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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Event Automation

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Event Automation enables businesses to accelerate their event-driven efforts. The event streams, event endpoint management and event processing capabilities help lay the foundation of an event-driven architecture for unlocking the value of events.N/A

    Workato

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AWorkato is a cloud or on-premise automation and integration platform with enterprise-grade capabilities and no coding required. Workato provides pre-built connectors to integrate with over 300 business applications and enables task automation across apps.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM Event AutomationWorkato
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Event AutomationWorkato
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Event AutomationWorkato
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
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    Workato
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    57%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    50%
    Delivers good value for the price
    3 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    71%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    IBM Event AutomationWorkato
    Cloud Data Integration
    Comparison of Cloud Data Integration features of IBM Event Automation and Workato
    Feature
    IBM Event Automation
    -
    Ratings
    Workato
    8.0
    38 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Pre-built connectors00 Ratings10.038 Ratings
    Connector modification00 Ratings10.036 Ratings
    Support for real-time and batch integration00 Ratings5.034 Ratings
    Data quality services00 Ratings6.031 Ratings
    Data security features00 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    Monitoring console00 Ratings8.038 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    IBM Event AutomationWorkato
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Make
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    IBM App Connect
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    TIBCO Integration (including BusinessWorks and Flogo)
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM Event AutomationWorkato
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (14 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.9
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM Event AutomationWorkato
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    IBM Event Streams is well suited for companies developing event driven Microservices. One of the biggest challenger with microservices is that your data gets distributed into little silos - event streaming (or better known as event sourcing) allows you to get a central source of truth in your event store. We are taking this approach with IBM Event Streams and it is well suited for building an event streaming / sourcing architecture.
    Incentivized
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    Workato
    Workato is brilliant to make separate applications work together without much effort or specialists being needed. When specific events on software A should trigger actions on B (or more) and you want that to happen without any development or big budgets, that's where Workato comes into play. It's a great help if you want tasks automated, communications flowing and data synced between different applications.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • It is adaptive and helps us create more engaging experiences on our platforms.
    • The Key metrics dashboard is rich with insights.
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    Workato
    • The Workato product interface is brilliantly thought through and designed. The learning curve for first timers is easy enough to get started and build useful things, and Workato really shines in their ability to handle complex triggers and interactions. Workato allows people to build software apps so much faster than by coding each functionality.
    • Workato has fantastic documentation, making things accessible without any holes in the product. The product just works, never has any bugs, never lags, and just generally allows us to see and change exactly what we need to.
    • Workato has an absolutely amazing support team. We tried the free version for a while, then realized it was the single most important software tool we have, and we upgraded. The support at the paid tier is A+, seriously the best from any company we've worked with. Feels more like a good friend then a support rep.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Provide Capabilities to connect the Event Streams via REST Proxy.
    • Schema Registry to handle Avro Formats.
    • Provide Kafka Connect Sink & Source Connectors.
    Incentivized
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    Workato
    • Customer support - responsive, but often not equipped to help efficiently identify root cause of issue. Need to improve escalation to technical resources and turnaround time
    • Recipe organization and sharing. Can be challenging to copy recipes, or grab recipes from publicly available site. There are often dependencies and errors that have vague descriptions.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Workato
    We need to develop Enterprise Application Integrations and Workato was not designed for this
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    Usability
    IBM
    The product was very user friendly and extremely easy to get started with. The documentation is excellent and the free tier makes it very easy to get started with without having to make deep or long term financial commitments.
    Incentivized
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    Workato
    The sheer work Workato eliminates from people's daily jobs is simply a great contribution to people's productivity and a boost to capability. It actually strikes the balance between business and tech teams. It also reduces dependency on developers, and speeds up their delivery too. The only reason it's not a full 10/10 is for the price - it's a bit expensive for what we'd like, and their batch or high data volume processing can be improved.
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    I met with the support team and they have deep technical and development understanding of the needs and the problems which IBM Event Streams addresses. If you are looking for a product backed by a highly technical support team then IBM Event Streams is probably the best choice. I was specifically impressed by the level of technical understanding my support team demonstrated.
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    Workato
    They employ an extremely knowledgeable team of problem solvers. I've never had a disappointing interaction or one that has left me still searching for answers. I know that when I ask for help, they'll partner with me until we find a solution together
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Workato
    We discovered that we could not use Workato for our more complex, large enterprise integrations. It was useful for simple workflows that matched the prebuilt recipes.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    In Event Streams, applications send data by creating a message and sending it to a topic. To receive messages, applications subscribe to a topic. High availability and reliability. Event Streams offers a highly available and reliable Apache Kafka service running on IBM Cloud. Event Streams. Event Streams stores three replicas of your data to ensure the highest level of resilience across three availability zones.
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    Workato
    We already used Zapier, but since it doesn't support NetSuite we had to choose another automation platform. Now that we've been using Workato for a few months, we have plans to move the stuff we're going through Zapier to Workato. We set up a trial account with all the other platforms, and they were all more expensive and A LOT more complicated than Workato.
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • In using downstreams, the minimal features and the rate of releases were slow, makes us feel that there's no upgrades and other than that there's poor marketing of the product.
    • The adoption around the service is low, requires focused marketing.
    • Lack of visibility into topic depth , Monitoring capabilities
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    Workato
    • As business consultants, Workato has greatly improved our offerings to our clients as well as improved the time frame to implement automated workflows and integrations.
    • For our clients, the return on investment is almost immediate. Once a Workato recipe is up and running (which can be done very fast), data is integrating, duplicate data entry and user errors are eliminated, and cross-company KPI metrics are easier to report than ever.
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