What do you like best about the product?

Orkes is relatively easy to learn and to use. It takes perhaps a project or two, but once you change your paradigm about building solutions with an orchestrator, it opens a ton of possibilities.

The ability to scale workflows is great. I see Orkes as a faster way to build modular solutions without having to build infrastructure. My team is less focused on infrastructure of a whole workflow, and they now spend the time creating value added solutions that leverage all the benefits that come out of the box from Orkes.

Also, I love the different types of connectors, as they reduce a lot of the complexity in managing different integrations with other technologies. There are a lot of connectors out of the box. Finally, a really cool addition is the concept of a human task, in which Orkes can control and manage tasks that require human manual input.

Also, we have found extremely responsive support from their team, and access to the creators of the solution for architectural guidance. That is very valuable.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not a whole lot to say here. It took some time to get my team to be involved in Orkes, but that was more because they were busy with other projects. I had a bit of resistance at the begining because it wasn't clear how Orkes could be used right away. But once those developers had an opportunity to work on the solution with some focus and build a specific workflow for our enterprise, they were immediately converted.

So, perhaps more easily available material to educate the developers on the immediate benefits could help. But this is a lot more about our internal process than anything else.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a software solution that offers the ability to integrate with via Enterprise APIs. Many of our most common workflows have been built independently and with their own infrastructure. Orkes is allowing us to standardize all integrations, to build middlewares, and to centralize the implementation allowing a lot of reusability in its components.

Orkes allows us to create workflows and middlewares that are scalable, modular, and reusable, with all the benefits out of the box, like scalability, observability, monitoring, reportability, and centralization of the control and management.