with WorkFusion?

In low-code automation, most parts are not customizable, particularly when Excel is involved, which increases complexity. The system can break down, requiring numerous exception cases, thus complic...

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Also Known As

BPEL Process Manager

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Overview

Oracle BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) Process Manager is a tool for designing and running business processes. This product provides a comprehensive, standardsÂbased and easy to use solution for creating, deploying and managing crossÂapplication business processes with both automated and human workflow steps â all in a serviceÂoriented architecture. Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a powerful integration tool for the enterprise. Its ability to connect to external systems and process, mixed with its support for a variety of presentation technologies makes it an ideal tool for defining and implementing business process logic.

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WorkFusion, Inc. is the creator of AI-enabled Digital Workers designed specifically for banking and financial services organizations. Its Digital Workers are true knowledge workers that effectively augment existing teams in functions like anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, customer onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC), and customer service. WorkFusion’s digital workforce solutions help solve talent shortages, increase workforce capacity, save money, enhance employee and customer satisfaction, and ensure ongoing compliance. For more information visit workfusion.com.

Sample Customers

Nacional Monte de Piedad IAP, Bimbo S.A. de C.V., Intelligent Pathways, DVZ Datenverarbeitungszentrum Mecklenburg-Vorpommern GmbH, Arqiva

Deutsche Bank, Amerant Bank, Bank of Asia, Scotiabank, Bank of Montreal, LPL Financial, Carter Bank & Trust, Selective Insurance, HPE, Canadian Tire, Standard Bank, Humana, New York-Presbyterian, Houston Methodist, Six Financial, State Street

Oracle BPEL vs. WorkFusion