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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Chronos Workflow

    N/AN/AN/A

    $599

    per month

    Oracle BPM Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.N/A

    Tungsten Capture

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/ATungsten Capture (formerly Kofax Capture) is a suite of multichannel document capture applications.

    $3,500

    per year

    Pricing
    Chronos WorkflowOracle BPM SuiteTungsten Capture
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $599
    per month
    No answers on this topic
    Kofax Capture
    $3,500
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Chronos WorkflowOracle BPM SuiteTungsten Capture
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Features
    Chronos WorkflowOracle BPM SuiteTungsten Capture
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Chronos Workflow and Oracle BPM Suite and Tungsten Capture
    Feature
    Chronos Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Tungsten Capture
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Chronos Workflow and Oracle BPM Suite and Tungsten Capture
    Feature
    Chronos Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Tungsten Capture
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer00 Ratings8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Chronos Workflow and Oracle BPM Suite and Tungsten Capture
    Feature
    Chronos Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Tungsten Capture
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings6.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Chronos Workflow and Oracle BPM Suite and Tungsten Capture
    Feature
    Chronos Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Tungsten Capture
    -
    Ratings
    Content management00 Ratings7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9.5 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score7.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Chronos WorkflowOracle BPM SuiteTungsten Capture
    Likelihood to Recommend
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.2
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Chronos WorkflowOracle BPM SuiteTungsten Capture
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Chronos Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Oracle BPM is well suited to organizations and environments that have a good understanding of their business processes and organizational structures. Trying to introduce a tool such as Oracle BPM into the organization without a good grasp on how the business operates is a recipe for disaster as the implementation will uncover all of the dirty secrets of an organizations business processes and bring them to light. BPM is not to be utilized for smaller service orchestrations or technical service implementations, these should be handled by the Oracle SOA Suite using the BPEL process manager, leaving BPM to handle the organizational business processes, referring to and including lower level services and BPEL processes as needed.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    Kofax [Capture] meets our needs and for the most part is easy to use and setup. Configuration could be a little bit easier. The scripting language is a double edge sword if you will. It gives you nearly unlimited possibilities to script what you need, but the downside is you have to script it. Does a good job at batching and scanning documents. The tool integrates well into our workflow which makes our business partners happy and in turn provides for happy customers.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Chronos Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM [Suite] can support unlimited number of cases. No limitations in cases raised.
    • Oracle Weblogic can handle multiple traffic. [It] can handle lots of heavy load[s].
    • Oracle BPM has extensive integration with database[s]. Huge number[s] of customization can be created.
    Incentivized
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    • The VRS application included with Kofax Capture is the best image pre-processing platform available on the market today. It can handle a wide array of common document problems such as skew, flipping, wrinkles, lines, and dots.
    • The platform is incredibly scriptable and can be customized to handle all sorts of unusual document contents to allow information to be extracted that many other platforms just struggle on. Table extraction, line item matching, and smart extraction are all strong points with this platform.
    • Through the use of SBL and .NET the platform can be expanded and scaled quite easily to allow for the software to be integrated into existing business processes and platforms with ease.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Chronos Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else.
    • To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people.
    • The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system.
    • As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops.
    Incentivized
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    • We struggled with configuring Kofax with AP Automation. We used to receive vouchers in different formats by different companies, by different departments. The people from different departments used to scan those vouchers through regular scanners to a central location, which ended up as image pdfs. We fed these image pdfs through Kofax Capture for character recognition, which was painful as the accuracy of recognition was 50 to 60%.
    • Having a connectors with a workflow tool would be helpful where people can validate and approve the output.
    • More samples and documentation related to use of API in .NET applications would be a good improvement, that would help users to adapt the product easily into their organization.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Chronos Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    Cost of Kofax is high, however the cost to benefit scenarios always pay off.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Chronos Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    It's good.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Chronos Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    Haven't really used their support yet
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Chronos Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Chronos Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are literally tons of analytics on the back end which are great for upper management, but not so much for average users, but this fits our business model quite well.
    Incentivized
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    Kofax Capture is much costlier with compared to other competitive applications but is also provides many more features than other applications.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Chronos Systems
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    • You'll most certainly need a deep dive and extensive training before your users can even think of using the product and they are very expensive.
    • Lack of documentation makes it very difficult to manage the application if any error is encountered which will result in you ending up hiring a dedicated person to look into the application once it's deployed.
    • For a very large org., if properly implemented and used, it can help identify the cost-intensive and inefficient processes.
    Incentivized
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    Tungsten Automation formerly Kofax
    • We were able to decrease personnel expenditures as there was not a need for individuals to index documents prior to incorporating them into the record.
    Incentivized
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