Flokzu Cloud BPM vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Flokzu Cloud BPM
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Flokzu is a cloud-based, agile business process management tool. It provides a low-code environment for supporting various tasks from bug reporting and lead development to customer support and incident analysis.
$15
Per User - 1,000 Process instances per month - 10 Gb storage - 5 Public Forms - Unlimited Databases - 10 Custom Reports
IBM Business Automation Workflow
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
IBM 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
Flokzu Cloud BPMIBM Business Automation Workflow
Editions & Modules
Standard
$15.00
Per User - 1,000 Process instances per month - 10 Gb storage - 5 Public Forms - Unlimited Databases - 10 Custom Reports
Premium
$21.00
Per User - Unlimited Process instances - Unlimited storage - Unlimited Public Forms - Unlimited Databases - Unlimited Custom Reports
Starter
$50.00
Unlimited Users - 50 Process instances per month - 1 Gb storage - 1 Public Form - 5 Databases - 1 Custom Report
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Flokzu Cloud BPMIBM Business Automation Workflow
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsWe offer Special pricing for educational institutions & nonprofit organizations. To apply, please get in touch with us. We also work with large organizations and offer a volume discount for teams of 50+ people. Contact us for a quote.
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Features
Flokzu Cloud BPMIBM Business Automation Workflow
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Flokzu Cloud BPM
9.9
5 Ratings
19% above category average
IBM Business Automation Workflow
10.0
4 Ratings
20% above category average
Dashboards9.95 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Standard reports9.95 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Custom reports9.95 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Flokzu Cloud BPM
9.4
5 Ratings
11% above category average
IBM Business Automation Workflow
10.0
4 Ratings
17% above category average
Process designer9.95 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Process simulation8.64 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Business rules engine8.94 Ratings10.04 Ratings
SOA support9.95 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Process player8.23 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Support for modeling languages10.04 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Form builder9.95 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Model execution9.95 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Flokzu Cloud BPM
10.0
4 Ratings
20% above category average
IBM Business Automation Workflow
10.0
3 Ratings
20% above category average
Social collaboration tools10.04 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Flokzu Cloud BPM
9.9
5 Ratings
20% above category average
IBM Business Automation Workflow
10.0
4 Ratings
21% above category average
Content management9.95 Ratings10.04 Ratings
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User Ratings
Flokzu Cloud BPMIBM Business Automation Workflow
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(5 ratings)
10.0
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(2 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(3 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Flokzu Cloud BPMIBM Business Automation Workflow
Likelihood to Recommend
Flokzu
Easy to track status of tasks. Great to use collaborate between remote teams. Useful for follow up and managing deadlines, with alarms functionality. Detailed and clear information in standard or customized reports.
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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
Flokzu
  • Easy of use, for a geographically distributed team.
  • Agility. We can model, deploy and adjust (modify) business process by ourselves, in minutes.
  • Flexibility, to add new processes (what we do all the time).
  • Great support from the Flokzu team, every-time we needed it.
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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
Flokzu
  • We don't have major issues with Flokzu.
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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
Flokzu
No answers on this topic
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
Flokzu
Flokzu is very easy to use without having any knowledge of programming
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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
Flokzu
Nice people both on chat and e-mail, always willing to help us.
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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
Flokzu
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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
Flokzu
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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
Flokzu
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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
Flokzu
No answers on this topic
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
Flokzu
  • It really helped to coordinate our distributed sales team.
  • Flokzu also helped to streamline administrative tasks, like invoicing and payment tracking from other countries.
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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.
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ScreenShots

Flokzu Cloud BPM Screenshots

Screenshot of Define & customize your form with an amazing Form Builder. Arrange your fields using a grid layout. Multiple field types and visibility options can be combined to meet every possible need.Screenshot of Using the international standard BPMN and a simple drag-and-drop interface you can model your cloud workflow according to your organization's reality.Screenshot of Improve your efficiency by measuring and analyzing the performance of your organization through the 'Metrics & Reports' section. Custom Reports let you focus on what matters the most to you and your team.Screenshot of Execute the process. Assignees will receive pending tasks on their Inbox in their PC or mobile. As the process instance moves along the workflow, each task will be assigned to a user or role automatically.