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We use it to lay over an outdated system that our customer service agents use to support our customers as well as Pega Knowledge for articles for agents to have access to information within the system they are supporting. We only use it in CS, other departments are not using it yet.
- Knowledge Articles
- Task Oriented
- Slow
- Training
October 21, 2019
Great Robust Platform to Implement 1-on-1 Marketing
We use Pega Platform to create a unified decision hub to centralize all marketing decisions to trigger all campaigns and channel interactions. We are also currently replacing our legacy CRM with Pega CRM. Our goal is to eliminate silos to provide a unified customer engagement platform so our business interacts with customers in a relevant and contextualized fashion.
- Adaptive analytics - Pega platform allows you to feed data from all your interactions into their interaction history so it learns from past behavior and it starts predicting the best course of action.
- Pega BPM - Business process management engine allows you to specify various business rules on a WYSIWYG way so you can visually understand all the process flow.
- Pega provides a robust list of use cases on their website where you can learn how other companies implemented the platform and the pitfalls they overcame. Very helpful to also attend their user conference, PegaWorld.
- Pega is a very robust platform but it requires lots of technical help to set it up. It would be helpful if Pega created business templates with best practices to follow, based on all their industry experience.
- Pega academy is a great resource but only available for clients. I wish this resource was available for those on the evaluation phase so they can learn more about what next-best-action marketing is.
- Pega is a low-code platform which doesn't excite most of the developers as they normally love to develop in new and exciting languages. I wish Pega helped facilitate the transition for developers to low code platform. It's a culture change not always easy to accomplish.
November 08, 2019
Pega for Field Workforce Management in Google Network Operations
We use Pega across our department to address a workforce management automation issue that we had. Previously, my team was manually assigning field technicians to work requests that we received for our data centres. Pega is now helping us automate that assignment, and also choose the best resource for the job based on logic we have inputted.
- Pega platform allows us to build a totally customizable UI
- Pega allows us to build logic that replaces decisioning, removing a lot of manul touch
- Pega has proven relatively simple to intergrate other tools with because of its open API
- I wanted my technician appointments visualized in a calendar, chronologically, and in a way that they could drag and drop appointments in order to manage their time.
- Pega's filtering capability on custom dashboards is very limited. When one of my agents does a custom search, and then opens a ticket from the results, when they go back to the results, all of the results have dissapeared and they have to search again. We should be able to click 'back' and have the results saved.
October 12, 2019
Pega Platform - The BPM market leader
Pega Platform is used for one of our client applications, which is related to banking. This platform is mostly used for creating web-based applications in an organization where companies have a process flow. The case management feature in Pega is used for problems like raising service requests in call centres, monitoring and auto resolution of those cases in a defined SLA. This also supports automated processing that does not need manual intervention.
- Case management feature
- Browser-based applications. You don't need any software installation on the machine to access Pega
- Background processing of the process flows
- Well defined intuitive out of the box UI available which needs less customization
- Supports both front end and backend applications
- None
February 07, 2019
Pega - A King in Case management
Our organization uses Pega Platform for case management and app development in our department. We provide solutions to our business needs using the Pega Platform. Our apps are built using the Pega platform and features. It addresses problems like employee management, which reduces a lot of the man hours that are put into carrying out the business.
- Case Management
- Easily configurable User Interface
- Invoking Service APIs
- SR's Hotfixes
- Data management
- Designer studio latencies
We are using Pega as a CRM ticketing system to track customers interactions and document call center cases. It is being used across multiple departments. It is very good at documenting customer's calls, addressing customer's inquiries, and transferring cases between departments. It is also good for building a workflow for multi-step cases, like opening a bank account or any other scenario where multiple steps are needed.
- It has very good potential to be customized to fit your needs.
- Browser base so it can run on any computer with a browser only. No installation needed.
- Java base but no coding required for the most part except some advanced things that might require some coding.
- Easy to update when a new version becomes available as long you do not have a lot of customization and you try to utilize the out of the box features.
- Pega uses so much new jargon that you need to learn. For example, Harness.
- So many drill-downs: every time you need to create something you end up with 5 tabs to drill-down.
- For example, if you are adding a property with a when rule you keep drilling down to create everything and it can get a little more difficult to keep track of where you are.
- It can be customized to do anything you need and it is difficult and not recommend.
The purpose of the project is to automate the Wire Processing process in the Advisor Desktop and Front Office Wire Initiation system (FWI) applications. A Wire request is received from the Advisor desktop’s “FWI- Bot queue,” the virtual analyst will then pick the request from this queue and key in the wire in FWI system following the business logic corresponding to the wire type.
- It is good working on Pega robotics. It makes work easier and simple. It is easy to automate work using Pega robotics' automation.
- Good support of custom code so you can extend functionality.
- Automation of desktop or web application.
We are using the Pega platform to build custom workflow applications across the organization. I am leading the effort for our back office work to seamlessly orchestrate and automate complex service requests for our customers. We have engaged E&Y to help build a foundation framework where each workflow use case can leverage the common structures.
- The Pega platform has enabled us to quickly develop end to end tracking of back-office processes along with a myriad of integration points to legacy systems to automate a number of manual steps.
- Out of the box reporting and dashboards have saved time for our business partners in adapting to the new processes and managing to metrics in real time.
- Prototypes of the workflow are invaluable in gaining a quick validation of the workflow with end users. With Pega, we are able to build those models very quickly.
- The features themselves are not difficult to use, but I think Pega oversells the simplicity to non-technology organizations. While workflow can be built with minor training, having the proper data models and class structures established are critical to long-term success.
- Out of the box, error handling can be confusing to a novice developer in Pega. Pega can handle exceptions automatically but the default “broken queue” concept can get messy and ultimately result in work that sits unnoticed by end users and creates extra work for the support team.
- Experienced Pega engineers are in short supply and therefore more expensive than most other developers.
In my organization, Pega is being used by Finance Technology team. We use Pega in the following segments: -
- 1. to build an approval workflow for Account Payable and Account Receivable
- Business Problem - Automation of approval based on pre-defined rules, routing hierarchy, escalation matrix and on-time reporting
- 2. to build a Collection framework
- Business Problem - Automation of collection processes without manual interventions, the notification system.
- Pega provides frameworks for various domains. This speed-ups the development process.
- Routing, Notification, Assignment, Escalation - these are inbuilt features in Pega. Without minimal configuration, these can be used to solve business problems.
- Pega's responsive user interface helps to create software products for different devices.
- Pega has a very rich support community.
- Handling big data, like a file with 10GB of data.
- Integration with NoSQL databases.
- Customize reporting.
- Using Java8 features like Lambda functions or Stream APIs.
- Integration with popular web services, like Amazon S3, KMS, DynamoDB etc.
June 07, 2018
Are you looking for Pegasystems PRPC Pega7?
My current client is using Pega Platform for a department. It is used for call center customer service and workflow management of 80 type of different requests. Also, it is used for updating the backend legacy systems.
- Pega is a robust and reliable product for development and production management. Its core strength is scalability and ease of reusability of code with int he application and as well as leveraging the application into a different line of business/channels.
- Easy Management of multiple teams who are developing code at the fast pace. The deployment process is so quick in Pega7. Pega development enforces and suggests the involvement of business teams from starting and in each phase. It offers good tools to showcase the changes.
- Now Pega evolved even bigger by introducing and including the Decision Strategy manager and robotics which are cutting edge technologies now. Pega offered REST APIs and development of services is quite fast and supporting the wide range of protocols.
- Pega can improve user interface features. Most of the cases business expect different kind of user interface and styles which is a kind of time taking in comparison with other areas and sometimes may not possible.
- Pega can introduce more features in Reports. Reports performance can be improved. It would be great if business and developers are given with more features to customize the reports.
In my organisation we are using Pega Platform in one department which is AES i.e Application Engineering Services. We have built an application on Pega for insurance domain basically used for handling premiums and claims for London Market.
Earlier it was all paper work and complex processes which Brokers had to undergo for processing premiums and claims but with Pega application coming into the picture all these are processes are simplified and automated.
Earlier it was all paper work and complex processes which Brokers had to undergo for processing premiums and claims but with Pega application coming into the picture all these are processes are simplified and automated.
- The big advantage is we don't have to have to build the system from the scratch like any conventional programming.
- Case Life Cycle Management - which allows any business user to capture and process the full scope of work in their operations, be it document handling, approvals, decision making, etc. These tasks can all be built into a process flow to automate as much as possible.
- Design-once, deploy-anywhere user interface-saves a lot of effort.
- Less coding, adopts changes and quick developments.
- Should focus on improving the search engine on PDN training.
- Very costly tool for small scale companies.
- Pega’s Strategic Apps, CoBrowse and OpenSpan offerings appeal to mid-market customers, but Pega is not aggressively promoting Pega 7 and Pega Express as stand-alone iBPMS platforms to the mid-market
In our organization we as system architects configure the application to resolve the problem. We configure application assets such as UI forms, automated decisions and correspondence. Then we review the application with business for approvals.
- Versioning: We can create a new version of a rule whenever case behavior needs to change. Pega maintains a history of changes to a rule, allowing system architects to review the change history and undo changes if needed. Since each rule describes a specific case behavior, the rest of the case is unaffected. For example, a system architect updates a UI form with instructions and removes a critical field. You can review the history of the form and revert back to the version before the changes were made, without changing other rules in the application.
- Delegation: We can delegate rules to business users to allow business users to update case behavior as business conditions change. The business user updates the delegated rule, while other parts of the application remain unchanged. For example, expense reports that total USD25 or less are approved automatically. You create a rule to test whether an expense report totals USD25 or less and delegate the rule to the Accounting department. The Accounting department can then update the rule to increase the threshold for automatic approval increases to USD50, without submitting a change request for the application.
- Reuse: We can reuse rules whenever an application needs to incorporate existing case behavior. Otherwise, you must reconfigure the behavior every time the behavior is needed. For example, you create a UI form to collect policyholder information for auto insurance claims. You can then reuse this UI form for property insurance claims and marine insurance claims.
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Pega platform is used to build customer care applications which are used by customer care agents. Agents use the applications to file claims for customers and service them. It is used to capture all the details from the customers about their issues and tag it to the claims.
The application manages end to end life cycle of claims.
We have multiple applications built in Peg, for claims management and fraud management.
The application manages end to end life cycle of claims.
We have multiple applications built in Peg, for claims management and fraud management.
- Pega is a Business Process Management tool. It can be used to manage the business flows, and enables us to quickly build end to end applications . It can also be integrated with legacy systems.
- It can be used to automate lots of manual tasks, by using its back end agents features. It can also get updates from other systems and process claims without any manual intervention
- Pega has out of the box reporting and dashboards which can be used to manage the metrics.
- Pega has to come up with ways to integrate with cloud, which is ubiquitous now. The tools should change to adapt it.
- Pega has to improve in providing detailed documentation for all its features. There is very little documentations on some features like high availability.
- Pega has to come up with ways to implement A/B testing. In the current world there is no time to deploy and rollback.
It is used as a BPM for the call center agents and to manage the rules of the client's proprietary claims entitlement engine.
- Case management
- Rules-based decision making
- Automating repetitive business processes, but being smart to identify changes and also update decision-making rule dynamically.
- Managing incoming and outgoing communications.
- User interface
- Version updates
- Using Pega as a data management tool for the enterprise data
We are service providers for our customers and we are suggesting our customers use Pega for Business Process Management. As we don't have to have to build the system from the scratch. We design the Business Process Flow for our Finance processes. We can have dashboards, reports and also many administrative tasks. There are also notifications/integration as well as SLA escalations built in the tool.
- Pega Platform architecture combines process flow definitions, data handling, case management and other functions in model-based development.
- A non-coding approach based on rules with inheritance helps Pega more attractive product
- Pega's "data pages" capability is a highly flexible data structure.
- Pega's another advantage is that we can design it once and deploy it anywhere
- Like IBM BPM Pega doesn't have integration capability. We expect a good array of products which suits needs of various requirements. IBM's strength is its integration capability.
- There is a scope of improvement of ruleset and version control management.
- Its terminology is somewhat difficult to understand for a new developer
In my organisation, we use Pega for payroll processing.
- Pega is the Best BPM tool when working with large projects whose user radius is across the globe. It is flexible, scalable.
- It allows a fast delivery of new requirements, easy to deliver in Agile model
- Best data processing capabilities
- Less customization
- Easy to transform business requirements into Workflows and rules
- No support for minor customizations from Pega team .Ex: I need a calendar icon which can display holidays. They could not support me with this.
- Documentation about new enhancements in pdn is not complete.
- Reports are not enhanced for a long time. We need more scalable features in Reports.
- Latency issue
Pega platform is used in my organisation for health insurance projects. We have a huge user base who use this application to get approvals for insurance.
- Fast development and delivery, very good for Agile projects.
- Pega Support Community is a great forum to learn new concepts.
- It's very scalable and flexible.
- Pega needs to improve in terms of training on new upgrades of Pega.
- The Pega team themselves do not provide history and description for its rules. No proper documentation.
- Machine learning, RPA should be better .
- Should have better automatic unit testing (AUT).
- Reporting needs improvements.
September 03, 2018
Forget code, cons and pros on using the Pega platform
We use the Pega platform across the whole organization to provide Business solutions to our clients. Pega is our main Process Management System to solve our client's requirements.
- Decisioning. Pega exceeds expectations to provide solutions to complex business requirements and integration.
- Scalability. Pega is designed to support any size of process management and can quickly grow and adapt for future business needs.
- Rapid Change. Pega solves the problem of implementing a new requirement in an existing system. System Architects can add, remove or change any type of process on the go.
- Pega is so big and complex that implementing a rather easy requirement can be overwhelming .
- Pega requires a lot of knowledge to implement any kind of requirement. There are several levels of certifications in order to properly use the tool.
- Some basic programming knowledge is not enough to learn to use Pega. Some features even go against general programming rules.
My recent project is about Human Resource management applications, allocation of resources into projects, current status of resources, project current status, and how efficiently we used resource through out the financial quarter.
- Exceptional handling/fools-proof code for faster results
- Built-in reports
- Faster building of code modules which can be built separately and joined together
- SMA, tracer, clipboard tools which make the debugging process much easier
- Easy building of User Interface
- Advanced shapes like email and work object status auto updations
- Multiple records of data retrieval from the DB causes slowness
- AES built in reports or customization of those reports are limited
- Expensive
- Limited out of the box functionalities
- Special UI components addressing is difficult
Pega Platform is in the Automation team to automate the data center operations and budget management and tracking before data center-upscale/downscale requests.
- Workflow management. Easy development and maintenance of customer processes
- Integration. Readily available adapters to connect to commonly used systems.
- Time to Market from initiation phase.
- Solution frameworks available for specific industry needs, and can be tailored to meet custom requirements
- B2C engagements
- AI, ML
- Easy development of very high end UI
It is used by different agencies for specific applications. It addresses licensing, purchase, payments and communication routing.
- Easy to configure and implement out of the box solutions
- The built-in functionality is amazing
- Code sharing and reuse is built into the product
- Inheritance is two-directional allowing for reuse
- Better access to the database for hosted solutions
- Lower cost for smaller applications and businesses
- The upgrade can be easier
- Provide guardrails when code will prevent upgrades
By an organization within Anthem. We are building a claims systems for their FEP business.
- Claims management. Pega does this particularly well by offering a rich out of the box experience requiring very little custom coding.
- UI building. Pega makes this aspect of software development very expedient by making it a drag and drop experience with auto-generated code.
- I would like to see more How-To guides in the help system itself, in particular, How-Tos for integration rules
Pega Platform is the platform that holds all department applications, more and more legacy mainframe applications are moving to Pega, it's becoming the major development environment. Pega helped all different applications across department into a unified portal/platform, ITO is easy to maintain and could build almost everything into it.
- Fast delivery, the release cycle is 2 weeks
- Less coding, easy to learn and handy after few months training.
- Stable and easy to get support, Pega provides PDN, it can be used for technical question/answers, any problem can be sorted out by raising service report
- DCO is powerful, Business and Teck team can both using the same platform
- I would hope Pega can provide more features for mobile apps.
August 27, 2018
Easy and quick to build complex apps, can sometimes be limiting or frustrating to work in.
Our company almost exclusively develops in Pega, we have over a dozen teams working with many different clients. Pega as a platform aims to address work flow and business process management, and for the most part, this is what we build. We build web apps that streamline and automate business processes and Pega as a developer tool is relatively easy to get into but has a lot of power and complexity once you get into it. Because of the relative ease for us developers, apps can be built quickly and fine tuned based on the customers needs and team sizes can be kept to a handful of developers.
- 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.
- Not all software is bug-free and Pega is no exception. Notable problems arise when upgrading between versions of already existing apps. Pega does its best to support apps but can be slow to respond.
- Small circle of users. Pega is a niche technology and much of its methods and functions strictly apply to Pega itself. There are not nearly as many resources to refer to compared to some of the bigger name technologies.
- Often restricted to the platform. Many of Pega "rules" are restricted, as there are approved "guardrails" Pega wishes developers to stay within. Clients may want one thing but Pega may not support it and it can be difficult navigating around the limitations Pega itself puts in place for these.
August 10, 2018
Pega Platform Review : Pega Experience from the beginning
Pega platform is used as a development tool to deliver BPM software in our organization. It is used in one SBU not in the whole organization. It is used to develop solutions related to domains such as Healthcare, Insurance Banking and Finance. In addition, it is used to build fleet management system and logistics related system.
Following Pega Best practices and having Pega expertise benefits in developing large scale software solutions in long term. This toll can manage large data sets with reports, It encourages developer to build with the end product in mind. Performance issue handling, Exceptions handling and even including comments is monitored at development time.
There are in built frameworks in Pega platform that provides the ability to develop and deliver solutions faster. Developing UIs in Pega is easy. Developer need to drag and drop inbuilt Pega layouts and can apply necessary CSS and styles using Pega skin. So, UIs can be customized to meet customer needs. These responsive UIs are easily accessible from mobile, tab and desktop with minimum and/or no configuration.
- Reusability
- Pega’s Situational layer cake architecture is capable of organizing application to suit enterprise needs. An enterprise can have a complex organization structure located around the globe. Because of Situational layer cake architecture reusing common policies and procedures is easy while allowing for differences between products, regions, channels and customer segments.Whereas with some application development platforms, separate copies of the application should be created to suite different business context.
- Faster application delivery
- With Pega developers can reuse common policies and procedures, replicate functions and industry specific frameworks and utilize pega UI elements to develop applications. IT is easy to deploy.Therefore developers are capable of delivering application earlier compared to some application development platforms. Pega reduces time taken to deliver an outcome.
- Pega upgrades
- Pega platform is upddated to adapt and work with latest technologies.
- Proprietary users support and maintain Pega platform continuously. Pega customer support is always willing to enhance product support.
- 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.
Pega Platform Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
About Pega Platform
Pega allows you to build scalable,
enterprise-grade CRM, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), BPM, Case Management, and AI
apps, all on one unified platform.
According to the vendor, the Pega Platform transforms business stakeholders into citizen developers with a no code, visual app development experience, while empowering professional developers to architect applications with a model-driven approach in a low code environment. Pega aims to maximize productivity, re-use, and scale for the enterprise while delivering meaningful apps 6.4x faster, reducing development costs by 75% and driving ROI by 321%.
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Pega Platform Integrations
Salesforce.com, SAP, Legacy System APIs, standards-based protocols (like SOAP, REST and more)
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Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
- Does not have featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?No
- Entry-level set up fee?No
For the latest information on pricing, visit https://www.pega.com/products/pega-7-platform/pricing
Pega Platform Support Options
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Pega Platform Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise, SaaS |
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| Operating Systems: | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application: | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Countries: | Global Support |
| Supported Languages: | All major languages; localization available |