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ER/Studio Business Architect vs. Oracle BPM Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ER/Studio Business Architect
Score 0.0 out of 10
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ER/Studio Business Architect is a business process and conceptual modeling tool. It simplifies how business stakeholders and data architects document conceptual models and business processes and how those processes impact enterprise data, to align with business goals and regulatory requirements. The tool brings together the simplicity of a drawing tool with the rich semantics of the business process model and notation (BPMN) 2.0 standard. Business users and data professionals can model the…N/A
Oracle BPM Suite
Score 8.5 out of 10
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The Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.N/A
Pricing
ER/Studio Business ArchitectOracle BPM Suite
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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ER/Studio Business ArchitectOracle BPM Suite
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing for new customers only, first year maintenance included. Maintenance includes access to technical support and product updates for the defined period of the agreement.—
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ER/Studio Business ArchitectOracle BPM Suite
Features
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Reporting & Analytics
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ER/Studio Business Architect
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Ratings
Oracle BPM Suite
6.0
Ratings
31% below category average
Dashboards00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
ER/Studio Business Architect
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Oracle BPM Suite
7.4
Ratings
12% below category average
Process designer00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
ER/Studio Business Architect
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Ratings
Oracle BPM Suite
6.0
Ratings
33% below category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
ER/Studio Business Architect
-
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Oracle BPM Suite
7.0
Ratings
15% below category average
Content management00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
User Ratings
ER/Studio Business ArchitectOracle BPM Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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6.0
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Usability
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6.0
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Implementation Rating
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6.0
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User Testimonials
ER/Studio Business ArchitectOracle BPM Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
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Oracle BPM is part of [the] Middleware SOA suite. Hence Oracle BPM can be directly installed with Oracle WebLogic. Oracle BPM comes with [a] standard out of the box portal. Recently Oracle has introduced another Web based portal to design processes. Standard Oracle BPM workflows can be created using the Jdeveloper. Deploying BPM apps are easy to deploy over Weblogic. All features with Weblogic can be utilized with Oracle BPM. Oracle BPM is [a] standard Middleware product and can make excellent front end applications.
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Pros
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  • It can easily integrate with other Oracle products and even 3rd party software via adapters
  • It scales quite well and can handle the biggest enterprise level solutions we throw at it
  • The ability to use previous requirements as templates is invaluable
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Cons
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  • Extremely complicated to work with. The WYSIWYG is of no help either since it very buggy and poorly designed. If you are a business or functional user, you will have a hard time using the application.
  • The Oracle's "Using" and "Implementing" guides are nearly useless with no examples and case studies and there is no documentation available to learn or understand the process.
  • Very few skilled developers are available in market who really understand how to implement Oracle BPM suite.
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Likelihood to Renew
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In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.
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Usability
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Not easy to debug errors.
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Implementation Rating
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Overall satisfactory
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Alternatives Considered
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All are fairly similar in capabilities, but the Oracle BPM Suite has good support for BPMN 2.0, integrates well with open standards and has an excellent design/development platform when compared to the other BPM vendors. The Oracle BPM Suite integrates well with the complimentary Oracle Fusion Middleware products that typically accompany a BPM implementation, making it a part of an overall well integrated solution set. Oracle BPM also has very good monitoring, reporting and analytics support built-in.
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Return on Investment
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  • When we moved to Oracle BPM many years ago, it was a huge uplift for our business processes because we didn't have any tool to model flows except Outlook and Excel.
  • We established and streamlined the manufacturing workflows that were needed with the growth of the business.
  • We discovered after a while that the ROI was not great since along with the cost of the tools, we had to account the cost of development from the software team too. It took a lot of time to deliver our first automations due to the big learning curve needed for Oracle BPM.
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Senior Software Development Manager
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ScreenShots

ER/Studio Business Architect Screenshots

Screenshot of A drawing tool with the rich semantics of the BPMN 2.0 standard, where users can model the relationships between people, processes, and data with ER/Studio Business Architect.Screenshot of The Conversation diagram, a high-level representation of the Collaboration diagram. It shows various parts of the business process and who the participants are that engage in a particular process, with a logical relation of message exchanges.Screenshot of Choreography diagrams that show the exchange of information related to the messages between participants working together on tasks shown in the process. This defines the way business participants coordinate their interactions. Choreographies can also be connected in sequence to show a series of related tasks.Screenshot of A conceptual model, that captures the key categories and interactions of data objects that are used by the business, such as subject areas, business entities, interactions and relationships.Screenshot of Reference objects (e.g. steward, business unit, business rule, business element, and application) that can be included. Also can include external data objects (e.g. entity, table, view, data store, data feed, report, and flat file) in both BPMN diagrams and conceptual models.