mPower is a business process management solution from Advanced Processing & Imaging.
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OpenText MBPM
Score 7.2 out of 10
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OpenText acquired BPM solution Metastorm in 2011, and has rebranded the product as OpenText MBPM. It is an alternative BPM solution to OpenText's primary BPM offering called OpenText Cordys Business Process Management.
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Pricing
mPower Business Process Automation
OpenText MBPM
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
mPower
OpenText MBPM
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Community Pulse
mPower Business Process Automation
OpenText MBPM
Considered Both Products
mPower
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OpenText MBPM
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Chose OpenText MBPM
We found that OpenText MBPM held its own quite well against IBM BPM. We ended up choosing OpenText MBPM due to the analytics, complex routing, and the ease of SOA service integration. Furthermore, the ability to quickly develop simple User interfaces make this tool a daily …
Before first using Metastorm at a previous company, I reviewed 30 systems, shortlisted 4 and chose Metastorm as being intuitively the easiest to develop with. We have recently looked at a number of alternatives but decide to stick with OpenText BPM.
I have evaluated [business process management] products such as Nintex, K2, and Intapp. Each of these products are excellent options, and each have strengths and weaknesses. Metastorm and K2 in my opinion offer more flexibility, but require a higher level of technical ability …
Features
mPower Business Process Automation
OpenText MBPM
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
mPower Business Process Automation
7.3
Ratings
6% below category average
OpenText MBPM
7.0
Ratings
10% below category average
Dashboards
7.00 Ratings
7.90 Ratings
Standard reports
7.00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Custom reports
8.00 Ratings
4.00 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
mPower Business Process Automation
7.4
Ratings
12% below category average
OpenText MBPM
7.3
Ratings
13% below category average
Process designer
7.00 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Process simulation
6.00 Ratings
7.10 Ratings
Business rules engine
8.00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
SOA support
7.00 Ratings
6.00 Ratings
Process player
8.00 Ratings
7.00 Ratings
Support for modeling languages
8.00 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Form builder
7.00 Ratings
6.90 Ratings
Model execution
8.00 Ratings
6.10 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
mPower Business Process Automation
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
OpenText MBPM
7.6
Ratings
9% below category average
Social collaboration tools
8.00 Ratings
7.60 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
mPower is well suited in all the team management and tagging details. I can check my team members and their access details on mPower. I can check their employee codes and their current band. It is a complete help for all the tagging issues and changes with HR. Employee leaves and resignation can also be managed easily with mPower.
OpenText MBPM is well suited for rapid application development where process workflows are well designed in a detailed environment. A servicing organization could benefit from being able to manage and design complex case management processes and applications. It is not suited for the automotive industry where complex custom engineering processes exist within product engineering (vehicle) and manufacturing plants.
The Metastorm process engine is based on an older version of .NET. Updating to a newer version would resolve several known issues with .NET email functionality.
Metastorm builds web pages at run time. While the UI presented to the end user is fine, the Document Object Model is convoluted and subject to change with new releases. Providing a more simplified DOM or at very least a custom function to replace document.getElementById() would make client-side scripting a much more powerful tool.
One function that I've seen Metastorm competitors do well, is email wizards. Having a WYSIWYG email editor would be really nice.
We found that OpenText MBPM held its own quite well against IBM BPM. We ended up choosing OpenText MBPM due to the analytics, complex routing, and the ease of SOA service integration. Furthermore, the ability to quickly develop simple User interfaces make this tool a daily component of our most-used toolbox components.