Pega Platform vs. WaveMaker

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Pega Platform
Score 5.9 out of 10
N/A
Pega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.
$35
per month per user* (or $0.45 per case**)
WaveMaker
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
WaveMaker is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) from the company of the same name in Mountain View, California.
$500
per user/month
Pricing
Pega PlatformWaveMaker
Editions & Modules
Low-code Factory Edition
$35
per month per user* (or $0.45 per case**)
Standard Edition
$90
per month per user* (or $0.80 per case**)
Enterprise Edition
Custom Quote
WaveMaker Online
$500
per user/month
WaveMaker Enterprise
Contact Sales
Developer based pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Pega PlatformWaveMaker
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details*500 named user minimum. Additional users available in blocks of 100. Billed annually. Based on a 3-year term. **350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
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Features
Pega PlatformWaveMaker
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Pega Platform
8.7
62 Ratings
7% above category average
WaveMaker
-
Ratings
Dashboards9.061 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports8.661 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom reports8.660 Ratings00 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Pega Platform
7.9
65 Ratings
6% below category average
WaveMaker
-
Ratings
Process designer8.164 Ratings00 Ratings
Process simulation6.256 Ratings00 Ratings
Business rules engine9.064 Ratings00 Ratings
SOA support9.050 Ratings00 Ratings
Process player9.447 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for modeling languages5.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Form builder9.658 Ratings00 Ratings
Model execution6.255 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Pega Platform
8.9
50 Ratings
8% above category average
WaveMaker
-
Ratings
Social collaboration tools8.950 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Pega Platform
4.4
9 Ratings
60% below category average
WaveMaker
-
Ratings
Content management4.49 Ratings00 Ratings
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
Pega Platform
-
Ratings
WaveMaker
9.3
2 Ratings
8% above category average
Visual Modeling00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Drag-and-drop Interfaces00 Ratings8.92 Ratings
Platform Security00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Platform User Management00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Reusability00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Platform Scalability00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
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User Ratings
Pega PlatformWaveMaker
Likelihood to Recommend
5.6
(73 ratings)
9.2
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(7 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Pega PlatformWaveMaker
Likelihood to Recommend
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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WaveMaker Inc
WaveMaker is a great platform for enterprise and SME's because it can save a lot on resources and time. The price is very low compared to the other competitors of WaveMaker and the best thing about WaveMaker is its no lock-in policy, you can always download the code and work on other IDEs. Overall an amazing platform.
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Pros
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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WaveMaker Inc
  • WaveMaker has helped us create internal applications in very short amount of time at a very low cost.
  • The interface is really clean and it is easy to understand, you need not be an expert coder to work on WaveMaker.
  • You can download your developed application and deploy it on any server you wish. There is no lock in whatsoever.
  • The support team is super supportive and they are genuinely interested in solving your problems.
  • WaveMaker helps you develop web and hybrid applications simultaneously, so you will be saving a lot of time and effort.
  • WaveMaker is constantly upgrading and the team makes sure that they inform the users about the upgrades.
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Cons
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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WaveMaker Inc
  • I believe that for this case, is important the technical support, which solves you or give workarounds that work for your issues. It answers in 24 hours, in labour days.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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WaveMaker Inc
No answers on this topic
Usability
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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WaveMaker Inc
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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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WaveMaker Inc
There were instances where we had specific requests and the support team was really helpful because they were really concerned about getting me a solution.
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Online Training
Pegasystems
The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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WaveMaker Inc
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Pegasystems
Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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WaveMaker Inc
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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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WaveMaker Inc
WaveMaker is much cheaper and performs better.
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Return on Investment
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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WaveMaker Inc
  • WaveMaker has helped us reduce the number of developers working on the application development.
  • It has helped us save a lot of time.
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