Flokzu Cloud BPM vs. Oracle BPM Suite

• Distributed teams (like our case), from all over Argentina, Paraguay, Perú, and Uruguay.
• Collaborative needs, like sharing documents, getting approvals.
• Manager needs: supporting alerts (deadlines and reminders) and custom reports for performance tracking.
• Tracking needs: when you need to know where a request, or a proposal, or a claim or a commercial lead is.

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.

Incentivized

• Process Versioning and automatic migration to the latest version.
• Process Sandbox lets you test and try processes before going to production.
• BPMN 2.0 support.
• Real Low-Code (no programming skills needed).
• Zapier and WebService integration out of the box.
• 100% cloud (no installments or complex configurations needed).
• An easy method to add new users/roles.

• 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

Incentivized

• Doesn't allow to use the product as white-label.
• Doesn't include connectors to SAP (it could be connected via Web Services).

• 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.

Incentivized

In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.

I'm not an expert, nor IT girl, but Flokzu has been so easy to use and setup that I could do it by myself.

Not easy to debug errors.

Nice people both on chat and e-mail, always willing to help us.

Overall satisfactory

BPMN support. More powerful process modeler. Better customer support.

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.

• Not allowed to publish the ROI, but I can tell you it has been a great investment.
• The more relevant outcome has been the ability to deploy new process and new versions of existing processes in hours/days.
• The knowledge base and easy of use made us autonomous, so we don't need external consultancy services.

• 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.

Incentivized