IBM Blueworks Live vs. SAP LeanIX

Pharmacies are subject to several regulatory obligations, including FDA and HIPAA rules. Pharmacy teams may record and view compliance-related procedures in a uniform format with IBM BLueworks Live. This facilitates Audit tracking, ensures process compliance at every stage, and keeps audits running smoothly.

Incentivized

SAP PowerDesigner allows our team of data modelers to work and collaborate from a single repository and single data dictionary. This helps enforce consistency as data elements are referenced in other objects. Prior to our use of PD, we might have an element named "ppt" in one table, "participant" in another table and "part" in a third table. By forcing everything to be used from the data dictionary, we avoid these situations because everyone has to go to the dictionary. And we are able to easily do peer reviews on models before they are released because we are collaborating through the use of the repository.

Incentivized

• Easy to create process diagrams quickly, while collaborating with others.
• Create linkages to sub-processes and other workflows.
• Track activities using metadata such as which IT systems are utilized.
• Use the glossary terms to find where different roles or systems are involved in processes throughout your org.

Incentivized

• User friendly
• Configurable
• Relations between fact sheets
• Lifecycle management
• Self build reports

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• In particular, we have had problems with the availability of the service because the platform frequently crashed.
• Is not easy to pull some indicators.
• We would like to be able to see a different interface, long ago with the same.
• Payment process is not easy.

Incentivized

• Licensing cost is based on user count
• Free licensed competitors exist, and they perform similar functions
• New database structures could be implemented more easily

Incentivized

I have gotten great response for the very few times I needed support.

Incentivized

We did have to reach out to support to learn how to properly utilize the repository feature and share the data model across many developers. Support was able to help us get this set up correctly. The downside was it took us several weeks before we gave up and contacted support. We should have done that earlier. I would say, however, the documentation wasn't clear on how to do this. So support was a great big help!

Incentivized

Blueworks Live was part of a project deal. We did not keep it after the project. We found there are many solutions offering similar or superior capabilities - the fact that Blueworks does not fully support the universal BPMN standard was a big letdown for us. The pricing also did not make sense as a standalone solution.

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We did not do a comparisson

Incentivized

• It has helped us reduce miscommunication between our departments, such as production, inventory, and shipping, thus reducing delays.
• Now, most things are automated; we can quickly know when a product will be in low stock.
• With the help of custom charts, we are easily able to determine our best-selling product of the month and week, which helps us market according to stats.

Incentivized

• Standardization of models
• Impact Analysis
• Graphical User Interface
• Ease of deployment

Incentivized