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IBM BPM vs Salesforce
March 10, 2025 | Author: Michael Stromann
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IBM BPM is a comprehensive Business Process Management Platform (BPM), providing full visibility and insight to managing business processes.
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Most-popular CRM. Easy collaboration. Proven cloud platform. Salesforce.com offers everything you need to transform your business into a Social Enterprise, so you can connect to customers and employees like never before. With no software or hardware to install, you're up and running—and seeing a positive impact on your business—quickly.
IBM BPM and Salesforce are, in a manner of speaking, two sides of the same slightly bewildering coin. Both exist to make businesses run more smoothly, which is a noble pursuit, much like trying to make a cup of tea that stays hot indefinitely. They provide automation, workflow management and cloud-based services, all in the hope that humans will one day do less work while still looking incredibly busy. Both can integrate with other systems, ensuring that no matter how convoluted your software landscape is, it will always find a way to be just a little more complicated.
IBM BPM, which materialized around 2005 in the United States, is the kind of system that appeals to people who enjoy the phrase "business process orchestration" and can say it with a straight face. It thrives in structured workflows, allowing companies to map out their operations like an overly detailed treasure map where ‘X’ marks "Optimized Efficiency" but somehow still requires several committee meetings to reach. Unlike its more cloud-committed counterparts, IBM BPM is willing to stay on-premises if necessary, presumably to haunt a server room in a corporate basement for eternity.
Salesforce, on the other hand, has been around since 1999, also from the United States and is primarily designed for people who prefer their automation with a side of sales pitches. It is fully cloud-based, which means that while you may never truly understand where your data lives, it will always be there, watching, waiting, analyzing your quarterly revenue. It comes with a built-in AI named Einstein, presumably because naming it after someone with a slightly less impressive IQ wouldn't have sold as well.
See also: Top 10 BPM Software
IBM BPM, which materialized around 2005 in the United States, is the kind of system that appeals to people who enjoy the phrase "business process orchestration" and can say it with a straight face. It thrives in structured workflows, allowing companies to map out their operations like an overly detailed treasure map where ‘X’ marks "Optimized Efficiency" but somehow still requires several committee meetings to reach. Unlike its more cloud-committed counterparts, IBM BPM is willing to stay on-premises if necessary, presumably to haunt a server room in a corporate basement for eternity.
Salesforce, on the other hand, has been around since 1999, also from the United States and is primarily designed for people who prefer their automation with a side of sales pitches. It is fully cloud-based, which means that while you may never truly understand where your data lives, it will always be there, watching, waiting, analyzing your quarterly revenue. It comes with a built-in AI named Einstein, presumably because naming it after someone with a slightly less impressive IQ wouldn't have sold as well.
See also: Top 10 BPM Software
