Global Innovation Director at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jul 5, 2023
The hardcore USP of IBM Blueworks right now in the market is its pricing strategy, which is very, very good. It is very sweetly prized to bring people onto a digital view, and that's one we have always noticed. It helps us convince clients who do not see a lot of return on investment. The pricing strategy is amazing. The solution is very, very cost-effective. The license for the solution is on an annual subscription basis. Additional costs depend on whether the customers choose private clouds. If they choose private clouds, then there's a fee. However, they must only pay the license cost if it is a public cloud.
Blue licenses are sold per 100 and I am not familiar with the cost. There are editor licenses that are around 50 euros per month, and contributor licenses that are around 30 euros per month.
Global Innovation Director at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 19, 2020
Cost for me is very much a comparative number - to ROI and compared to market. IBM BWL is great compared to market and ROI index. Most of the tools do not provide off the shelf pricing, but IBM has kept the pricing pretty open and flexible. The licenses are named user licenses and come as an annual subscription which helps the organization to keep the licenses to the optimum usage. The only challenge is admin activities every year for renewals.
Principal Business Process Architect at Met Office
Real User
Top 5
Dec 17, 2019
It's fairly cheap and scalable for simple process discovery applications. It is easy to use. There are more comprehensive solutions at a similar price. Beware that there is a minimum contract period and some fixed annual costs. With a larger number of users, it would like make sense to switch to a proper BPMS such as Appian (although I've not used Appian).
Head of Process Innovation and Robotic Automation at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Oct 9, 2018
Based on the licenses purchased, from a footprint perspective, you can have as many people as you want. You have multiple different categories of licenses to keep the cost low.
IBM Blueworks Live is a cloud-based business process modeling tool that helps you discover, map and document your processes. It is easy to use, allowing you to learn and perform business process modeling in minutes.
With Blueworks Live you can: Simplify business process modelingQuickly build business processes in a straightforward, cloud-based interface designed for both IT and business users. Improve process efficiency and accuracy A central process repository eliminates version control and...
I do not have exposure to IBM Blueworks Live pricing since this is managed by other personnel who handle the financial aspects of licenses.
The solution costs around 600-700 dollars/year, which is quite affordable.
I think the price is right for what you get. You can add or reduce the number and type of licenses every renewal period.
@Guillermo Lopez thanks for weighing in here :)
The hardcore USP of IBM Blueworks right now in the market is its pricing strategy, which is very, very good. It is very sweetly prized to bring people onto a digital view, and that's one we have always noticed. It helps us convince clients who do not see a lot of return on investment. The pricing strategy is amazing. The solution is very, very cost-effective. The license for the solution is on an annual subscription basis. Additional costs depend on whether the customers choose private clouds. If they choose private clouds, then there's a fee. However, they must only pay the license cost if it is a public cloud.
Setup, costing, and licensing are reasonable considering the functionality of the tool as compared to other solutions.
Price wise, IBM Blueworks Live is in the middle range, and I would give it a five out of ten.
Blue licenses are sold per 100 and I am not familiar with the cost. There are editor licenses that are around 50 euros per month, and contributor licenses that are around 30 euros per month.
I rate the pricing of IBM Blueworks Live a four out of five. The solution is not very expensive.
Making it less expensive would be good.
Cost for me is very much a comparative number - to ROI and compared to market. IBM BWL is great compared to market and ROI index. Most of the tools do not provide off the shelf pricing, but IBM has kept the pricing pretty open and flexible. The licenses are named user licenses and come as an annual subscription which helps the organization to keep the licenses to the optimum usage. The only challenge is admin activities every year for renewals.
IF there is any concern on the cost better to look to open source options
They have a free subscription model that gives a lot of power to the users.
It's fairly cheap and scalable for simple process discovery applications. It is easy to use. There are more comprehensive solutions at a similar price. Beware that there is a minimum contract period and some fixed annual costs. With a larger number of users, it would like make sense to switch to a proper BPMS such as Appian (although I've not used Appian).
The licensing costs are based on the number of users. There are editor licenses and UA licenses.
Our licensing costs are very minimal, because we get a lot of the solutions for free (as a partner).
Based on the licenses purchased, from a footprint perspective, you can have as many people as you want. You have multiple different categories of licenses to keep the cost low.