IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation vs. Pega Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Pak for Automation allows the user to design, build and run automation applications and services on any cloud, using pre-integrated automation technologies and low-code tools. IBM Cloud Pak is the latest deployment option of the IBM automation platform for digital business, available on Red Hat OpenShift.N/A
Pega Platform
Score 5.7 out of 10
N/A
Pega Platform is a combined business process management and robotic process automation (RPA) platform with advanced workforce analytics from Pegasystems.
$35
per month per user* (or $0.45 per case**)
Pricing
IBM Cloud Pak for Business AutomationPega Platform
Editions & Modules
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Low-code Factory Edition
$35
per month per user* (or $0.45 per case**)
Standard Edition
$90
per month per user* (or $0.80 per case**)
Enterprise Edition
Custom Quote
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Pak for Business AutomationPega Platform
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details*500 named user minimum. Additional users available in blocks of 100. Billed annually. Based on a 3-year term. **350,000 cases / year minimum. Additional cases available in blocks of 150,000.
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Community Pulse
IBM Cloud Pak for Business AutomationPega Platform
Features
IBM Cloud Pak for Business AutomationPega Platform
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
7.3
Ratings
18% above category average
Pega Platform
-
Ratings
API for custom integration7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Plug-ins7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
6.4
Ratings
23% below category average
Pega Platform
8.8
Ratings
7% above category average
Dashboards6.40 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Standard reports6.40 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Custom reports6.40 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
7.5
Ratings
4% above category average
Pega Platform
7.8
Ratings
7% below category average
Process designer8.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Process simulation7.30 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Business rules engine7.30 Ratings9.00 Ratings
SOA support7.30 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Process player7.30 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Form builder8.20 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Model execution7.30 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings5.40 Ratings
Business Process Automation
Comparison of Business Process Automation features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
7.5
Ratings
21% above category average
Pega Platform
-
Ratings
Business Process Modeling7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Decision Modeling7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Code-Based Automation8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
No-Code Automation7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
9.0
Ratings
7% above category average
Social collaboration tools00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
4.4
Ratings
60% below category average
Content management00 Ratings4.40 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Pak for Business AutomationPega Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
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6.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Pak for Business AutomationPega Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation has been exceptionally useful in addressing multi-step processes that need to be streamlined in application building or other processes. It is also efficient when running large amounts of data and contents that require automation with the guarantee of fewer errors. The product also performs organizing and managing tasks well, which makes it easy to find and use specific datasets.
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Pega [RPA] is good to address a specific business function requirement with not too many bots or automation processes. It takes time and effort to set it up. Though once done, it is very easy to configure and use. One should also run a POC to verify if this product meets the scalability requirements.
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Pros
  • I like how this tool provides us with automation capabilities to all our business processes hence improves our productivity.
  • Helps us to analyze complex workflows for our clients.
  • Accelerate our growth to digital transformation.
  • Reduce clients wait time. Hence we are able to deliver on time.
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  • Reusability
  • Pega’s Situational layer cake architecture is capable of organizing application to suit enterprise needs. An enterprise can have a complex organization structure located around the globe. Because of Situational layer cake architecture reusing common policies and procedures is easy while allowing for differences between products, regions, channels and customer segments.Whereas with some application development platforms, separate copies of the application should be created to suite different business context.
  • Faster application delivery
  • With Pega developers can reuse common policies and procedures, replicate functions and industry specific frameworks and utilize pega UI elements to develop applications. IT is easy to deploy.Therefore developers are capable of delivering application earlier compared to some application development platforms. Pega reduces time taken to deliver an outcome.
  • Pega upgrades
  • Pega platform is upddated to adapt and work with latest technologies.
  • Proprietary users support and maintain Pega platform continuously. Pega customer support is always willing to enhance product support.
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Cons
  • For heavy load, the performance should be improved
  • The integration with the messaging system is a bit tricky and hence example documentation could be provided
  • It is a very nice and powerful tool however still not very known, marketing needs to be improved
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  • Reporting is not extensive in Pega. Because of this higher management is not able to get the reports which will give them insights into a different area. So Reporting functionality can be improved in Pega.
  • Organizations that want to fully use all the features of the Pega 7 platform must follow Pega’s solution development methodology which may not be aligned fully with the organization objectives.
  • During upgrades, some of the rules which are deprecated have to be changed to new available rules. This becomes a problem as one has to understand all the functionality and then change a lot of things.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM Cloud Pak provides modernization in collecting, organizing and analyzing data. This product provides to unify market leading services such as data management, DataOps, governance, business analytics and automated AI. IBM Cloud Pak is best for resource and infrustructure optimization. IBM Cloud Pak is capable to accomodate our business automation needs.
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Pegasystems has continued to demonstrate a strong partnership with our organization and investment in their product that aligns with our overall vision and need. Pegasystems has engaged us at every level, with the assistance of minor defects to the overall roadmap planning and alignment of our goals
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Usability
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Pega Platform is enhancing its product and launching new features day by day which help to achieve customers needs. If I talk about the earlier version of Pega Platform (i.e. pega v5 and 6.3) there were many numbers of limitations in Pega Platform and if we need to do some customization then needed to write custom java and jave scripts to achieve the functionally. Now I can say Pega Platform is running with market trends and demand. Pega Platform is giving all the options which support the current technologies like decisioning capabilities, real time processing, mashup, process fabrics etc..
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
It’s very slow sometimes, but that may be our servers. Also the Knowledge Library needs some work - again, not sure if it’s our setup or what- but I’m unable to search the body of an article for content, so I have to be very intentional with tagging, but it’s not ideal.
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Online Training
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The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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Implementation Rating
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Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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Alternatives Considered
I selected IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation over Microsoft Power Automate due to its robust integration capabilities, particularly its seamless integration with our existing tools. IBM's solution excels in handling complex workflows and content collaboration across different departments, aligning closely with our operational needs. While Microsoft Power Automate is user-friendly, it was not as well-suited to our specific workflow complexity and integration requirements.
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We did evaluate multiple products offerings with Pega Platform capabilities and observed that Pega PRPC rules engine and case management capabilities are better over so many BPM Tools. We also conducted a detailed study with developers to identify the best products out of Suite of BPM products. It's observed that Rules engines integration is very streamlined with forms in Pega whereas other tools multiple have powerful data model capabilities but lacks the ease of creating business rules.
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Return on Investment
  • A platform with multiple functions, automations and system monitoring.
  • The components of this software help to obtain results from the first month of its implementation.
  • Each module has a price and can be purchased according to the direct need of the company; this helps to adapt to our budget.
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  • Our company has boomed in the past few years because we of how we use Pega.
  • We will get a project from a client and the turnaround will be so quick they will throw 3-4 more projects at us.
  • Smaller developer teams means less complexity and less overhead.
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