Switch to Orkes: A modern alternative to BPMN tools

Why switch to Orkes Conductor?

Orkes Conductor

Legacy BPMN Tools

Architectural approach

Designed for modern, cloud-native distributed environments offering:

Optimized performance in microservices, serverless and event-driven architectures
Seamless scaling for millions of workflow executions in the above enviornments
Lower infrastructure complexity and costs

Built for monolithic, on-prem architectures and lacks native support for distributed systems.
Require additional middleware to adapt to cloud environments, increasing complexity and creating performance bottlenecks.

Development methodology

Developer-first approach

Integrates smoothly with modern development
practices (CI/CD, GitOps)
Supports multiple programming languages,
enhancing flexibility
Reduces the learning curve for technical teams
already familiar with cloud technologies

Rely heavily on proprietary visual modeling language and may not integrate well with modern development workflows.

Scalability and performance

Designed for high-performance, high-volume scenarios:

Elastic scaling based on demand
Handles millions of concurrent workflows
effortlessly
Battle tested at Netflix scale

Struggle with high-volume scenarios, often requiring costly infrastructure investments to scale.
Scaling processes are manual, leading to performance issues during peak loads

Integration capabilities

In today's API-driven world, Orkes shines with:

Native support for APIs and microservices
Seamless integration with cloud services and
modern tools
Language-agnostic design, supporting true
polyglot environments

Integration capabilities can be less flexible and more complex to implement in a microservices architecture.

Customization

Orkes offers deep technical customization, allowing developers to implement complex logic and integrations through code, APIs, and plugins, without being limited by visual tools

Traditional BPM tools are often limited by their visual modeling paradigms or proprietary scripting languages, restricting customization

Development and deployment speed

With its modern architecture and developer-
friendly approach, Orkes enables:

Rapid prototyping and deployment of workflows
Easier collaboration between development and
operations teams
Quicker adaptation to changing business
requirements

The rigid structure and complex modeling requirements of many BPM tools slow development and deployment, as changes often involve multiple layers of modeling and testing, hindering agility.

Cost-effectiveness

No proprietary experience needed to get started and maintain the platform
Way lower TCO as compared to legacy BPMN tools

Proprietary experience needed with high up-front investment and high TCO

"I can't stress enough how much Orkes Cloud has helped us over the past year to get our microservices efforts off the ground and accelerate this process. And our development teams love Orkes because they can quickly make the microservices they need. Our development teams can automate anything they want. It's very empowering,"

Andy French,

AVP of Platform Automation, United Wholesale Mortgage

“Orkes has been instrumental in increasing developer agility, creating cost efficiencies, and building highly reliable and secure applications. We’re so impressed with the results that we are migrating more workflows from other platforms to Orkes and initiating all flows on Orkes.”

Thisara Alawala,

Lead Architect, Foxtel

“Thanks to Orkes Conductor, we can continue to focus on building our workflows. And because it’s all hosted in Orkes Cloud, we don’t have to think about building and maintaining the orchestration engine ourselves. We can focus on creating an exceptional customer experience and optimizing our margins,”

Chintan Shah,

VP of engineering, Collective

“We didn't want data management; we wanted a powerful microservice orchestration engine. After a careful analysis, Normalyze chose Conductor delivered by Orkes Cloud.”

Ravi Ithal,

Founder & CTO, Normalyze

“One of the things that really attracted me to Orkes Conductor is that the infrastructure is already in place. As a CTO, I want my team to build very specific tasks and applications rather than spend the time building infrastructure, which Orkes Conductor allows them to do.”