Gazelle Platform vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Gazelle Platform
Score 6.0 out of 10
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The Gazelle Platform is a portal to store data and resources: documents, reports, photos, and media files; links, contacts, communication streams, social networking, and activity streams. It helps organizations manage projects, team members, and communication all in one portal. Functionality includes Project Management, Task Management, Time Tracking, Resource Management and Reporting Key Functions..N/A
IBM Business Automation Workflow
Score 9.7 out of 10
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IBM Business Automation Workflow is a solution that helps users automate digital workflows to increase productivity, efficiency and insights — on premises or on cloud.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Enterprise Content Management
Comparison of Enterprise Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Gazelle Platform
8.3
Ratings
4% above category average
IBM Business Automation Workflow
-
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Content capture & imaging2.00 Ratings00 Ratings
File sync, storage & archiving8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Document management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Records management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content search & retrieval9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise content collaboration5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content publishing & creation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security, risk management & information governance10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract lifecycle management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated workflows9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Gazelle Platform
-
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IBM Business Automation Workflow
10.0
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20% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
Gazelle Platform
-
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IBM Business Automation Workflow
10.0
Ratings
18% above category average
Process designer00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Gazelle Platform
-
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IBM Business Automation Workflow
10.0
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17% above category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
Gazelle Platform
-
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IBM Business Automation Workflow
10.0
Ratings
20% above category average
Content management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Gazelle PlatformIBM Business Automation Workflow
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.0
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Usability
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8.0
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Support Rating
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8.0
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In-Person Training
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9.0
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Implementation Rating
-
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9.0
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Product Scalability
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Gazelle PlatformIBM Business Automation Workflow
Likelihood to Recommend
Anyone unable to find software specific to their needs- look no further. Gazelle Platform will suit you. The staffing world is suited as there are more variables than one person and one client. There are more variables. This software would cover anything but is maybe not needed for a simple user. This is to solve the problem of dynamics being outside the norm.
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It is best suited for streamlining business processes in our enterprise. It acts as middleware and allows to use of mobile development
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Pros
  • Adaptability - open to the complex world of staffing
  • Highly responsive
  • Quick turnaround on edits and initial set up
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  • Case management - provides flexibility for dynamic processing.
  • Smarter process - streamlines repeatable activities and does work distributions.
  • Advanced integration - makes integration with other systems very easy.
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Cons
  • Complicated dashboard
  • Too many options for different parts of the process on one page
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  • Installation is (typically) a bit painful out of the box and requires expert help.
  • Following installation, initial projects require outside consulting expertise to be successful. Projects without importing BPM expertise tend to have much higher failure rates. Though individually the technologies involved are widely available and not complicated, combined and collectively BPM solutions require a flexible, creative, technical talent to help deliver. It takes time to learn the judgment and craft required.
  • The out-of-the-box UI controls (widgets) are not terribly inspiring- on desktop or mobile. Use of third party toolkits (e.g. Brazos) is recommended. Silver lining: those third party toolkits are quite good.
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Likelihood to Renew
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This particular decision will be made by other people. Overall IBM BPM is the best BPM engine that I have worked with. It is implemented at our company and IT and business are already somewhat familiar with it. Therefore if asked I will recommend renewal as long as the price is reasonable.
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Usability
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Building complex UIs can be cumbersome. Calling complex SOA services that have a lot of objects, types, anyType attributes, recursive object references, etc can be cumbersome. The Process Designer IDE communicates with the server side Process Center a lot and as a result it is pretty slow. The IDE is also Eclipse based which doesn't make it faster.
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Support Rating
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Issues can be raised through tickets and it works based on the priority of the issue. The Support Team response is also good and the solution is provided in a short span of time. In a case where the issue is serious, they try to find out the root cause and provide an alternative for it.
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In-Person Training
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• Attended on premise sysadmin training for 4 days, 8 hours per day. Although further follow-up training was available, I never felt the need to go back. Training was very hands-on with real modeling (rather than just following a manual). Very effective.
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Implementation Rating
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• Very satisfied – not too difficult at all.
• We had a consultant available as part of our contract, but we didn’t really need to use (except for some advice on ActiveDirectory and single sign-on)
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Alternatives Considered
Gazelle Platform is much more advanced and user-friendly for a candidate scheduling multiple events. This triggers our candidates to easily schedule more interviews which is exactly what we need to save time and secure the candidate a job. Gazelle Platform is the only available software for what we needed. It’s not a simple calendar, it’s use is complex which is what was needed at my last staffing job.
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Pega Pega is a comprehensive suite which offers a unique theme of BPM development in the market. A no-coding approach based on rules with inheritance makes Pega a very powerful product. However Pega, falls short on integration centric capabilities and very rigid to customize. On the other hand IBM comes with array of products which suits needs of varying degree. Advanced integration is solved by BPEL Process Server which has support for state based patterns and mediation. Dynamic rules and event management can be solved with WODM, Cloud to on-premise connectivity with Cast Iron, Enterprise gateway and security usecases with DataPower, Social BPM with IBM BPM , WODM, mobify with Worklight. Pega has a little bit of eveything here and there. It solves the dynamic rule management, brings out the flavor of Social BPM and mobility with Antenna ( I guess) and predictive analytics as well in one single suite. There are certain usecases which needs to have a little bit of everything, however this little bits and pieces of functionality when its blows, Pega would have problems to scale. With IBM its a bit nightmare to maintain a variety of technologies, however you can wish to go for one without the other and go for something only when you truly need it. Pega vs IBM Its difficult to pick a winner. In nutshell when you want a full scale BPM with rich integration capabilities go for IBM BPM. On the other hand if you hava mature integration capability already, Pega can yield quick results for you as well. Pega's strength is its methodology. IBM BPM's strength is integration. Actually you can't go wrong with both in terms of implementation. My strong recommendation is to invest time to process analysis and pick a good vendor to support consulting and implementation.
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Scalability
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It scales from small team interactions to business processes serving thousands of employees, as well as straight-through-processing needs that go well beyond. Of course, scale is always in the eye of the beholder, but IBM BPM does a good job of giving you all of the hooks, APIs, and data that you need to take on whatever scaling approaches you need to meet the load
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Return on Investment
  • Gazelle Platform saves us time on taking calls for appointments for multiple location job interviews from many candidates looking for work.
  • This has freed up a customer service rep to assist with other duties, so the ROI is positive.
  • The initial cost of the Gazelle Platform is made up immediately, as the software will save you so much time and manpower.
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  • Easier to implement and does not take much effort to work on it.
  • Versioning made easy. We can even degrade to the previous version in case of any issue, which is not easier to do in other BPM suites, thereby, saving a good amount of time.
  • Helped in achieving client requirements faster, which results in a higher return of investment.
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