Oracle BPM Suite vs. Symbio

Oracle BPM Suite

Symbio

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Oracle BPM Suite	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	The Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.	N/A
Symbio	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Symbioworld (or Symbio) offers business process management (BPM) applications. The Symbio Business Manager combines all BPM, QMS and IMS solutions in one product. And Symbio Business Connectors connects to leading business applications such as SAP®, Microsoft, Celonis, Atlassian, and Micro Focus to create synergies and promote the BPM system.	N/A

Pricing

Oracle BPM Suite

Symbio

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Oracle BPM Suite	Symbio
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Oracle BPM Suite	Symbio
Considered Both Products	Oracle BPM Suite Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle BPM Suite We have selected Oracle BPM Suite because we use Oracle Middleware Suite in our Production system. BPM is part of [the] Middleware Suite. We selected BPM as a frontend system for our business process. We also use BPM to integrate BPM with several other Oracle ecosystem[s]. … Incentivized Helpful? Cristian Bodnarasec Senior Software Development Manager Chose Oracle BPM Suite The competition for Oracle BPM Suite is far ahead. With a more modern user-interface, very well thought out usability, integration with virtually everything, any new tool for business processes will be better. The biggest difference is, in my opinion, being able to target the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle BPM Suite We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle BPM Suite IBM's Rational RequistePro was considered as an alternative but due to the client's good experience with existing Oracle services, BPM Suite was finally decided upon. Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Angel Merino Vega Analista de Sistemas Chose Oracle BPM Suite The presentation of the diagrams that the tool can generate is ostentatious and very striking. If you are going to work with Oracle database, the tool allows you great integration capabilities. Bizagi is a very good alternative, although in simulation and in final results … Incentivized Helpful? Galen Mosier Business Analyst Chose Oracle BPM Suite Oracle BPM is the first and only product of its kind that we have used. I am, unfortunately, not able to compare it to any similar product. Incentivized Helpful? Shawn Ruff Director, Fusion Middleware Practice Chose Oracle BPM Suite 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 … Helpful? Shouvik Das Student Chose Oracle BPM Suite Because of its powerful features and ability to be flexible designing complex processes Helpful?	Symbio No answer on this topic

Features

Oracle BPM Suite

Symbio

Reporting & Analytics

Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle BPM Suite 6.0 Ratings 31% below category average	Symbio - Ratings
Dashboards	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Standard reports	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Custom reports	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Process Engine

Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle BPM Suite 7.4 Ratings 12% below category average	Symbio - Ratings
Process designer	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Process simulation	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Business rules engine	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
SOA support	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Process player	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Support for modeling languages	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Form builder	4.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Model execution	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Collaboration

Comparison of Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle BPM Suite 6.0 Ratings 33% below category average	Symbio - Ratings
Social collaboration tools	6.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Content Management Capabilties

Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle BPM Suite 7.0 Ratings 15% below category average	Symbio - Ratings
Content management	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Oracle BPM Suite	Symbio
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User Ratings
	Oracle BPM Suite	Symbio
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Oracle BPM Suite	Symbio
Likelihood to Recommend	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain. Shouvik Das Student Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Not easy to debug errors. Shouvik Das Student Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Overall satisfactory Shouvik Das Student Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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. Shawn Ruff Director, Fusion Middleware Practice Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	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 Cristian Bodnarasec Senior Software Development Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
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