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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Celonis

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ACelonis is a Process Intelligence platform that helps companies improve their operations, customer experience, and sustainability. The company’s technology provides a digital twin of a company’s processes, giving everyone in the organization a common language and the ability to identify and capture value.N/A

    IBM Business Automation Workflow

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIBM Business Automation Workflow is a solution that helps users automate digital workflows to increase productivity, efficiency and insights — on premises or on cloud.N/A
    Pricing
    CelonisIBM Business Automation Workflow
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CelonisIBM Business Automation Workflow
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSnap is Celonis' free-to-use, cloud-based process mining solution, with over 3500 registrants and users. It includes most major features of Celonis, including all functionality found in common process mining tools. It also includes pre-built connectors to ServiceNow and pre-built content to get users started quickly on their process mining journey.
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    Community Pulse
    CelonisIBM Business Automation Workflow
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    184 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    129 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    184 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    141 Answers
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    Features
    CelonisIBM Business Automation Workflow
    Process Mining
    Comparison of Process Mining features of Celonis and IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Feature
    Celonis
    8.1
    49 Ratings
    6% below category average
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
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    Ratings
    Data Connection8.649 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Discovery8.745 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual Process Representation7.646 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Variants8.446 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Metrics7.946 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Mining Algorithms8.744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Root Cause Investigation7.344 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Optimization8.346 Ratings00 Ratings
    What-if Analysis7.532 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Compliance and Audit7.940 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Celonis and IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Feature
    Celonis
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    10.0
    4 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Celonis and IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Feature
    Celonis
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    10.0
    4 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Process designer00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Celonis and IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Feature
    Celonis
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    10.0
    3 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Celonis and IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Feature
    Celonis
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    10.0
    4 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Content management00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
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    CelonisIBM Business Automation Workflow
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    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    IBM Blueworks Live
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CelonisIBM Business Automation Workflow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (189 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CelonisIBM Business Automation Workflow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Celonis
    Celonis is helping [...] to gain greater transparency and control over complex business processes by connecting data across systems and revealing how work is actually executed. The platform supports proactive risk identification, value‑based process improvements, and more reliable delivery across the R&D value chain. With great support from the Celonis team in Copenhagen, we are enabling R&D teams to make data‑driven decisions, optimise performance, and continuously improve how [...] delivers value to patients.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    Have your process first on paper Its important to first document the process before venturing into BPMS. It will save a lot of pain and heartaches. A BPM tool is no magic bullet, it merely automates your process. Its upto you to put visibility and tracking on top of it. Provide monitoring so that you get a chance to improve your process continously. BPM is not an application If you are trying to build an application with BPM, chances are that your are alraedy failing. BPM must be a strategic initiative for an organization. Yes, you build Dashboards, Reports and other software in BPMS, however you do it at a process level not at an application level. http://bpmstech.blogspot.com/2011/05/bpm-initiative.html Know the difference between process data and business data http://bpmstech.blogspot.com/2011/05/lombardi-best-practices.html http://bpmstech.blogspot.com/2012/02/bpm-system-architecture.html
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    Pros
    Celonis
    • Clear understanding on how the processes really run
    • Excellent solution to support use cases like harmonization, process excellence, audit and compliance
    • High performing methodology to build economic value addressing inefficiencies
    • Perfect to convince clients showing objective evidences
    • Make easy the enterprise collaboration
    • Provide an E2E "movie" of the processes
    • Able to ensure a centric model to connect all the core processes
    • Top performances that save time of the analyst that can spend energy in his real work
    • Excellent ETL, agnostic (able to extrapolate data from many DB)
    • Strong capabilities of the data model
    • Continuous innovation
    • Solid platform to address projects of business process reengineering
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    • System does a great job normalizing business process and automating order processing tasks. Before TeamWorks, the process was much more manual and more expensive staff ($65k to $70K) were required to manage the process. Since implementing TeamWorks, we need much lower-skilled workers to manage order processing.
    • System ensures that we have consistent data across all systems.
    • Rules engine is really the “company playbook” – it is the heart and soul of how the company works. It handles thousands of orders per day
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    Cons
    Celonis
    • Helping reduce the complexity to support adoption throughout the business - received feedback that Celonis can only be used by Celonis SMEs, as the interface looks too complex
    • Can we go faster with less? Both from the Celonis side and NN side feels like if we involved less stakeholders we could achieve more
    • To get the most from Celonis we need to get the people who are closest to the process comfortable enough so they can draw insights from themselves - Celonis are good are drawing insights, but naturally sometimes misses the business context
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    IBM
    • The system gets crashed when many instances go into the queue stage. The system even crashes and sometimes restarts automatically when the load on the server increases. We had to develop a separate software for this and maintain the same.
    • We cannot manipulate the data during run time. It is difficult to develop user-interfaces with complex functionality.
    • In order to consume external services that follow HTTP protocol, we need to use IDE for that, and consuming services from IDE takes a lot of time to give a response.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Celonis
    We have been able to leverage Celonis [greatly] because of the commitment and support we receive from our data scientist. I strongly believe that we would not be able to accomplish this without her assistance. Moreover, when we escalate matters, the product development is engaged and commits resources to make sure our initiatives/business cases are supported.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    This particular decision will be made by other people. Overall IBM BPM is the best BPM engine that I have worked with. It is implemented at our company and IT and business are already somewhat familiar with it. Therefore if asked I will recommend renewal as long as the price is reasonable.
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    Usability
    Celonis
    It is a great tool but also requires a lot of work to get it into a useable fashion. Part of this is on our end as we don't have the dedicated analyst function yet to really become self-sufficient with Celonis. It also uncovers a lot of data issues or at the very least, multiple rounds of development and data validation are required before getting to a position where the business users feel comfortable with the data being reflected. This is fairly normal with any data-related development effort and perhaps not unique to Celonis.
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    IBM
    • The system is easy enough to use but, by definition, is a complex tool. However, they have done a good job generally balancing tool complexity / capability with usability. When comparing to MS Biz Talk, for example, Biz Talk has less functionality but is actually harder to use.
    • Software is very flexible. For somebody with the right technical background, it’s quite easy to write some Java code to overcome any hurdles or make the product do what is needed
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    Support Rating
    Celonis
    We submit tickets to Celonis through product support. No assistance is generally provided, have to wait and the ticket is then escalated to product support in Germany. Many times we submit the ticket and the support desk asks us the same questions back where they should already have this information.
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    IBM
    Issues can be raised through tickets and it works based on the priority of the issue. The Support Team response is also good and the solution is provided in a short span of time. In a case where the issue is serious, they try to find out the root cause and provide an alternative for it.
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    In-Person Training
    Celonis
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    IBM
    • Attended on premise sysadmin training for 4 days, 8 hours per day. Although further follow-up training was available, I never felt the need to go back. Training was very hands-on with real modeling (rather than just following a manual). Very effective.
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    Implementation Rating
    Celonis
    Celonis has a lot of tools to support the implementation.
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    IBM
    • Very satisfied – not too difficult at all.
    • We had a consultant available as part of our contract, but we didn’t really need to use (except for some advice on ActiveDirectory and single sign-on)
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    Alternatives Considered
    Celonis
    The major reason to choose Celonis is that it has enhanced decision-making in filtering the candidates. The frontend designer has nice graphics and has well-designed self-service. I particularly enjoy the visual editor, which allows you to create complicated PQL without having to write any code, as well as the numerous filtering choices, including process mining options.
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    IBM
    Pega Pega is a comprehensive suite which offers a unique theme of BPM development in the market. A no-coding approach based on rules with inheritance makes Pega a very powerful product. However Pega, falls short on integration centric capabilities and very rigid to customize. On the other hand IBM comes with array of products which suits needs of varying degree. Advanced integration is solved by BPEL Process Server which has support for state based patterns and mediation. Dynamic rules and event management can be solved with WODM, Cloud to on-premise connectivity with Cast Iron, Enterprise gateway and security usecases with DataPower, Social BPM with IBM BPM , WODM, mobify with Worklight. Pega has a little bit of eveything here and there. It solves the dynamic rule management, brings out the flavor of Social BPM and mobility with Antenna ( I guess) and predictive analytics as well in one single suite. There are certain usecases which needs to have a little bit of everything, however this little bits and pieces of functionality when its blows, Pega would have problems to scale. With IBM its a bit nightmare to maintain a variety of technologies, however you can wish to go for one without the other and go for something only when you truly need it. Pega vs IBM Its difficult to pick a winner. In nutshell when you want a full scale BPM with rich integration capabilities go for IBM BPM. On the other hand if you hava mature integration capability already, Pega can yield quick results for you as well. Pega's strength is its methodology. IBM BPM's strength is integration. Actually you can't go wrong with both in terms of implementation. My strong recommendation is to invest time to process analysis and pick a good vendor to support consulting and implementation.
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    Scalability
    Celonis
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    IBM
    It scales from small team interactions to business processes serving thousands of employees, as well as straight-through-processing needs that go well beyond. Of course, scale is always in the eye of the beholder, but IBM BPM does a good job of giving you all of the hooks, APIs, and data that you need to take on whatever scaling approaches you need to meet the load
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    Return on Investment
    Celonis
    • The previous IFRS 9 calculation method was reaching its end of life—Celonis is a direct replacement for us.
    • When rebuilding our logic from the old system to the new, it gave us a much-needed opportunity to revamp and standardise company codes and, in some cases, even pick up some errors.
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    IBM
    • It has added value to the upper management to give visibility into what is happening at any time in the enterprise.
    • Boosted employee morale because it gives them all the information to work the case/task in a single location.
    • Identifies bottlenecks and improves the turnover.
    Incentivized
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