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Flowable
What Is Flowable?
Gain speed and agility by automating business processes end-to-end with the Flowable Platform. From simple and repetitive, to complex and unpredictable scenarios – scale and transform your business by connecting systems, data, and people.
Being open and low-code, Flowable is trusted by worldwide organizations as the Intelligent Business Process Automation platform to quickly build, deploy and orchestrate applications, increasing efficiency, while maintaining full regulatory compliance.
Who Uses Flowable?
Flowable addresses customers in financial institutions, government, medical technology and pharmaceutical companies, media organizations, and general industry.
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Reviews of Flowable
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Very Good and Flexible
Pros:
Flowable has a very good and flexible engine. There is so much feature about business management. Besides of this there is CMMN, IDM, DMN supports and features. There is included user management system. For backend, flowable has very flexible api.
Cons:
Flowable is weak for cluster systems with 1 database. Because flowable works with periodic sql queries from the database. If you have more than 1 flowable instance, you must consider this. If wrong flowable instance gets your process or job, it will be fail.
Process automation and Standardization with Flowable
Pros:
Flowable adapts open standards of BPMN and CMMN and makes building automations and workflows easy.
Cons:
Flowable can improve on the way code is managed and deployed in the system.
Quality of Flowable
Pros:
Flowable is easiest way to develop process management and it helps to developers solving problems implementing hard.
Cons:
Flowable is good but it developed by a community not well known.
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Comments: overall we are quite satisfied with the solution and support provided by flowable.
Pros:
Collaboration with Flowable was always a nice experience, competent and helpful
Cons:
no major cons, sometimes there were differences between what should be a standard feature and not a customer specific feature
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Awesome tool for automating time-consuming processes
Comments: Flowable's helped us automate tasks in a few differetn departments. Thanks to the workflows we set up with it, a lot of our time-consuming tasks are conducted much faster and in a much more standardized manner. A great addition to any complex operation.
Pros:
I think the best thing about it is the drag and drop feature. You can just pick an element from the list and add them to you workflow without having to choose a hundred different options
Cons:
We've seen more than a few bugs since we started using it. Usually nothing important but causes us a bit of headache every now and then.
Flowable is a user friendly tool that
Comments: My overall experience with Flowable, from a modeller's perspective, has been very positive. I was able to get a hang of the tool quickly and deliver promising results to the business.
Pros:
What I like the most about Flowable is the user friendliness and the ability to quickly model things and showcase to business end users for short feedback loops.
Cons:
There are still some configuration options are quite complex and usually require assistance of Flowable specialists.
Overall Good
Pros:
seamless navigation, easy to customize, and cutting-edge tool for all capital market
Cons:
None, I not come across so far anything as such
Flowable Review
Comments: Flowable is an open-source workflow engine used to build business applications.
Pros:
It offers a good number of built-in functions, no-code platform for quickly developing business applications.
Cons:
Sometimes it becomes difficult to find the solution of your issues on Open forum
Flowable Review
Comments: We use flowable for process management in large-scale projects. It is easy to model and does not need much code development. Quite successful for managing processes, assigning them to a desired person or group, monitoring their status, etc.
Pros:
It is very successful in case modeling and process management, it provides great benefits in assigning jobs to desired people, managing and monitoring processes parametrically.
Cons:
Guideline and interfaces can be improved.
evaluation with end user and software developer experience
Pros:
It has all the components for modeling the business processes of the units in enterprise resource management projects. We were able to produce outputs for process improvement in many places by collecting metrics on markers in line with the needs in our models. In short, it is very successful in modeling.
Cons:
We made improvements with the approaches we developed in creating metrics related to kpi. In fact, having such capabilities on the product will make it more preferable to use.
Best Framework and Tool for BPMN
Pros:
It's the best framework for the BPMN needs of a software. It has great UI and extendable framework to customize for your own needs.
Cons:
Flowable has a steep learning curve. You need to spent some time to learn to use and develop with it.
Flowable as Orchestration
Comments: Official Cloud support with Azure & AWS along with documentation will surely help.
Pros:
I would like to highlight & appreciate Flowable for its flexibility, customer service and ease of use as LowCode product.Flowable has an extensive flexibility to develop workflow for automation and orchesctration using triple crown standards of OMG either BPMN, CMMN or DMN along with out of the box implementation features.This is an excellent product and very good team who manages this product.
Cons:
Flowable UI can be more enriched with extensive features.