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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Kintone

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AKintone is a customizable digital workplace platform used to manage data, tasks, and communication. The no-code drag-and-drop interface can be used to create custom applications.

    $120

    per month for 5 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    IBM Business Automation WorkflowKintone
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Subscription
    $24
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Business Automation WorkflowKintone
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Minimum requirement of 5 users. Kintone offers a free prototype to build with using existing process.
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    IBM Business Automation WorkflowKintone
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    93%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    IBM Business Automation WorkflowKintone
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    10.0
    4 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    10.0
    4 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Process designer10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process simulation10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business rules engine10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    SOA support10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Process player10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form builder10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model execution10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    10.0
    3 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Social collaboration tools10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    10.0
    4 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Content management10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Kintone
    8.3
    9 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings9.29 Ratings
    Territory management00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Opportunity management00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Contract management00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Quote & order management00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Kintone
    9.0
    7 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Case management00 Ratings9.67 Ratings
    Help desk management00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Kintone
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Lead management00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Kintone
    8.9
    9 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Task management00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings8.89 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Kintone
    8.1
    8 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Kintone
    8.9
    11 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Custom fields00 Ratings9.211 Ratings
    Custom objects00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Kintone
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Marketing automation00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Kintone
    9.3
    6 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Mobile access00 Ratings9.36 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of IBM Business Automation Workflow and Kintone
    Feature
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    -
    Ratings
    Kintone
    9.5
    10 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Business Automation WorkflowKintone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.7
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (46 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (43 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    10.0
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    Vendor pre-sale
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Business Automation WorkflowKintone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Kintone
    I recommend Kintone for companies that need the ability to customize standalone applications or to provide a 'hub' to employees as a jumping-off point. I also recommend Kintone for any company that is drowning in spreadsheets, or is using 10 apps for 10 different purposes - you can consolidate everything into one place. Kintone, I think, needs a larger team for customization as your company grows. If you are a small office of 20 people, using it out of the box will likely be just fine for your needs. If you're working with 200 people out of an office, it'd likely be good to have someone with a bit of CSS, Java, and API experience in order to maximize what you get out of it - though you won't need that if you're keeping it simple.
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    Pros
    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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    Kintone
    • Flexibility. You can build apps (without coding) to serve a wide range of processes and projects.
    • Ease of use. The interface is intuitive.
    • Training. There are resources readily available to train new users. Even starting from scratch, I felt like I was up to speed in just a few hours.
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    Cons
    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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    Kintone
    • Sometimes it's a little challenging to know which fields to enter and where. There is a little bit of a learning curve with creating your own apps.
    • More visuals would be great! I love seeing the data visually, and so does my board.
    • That's all I can think of - I really do enjoy the program.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Kintone
    We have been quite happy with our use of Kintone thus far. We looked at several options before choosing Kintone and believe it had the best value and best features, while allowing for complete customization, rather than being locked into preformatted apps that may not address exactly what we need or be more than what we need.
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    Usability
    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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    Kintone
    I love everything bout it. I love that if there is something I don't feel is working well enough, we are able to change it. The ONLY thing I would say is that if you were able to make it so every time I click on anything in the website/app it stayed in the same page, that would be great, but I don' think it is possible and I think this is due to using so many external APIs
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Kintone
    Never had an issue with this.
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    Performance
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Kintone
    Pages load quickly, no issues with response time
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    Support Rating
    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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    Kintone
    I am very happy with Kintone and support it fully. I think that it is a great place for any company that wants to create a platform for better management. It is easy to use and pretty affordable. It is straightforward and has many tools that can be used by anyone. There are many helpful tutorials available too to guide users
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    In-Person Training
    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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    Kintone
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Kintone
    The training was seamless and easy to follow
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Kintone
    Everyone has their own tastes of things and way they want to work. Asking them to adapt to the changes with the new tools or apps is always difficult. We would want to start with a very small but best example within the organization, which in our case was that the employees will not be bothered by the bosses by being asked to find the documents, status of the progresses, or major things/requests/projects.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Kintone
    Kintone is the easiest product to create from and the cost is the lowest I believe. In addition, reconfigurability and extendability are great. If you look for a low code tool, you can try Kintone. But as same as another low code tool, don't expect too much.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Kintone
    Should be multiple pricing packages.
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    Scalability
    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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    Kintone
    I could see this work for all departments if implemented correctly.
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    Professional Services
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Kintone
    We have nothing but positive things to say about the kintone professional services we utilized during the install and after we went live.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Kintone
    • It used to take us 15-20 minutes to create a quote for a client. It now takes less than 3.
    • It allows a few of our employees to work remotely, which was essentially impossible prior.
    • We can see raw data for success/failure rates, which we actively use in our employee review process.
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    Screenshot of a view of apps from the portalScreenshot of 4 ways to build an appScreenshot of the drag and drop interfaceScreenshot of business app viewsScreenshot of Kintone appearing across desktop, and mobile