We performed a comparison between IBM BPM and SAP Signavio Process Manager 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."Some of the features that I like the most are team management and process performance. They are both very useful and very powerful with regard to the workflow."
"I think the best way it can be it improved, is to make it easier to install. It's a very complicated piece of software, and there are a lot of things you have to do to get it set up. It's not just running an installer. You install WebSphere. You install the BPM product, and there's a large host of other steps you have to do: run queries against the database, you have to manually configure a bunch of properties files for your environment. I think if they could streamline all that, so it wasn't a considerable effort to install, that would be very useful. Because from an engineering point of view, you want to spend as little time as possible actually installing a product."
"It is a very powerful solution."
"I like the APIs and the BPM coach is a good tool. But if I had to pick one, it would be the API."
"Initially, the process architecture studio was very helpful and it was compliant with BPMN standards."
"The designer feature, compared to other solutions is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the integration capabilities - BPM can connect with almost any legacy or advanced system."
"Compliance with the BPMN 2.0 standard."
"This functionality ("invite anyone for feedback") has substantially increased visibility over work-in-progress when it comes to process modelling and overall process management and it decreased the time spent on giving and receiving feedback through emails and through sharing screenshots/.ppt files/Visio files etc."
"The most valuable feature is probably the nature of it."
"The reason we chose Signavio is it's a very robust industrial-grade business process modeling data tool, with data capture behind it, as well as a collaborative nature. A lot of it comes out of the box and requires less technology involvement. It can be run well by the business users. That's what we really like about it."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the portal for spreading it over the organization, the usability, and the workflow generator in the background."
"The GUI is very easy to use, where you can sit together with your colleagues, discuss the process, and during these discussions you can build up the model."
"This solution is innovative and simple to use."
"The visual representation is extremely powerful and easy to use in process modeling and analysis. I can show it to someone who doesn't know business process mapping, and they still understand because it's visually presented. It becomes easy to explain variants and what needs to change."
"As a business transformation suite, Signavio offers a number of integrated helpful tools. The Process Modeler helps with the conceptual work, but is directly integrated with the components of the Workflow Accelerator (Automation) and the Process Intelligence (Mining). This makes Signavio an indispensable service package."
"It can definitely be improved in terms of performance and stability."
"The people working on the front desk are having some problem with managing the documentation. For instance, they get a picture, and if the picture comes rotated 90 degrees, together with a picture that is not rotated, they have some problems dealing with that, technically. There are some minor aspects that on the usability side that are still lacking. That has to do with FileNet, too, I'm talking about the suite together."
"The initial setup can be tricky because IBM BPM is not based on a popular stack, and it's difficult to hire a developer for this product."
"From the testing perspective and minor enhancements perspective, customization is something that is a little tedious as compared to new tools. In addition, various open-source tools that are available are not working with IBM BPM."
"There is room for improvement in the stability."
"All our clients are changing to microservice and cloud service. However, BPM does not have a solution for microservice and cloud service."
"Consider an admin console during deployment. I would like to migrate single instances, not the whole bunch at once."
"I'm hearing things might be improving, to really deliver on BPM as opposed to simply workflow. That really should be emphasized a lot more than it has been, because a lot of customers will simply implement the process and leave it there, because the product maybe doesn't emphasize BPM as much as it should, as much as maybe they talk about it in the sales process. The whole idea of BPM, is to iteratively improve the process, and in order to do that you have to have the analytics tool with it. A lot of times that doesn't go as far as it should simply because there's a lot more work to be done for that to happen, and just some sort of technical limitations that don't make that as easy as it should be."
"There is room for improvement in analytics. People don't realize it, but the world has changed in the last six to eight months. Customers want to see AI like ChatGPT and ML capabilities in all aspects of business processes and reporting."
"For us, it would help a lot if this solution had floating licenses."
"Two executives cannot work on one modeling process simultaneously."
"One of the most important points in Signavio that would be a great change would be the management of variants of the process."
"There is always room for improvement is the capability of integration with other solutions."
"Part of the product that I think can improve is document control. That's currently not even possible. To work with documents we have something of a workaround using SharePoint."
"The workflow automation of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The licensing model could be better."
IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews while SAP Signavio Process Manager is ranked 8th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews. IBM BPM is rated 7.8, while SAP Signavio Process Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Signavio Process Manager writes "Has many functionalities and is used to model processes to the former operating model". IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and IBM WebSphere Application Server, whereas SAP Signavio Process Manager is most compared with Celonis, ARIS BPA, Camunda, Visio and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect. See our IBM BPM vs. SAP Signavio Process Manager report.
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