IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

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4.0

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Overview

About IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is an AI-enabled solution that helps enterprises automate time-consuming tasks and increase productivity. This solution is suitable for client support, accounts payable, HR onboarding, and other uses cases. Using low-code tools, businesses can create custom workflows based on their own unique needs. IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation can streamline document processing, content management, data extraction, and other tedious tasks.

IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation Pricing

Modular and consumption-based options are available. Contact IBM for more pricing details.

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$3,500.00ย per month

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Available

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IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation Reviews

Overall Rating

4.0

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

3.5

Customer Support

2.5

Value for money

3

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation

8 Reviews

User Profile

Salah

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2022

The Total Cloud Solution for Business Automation and Exceptional Performance.

The IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is a collection of software products that are aimed to assist enterprises in automating the business operations that occur both internally and externally to the organization. It doesn't matter if you're seeking to automate a process between departments or your inventory: both can be done using automation. Any company that values its continued relevance and competitiveness should prioritize the transformation and optimization of its business processes. When I realized how much time and money I had been wasting on inefficient processes and that the biggest challenge for businesses was the lack of the right resources and proper processes, I knew I needed to consult with a company that could help me. I knew I needed to find a company that could help me because I had realized that the biggest challenge for businesses was the lack of appropriate resources and processes. Thankfully, I was able to identify weak spots in our processes and discover the correct solutions to optimize business operations by consulting with IBM.

PROS

It's possible that certain aspects of the Cloud Pak are more important to the success of your endeavors than others, despite the fact that each of the products included in it has its own unique set of benefits you may enjoy. RPA (Robotic Process Automation), which is driven by AI, is one of these products. It offers seamless intelligent automation in addition to pre-built processes, which makes it simple for users to get started, and it also enables customers to see results in a short amount of time. In addition, the Decision Management tool provides comprehensive analytics and business rules, both of which may provide assistance to you in enhancing the quality of decisions you make and the experiences you provide to customers as a result of the actions you take.

CONS

We understand that many small businesses are struggling with the high cost of the licenses required for certain software programs. We hope that the prices will be reduced soon so that more companies can afford to use them. In addition, we believe that the documentation for these programs should be more detailed and clear, with more video tutorials to help users understand how to use them effectively.

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Maya

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2022

Achieve Operational excellence with the Only End-to-End RPA Cloud

This Cloud Pak from IBM remains our favorite solutionย since 2020 directly after the release of Process Mining and it became the main-key of our growth and impressive ROI based on digitalization, We're glad to share that we've become a part of the "Digital Egypt" program by implementing Cloud Pak for 3 government institutions, We detected their hotspots and improved them using the advanced intelligence of Process Mining to automate repetitive tasks and reduce their manual tasks with straight-through processing and seamless automation, We succeed to pinpoint customers pain-points and increased customerย satisfaction score with proven results.

PROS

On top of our favorite tools from IBM Cloud Pak is the comprehensive intelligent AI-Capabilities to achieve the operational excellence via decision management to make better decisions faster based on the advanced predictive analytics combined with AI to turn insights into personalized customer actions, We love the workflow management for empowering our employees with a 360-degree view of data and metrics to seamlessly measure success and easily participate in workflow improvement. All this get combined together to deliver the main purpose of digital transformation and its the automation, IBM RPAs are having the best operationalized AI technologies in the market these days and with the number of insights and metrics we gain, We become able to employ bots to do "very complex" processes and get rid of all the repetitive boring manual tasks and even complete them quickly to save time and reduce the operational cost.

CONS

No serious disappointments but we would be happy if they added more pre-built workflows to help us save time and to discover new automation opportunities with different use-cases. We also had a hard time with the training journey and the documentation wasn't so informative with detailed instructions, We hope that they improve it for future learners.

Samer

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

Comprehensive full-featured automation cloud with advanced AI/ML capabilities

The powers of automation and process/task mining are a life savior to every industry and enterprise with an incredible amount of benefits to getting after implementing a true good software like IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, Imagine hiring a team of mistake/risk-free employees (Robots), who are very experts in whatever you want them to do, They learn from the first time and they make sure to work the exact way you teach them without putting their touch, They don't care about how boring the task is, or how complex or hard it could be, they work 24/7 without getting tired or getting paid overtime, they don't get tired and their performance is almost the same as long as there are no bugs/errors, they don't need breaks or holidays and most importantly they take the salary of only one or two of them, while you could hire hundreds of them and bring their friends too with no HR procedures or interviews, they work from the cloud and no need to add slots for them in the office. seems impossible right? but this is what you get using robotic process automation and especially IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation to make sure every tool and capability is there in the most advanced way, the entire cloud is combining a set of tools to fulfill my career need as an enterprise solution engineer with long previous experience of suffering with different poor tools.

PROS

IBM has brought to us the best technologies in the automation market and inserted them into one single cloud with comprehensive feature-rich tools, We're using this Business Automation cloud from IBM as the leading digital transformation tool and the head of our next-generation digital workforce team, which is currently leading over 25 of digital transformations for some of the largest names in Egypt, and the Middle East, We had a long journey of failure to find the perfect end-to-end RPA solution, finally after this long journey and after the release of IBM RPA (Formerly WDG Automation), and IBM Process Mining (Formerly MyInvenio), which I already had my hands-on them for a previous client, but moving to my current employer has showed me the transformation of IBM transforming them into powerful comprehensive tools with incredible AI/ML capabilities in detecting automation opportunities and for the seamless integration with the rest of IBM Cloud for Business Automation, This RPA with Process Mining are the most powerful end-to-end capabilities with deep intelligence in all departments with seamless workflow, ensuring the safety of our business operations by automatically detecting, continually monitoring, and constantly improving them by identifying the top workflow candidates for automation, estimating our ROI, and displaying the impact of automation efforts on the whole process prior to implementation.

CONS

They need to give more attention to the debugging mode for debugging scripts to get over the really simple issues and to handle errors that are still unknown to juniors and hardly show up in search, but they are simple and intelligent debuggers could handle that. The main issues are in performance when dealing with large volumes of data in a heavy operation, various bugs show up and we're not capable of reporting them sometimes, but we do when we're able and I hope they take an action regarding them soon.

Hossam

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2022

A strong digitalization and automation solution for business transformation.

Since 2018, we have been using IBM's Cloud Pak for Business Automation and have seen significant improvements in our company's performance as a whole. The Cloud Pak for Business Automation has streamlined our business processes, significantly reducing client wait times and allowing us to take on more clients. We have saved a lot of time and money by integrating the Cloud Pak into our business - revenue has increased tremendously and our clients are very pleased with the efficiency the Cloud Pak offers. In addition, the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation is a comprehensive and easy-to-use solution for businesses of any size. It enables you to use the full potential of each component with its clean and user-friendly interface. This is an excellent solution for making the most of your IT investments and maximizing the return on your company's data. This software is especially well-suited for any company looking to boost its agility and productivity. We highly recommend this business software from IBM!

PROS

We're currently in the midst of a digital transformation and have been using this software to bolster our business agility. Since we began using this integrated tool, we've seen improvements in different areas of our business - most notably in our ability to quickly understand how the company is performing and identify ways to overcome any obstacles with the help of advanced features from IBM's Cloud Pak, like Process Mining and Robotic Process Automation. We're grateful for how this software has been able to help us meet our clients' needs in regard to content management and document processing. The content services it provides have also made it possible for us to exceed all expectations set by our clients without having to seek out any other software platforms.

CONS

When a new customer is trying to determine if automation is right for their team, the implementation configuration can be off-putting because of how complex it seems. To ease this difficulty, we recommend providing training to the customer's employees. This way, they can learn how to use the system or software quickly and see how it can save them time (and money) in the long run. Additionally, the price point is another area that could be improved since it's often a deterrent for users during the initial stages of testing out the platform.

Abeer

Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

My detailed experience with the automation solution of this century

This tool is designed to automate work and accelerate business growth by reducing manual efforts and giving space to the power of AI and ML to handle your operation and be your super digital assistant. It's helping us to analyze complex workflows for our clients. SMB to Enterprises are transforming now to automation and the new era is on peak now and we're getting hundreds of requests from companies who are planning to go for digital transformation. We are able now to design AI-powered applications with low-code tools seamlessly in no-time, assign tasks to bots, and track performance across departments in one dashboard. We started on day one of the first week of the lock-down of CoVID-19 to switch the entire operation to remotely, and that was the moment we realized how essential business automation is a must-have tool of this century and for every company. We used to implement it for businesses already, but it wasn't so essential to us. We couldn't believe the outstanding results we've gained after the first 2 months of utilizing the entire business automation cloud and we've been remotely since that day.

PROS

I like the flexibility and the way it enables us to create simple to complex workflows without a single line of code to improve productivity and reduce the complexities and limitations of working remotely. Manual labor is reduced to a minimum through direct processing to improve productivity and meet fluctuating customer requirements. I really love the user-interface and the great UX for the straightforward customer journey with the help of AI to identify opportunities from every interaction in the workflow. We consider this solution one of the greatest tools in the market overall, and no other software is as beneficial to us as IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, It's the only full-scale automation software in the market, assisting us in orchestrating all of our business processes and models through automated workflows. It provides insights through predictive analysis, assisting our employees in making better business decisions in the future.

CONS

One critical issue that we never expected to go through while on IBM, When the business has a large dataset and the workload goes heavier and heavier until it freezes/crashes (sometimes), and sometimes it just goes heavy for a while and then gets back to smoothness, I hope we can find out what's causing this since we experienced this with our clients too. And we believe this tool should be for everyone and not only enterprises, and we already implement it for SMB, but we don't find it fair enough with the pricing. In this case, it needs to be improved for them as their usage is never the same as enterprises and a flexible license is all that we/they wish for.

Rania

Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2022

Our super digital employee with advanced automation technologies

We've achieved a lot of success after switching to IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation, It's like hiring a super digital employee with deep expertise in the entire automation and process management with full of advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to fulfil our clients needs seamlessly and to be a part of Egypt's digital transformation campaign (Egypt Digital), turning government and public sectors into fully automated operation with AI processing and cognitive technologies to get rid of all the paper work.

PROS

Since it became the core of our operation and generated a revenue stream for our digital transformation services, We fell in love with comprehensiveness and the capabilities of every tool in this cloud, It enables applications in critical places where automation delivers exceptional benefits in content, process, choices and capture, And we're able to use any of these capabilities as an entry point to mix and combine the functionalities as needed while relying on the AI-powered advanced technologies of IBM to get the hard work done with no mistakes and outstanding results.

CONS

The implementation configuration is too complex for new users even to the people with previous experience in automation with other tools, and the pricing is an issue somehow for the most of our clients and they always complain about it in the beginning until they see the results, but a little bit of reduction would be great for all.

Miley

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2022

IBM's AI-powered cloud for business automation and data processing

We appreciate the work and the team behind this cloud from IBM as one of the greatest ROI drivers for us and our clients, We utilize process mining to identify the most significant operational hotspots and to run process change scenarios to evaluate potential effects. It enables us to run process automation seamlessly with robotic process automation bots and evaluate the outcomes for super-fast ROI calculation to generate results instantly after identifying process hotspots, determining which activities should be automated, and using the deep intelligence of IBM's perfect combination of AI and ML to discover patterns and the following suggested steps.

PROS

Every single tool in this cloud is an essential revolutionary digital transformation tool for us without a doubt, we love the fact that two of the greatest ROI drivers that we didn't even know that we could get with the license of this 'Cloud Pak for Business Automation', But IBM surprised us with an access to the 'Application Designer' of 'Business Automation Studio', The powerful low-code application builder with an easy-to-use interface to seamlessly build professional business apps with true low-code and this was one of most excellent builders we've used to create apps. It's one of the most significant ROI drivers since the pandemic until now.

CONS

I don't like the documentation as the cloud itself requires a lot of training time for beginners and first-time users since the implementation isn't so easy and this caused a training journey for our juniors to master it or at least the learn basics, Also the cloud performance goes down on heavy workloads, I have no idea about the main reason but they need to consider it for the upcoming improvements and bug-fixes.

Mohamed

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2022

Seamless Digital Transformation Solution from IBM

IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation was the key factor in achieving operational excellence and an effective digital transformation for over 25+ businesses in Egypt, Powered by the robust innovations of IBM and the intelligent AI/ML for seamless processing and automation, we became able to discover automation opportunities easily through the perfect AI-powered combination of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Process Mining. The insights we have been able to gather from user interactions and workflow was very helpful to us and allowed us to boost our performance to achieve a highly productive operation.

PROS

We liked every tool of IBM's Cloud Pak for Business Automation" from day one of the implementation, On top of them was the AI-powered Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with flawless automation capabilities that are driven by AI/ML technologies for a truly seamless combination of process discovering and decision making along with document understanding that's how a business could achieve the highest operation outcomes and boost the performance, as well as Decision Management for making the right decisions. Customer actions to get the measurable outcomes that help us generate a seamless customer journey, Actually It was like recruiting a team of highly experienced professionals

CONS

They really need to consider adding more pre-built workflows because they are very few compared to other RPA giants like UiPath and Automation Anywhere, IBM needs to open-up and build better engagement with the community and encourage them to contribute with workflows and pre-configured activities for various use-cases.

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