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IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

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What is IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation?

IBM Cloud Pak for Automation allows the user to design, build and run automation applications and services on any cloud, using pre-integrated automation technologies and low-code tools. IBM Cloud Pak is the latest deployment option of the IBM automation platform for…

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Fantastic Tool.

9 out of 10
September 06, 2023
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IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation streamlines the consumer journey by automating key touch points like onboarding, support, and …
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Great Enabler.

9 out of 10
September 04, 2023
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IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation streamlined ecommerce clientele approval processes in our company by automating document validation …
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What is IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation?

IBM Cloud Pak for Automation allows the user to design, build and run automation applications and services on any cloud, using pre-integrated automation technologies and low-code tools. IBM Cloud Pak is the latest deployment option of the IBM automation platform for digital business, available on…

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What is IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation?

IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is a modular set of integrated software, built for any hybrid cloud, designed to quickly solve tough operational challenges. It includes a set of AI-powered automation capabilities – content, capture, decisions, workflows, and tasks – and boasts a flexible model that lets users start small and scale up as needs evolve. With RPA, the solution helps users free up human employees, speed decisioning with operational intelligence, and expand to automate key types of work across core operations, as well as secure environments and bring trust and transparency to multiparty workflows. The solution can be tailored to integrate with existing investments. With actionable AI-generated recommendations, built-in analytics to measure impact, and business-friendly tooling to speed innovation, the solution helps clients reduce process completion times, decrease customer wait times, reduce risk, and save thousands of work hours that were then reallocated to higher value work.



IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation Features

  • Supported: Built-in AI generated recommendations and performance dashboards
  • Supported: Low-code tooling and RPA
  • Supported: Flexible, modular pricing and deployment options
  • Supported: Process mining and modeling

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IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsLinux
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

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IBM Cloud Pak for Automation allows the user to design, build and run automation applications and services on any cloud, using pre-integrated automation technologies and low-code tools. IBM Cloud Pak is the latest deployment option of the IBM automation platform for digital business, available on Red Hat OpenShift.

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The most common users of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM tries to offer the best, and this version was no exception. We have firsthand a function to be able to automate business processes with good optimization. IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation has allowed us to better serve our clients; I like the analytics feature to workflows and orchestration. We have been able to improve internally by being able to have the bots in order to have better results and reduce repetitive tasks, as well as reducing the number of errors.
  • Trained artificial intelligence.
  • Analysis of data.
  • Automate business processes.
  • Cloud platform.
  • Bot presentation.
  • Affordable software for any business.
  • Great design, understandable.
  • Remote monitoring.
It has helped us a lot in our processes to analyze the data and has all our tasks automated. Our implementation was a really easy process for our team. It has excellent documentation, even for new users. The features are complete and with a good user interface. With the time we have been using it, I think we have already verified how good it is and everything it can provide to our systems.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize IBM Cloud Pak to streamline operations in webdew. It automates workflows, facilitating efficient project management and content approval across departments like web design, video creation, and marketing. The product also integrates with our existing tools, promoting collaboration and centralizing data. Its analytics and reporting capabilities aid in identifying bottlenecks and optimizing processes, addressing efficiency and integration challenges, and enhancing decision-making.
  • It efficiently automates complex workflows, reducing manual tasks and improving process efficiency.
  • Facilitates seamless collaboration and content approval, crucial for video creation and marketing campaigns.
  • Integrating with our existing tools, it centralizes data, fostering cross-functional collaboration and data consistency.
  • Enhanced user onboarding and training resources would benefit users in utilizing the platform's full potential.
  • More flexibility in customization options for specific business needs would be valuable.
  • Streamlining and simplifying the user interface could enhance overall user experience.
Well Suited Scenarios
IBM Cloud Pak shines in scenarios where complex workflows, such as project management in web design, require automation. It's also highly effective for collaborative content creation, enabling seamless content approval.

Less Appropriate Scenarios
Conversely, it may be less suitable for organizations with simpler task management needs that do not fully leverage its robust capabilities. Also, companies with limited IT resources might face challenges during setup and customization.
Lovelee Borgohain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation helps us automate the entire order processing lifecycle, from receiving orders to fulfilling them and shipping the products while automating customer service tasks like responding to customer inquiries and resolving issues. We are still identifying new opportunities to automate our different processes and exploring all of the possibilities of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation.
  • Helped us automate manual tasks and streamline workflows, which has ultimately resulted in major efficiency gains.
  • Reduced errors by automating tasks that are prone to human error and helped us identify areas for improvement.
  • Helped us automate finance tasks like AP, AR and financial reporting and enabled us to close our books more quickly.
  • Would appreciate it if the user interface gets simplified and more user-friendly.
  • Should improve the debugging experience by adding features such as step-by-step debugging, breakpoints and watchpoints.
  • While automating complex workflows, its performance is a bit slow.
It is very much well suited for automating manual tasks that are repetitive, and time-consuming like data entry, order processing, invoice processing etc. We also use it to automate the process of onboarding new customers and processing orders along with resolving customer issues. However, it struggles a bit while automating unstructured data tasks like NLP or image recognition. We use specialized machine-learning solutions for these tasks.
September 27, 2023

Automation at A Glance

Helena Holt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My team uses IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation to create, manage, and optimize our routine functions including CRM and robust content management tasks. Also, our scope of use extends to the analysis of vast datasets and the curation of actionable insights, management of of complex and unstructured processes. Importantly, we use it to build, deploy and manage application.
  • Build, deploy, and manage application
  • Create, manage and optimize business processes
  • Overall automation of workflow process
  • Improvement on user interface for easy navigation
  • Advanced setup and configuration program
  • Improved documentation style
  • Pricing adjustment
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation has been exceptionally useful in addressing multi-step processes that need to be streamlined in application building or other processes. It is also efficient when running large amounts of data and contents that require automation with the guarantee of fewer errors. The product also performs organizing and managing tasks well, which makes it easy to find and use specific datasets.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our advertising enterprise, we make use of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation to streamline SEO operations. It automates content workflows, gives data insights for knowledgeable choices, and aids in record control. The device enhances performance, allows statistics-pushed techniques, and promotes collaboration inside our group. Its scalability contains our enterprise's boom, making it a valuable asset for optimizing SEO efforts.
  • The tool automates content creation and approval workflows, ensuring timely publication and reducing manual bottlenecks.
  • It provides in-depth SEO data analysis, allowing us to identify high-performing keywords and track website performance.
  • Routine SEO tasks like link checking and site audits can be automated, saving time and ensuring consistency.
  • The user interface could be more intuitive, making it easier for non-technical team members to navigate and utilize its full potential.
  • More flexibility in customizing workflows and reports to align with specific SEO processes and client needs would be beneficial.
  • Enhanced mobile accessibility would allow team members to manage tasks and access data on the go.
Well-Suited Scenarios - IBM Cloud Pak is ideal for automating content workflows, data-driven SEO strategies, complex document management, regulated industries, and growing agencies, enhancing efficiency and compliance for large-scale operations. Less Appropriate Scenarios - For small-scale or basic SEO needs, teams with limited technical expertise, tight budgets, and extensive mobile workflows, simpler tools may be more suitable due to complexity and cost considerations.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my organization, we've implemented IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation to streamline our workflows, manage our documents more effectively, and make data-driven decisions. It's been incredibly valuable in solving issues like optimizing our processes, improving customer engagement, ensuring compliance, and integrating our systems seamlessly. The flexibility of this tool allows us to adapt it to our specific industry needs, ultimately enhancing our efficiency and decision-making processes.
  • Workflow Automation
  • Document and Content Management
  • Decision Management
  • Customer Engagement
  • Compliance and Governance
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • User Interface Complexity
  • Integration Challenges
  • Customization
  • Scalability
Automating the employee onboarding process is a strong use case. It can manage documentation, coordinate tasks like IT setup and training, and ensure a smooth and consistent onboarding experience. Smaller businesses with limited resources may find it less cost-effective due to its complexity. They may not have enough processes or data volume to justify the implementation.
September 06, 2023

Fantastic Tool.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation streamlines the consumer journey by automating key touch points like onboarding, support, and purchase flows. Use its AI capabilities for real-time analytics to offer personalized experiences where it matters most, easily integrate with CRM systems for a seamless, data-driven approach to manage and enhance customer interactions, improving overall consumer experience and loyalty.
  • Easy Integration into CRM.
  • Data-Driven Approach.
  • AI Capabilities.
  • Better UX.
  • Cost Efficacy.
  • Compatibility with New Players in the Market.
In a white goods company, IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation can streamline the end-to-end supply chain. It automates procurement, quality assurance tests, and inventory management, reducing costs and human errors. Customer onboarding is simplified through digital document dispatch. AI-driven customer support chatbots handle routine queries, elevating complex issues to human agents where we use them. Predictive analytics can even forecast maintenance needs for machinery, minimizing production downtime. This leads to faster, more efficient operations and improved customer satisfaction.
Dr. ROOPESH RAO | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation has different set of integrated software components to automate work and accelerate business process. It has features like content management, data extraction, process and helps business integrate various software on a single platform. Companies having multiple software and application have issues integrating them and bringing them on the same page. IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation help business automate these complex issues and create a well-structured mechanism.
  • business automation
  • integration of various applications
  • plug and play nodes.
  • less complication
  • create more user-friendly approach.
  • graphical user interface can be improved
  • storage can be improved.
IBM cloud Pak for business Automation is best suited for big organizations where large number of applications are used on cloud and their integration is required. It is not helpful for small organization who are not having much complex process. It is more useful were complex structure are incorporated, and things and systems have to be simplified.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have ICP4BA platforms in out customer environments. We have migrated to ICP4BA from IBM FileNet and Case Manager platforms. ICP4BA provides lot of capabilities with seamlessly integrated components.
  • Automated Document Processing
  • Business Automation Insights
  • IBM Case workflow solutions
  • Coach UI design in Case pages
  • More API for integrated components to communicate the data and events internally
  • Improve administration tools
  • Improve UI of the admin consoles
ICP4BA helps to use different components in a solution without worrying about the separate server/platforms for each components. We can design a Low code solution in very shorter time period. This is helpful for larger organizations with enterprise wide usage. Small organizations cannot afford the cost and maintenance.
Patel Miraj | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is well designed to fit in any size of business. I like it's built with simple and user-friendly UI which makes it more easy to use and navigate through. We use this tool to automate all our time-consuming and tedious tasks and create custom workflows that meet all our business needs. It so helpful automation tool because it eliminates inefficiencies and bottlenecks in all our business processes and accelerate business growth. Through the AI-capabilities enhaces our digital transformation and so we are able to achieve operational excellence. Based on the advanced predictive analytics and AI which is turned to accurate and precise insights we are able to make better decisions faster.
  • AI-powered capabilities helps us to achieve the best operational excellence.
  • Decisions management enables us to make better and fast decisions.
  • We are able to understand our customers because, based on the advanced predictive analytics combined with AI turns insights into personalized customer actions.
  • Workflow management empowers our employees with a 360-degree view of data and metrics to improve our workflow.
  • At the moment everything seems to be working on the right direction but it would be more appreciated if they would add more pre-built workflows to help save time and discover new automation opportunities.
  • Training is kinda also stiff especially for the non-technical.
Days after our production we would see the positive impact of this tool on all our business processes. It's a very powerful and reliable automation tool that has been saving thousands of our working hours and cutting down operations cost. I love how it eliminates tedious and time-consuming tasks hence our team members are able to focus on other business areas to improve productivity it's worth recommendations.
Khati Disha | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is my first year using IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation and basically I am full of praises because I have seen significant improvement in all our business processes. Since we started using this integrated tool we've been able to see our business sales rise and more customers. By streamlining all our business processes, reducing clients wait times and allowing us to focus on getting our product better. The ability to understand quickly to understand how my organization business is performing and identify ways to overcome any any challenges through the robust features like process mining and automation of processes is great. Overall this tool has automated our business processes and accelerated digital transformation growth in all our business depertments.
  • I like how this tool provides us with automation capabilities to all our business processes hence improves our productivity.
  • Helps us to analyze complex workflows for our clients.
  • Accelerate our growth to digital transformation.
  • Reduce clients wait time. Hence we are able to deliver on time.
  • At times we have large dataset and workload goes heavier hence it starts freezing and crushing at times. Hope this is solved on time.
  • Should add more pre-built workflows to help us by saving working hours and discovering new automation opportunities.
I love how the pre-built workflows helps us to save our working hours by automating all our business processes and through automation we've been able to discover new automation opportunities with different use-cases. The support team was readily and helpful during training journey. Online documentation was also pretty easy to understand and use.
Kanishq Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Business has helped our team to develop and deploy apps directly to the cloud. It is a good tool because once you develop an app, deployment is the biggest challenge, and this thing is managed by IBM Software with the help of automation. Deployment was so easy for our team.
  • AI Powered to help users.
  • Open Hybrid cloud platform.
  • Business Automation using IBM Watson.
  • Achieving Data Fabric thanks to Data Virtualization, Data Integration, and Data Access services.
  • Data Governance and Privacy thanks to Watson Knowledge Catalog, IBM Guardium, and Truata Anonymization.
  • Operationalizing and Infusing AI with services for no code (AutoAI), low code (SPSS Modeler, Decision Optimization), or pure coding using Notebooks with languages such as Python, Scala, and Java.
AI/ML Technologies are the most scalable things in the world of IT. IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation helped us to solve our problems using their Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning Algorithms. When our production got stuck in one international project, we took the help of Cloud Pak also IBM engineers, who helped us perfectly.
August 09, 2022

User friendly

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The software is easy to use and dependable. It's far better than all other business automation tools we tried and is much more user-friendly. We are very happy with it. It's very dependable which is important for my coworkers, clients, and customers on the B2C and B2B sides of the business.
  • Automates business operations
  • Easy to integrate
  • Automation capabilities
  • Business processes
  • Price
  • More notice on product launches
  • Videos on features
Well suited for small through large organizations. Medium too, although I think small and large would benefit the most. It's a safe product and seamless. They launch features often and new updates to stay competitive in the marketplace. Their software is impressive and liked by many other colleagues that I speak to.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The need for the business to secure and ease control/manage all the company data from a central location at any time is the main reason why we opted into IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation. With it, we have been able to quicken our transformation digitally, improve the experience for our developers, and enhance faster delivery of applications among other things. With this software our company has achieved and increased the business agility making it easy for us to focus on product development and service delivery.
  • With this software, it is easy to speed up the digital transformation process.
  • Data collection and analysis can be done more quickly and efficiently.
  • Cloud migration readiness is also easily enhanced by the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation software
  • It makes it easy to control any company's consumables. For example, you can only pay for what you require at the time you require it.
  • My only concern about this software is pricing. It is a bit expensive to acquire.
Using the procedures and teamwork from the workflows of this application and vetting of new vendors can be accomplished easily. There are also various easy-to-use task interfaces that participants can use to perform their jobs quickly and efficiently. The software has all-in-one automation capabilities that enable easy workflow analysis, assigning various jobs, and monitoring performance.
Joey Jamila | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Processing of documents, by ensuring classification of documents, training models ensure that users are able to gather the most out of data. Planning and coordination of workflow to ensure case management, business processes are automated. Automation of tasks to ensure that all business capabilities are reached. Helped in the management of decisions by making sure that it governs business policies in an easily understandable way.
  • Easy deployment of resources on cloud or on premises.
  • Decision management by ensuring that it governs policies and the business stays compliant.
  • Processing of documents through the use of models that ensures users get the most out of data.
  • It requires a lot of training and reskilling of workforce to be able to use it effectively.
  • Integration of MQ is not out of the box.
Risk management and ensure compliance. Reduced time to market by ensuring it matches available resources to required users. Where several developers or users are on the same application it makes sure that the process is seamless since it offers a great collaborative environment. Where there are shared interests it stores logs thus you can refer to them when needed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
One of the most common uses of the IBM cloud Pak as a Business Automation solution is the onboarding process for new employees. HR may use it to develop dynamic applications that link with legacy systems in an easy-to-use low-code environment. As a consequence, our recruitment team is able to make better-qualified selections because of the insights gathered from advanced analytics.
  • video tutorial
  • easy and fast scale up and down process
  • cloud based deployment
  • Excellent documentation with screenshots
  • documents are helpful but difficult to understand for the first time user
  • dashboard could be improved
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is a great tool offered under the IBM roof. It has various use cases including Refund Request automation flow, which is used in one of the projects in our organization. The REST API is an option available. Supported by artificial intelligence.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The experience in working with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is great. Its cloud capability along with data analytics and management provides end to end services to the users. Its AI (artificial intelligence) powered platform and cloud computing are very user-friendly and the no-code interface for designing the workflows is simple. The user community and customer support give a very smooth experience.
  • AI powered platform
  • Cloud computing
  • Cyber-security policies
  • Moderate OCR performance
  • Significant downtime for upgrades
  • Old API's
IBM Cloud Pak is an enterprise-level tool that complies with the necessary functionalities in helping the organization access the business data in less time. Cost is efficient with the respect to the features and scalability it offers compared to its peers. The migration capability is quick through its cloud services and provides a smooth experience.
Arunvinodh C | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used IBM BPM v8.5.7 in our organization to establish automated procedures for Recruitment Process Automation (RPO) because we are working with the US RPO process. The use of Rest APIs was quite beneficial. It was also overly precise analytically. It is simple to comprehend because of features like the console, process admin, and inspector. Although there is a lack of support and resources, it is ideal for automated tasks. It greatly reduces the time of sourcing the resume and candidate communication.
  • Automatic Sourcing of resume from CEIPAL
  • Shortlisting candidates from pre-qualification questions which are automated successfully
  • Easily Integrated IBM Cloud Pak with our Resume parser
  • MQ Integration can be improved.
  • Loading time of Screen can be reduced but it was not a big difficulty for us.
  • Others I feel it is good to go...
Our organization is basically a Recruitment industry where we mostly try to increase our workforce using Recruitment Process Automation (RPO) because we are working with the US RPO process. Using IBM BPM business automation we were very successful mainly in the sourcing module and in the communication module. Within our echo system, we were able to combine BPM with numerous platforms.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
IBM Cloud Pak helps our business by helping us orchestrate all our business processes and models by automation workflows. It helps provide insights with predictive analysis, helping our teams make better business decisions in the future. It connects through the cloud so we can remotely monitor how our applications are doing like, performance and health.
  • Enabling a fast service delivery.
  • Automate tasks that are recurring.
  • You can use the software on cloud, on-premises, etc. Great flexibility.
  • If you are a new user, then you will need a lot of time to get used to the product.
  • If you handle heavy tasks, the cloud model might not be optimized to handle the workload.
  • It's expensive and not suited if you are on a budget.
If you're in a business that is ready to scale up and is looking to transform digitally, then this is a great option for you. The installation is complex, but once done, you can start seeing value right away. Totally not recommended for organizations on a budget because it surely is not cheap.
ilhan demirci | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Pak for Automation helps to automate business operations and offers an integrated coordinated software platform that provides the capabilities to digitize the business operations. In key areas where automation offers advantages, the platform provides applications: content, workflow, decisions, and capture. Depending on the problems your coworker faces, you can use any of these areas as an entry point into the platform and mix and match functionality as needed.
  • Provides an integrated coordinated software platform that offers capabilities to digitize your business operations.
  • Offers unified user experience for consistency across operations, reusable skills and assets that you can share between applications, and platform services that drive analytics and insight with operational intelligence.
  • Helps digitize and automate all aspects of your business operations.
  • Portable--you can run on-premises, on public clouds, or in an integrated system.
  • Installation file is too large to use.
  • Some application configurations are complex for new users.
  • Cloud computing may not be the right fit for all workloads.
Pros: Financially, cloud computing makes a lot of sense. You can develop new applications faster. Your business would be able to visualize a product or new application, have the infrastructure, and build the new application much faster than they have ever been able to do in the past by using the platform as a service. Cloud computing helps you to concentrate more on your organization and not on operating data centers.

Cons: It is not the central focus of most organizations to operate data centers. Using cloud computing frees IT to focus on developing applications that have business value and not on managing the data center. Some people believe that cloud infrastructure is not secure. Cloud computing may not be the right fit for all workloads.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is one of the low-code solutions IBM offers to customers. You can automate repetitive business workflows to save cost and speed up critical processes such as handling refund requests or guessing the salary range for an applicant, based on multiple factors inherited from your various solutions. It is really more of an enterprise-grade product, as opposed to Zapier.
  • No-brainer if you are already using other IBM Cloud products
  • Great documentation with easy-to-follow in-app tutorials and real-life examples
  • Top-notch scalability and security options
  • Like most IBM products, the interface is minimalistic and not very user-friendly.
  • Lack of openness, it's not a plug & play solution that just works with your landscape.
  • Poor product support, this feels more like a solution IBM created to exist in the low-code space.
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation has a lot of potential but does not offer any differentiators [in my opinion]. You will find the same features as any other enterprise low-code solutions such as SAP, but your low-code solution is only as good as the number of external apps it supports. Otherwise, you need to build those connectors yourself, which clearly defeats the product purpose. Right now, [I believe] IBM [Cloud Pak for Business Automation] only makes sense for IBM-centric customers.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is being used across almost entire organization for easy data governance. With this software, we can take care of issues with data security and backup needs. Also, with this software, we are able to handle all our data collection and analysis needs. Most importantly, we are able to automate tasks in different cloud environments.
  • Very secure
  • The UI is intuitive
  • Reporting is seamless
  • Migrating to different environments is easy
  • Complex and suitable for first time users without some training.
  • Some how expensive
  • Documentation is poor
For companies looking for best data governance software, I would recommend IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation. It offers great features, and offers a secure platform to backup important business data. The software also helps with data analysis and this provides helpful insights to the business.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Great automation that includes legacy core of the Automation platform. Great demo options to improve integration capabilities supported by insights to take accion in real time.
Help me to run workflows easely and multiple business capabilities at once. Is very easy to use. Has wide variety of features. I loved it!
  • Custom containers.
  • Great CNCF cloud choice.
  • Share enterprise content.
  • End to end workflow design.
  • Deployment challenges.
  • Had to manually install custom containers.
  • Supports multiple cloud vendor consoles.
Navigator deployments run in minutes. Once deployed is very easy to start building automation applications. Check the build level and update navigator versions to fix any issues or user interrumptions.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Employee hiring process is slow & costly so one of the main focuses was to reduce it & IBM Cloud Pak helped us with this. Currently it is being used department-wide. We do develop KPI in house as well (different dedicated team) & we can review number of new hires per day and view the results instantly.
  • Real time process progress.
  • Re prioritize work real quick.
  • Make more personalized decisions faster.
  • Automate business decision.
  • Lack of integration with android devices.
  • Don't have better documentation.
  • Lack of proper training.
We've been using IBM Cloud Pak for Automation for a short time, but the approach is very fancy, helping us to automate activities in a range of cloud services. IBM Cloud helps you to migrate current automation environments without changing the programmed.
At present, the service is only used in one department, but we are preparing to build on this.
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