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Apache Airflow vs OpenText ProVision comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Apache Airflow
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OpenText ProVision
Ranking in Business Process Management (BPM)
45th
Average Rating
6.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Architecture Management (27th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Business Process Management (BPM) category, the mindshare of Apache Airflow is 7.2%, down from 9.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText ProVision is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Process Management (BPM)
 

Featured Reviews

Sanket Suhagiya - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 30, 2024
Efficient pipeline building with intuitive UI and powerful Python features
The primary use case for us is ETL pipelines. We write some pipelines to ingest the data. That is the primary use. And, secondly, we use it to run some scheduling and orchestration. We need to run some automation jobs every day. So, we just write an Airflow task and pipeline that runs every day or…
MA
Aug 30, 2022
Good attribute attachment but problems with collaboration
I primarily use OpenText ProVision to create our end-to-end process repository and library for different parts of the organization, capturing the collaboration process to get the right inputs OpenText ProVision's best feature is the capability to attach a variety of attributes and extract and…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Designing processes and workflows is easier, and it assists in coordinating all of the different processes."
"The UI is very simple and easy to learn."
"I worked on a project at a leading German bank for two years, successfully migrating large applications with hundreds of jobs."
"The solution is flexible for all programming languages for all frameworks."
"The best feature is the customization."
"It's stable."
"Apache Airflow's best feature is its flexibility."
"To increase efficiency, it's quite simple to add dbt tasks to an Apache Airflow pipeline or orchestration file. With the tool, you can specify dependencies."
"The stability of the product is very good."
"All the features come as part of a standard license."
"OpenText ProVision's best feature is the capability to attach a variety of attributes and extract and analyze that information."
 

Cons

"The scalability of the solution itself is not as we expected. Being on the cloud, it should be easy to scale, however, it's not."
"The dashboards could be enhanced."
"We need to develop our workflow description and notations because out of the box, Apache Airflow does not provide some features that are needed."
"Enhancements become necessary when scaling it up from a few thousand workflows to a more extensive scale of five thousand or ten thousand workflows."
"Apache Airflow could be improved with the addition of more frameworks."
"We're currently using version 1.10, but I understand that there's a lot of improvements in version 2. In the earlier version that we're using, we sometimes have problems with maintenance complexity. Actually using Airflow is okay, but maintaining it has been difficult."
"I would like to see it more friendly for other use cases."
"Programmatically, it's very good, and it doesn't have any competitors, but you cannot develop anything in Airflow UI. You need to develop everything within the program. In the market, other tools have come up recently as competitors to Airflow, and they also give graphical programming options, whereas Airflow doesn't provide that feature currently. All the DAGs you want to build need to be coded in Python."
"Integrating with or interfacing with other tools like data management tools would be very helpful."
"Lacks the ability to have your own in-house developments."
"OpenText ProVision's collaboration management is quite complicated and difficult to use."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Apache Airflow is a cheap solution."
"We use a community edition of Apache Airflow. It is open source and free."
"We are using the open-source version of Apache Airflow."
"Apache Airflow is open-source and free of charge."
"It is an open-source tool. There are no additional fees or charges associated with the product."
"The cost is quite affordable."
"The solution is free if you use Amazon AWS."
"The pricing is on the higher side."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
5%
Energy/Utilities Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

Which would you choose - Camunda Platform or Apache Airflow?
Camunda Platform allows for visual demonstration and presentation of business process flows. The flexible Java-based option was a big win for us and allows for the integration of microservices very...
What do you like most about Apache Airflow?
Apache Airflow is easy to use and can monitor task execution easily. For instance, when performing setup tasks, you can conveniently view the logs without delving into the job details.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apache Airflow?
Apache Airflow is open-source and free. Hyperscalers like Google (with Composer), Azure, and AWS offer managed Airflow services.
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Also Known As

Airflow
Metastorm ProVision
 

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Sample Customers

Agari, WePay, Astronomer
Delta Technology, Export Development Canada, Rompetrol, Salt River Project, AMEC, U.S. Air Force, HP Consulting & Integration
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