We performed a comparison between Apache Airflow and IBM Business Automation Workflow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Since the solution is programmatic, it allows users to define pipelines in code rather than drag and drop."
"Apache Airflow is useful for workflow automation, making it capable of automating pipelines, data pipelines, and data warehouse processes."
"Since it's widely adopted by the community, Apache Airflow is a user-friendly solution."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"The product is stable."
"Apache Airflow is in Python language, making it easy to use and learn."
"I like the UI rework, it's much easier."
"The initial setup was straightforward and it does not take long to complete."
"The most valuable feature is automation, which is quite strong and we are quite happy with it."
"The solution reduces the time to the resolution which is essential for businesses."
"This is a low-code software where you can just drag and drop on the user interface. There are also a lot of quality integrations such as TMS."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is useful for helping us design custom user interfaces and processes we require."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is the fact it is highly configurable. We can do configurations very easily."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The tool streamlines operations, especially from an operational perspective, by facilitating decision-making and ensuring timely approvals. This helps prevent delays in the approval process, where business process management adds significant value for us."
"It is the only product that includes capture content management and a process suite, as well as rules in RPA."
"The documentation must be improved."
"I would like to see some no-code capabilities and drag and drop abilities in Airflow."
"The graphical user interface can be improved."
"The dashboard is connected into the BPM flow that could be improved."
"There is an area for improvement in onboarding new people. They should make it simple for newcomers. Else, we have to put a senior engineer to operate it."
"Enhancements become necessary when scaling it up from a few thousand workflows to a more extensive scale of five thousand or ten thousand workflows."
"One specific feature that is missing from Airflow is that the steps of your workflow are not pipelined, meaning the stageless steps of any workflow. Not every workflow can be implemented within Airflow."
"Technical support is an area that needs improvement."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is not a very user-friendly solution."
"I would definitely like to see a unified interface between the BPM side of the house and the case side of the house. Something that just seems a bit more cohesive, because right now there is sort of a disconnect between the BPM and the case side of the house. That makes it a bit of a hard sell sometimes. That is definitely first and foremost on my wish list."
"One significant challenge is the lack of accessible forums or resources to seek help or information when problems arise."
"From what I understand, in the next release they're actually going to combine all of this together as one integrated solution... If we could have one unified way to build a solution, that would really help."
"The development UI is sometimes a little slow."
"Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow could improve the integration."
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Apache Airflow is ranked 2nd in Business Process Management (BPM) with 31 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 22 reviews. Apache Airflow is rated 8.0, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apache Airflow writes "Enable seamless integration with various connectivity and integrated services, including BigQuery and Python operators ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". Apache Airflow is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Informatica Cloud API and App Integration, AWS Step Functions and Bizagi, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, AWS Step Functions, IBM Case Foundation and Nintex Process Platform. See our Apache Airflow vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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