webMethods BPMS is the market leader for a reason: feature rich and high quality platform for business process management
August 26, 2022

webMethods BPMS is the market leader for a reason: feature rich and high quality platform for business process management

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS)

We use webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) in our organisation to design, develop, and execute the orchestration of long running work flow processes especially when those work flows include steps that require input from users such as approval steps before continuing the business process. Any business process that can executed over a long time such as many days, involves multiple separate and distinct business applications, and requires manual user input to proceed, we treat as a good candidate for automating with webMethods BPMS.
  • Great process design user interface and usability
  • Excellent tools for monitoring processes at runtime
  • Business rules can be managed and updated by non-technical resources
  • Pricing is opaque and higher than we'd like
  • Some of the user interfaces are outdated and looking their age
  • Require buy in from business to achieve return on investment
  • Visibility of business process execution, such as what has run successfully or failed, and what is currently in flight
  • Tools to help recover from business process failures or stalls caused by unavailable applications or end users
  • Business process design tool usability
  • Initial adoption of BPMS was slow and required buy in from the business, which was only achieved through upper management buy in applying KPIs down the line
  • Once a critical mass of business processes being automated with BPMS is reached, any processes that remain manual will stand out like a sore thumb and the business will be invested to automate those remaining processes too, so adoption of BPMS is like a slow snowball effect
  • Not requiring technical resources such as developer to design and build out processes is a pipe dream and impossible to realise. You will always need experts in the automation tools you apply in your organisation, and webMethods BPMS is no exception
We found webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) to be the most feature complete product in the BPM market when we evaluated it against other products available in the market. It provides the most features, the easiest to use process design and simulation tools, and the most efficient runtime process and rules engine. Just be aware that its pricing reflects this position in the market, but you get what you pay for.

Do you think webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS)'s feature set?

Yes

Did webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) again?

Yes

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Where webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) is well suited is for any use case where there is a business process that can executed over a long period of time (days rather than seconds) and that traverses multiple business applications and/or multiple lines of business and requires manual input from end users to approve or action specific steps. It is not well-suited for any business processes that can be distilled into a traditional integration solution between business applications that does not involve manual end user input, these types of uses cases will execute more efficiently on a traditional integration broker or enterprise service bus style solution.

webMethods Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) Feature Ratings

Process designer
10
Process simulation
8
Business rules engine
8
SOA support
7
Process player
8
Support for modeling languages
8
Form builder
8
Model execution
7
Social collaboration tools
5
Dashboards
6
Standard reports
7
Custom reports
7
Content management
5