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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM ECM

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Enterprise Content Manager and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) applications enable organizations to manage all forms of content and secure secure data with respect to compliance needs. The platform enables capture, activation, sharing, analysis and governance of unstructured data to lower costs and risk while improving efficiency.N/A

    Oracle BPM Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM ECMOracle BPM Suite
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM ECMOracle BPM Suite
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    IBM ECMOracle BPM Suite
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of IBM Enterprise Content Manager and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    IBM Enterprise Content Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of IBM Enterprise Content Manager and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    IBM Enterprise Content Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings4.05 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of IBM Enterprise Content Manager and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    IBM Enterprise Content Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of IBM Enterprise Content Manager and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    IBM Enterprise Content Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Content management00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
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    IBM ECMOracle BPM Suite
    Small Businesses
    Egnyte
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Epicor ECM
    Score7.7 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Dashpivot - By Sitemate
    Score10 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM ECMOracle BPM Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM ECMOracle BPM Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    Again, I like to think of my association and usage of IBM Case Manager V.5.2. Please keep in mind that this is only one component of the IBM Enterprise Content Management suite of products. I believe IBM Case Manager is an ideal solution for medium to large companies looking to automate lnad
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    Oracle
    Oracle BPM is well suited to organizations and environments that have a good understanding of their business processes and organizational structures. Trying to introduce a tool such as Oracle BPM into the organization without a good grasp on how the business operates is a recipe for disaster as the implementation will uncover all of the dirty secrets of an organizations business processes and bring them to light. BPM is not to be utilized for smaller service orchestrations or technical service implementations, these should be handled by the Oracle SOA Suite using the BPEL process manager, leaving BPM to handle the organizational business processes, referring to and including lower level services and BPEL processes as needed.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • It provides easy to use administrative tools to work with the product.
    • Good documentation on the production is available which makes it easier to use.
    • It supports high availability architecture
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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM [Suite] can support unlimited number of cases. No limitations in cases raised.
    • Oracle Weblogic can handle multiple traffic. [It] can handle lots of heavy load[s].
    • Oracle BPM has extensive integration with database[s]. Huge number[s] of customization can be created.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • As enterprise and mid-market systems go, the price is highly competitive (especially when you consider what's included in the license). That said, this product is not accessible for small businesses as a self hosted solution. The "Navigator on Cloud" solution is much more accessible, but gives less control over data.
    • To get all the features, there are many moving parts. For large enterprises, this is no problem, and the cloud solution obviates most of these concerns.
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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else.
    • To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people.
    • The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system.
    • As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    There is no plan to change ECM at organizational level. Replacing products and changing custom applications involves lot of effort
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    Oracle
    In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.
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    Usability
    IBM
    The end-user experience is excellent. The Administration experience needs some more work.
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    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    Our relationship with IBM is long standing. We have been Gold Partners for some time and are viewed by many internal groups as their Go To partner for large ECM deployments. Most of our systems engineers hold multiple certifications as solutions developers. Our clients are national and international. The support we receive from IBM has been excellent and our partnership with them on numerous projects has been excellent.
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    Oracle
    We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are literally tons of analytics on the back end which are great for upper management, but not so much for average users, but this fits our business model quite well.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • We have seen our customers realize increased employee efficiency by reducing the amount of time it takes to process a transaction.
    • We have seen improvements in customer service because information can be made more readily available to customer service personnel who are fielding service calls.
    • We have seen improvements in decision making because processing-related statistics are more readily available to the managers who need the input to make quality business decisions that affect the day-to-day operations.
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    Oracle
    • You'll most certainly need a deep dive and extensive training before your users can even think of using the product and they are very expensive.
    • Lack of documentation makes it very difficult to manage the application if any error is encountered which will result in you ending up hiring a dedicated person to look into the application once it's deployed.
    • For a very large org., if properly implemented and used, it can help identify the cost-intensive and inefficient processes.
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