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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Confluent

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Confluent helps enterprises stream, connect, process, govern and serve real-time data across hybrid environments.

    $385

    per month

    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
    IBM ConfluentPega Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $0
    Standard
    Starting at ~$385
    per month
    Enterprise
    Starting at ~$1,150
    per month
    Low-code Factory Edition
    $0.45
    one-time fee per case**
    Standard Edition
    $0.80
    one-time fee per case**
    Enterprise Edition
    Custom Quote
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM ConfluentPega Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsConfluent monthly bills are based upon resource consumption, i.e., you are only charged for the resources you use when you actually use them: Stream: Kafka clusters are billed for eCKUs/CKUs ($/hour), networking ($/GB), and storage ($/GB-hour). Connect: Use of connectors is billed based on throughput ($/GB) and a task base price ($/task/hour). Process: Use of stream processing with Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink is calculated based on CFUs ($/minute). Govern: Use of Stream Governance is billed based on environment ($/hour). Confluent storage and throughput is calculated in binary gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB). Please also note that all prices are stated in United States Dollars unless specifically stated otherwise. All billing computations are conducted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).**350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM ConfluentPega Platform
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    IBM
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    Pegasystems
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    IBM ConfluentPega Platform
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of IBM Confluent and Pega Platform
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    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 IBM Confluent and Pega Platform
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    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 IBM Confluent and Pega Platform
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    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 IBM Confluent and Pega Platform
    Feature
    IBM Confluent
    -
    Ratings
    Pega Platform
    4.4
    9 Ratings
    59% below category average
    Content management00 Ratings4.49 Ratings
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM ConfluentPega Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM ConfluentPega Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    If you have a need to stream data, real time or segmented structured data then Confluent is a great platform to do so with. You won't run into packet transfer size limitations that other platforms have. Flexibility in on-prem, cloud, and managed cloud offerings makes it very flexible no matter how you choose to implement.
    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
    IBM
    • Products work great.
    • Training is available.
    • Customer support is good.
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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
    IBM
    • Cloud based Azure platform features for Confluent lacks behind AWS And GCP
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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
    IBM
    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
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Support Rating
    IBM
    The support from the Confluent platform is great and satisfying. We have been working with Confluent for more than a year now. They sent out resident architects to help us set up Confluent cluster on our cloud and help us troubleshoot problems we have encountered. Overall, it has been a great experience working with the Confluent Platform.
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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
    IBM
    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
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Pegasystems
    Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    For our use case it was very important that the technology we were working with fit into our Azure architecture, and met our data processing size requirements to stream data within certain SLAs. Confluent more than met our performance requirements and compared to the others scale options and cost to run it was more than financially viable as a platform solution to our global operations.
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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
    IBM
    • It enables us to develop event driven application.
    • It increases our ability to handle streaming data.
    • It reduces latency of communication.
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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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