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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Foxit PDF SDK

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AFoxit PDF SDK offers high performance pdf libraries to help developers build pdf technology. According to the vendor, key features include: Render PDFs: High performance PDF libraries to render PDF pages, page objects, annotations, and forms the way they were intended to be viewed: sharp, clear, accurate, and easy to read. Allows applications to view, zoom in, zoom out, and print PDF documents and forms. Reflow: PDF is a fixed-layout flat document format, it cannot…

    $3,000

    per platform/per year

    Pega Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.

    $0.45

    one-time fee per case**

    Pricing
    Foxit PDF SDKPega Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Licensing PDF SDK
    $3,000.00
    per platform/per year
    Foxit.NET PDF SDK
    Contact sales team
    Low-code Factory Edition
    $0.45
    one-time fee per case**
    Standard Edition
    $0.80
    one-time fee per case**
    Enterprise Edition
    Custom Quote
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Foxit PDF SDKPega Platform
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional Details—**350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
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    Community Pulse
    Foxit PDF SDKPega Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Foxit Software
    No answer on this topic
    Pegasystems
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    81%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Foxit PDF SDKPega Platform
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Foxit PDF SDK and Pega Platform
    Feature
    Foxit PDF SDK
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    5.3
    63 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings4.062 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.062 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.061 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of Foxit PDF SDK and Pega Platform
    Feature
    Foxit PDF SDK
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    8.0
    66 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings9.065 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.957 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings10.065 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings7.151 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings5.46 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings9.059 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.956 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of Foxit PDF SDK and Pega Platform
    Feature
    Foxit PDF SDK
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    9.0
    50 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.050 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Foxit PDF SDK and Pega Platform
    Feature
    Foxit PDF SDK
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    4.4
    9 Ratings
    59% below category average
    Content management00 Ratings4.49 Ratings
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    Foxit PDF SDKPega Platform
    Small Businesses
    M‑Files
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Esker
    Score7.4 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Tungsten Capture
    Score9.5 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Foxit PDF SDKPega Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (17 ratings)
    7.9
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Foxit PDF SDKPega Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Foxit Software
    Where FoxIt suites best is if you need an alternative to the big-name PDF editors. It's pretty easy to use and it's comparable to Adobe or any other document editor. It is best used when mocking up proposals for work, creating employee handbooks, putting together offer letters, and essentially any other important document. This is not suitable for creating brochures or pamphlets.
    Incentivized
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    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform has introduced the low code feature, using app studio seasonal and professional developer can develop application easily and quickly. The initial application can be build by Business analyst and product owner who has less knowledge of Pega Platform, further application can be enhanced/extended by professional developer. We can develop end to end application and promote to higher environment. Easily we can perform parallel development using branch.
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    Pros
    Foxit Software
    • It is a very cool development kit to integration different PDF functions.
    • It is user-friendly and convenient to work with.
    • It has great functionality for text. For example: adding quick markup, highlighting the text, underlining, and doing strikethrough, and adding signatures is pretty easy.
    • It offers to do encryption and add passwords for security.
    • Great search capability that helps finding the text without hassle.
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    Pegasystems
    • Quick development time. Much of the Pega "rules" are easy to configure and implement.
    • Visually friendly and modern. Much of the UI/UX elements in the system are continuously supported and updated, giving a nice feel to the apps.
    • Many of the configurations and rules Pega gives to the developers can also be delegated to business users. The organization and structure of the client's business can easily be adapted in the Pega platform.
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    Cons
    Foxit Software
    • Combine multiple PDFs into one PDF
    • File explorer preview is not good
    • In the C# SDK, which is a wrapper of native C++ code. We need to be extra careful in coding and protecting the calls, because it can be very easy to crash the application in case of errors.
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    Pegasystems
    • Need more learning materials. For Beginners who have previous programming experience with another language takes more time to learn.
    • If the developer is met with an issue in pega platform , they have to rely on Pega supporting team to fix it.
    • Customization is available but is not encouraged. Pega does not support faults that occur in customized solutions.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Foxit Software
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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    Usability
    Foxit Software
    Our whole takeoff department uses the Foxit PDF SDK. To read plan files, produce pdf files, and take notes, we utilize it in conjunction with other tools. We may utilize the Foxit PDF SDK to read, edit, markup, print, and produce PDF files for internal use or to distribute to clients. Some of our users adore the software, but others choose to use alternative programs because they believe Foxit PDF SDK is too restrictive.
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    Pegasystems
    Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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    Performance
    Foxit Software
    I rated this software very high on performance because it is really very quick on my Windows system. It can create any type of PDF files in seconds. It also gives good upload speed when I try to modify my documents for inserting digital signature space. It also gives very good encryption speed to secure my documents.
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    Pegasystems
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Foxit Software
    I would give it this rating because I personally have never had to contact support regarding Foxit PDF SDK or anything I am trying to do within the program. As I mentioned before, it is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. I think the program in itself lends support to the user because it is so user-friendly and has an easy to use interface.
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    Pegasystems
    It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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    Online Training
    Foxit Software
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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    Implementation Rating
    Foxit Software
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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    Alternatives Considered
    Foxit Software
    Adobe Sign can be really frustrating and difficult to log into, renew subscription, and other background functions. Tech support is between useless and non-existent. On the other hand, there is better control over when recipients have been contacted. Overall, Foxit PDF SDK is a much better product, especially for smaller businesses or ones which don't use it consistently every day, year-round (if that's you, you will get used to Adobe, and it will be less annoying.)
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    Pegasystems
    We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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    Return on Investment
    Foxit Software
    • Saves time by being able to edit text in pdf instead of copy/paste into a .doc and then re-formatting the whole thing
    • Able to create fillable forms that are easy to use and to send out to customers
    • Bargain compared to Adobe product
    Incentivized
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    Pegasystems
    • For one of the applications we worked on, we were able to reduce the processing time on a case from 2 days to 20 minutes by utilizing Pega
    • We were able to resolve the issue of the routing of cases to users based on a specific algorithm by use of Pega
    • Pega case management feature was extensively used in one of the application to establish a parent-child relationship which was very helpful for all the business users
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