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IBM Blueworks Live

Overview

What is IBM Blueworks Live?

Blueworks Live is cloud-based business process management software that provides users with a collaborative environment for documenting, analyzing, and building business process mapping.

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Recent Reviews

IBM Blueworks Shines

9 out of 10
April 01, 2024
Incentivized
We have worked on a insurance project for US based Property insurer with designing news system for policy and claim processing. IBM …
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Value for Money !!

7 out of 10
March 30, 2024
Incentivized
We use it for well-documented process mapping systems based on data from each job according to the instructions of the project manager. …
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Innovating.

8 out of 10
February 07, 2024
Incentivized
We use IBM Blueworks at our organization to assist with discovering new and documenting our business processes, business decisions and …
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How IBM Blueworks Live Differs From Its Competitors

Central Process Repository

Blueworks Live has all the standard process management capabilities you would expect from it. Any business process you build can be easily shared with others and has its own lifecycle (draft, approved, etc.). You can easily sort and order them in a structured process hierarchy, and version …
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Real-time Collaboration

Collaboration features work great. The user administration is quite simple, and users don't need much training or ramp-up to be able to start the work. You can easily identify who works on which process, whether they are completed (e.g., from draft to released) as well as suggest changes. …
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Business Challenges

The biggest challenge was to deliver the project in time and on-budget. Blueworks Live helps centralizing processes and documentation, as well as providing traceability and audit facts. It's always better to document your way up to deployment, which is helped by the tool through process modeling, …
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Popular Features

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  • Social collaboration tools (25)
    8.4
    84%
  • Process designer (25)
    8.2
    82%
  • Standard reports (24)
    8.0
    80%
  • Support for modeling languages (24)
    8.0
    80%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees
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Pricing

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IBM Blueworks Live

IBM Blueworks Live

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What is IBM Blueworks Live?

Blueworks Live is cloud-based business process management software that provides users with a collaborative environment for documenting, analyzing, and building business process mapping.

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

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Collaborative Process Modeling with IBM Blueworks Live - Tailored For Federal Customers

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Modeling process in Blueworks Live: Create the Discovery Map (BPMN class demo, Ex02)

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Features

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

7.8
Avg 8.1

Process Engine

Designing and building process models

7.9
Avg 8.4

Collaboration

Collaboration tools allowing BPM experts to collaborate on model design

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Content Management Capabilties

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Product Details

What is IBM Blueworks Live?

IBM Blueworks Live is cloud-based business process management software that provides users with a collaborative environment for documenting, analyzing, and building business process mapping.

IBM Blueworks Live Features

Process Engine Features

  • Supported: Process designer
  • Supported: Process simulation
  • Supported: Business rules engine
  • Supported: SOA support
  • Supported: Process player
  • Supported: Support for modeling languages

Collaboration Features

  • Supported: Social collaboration tools

Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Standard reports
  • Supported: Custom reports

Content Management Capabilties Features

  • Supported: Content management

Additional Features

  • Supported: Automated workflows and checklists
  • Supported: Governance

IBM Blueworks Live Integrations

IBM Blueworks Live Competitors

IBM Blueworks Live Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Frequently Asked Questions

Blueworks Live is cloud-based business process management software that provides users with a collaborative environment for documenting, analyzing, and building business process mapping.

Microsoft Visio, Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite, and Bizagi Digital Business Platform are common alternatives for IBM Blueworks Live.

Reviewers rate Process simulation and Content management highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of IBM Blueworks Live are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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September 22, 2021

Great addition to the IBM suite, not worth it as a standalone

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Blueworks Live is used as a business process modeler and management platform. It is generally forced onto customers on any large project that is led by IBM, since this is their standard solution for process modelling and helps their team deploy predefined templates and practices - as well as accelerating the project time-to-market.
Pros and Cons
  • Out-of-the-box integration with the IBM Suite
  • Intuitive and easy-to-use for any business analyst
  • Lots of options to work with Microsoft products
  • Pricing is prohibitive for any non-Large Enterprise customer
  • User experience is very dated
  • Not a true BPMN2 modeler so you'll have a hard time migrating to another solution later on
Likelihood to Recommend
It's hard to recommend a tool that does not follow the universal industry standard (BPMN2). Like Visio, it looks and feels like the standard is respected (shapes, naming convention, etc.) but Blueworks Live does not in fact follow any of it. It is a good tool for any company that is primarily looking at drawing diagrams (e.g., export them as images), as opposed to building live processes.
IBM Blueworks Live Feature Ratings
Process Engine (8)
43.75%
4.4
Process designer
70%
7.0
Process simulation
40%
4.0
Business rules engine
40%
4.0
SOA support
40%
4.0
Process player
40%
4.0
Support for modeling languages
40%
4.0
Form builder
40%
4.0
Model execution
40%
4.0
Collaboration (1)
70%
7.0
Social collaboration tools
70%
7.0
Reporting & Analytics (3)
56.66666666666667%
5.7
Dashboards
60%
6.0
Standard reports
60%
6.0
Custom reports
50%
5.0
Content Management Capabilties (1)
70%
7.0
Content management
70%
7.0
Return on Investment
  • Improved time-to-market on IBM-led projects
  • Definitely not a tool we could use post-project (price, dated interface)
  • Dangerous decision to lock-in your processes with a non-universal format
Central Process Repository
Blueworks Live has all the standard process management capabilities you would expect from it. Any business process you build can be easily shared with others and has its own lifecycle (draft, approved, etc.). You can easily sort and order them in a structured process hierarchy, and version everything the way you like it. There are also numerous import/export functionalities that allow you to quickly start building your repository.
Real-time Collaboration
Collaboration features work great. The user administration is quite simple, and users don't need much training or ramp-up to be able to start the work. You can easily identify who works on which process, whether they are completed (e.g., from draft to released) as well as suggest changes. Everything is handled on a single platform.
Business Challenges
The biggest challenge was to deliver the project in time and on-budget. Blueworks Live helps centralizing processes and documentation, as well as providing traceability and audit facts. It's always better to document your way up to deployment, which is helped by the tool through process modeling, process management and strong collaboration features.
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  • IBM Cloud Functions
  • IBM Cloud SAP-Certified Infrastructure
  • IBM Workload Automation
  • IBM Watson Language Translator
  • IBM Watson Natural Language Classifier
The IBM Suite is definitely a good accelerator for your projects. The single biggest benefit is how easy for users it is to jump from one platform to another. Administrators also get a lighter workload, and great support from IBM itself. It is really shining on IBM-led projects for Large Enterprises.
Alternatives Considered
Blueworks Live was part of a project deal. We did not keep it after the project. We found there are many solutions offering similar or superior capabilities - the fact that Blueworks does not fully support the universal BPMN standard was a big letdown for us. The pricing also did not make sense as a standalone solution.
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September 27, 2019

Blueworks is a tool that provides the means for an organization's proactive management discipline

BD
Brian Durr
Business Advisor
Prolifics (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our company uses it to capture processes and decisions for our clients. We use it with many clients in various industries. Lack of managing policies, processes, and decisions that are key business assets.
Pros and Cons
  • Business user-friendly - most business people can start to utilize BWL very quickly.
  • Easy way to capture and build processes starting with the discovery map.
  • Central repository for a single truth for areas to go to. Business architects can understand the current process and begin to do to-be models. Business Analysts can know where to go and start to get the current as-Is model, rather than spending time and effort trying to capture the information from SMEs to just get a project started.
  • Analytics - the ability to have more robust analytics. For processes being able to get information about the metadata and to be able to export that information. In addition, being able to capture end-to-end processes, sub-processes, and linked processes. To get the analytics across that value chain. To be able to export that for various areas to do analysis, problems, and opportunities.
  • Reporting - Being able to have reported. For such a business-facing tool, the reporting capabilities are non-existent. This to me is a drawback to more adoption by the business. Business shouldn't have to go to IT to build reports using APIs.
  • CM - Being able to capture content in BWL. Keeping pace with Digital Business Automation means BWL has to be enhanced to stay current. I feel that changes get made only after a competitor comes out with a new model capturing ability. BWL can be a great tool and should be invested in and improved with innovations not just catch up.
  • Create the ability to ingest Decisions into IBM ODM product.
Likelihood to Recommend
BWL is a great tool that can easily be used by business customers. It also is a great tool to build a Center of Excellence - providing customers the ability to manage their policies, processes, and decisions in one location. A single source of truth that can be leveraged to meet compliance, understand where information is being used, analysis of where laws and regulations impact processes and decisions. A tool to be leveraged to maintain knowledge and provide the ability to transfer knowledge to new employees. Organizations that used this tool to maintain and manage these assets will be able to make changes more rapidly and have confidence in the decisions they make because the tool is the single source of truth. BWL provides the tool to build a culture of continuous improvement and optimization within an organization that is willing to implement the discipline that goes along with the tool. BWL should be the central tool for all change management, lean six sigma, TQM and any other method or approach used by an organization.
IBM Blueworks Live Feature Ratings
Process Engine (8)
70%
7.0
Process designer
80%
8.0
Process simulation
80%
8.0
Business rules engine
60%
6.0
SOA support
50%
5.0
Process player
80%
8.0
Support for modeling languages
80%
8.0
Form builder
50%
5.0
Model execution
80%
8.0
Collaboration (1)
80%
8.0
Social collaboration tools
80%
8.0
Reporting & Analytics (3)
16.666666666666668%
1.7
Dashboards
10%
1.0
Standard reports
10%
1.0
Custom reports
30%
3.0
Content Management Capabilties (1)
20%
2.0
Content management
20%
2.0
Return on Investment
  • BWL has allowed us to assist clients in capturing and modeling their processes and decisions.
  • Organizations that have embraced the tool and concepts are able to under what is happening with their processes and decisions and to leverage that information to make decisions that have the most impact on the organization.
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Support Rating
7
I have gotten great response for the very few times I needed support.
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