G2

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/17/2021

"The best enterprise controlled workflow management"

4.5/5

What do you like best about IBM Engineering Workflow Management?

IBM suite holds all the software development tools from source code to testing, requirements, and data warehouse reports and BI Since it's all combined and managed, you can have enterprise components of the above list, and they work bi-directionally with each other - so you can force attaching a task to a code that is related to the same user, and it is on the current sprint, the data warehouse capabilities are endless like the live Excel export that you can work on the sheet data offline and get updates when you're connected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Engineering Workflow Management?

The biggest drawback is that IBMers do not use it as their primary source control. So by not promoting it, the popularity declined dramatically, and developers moved to open source code versioning and cloud options where their code resides outside the vendor's premise (e.g., China). So the gist is IBM doesn't promote its product, and so the popularity declines. The source control plugin supports only Eclipse and Visual Studio clients, making it hard for other IDEs to blend in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM Engineering Workflow Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem solved was force binding code with related tasks since the same vendor controls them, making it possible. The permission level of each item and attribute is so flexible you could make a work item attribute visible from a specific state and be allowed to modify by one particular group. It has built-in warnings if you, for example, set a user of the wrong team to a task group would create an alert. You can set which selected values will be presented based on other selected values, for example, state and city. If you choose a State, it will show only Cities of that state. Source Control is powerful yet accessible, and you can use right-click menu to get most of your functionality. For example, take a folder from one module and move it with history to another module. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.