Flowable Platform Pros and Cons

We did a market survey and hands-on testing of four BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) products and selected Flowable as our overall top pick.

- Easy-to-use but still capable and feature-rich workflow and forms interface design tools

- Full support for calling REST APIs to interact with back-end systems

- A templating engine to generate filled-in PDF forms from workflow data

- Supports both Java and JavaScript coding extensibility

- Flowable's support staff are great: very responsive and knowledable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Flowable has two separate development models and two separate method libraries depending on if one is using the JavaScript front-end forms coding environment or the Java back-end coding environment. The object models and code methods provided by Flowable for each do not match each other and learning and techniques that one can use in one environment are often not available or applicable in the other environment. Having workflow designers go back and forth between these two language environments and Flowable method libraries constantly is a challenge for staff.

- Flowable is a high dollar-cost enterprise product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flowable's user interface is well-designed, making navigation and task management seamless.

It allows for intricate workflow designs, catering to complex business processes.

The ability to customise workflows and forms suits our diverse project requirements.

Seamless integration with other systems through APIs streamlines our workflow ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Int initial learning curve for intricate workflow setups might be steep for new users.

More comprehensive documentation on certain advanced features coule be beneficial.

While functional, the UI customisation options could be more extensive.

Creating complex decision models may require advanced technical expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Great automation features of Flowable make it a great choice for businesses. The interface is easy to navigate. The efficiency of businesses highly increased by using Flowable. It can be customized according to the needs of the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For now, the only downside is that they need to improve their method of marketing. Also, the support need to be improved so that more people can realise its features and come forward to deploy it in their businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The detailed stages overview and the audit trail features for process governance. Our process had various to and fro at the email / Excel level, hence having this platform was much fluent to oversee the governance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of navigation can be improved a lot more for better functioning. It's not so easy to integrate because of the constraints with the timestamp of the prior date information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flowable's capacity to automate processes from start to finish is a game changer for businesses. It not even enhances efficiency but also minimizes the chances of mistakes and obstacles leading to more seamless operations and quicker service delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although Flowable ability to be customized is an aspect users , without expertise may find it challenging to integrate the platform with their existing systems and data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flowable has great UI and extendable framework to customise and personalize for your own needs and use , it offers a good number of features and a no code platform for quickly developing applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need to be marketed more , the community and the platform is still at a growing phase.

adding more tools in the arsenal would work phenomenally well . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I liked there editor to edit form and find it super easy to design new forms and pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User experience is not quite intutive, specially workspace management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its worth mentioning that the platform and community are still growing and benefits from marketing. The community mainly consists of freelancers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It falls short when it comes to offering advanced capabilities required by larger enterprises. It does not provide time to fully evaluate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Low Code / No code software development. Agility . Product can be developed at a much lesser time while using these kind of tools. Workflow management. Various tasks can be automated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is very less documentation available for Flowable. The product is still in its nescent stage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The features provided by Flowable it require some expertise to integrate with existing systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platforms interface feel overwhelming and difficult to navigate and understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.