IBM Robotic Process Automation vs. Pega Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Robotic Process Automation
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
IBM Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere is a robotic process automation solution combining business process management tools from IBM with Automation Anywhere's bots and automation capabilities.
$840
per month
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 Robotic Process AutomationPega Platform
Editions & Modules
IBM RPA On premises
Platform starter pack, starting at USD 840.00 per month
per month
IBM RPA Software as a service (SaaS)
Platform starter pack, starting at USD 840.00 per month
per month
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 Robotic Process 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 Robotic Process AutomationPega Platform
Features
IBM Robotic Process AutomationPega Platform
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
IBM Robotic Process Automation
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
8.8
Ratings
7% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
IBM Robotic Process Automation
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
7.8
Ratings
7% below category average
Process designer00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Process simulation00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Business rules engine00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
SOA support00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Process player00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Support for modeling languages00 Ratings5.40 Ratings
Form builder00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Model execution00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Collaboration
Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
IBM Robotic Process 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 Robotic Process Automation
-
Ratings
Pega Platform
4.4
Ratings
60% below category average
Content management00 Ratings4.40 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Robotic Process AutomationPega Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(0 ratings)
6.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.8
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
4.5
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.9
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Robotic Process AutomationPega Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
This tool is capable of filling out forms for various records and work applications, and offers advanced functionalities that can be quickly comprehended. Although it requires expertise to manage, it is user-friendly and not overly complex to operate. Our cost savings have been achieved by minimizing manual labor and optimizing our resources. I appreciate IBM's support in automating various use-cases, enabling us to implement solutions for our clients regardless of their industry or department.
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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
  • IBM Robotic Process Automation is good in data entry and validation. This helps in saving time and costs.
  • IBM Robotic Process Automation automates the process of generating reports. This has helped our organization improve its accuracy and compliance.
  • It also does well in data extraction. This enables our organization to reduce time and cost and improve accuracy.
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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
  • It's complex and pricey, thus it's not practical for use in most small enterprises.
  • It takes some time to get accustomed to and it is challenging to absorb everything and understand each function when not all of it is addressed in the manual.
  • We recommend making improvements to the Chatbot integration and making it easier to build.
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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
We have the best use case and the experience with IBM Robotic Process Automation good to go for continues renewal for this tool.
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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
IBM RPA is a very powerful tool, it has almost all the features that are necessary to build, implement and manage highly functional robots. The learning curve is very fast, so excellent skills are acquired. It is not necessary to have strong programming knowledge because its use is very easy. It is just drag and drop commands. By adding rules and logic, wonderful robots can be achieved.
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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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Reliability and Availability
good as per usages
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Performance
good with value
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Support Rating
IBM has done a great job with enablement for the product. There is documentation for use-cases, development videos for beginners, and a community forum that has proven useful for getting started with the application. Although the resources cannot solve every problem a developer comes across, they have been very beneficial to our technical team.
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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
No answers on this topic
The online training is an excellent one, but still it is missing hands on development.
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Implementation Rating
I am main developer of the this implementation. I have faced many chanllenges in implementation as IBM RPA not provided direct commands to automate Excel. I enjoyed in finding solution and best approach for the implementation
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Implementation is totally depend up on the requirement
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Alternatives Considered
1.RPA Functionality: Both IBM RPA and Accenture RPA offer core RPA functionalities, such as the ability to automate rule-based, repetitive tasks, data entry, and data extraction from various applications and systems. 2.User-Friendly Design: Both platforms typically provide user-friendly interfaces and low-code or no-code development environments, allowing business users to create and manage automation processes without extensive coding knowledge. 3. Scalability: IBM RPA and Accenture RPA are designed to scale across an organization to address automation needs in various departments and processes.
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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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Scalability
# capable to handles high query volumes by distributing requests. # Good for Can process large data report.
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Return on Investment
  • IBM RPA can improve the accuracy and consistency of certain tasks, which can result in improved quality and reduced errors.
  • In our organization have IBM RPA has reduced the time required to complete certain tasks by up to 62%, which resulted in significant time and cost savings.
  • One of the impacts to our business was automating repetitive and manual tasks
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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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ScreenShots

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