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Head of SOA Department at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Vendor
The event manager component of Lombardi didn’t scale well, but it's good for automating some important logistic-related business processes.

What is most valuable?

  • Development simplicity
  • Transparency from a monitoring perspective

How has it helped my organization?

It allowed us to automate some important logistic-related business processes.

What needs improvement?

  • Scalability
  • Performance

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using Lombardi Teamworks from 2009 until the present. However development of new features stopped in 2011.

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What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

There were issues with the blue/green deployment model, specifically old instances of BPM processes that didn’t handle correctly with new revisions of the same processes.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Yes, but they were related to issues with our underlying infrastructure component like application servers or databases.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Yes, unfortunately the event manager component of Lombardi didn’t scale well, so that became our bottleneck.

How are customer service and support?

Customer Service:

9/10

Technical Support:

We didn’t have a BPM before, but now we use Oracle.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

It was a mix of a vendor team and in-house team. All members were new to BPM so we started from scratch, but we've managed to develop some best practices.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Consultant at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
A great BPM product for big companies. It needs to offer more configuration options than coding options.

What is most valuable?

  • The simulator of process execution
  • Toolkits and workspace for sharing resources
  • Adapters for different technological environments
  • SOA infrastructure, embedded ESB
  • Backup (export) and restore (import) system (Snapshot)
  • Speed and ease of deployment + governance / version management

How has it helped my organization?

The scenario was a process of renewal of customer contracts, the improvements were :
  • Faster: industrialization of the renewal process with the automation of certain tasks and a clarified organization can handle a case 3 times faster.
  • More efficient: the renewal part by weight of non-renegotiated contracts processed instantly and adjustments made possible by monitoring the real-time tasks significantly increase the capacity of quantitative and qualitative processing contracts.
  • Less expensive: the time saved as well as automated controls in place to avoid human errors and double entry treatments are examples of significant gains.

What needs improvement?

The tool needs to offer more configuration options than coding options. Develop the intuitive side to reach some functionalities (help).

For how long have I used the solution?

I used the solution for about 6 months to develop an application based on health services process.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Yes, especially integration and browser's version compatibility problems. We also had some performance issues due to the lack of technical architecture knowledge.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

None

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

None

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service: GoodTechnical Support: Intermediate

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Did not use any other solution

How was the initial setup?

It was complex for some of us (IT but non technical profiles)

What about the implementation team?

We were the vendor team and worked with IBM

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

N/A (Confidential)

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

No

What other advice do I have?

Be careful about the technical architecture and migration planning/resources
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Ravi Suvvari - PeerSpot reviewer
Ravi SuvvariPerformance and Fault-tolerance Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
Top 10Real User

Very useful info about BPM lamine Thanx for sharing

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Senior J2EE Developer at DataServe
Real User
Top 5
An enterprise application that helps to develop and deliver products
Pros and Cons
  • "We use the solution to develop and deliver products."
  • "IBM BPM needs to have a better and modified interface."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution to develop and deliver products. 

What needs improvement?

IBM BPM needs to have a better and modified interface. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using IBM BPM for five years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I would rate the product's stability a nine out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I would rate IBM BPM's scalability an eight out of ten. Our clients have around 2000 users for the solution. 

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is helpful but there is a delay in response. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We have used OpenText before. 

How was the initial setup?

The tool's setup is neither easy nor difficult. I would rate it a five out of ten. However, it is difficult only in the traditional environment. Set up is easy if you move to the cloud and containerize. One person is enough to handle the tool's maintenance. 

What about the implementation team?

We have a team for IBM BPM's installation. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is expensive since it is an enterprise application. 

What other advice do I have?

I would rate IBM BPM an eight out of ten. 

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer:
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Expert engineer III at Sophos Solutions
Reseller
Top 10
Good tool for document sharing and management
Pros and Cons
  • "IBM BPM's best features include document sharing, management document creation, widget and barcode creation, and integration."
  • "IBM BPM's price could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

I primarily use IBM BPM for the life cycle of the automation process.

What is most valuable?

IBM BPM's best features include document sharing, management document creation, widget and barcode creation, and integration.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using IBM BPM for ten years.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

IBM BPM's scalability is very high.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

IBM BPM's price could be improved.

What other advice do I have?

I would give IBM BPM a rating of eight out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Senior Services Engineer at KENAC COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Real User
Top 20
Covers most pain points but may be too complex for entry-level clients
Pros and Cons
  • "It's a solid product. It covers most of the pain points for clients."
  • "It might not be suitable for entry level clients because it comes with a huge number of modules for processing that at times might not be necessary for upcoming clients."

What is most valuable?

It's a solid product. It covers most of the pain points for clients.

What needs improvement?

It might not be suitable for entry level clients because it comes with a huge number of modules for processing that at times might not be necessary for upcoming clients. It's too complex, but it's suitable for the enterprise level.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for 10 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's stable. We haven't had any issues.

How was the initial setup?

With the business process tool, it needs to be customized according to what the clients want. So, complexities will be there.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is high.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution 7 out of 10.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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AhmedGhareeb - PeerSpot reviewer
TETRA & GSM Engineer at a government with 201-500 employees
Real User
Flexible and helpful with automation but the GUI needs to be improved
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is the ability to customize your rules and put them inside the tool."
  • "The configuration is not that easy, and the initial deployment took three months."

What is our primary use case?

I mainly use BPM to automate our internal workflows.

How has it helped my organization?

BPM helps us with automation and with assigning and delegating tasks.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the ability to customize your rules and put them inside the tool. I also think BPM is easy to do development on.

What needs improvement?

An area for improvement would be the user interface of the portal itself.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using IBM BPM for around four years.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

BMP is scalable both horizontally and vertically.

How was the initial setup?

The configuration is not that easy, and the initial deployment took three months. I'd give my experience with setting up a rating of three out of five.

What about the implementation team?

I used a third-party team to implement.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The pricing is quite high, I would rate it two out of five.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate this solution as seven out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Backend engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Easy setup, good UI but response time from support is slow
Pros and Cons
  • "It is a stale solution."
  • "The options for customization could be improved. More customization using your own code would be beneficial."

What is our primary use case?

It's mainly focused on the banking use case, specifically the retail banking business.

What is most valuable?

I find the process design and UI design to be the most valuable features. Because they are common in working with the product.

What needs improvement?

The options for customization could be improved. More customization using your own code would be beneficial.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with this solution for 12 years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stale solution. I would rate the stability a seven out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It suits our use cases well, so it's adequate.

We have around a thousand end users using this solution. 

How are customer service and support?

The response time is a bit slow. The quality of customer service and support is good on average, but there's room for improvement.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

It's a simple setup.

What about the implementation team?

We deployed it ourselves. 

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. There is some room for improvement. 

I would recommend it. It's easy to use and implement.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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