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IBM Business Automation Workflow

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What is IBM Business Automation Workflow?

IBM Business Automation Workflow is a solution that helps users automate digital workflows to increase productivity, efficiency and insights — on premises or on cloud.

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IBM Business Automation Workflow is a solution that helps users automate digital workflows to increase productivity, efficiency and insights — on premises or on cloud.

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Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
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Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Business Automation Workflow is a solution that helps users automate digital workflows to increase productivity, efficiency and insights — on premises or on cloud.

Appian, OpenText MBPM, and Oracle BPM Suite are common alternatives for IBM Business Automation Workflow.

Reviewers rate Dashboards and Standard reports and Custom reports highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of IBM Business Automation Workflow are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM BPM is used as middleware in our organization. It is used in the Banking and Finance sector of our organization. It allows us to customize the flow and we can even have a track of all the activities done. When it comes to user interfaces most of the other technologies use scripting and HTML tags but we do not have a track of all the activities done. In IBM, this problem is facilitated and it saves our time as a developer in tracking the issue faster.
  • It allows us to use mobile development, which most of the other BPM suites do not provide.
  • It adapts to new technology faster. Example: They are trying to implement microservices now, which is currently trending.
  • It has the whole structure divided into parts like process center and process management, all of which make the tracking and development and monitoring instances easier.
  • The system gets crashed when many instances go into the queue stage. The system even crashes and sometimes restarts automatically when the load on the server increases. We had to develop a separate software for this and maintain the same.
  • We cannot manipulate the data during run time. It is difficult to develop user-interfaces with complex functionality.
  • In order to consume external services that follow HTTP protocol, we need to use IDE for that, and consuming services from IDE takes a lot of time to give a response.
IBM BPM is recommended wherever it requires the organization to develop in multiple platforms IBM supports like mobile, cloud, and web-based development. It is recommended for processes that require complex structures. It is not recommended where the UI structures are complex and when the business requirement has more load on the server.
Process Engine (8)
75%
7.5
Process designer
80%
8.0
Process simulation
80%
8.0
Business rules engine
70%
7.0
SOA support
50%
5.0
Process player
70%
7.0
Support for modeling languages
80%
8.0
Form builder
80%
8.0
Model execution
90%
9.0
Collaboration (1)
50%
5.0
Social collaboration tools
50%
5.0
Reporting & Analytics (3)
86.66666666666666%
8.7
Dashboards
90%
9.0
Standard reports
80%
8.0
Custom reports
90%
9.0
Content Management Capabilties (1)
80%
8.0
Content management
80%
8.0
  • Easier to implement and does not take much effort to work on it.
  • Versioning made easy. We can even degrade to the previous version in case of any issue, which is not easier to do in other BPM suites, thereby, saving a good amount of time.
  • Helped in achieving client requirements faster, which results in a higher return of investment.
IBM BPM makes development easier, which is faster when compared to the others. IBM's customer support is good. Easy for the user to learn while providing powerful integration. More secure when compared to others. It provides the reusability of components. Monitoring and report capability is also high in IBM BPM.
Issues can be raised through tickets and it works based on the priority of the issue. The Support Team response is also good and the solution is provided in a short span of time. In a case where the issue is serious, they try to find out the root cause and provide an alternative for it.
Efrain Pereiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Business Process Manager is being used by the entire organization for all aspects of our Origination processes, whether related to retail or companies. We also use it for other processes such as First Contact Resolution and management of the reports that must be presented to the Central Bank and other institutions of control or audit.

In the case of banking, it is IBM BPM's handling of the Origination processes that provides the highest ROI, followed by its processes that have to do with client contact, and that is the strategy that we have adopted.
  • It is a very complete solution. It has a Process Manager, Operational Decision Manager for management of business rules, CASE Manager for case management, and as of this year, it also has a suite called Digital Business Automation,where FileNet and Datacap are integrated for document management, all in a single solution.
  • After a few years, we managed to make IBM Business Process Manager a robust and mature solution. Now, we are generating more than 10,000 instances daily, with an average lifetime of 25 day--with 150 intensive users, plus an occasional 2,000. We have integrations of all kinds, WebServices, Rest, Queues, etc.
  • It allows us to synchronize several Portal Servers, with a solution called Federal Portal. In it, users enter a single portal and can see and work on tasks independently of what portal these tasks are generated by.
  • This solution serves to balance the load if it is too large, and also to give a better infrastructure for our critical processes. It also is able to coexist with different versions of the product while processes are being updated. In our case, we have 3 Portal Servers integrated to a Federation Portal.
  • In the methodology of BPM, continuous improvement is essential, and for this we must be able to count on performance indicators. In order to do this, we had to develop a scheme outside the tool, because many instances did not have an adequate performance. I am informed that IBM will shortly resolve this.
  • The BPD is an established system, meaning it is monolithic, and comes with all the issues that these types of systems have.
  • It is an easy-to-use suite for simple processes, but if you need solutions with many integrations and complex screens, you need to work with experts with at least 2 years of experience.
IBM BPM continues to improve every day, providing substantial improvements in each release, which is highly valuable. There are some other solutions that compete in the Gartner magic quadrant, but we have been able to partner with IBM to find a local representative who can help us with the implementation.

It is a mature and stable suite that will allow you to grow without difficulty, as long as it is properly implemented. In the first few years, we required IBM to evaluate our developments, and in this way we learned from our errors and capitalized on this knowledge base.
Process Engine (8)
71.25%
7.1
Process designer
90%
9.0
Process simulation
N/A
N/A
Business rules engine
100%
10.0
SOA support
90%
9.0
Process player
80%
8.0
Support for modeling languages
80%
8.0
Form builder
80%
8.0
Model execution
50%
5.0
Collaboration (1)
N/A
N/A
Social collaboration tools
N/A
N/A
Reporting & Analytics (3)
20%
2.0
Dashboards
20%
2.0
Standard reports
20%
2.0
Custom reports
20%
2.0
Content Management Capabilties (1)
80%
8.0
Content management
80%
8.0
  • In the case of retail origination, the back office required for processing was reduced by 50%. The cases sent to credit assessment were also reduced by 50%. The quality at the origin was improved by 10%.
  • By having detailed tracking for each request, the audit reports stopped being unfavorable.
  • It is a fundamental pillar in our digital growth, allowing us to align our processes to our business needs.
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