IBM Datacap vs Tungsten TotalAgility comparison

IBM and Tungsten Automation are both solutions in the Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) category. IBM is ranked #7 with an average rating of 9.5, while Tungsten Automation is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.0. IBM holds a 2.3% mindshare in IDP, compared to Tungsten Automation’s 4.0% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Tungsten Automation users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Tungsten TotalAgility and IBM Datacap are products designed for process automation and document capture. Tungsten TotalAgility appears to have the edge in deployment ease and cost efficiency, while IBM Datacap leads in data capture capabilities and integration options.

Features: Tungsten TotalAgility offers strong workflow automation and customizable dashboards, making it ideal for businesses needing adaptable solutions, along with robust process management. IBM Datacap is strong in optical character recognition and data extraction tools, suitable for seamless document processing, and it emphasizes precision in data capture.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Tungsten TotalAgility provides a straightforward deployment process and supportive customer service, aiding rapid adaptation and quick issue resolution. IBM Datacap offers a more complex deployment but provides extensive training and dedicated support, focusing on comprehensive setup guidance.

Pricing and ROI: Tungsten TotalAgility has a lower initial setup cost, offering faster ROI through streamlined operations and flexible pricing. IBM Datacap requires a higher upfront investment but justifies its cost with powerful analytics and efficient processing ROI over time, highlighting its feature richness and operational ROI.

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IBM Datacap vs. Tungsten TotalAgility

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Automation Anywhere

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) category, the mindshare of Automation Anywhere is 3.4%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Datacap is 2.3%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tungsten TotalAgility is 4.0%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Automation Anywhere	3.4%
Tungsten TotalAgility	4.0%
IBM Datacap	2.3%
Other	90.3%

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Featured Reviews

Venkat Sivaprakash

Management Consultant at Accenture

Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions

Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.

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DeekshithShetty

Software Development Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

High-accuracy document processing with easy integration and good image enhancement

The OCR extractions are very good, almost 100% accurate now. The integration with other tools is very easy, with inbuilt actions to configure and directly export to multiple depositories. It is also good at image enhancement, including the removal of lines, which is helpful in processing and automation and ensures very little user intervention, thus saving time.

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Ross Macadam

Director at iicon ltd

Has faced challenges adapting to evolving capture methods and competitive integrations

It's difficult to say what I'd improve in Tungsten TotalAgility because we haven't been actively marketing that particular product in the last probably six to nine months. The speed of product development means that my experience with it is likely out of date in terms of the product suite capabilities. The difficulty with customers nowadays is that they are subject to the winds of change in terms of the adoption of cloud technologies and the offerings those cloud technologies bring. Microsoft, for instance, is rapidly filling in the spaces between various product areas that other vendors typically owned. That makes it difficult for customers to settle on their functional requirements because the offers are competing in the same space. I look for more integration with mainstream subscription based platforms, more security integration, and possibly some more lifecycle management features. However, the difficulty with that is the competition with existing options that people have in their subscription library.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"We were working on a system called AS 400. Automation Anywhere performed well on that old system. It handled complicated processes. I had to review different menus and screens and give resources, storage, and databases. That's complicated."

"AA improves process consistency and reduces human error."

"Automation Anywhere's most valuable features include generative AI, similar to Copilot, which will significantly benefit developers; low-code or no-code technology; and document automation capable of extracting data from structured and unstructured PDF formats, presenting it clearly and easy to follow."

"IQ Bot is the most important feature and it has been extensively used by our clients."

"Using automation, these processes are completed in between one and two hours, using one robot, and with these savings in time, the staff can do more in other areas, improving productivity and creativity while reducing the need for overtime and positively impacting the company overall."

"Automation is going to become a new area we will certainly encourage a lot of people to pursue because of the lasting dividends it provides, including saving time and manpower."

"Automation Anywhere has by far, provided one of the best and easiest solutions to implement RPA."

"Within less time than it used to take, we can automate a complete Apex task."

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"This tool can be easily integrated with the Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or IBM cloud."

"It's a stable product; we've seen other capture products on the market and our view of Datacap is that it's best-of-breed."

"The big thing these days is really the Insight Edition component and being able to build annotators to extract from literally unstructured content: paragraphs and information where there's no start anchor point to define where that data is located. There could be a number of entities in that which you have to draw information from. Being able to extract from them is really the differentiator today between that product and many of the other products..."

"Our clients have significantly improved efficiencies when opening accounts for end users."

"It is very easy to develop this software. It is low code, and if you can't find the things you need on it, you can develop custom actions with more complex code underneath. They sync well, which is very useful for automating a lot of processes. It is a really valuable feature for the clients because we can ingest information and automate plenty of processes for them. The operators don't have to waste that much time on tasks. With Datacap, they can be automated."

"Datacap has all of the features that we need."

"It is the best solution for scanning purposes."

"One of the valuable features of Datacap is the user experience. One thing that IBM did a few years ago was they standardized all of their ECM products on Content Navigator, including Datacap. If you're an IBM ECM customer you have FileNet, you have Datacap, you have StoredIQ and you have a consistent user experience, user interface."

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"It is a very user-friendly tool in the market with a complete package of BPM, case management, and capture capabilities."

"Being able to extract data from documents is great, and the capability of this tool is great as it can replace legacy applications and make everything very easy."

"It's not so complex to design what you need to."

"The most valuable features of this solution are automation, ease of billing processes with the process net, and low to no code development."

"Since it provides both Capture and BPM on a single platform, it stands on its own in the business process improvement space."

"We have automated more than five business process using this tool."

"Some of our clients previously spent about ten dollars per invoice for processing, but after using the Kofax Total Agility, I believe they are spending only about one to four dollars."

"The AI-powered features are incredibly important for operational efficiency; they are a game changer in terms of the accuracy of OCR and ICR."

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Cons

"I think it is a little bit of an ongoing struggle, because we don't deal with the infrastructure. We have a separate infrastructure team that sorts all that out. So, sometimes there are communication issues just trying to get our internal IT team onboard to run through the installs and that sort of thing. But, definitely with the new cloud version coming onboard, we'll be looking toward going to that. Hopefully it'll resolve some of that friction that comes about through the install process and complexity."

"You could improve the tools for reading CSV/Excel, also providing wizards or detailed guides, otherwise, it is quite complex to use them, especially at the beginning."

"They continue to release new features, but end users struggle to adapt to them."

"The REST API could be improved."

"One of the things that we did was purchase the solution originally through IBM, as they had an value-added layer on top of it. Once we had another group come on, they purchased additional bots directly from Automation Anywhere, and they wouldn't integrate well. We had to uninstall the solution that we had purchased from IBM and reinstall those bots to move forward."

"Some NLP AI is required to work in combination with RPA, especially for reading unstructured emails."

"Automation Anywhere's current requirement for upfront annual payments limits flexibility for customers."

"It takes a lot of time to deploy, and sometimes it fails after a timeout."

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"When a client's requirement is not available in Datacap, out-of-the-box actions should be simpler to implement and not very complex."

"In one case, our client needed to scan 5,000 pages in five minutes, or less, Datacap was not able to accommodate this task."

"Datacap's technology seems a little behind the industry. It's still using the old .NET framework. They should move to .NET Core and start integrating some machine learning. You can do some integration yourself, but you expect a solution to include the latest machine-learning approaches if you're paying reasonable money for it."

"I give the scalability of the solution a six out of ten."

"I would like to see integration of Watson AI technology into Datacap."

"The IBM Datacap site actually is on the newer inside. They will give it as a plugin only."

"I would like to see the product have the ability to process more documents in parallel."

"If it is registered as a critical issue, we receive a response from IBM after one day which can cause our clients to lose business."

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"It would be nice if the tool has more connectors to different systems. It is an expensive solution."

"Room for improvement would be better OCR functionality in terms of Arabic OCR. There should be better accuracy."

"The pricing for Kofax TotalAgility could be more attractive, particularly the cloud version of the solution which was offered to my company. This is its area for improvement."

"Kofax TotalAgility is quite vast and complex as a product."

"Even though it has good documentation, key things are not being noted perfectly."

"User interface."

"Kofax TotalAgility is quite vast and complex as a product. We came from Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation, then we started learning Kofax TotalAgility, so there are a lot of things that were quite straightforward in the Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation cross-motion modules, but to do those in Kofax TotalAgility was a bit more complex or quite long-winded and could be improved. In the next release of Kofax TotalAgility, it would be good to have a straightforward low-code or no-code process because there were instances we struggled with having to put logic into a script or a .NET script, then calling that script, instead of the process being low-code, no-code."

"Sometimes there isn't enough accuracy when it comes to extracts."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am not responsible for the pricing part, but I know the pricing is competitive compared to other tools."

"They recently launched a Community Edition, which is okay, but they should have done this a long time ago."

"This solution costs approximately $3,500 USD per license."

"It's a bit expensive compared to other RPA tools on the market."

"It's an ideal pricing model to customize the components based on everyone's needs."

"If you are looking into Automation Anywhere, get the Community Edition and play with it."

"In terms of pricing, this is a good product."

"Talk to your manager and try to procure an automation license for training. This will allow you to train people, so you can move to automation."

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"In Egypt, we have exchange rates that change year to year, and currently, we're facing an increase in the exchange rate between our Egyptian pound and the dollar. Since we have been using IBM DataCap two years ago we had a good price, it was not expensive. However, I cannot say now if it is expensive or not because of the exchange rate. Additionally, I don't have the data of other competitors and I don't know the prices."

"It is an expensive solution."

"This solution is the most expensive in the market."

"We were using the User Value Unit licensing, which means we get charged per active user of the system, and if I'm not mistaken, we also had it for the rule runner service. They had a PVU license model, which is a processor value unit. For each process that we have in our system, we pay a certain amount of money. We found the pricing to be quite steep. It was really an expensive solution in comparison to Kofax, which had a different licensing model and was actually cheaper overall because they charge per page and not per user and per process."

"If you want IBM Datacap on cloud, which is a service run by IBM, the price can be quite expensive, but if you want to just purchase the licenses and own those yourself, then the price is very competitive."

"Pricing needs to stay competitive."

"Pricing depends on how much we use it. We pay per bulk quantity. We pay as you go. Therefore, it sort of depends on our usage of it."

"This solution offers seamless integration with other enterprise products, which is my area of responsibility, focusing on government sector projects. Larger enterprise projects don't pose problems. It might be suitable for small businesses as well."

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"The price of this solution is less than some of the competition."

"The licensing cost for Kofax TotalAgility is very expensive, though I'm unable to give you the range, the sales representatives of my company say that the product is quite expensive."

"It is slightly more expensive than other tools."

"Kofax TotalAgility is very expensive."

"It has a perpetual license. You pay once in a lifetime for the volume of scans you will do and the number of users you will have. You can have participants or regular users, and you can have developers and administrators. So, once you purchase it, it is for a lifetime, and then every year, you have to pay for the maintenance. There is an annual maintenance cost, which is about 18% of the licensing cost."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Construction Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	157
Midsize Enterprise	81
Large Enterprise	558

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Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	12

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Small Business	8
Large Enterprise	13

Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Datacap?

Pricing is in the mid-range but could be more affordable, rated at four point five.

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What needs improvement with IBM Datacap?

IBM needs to improve on scanning and reading accuracy for unstructured documents. Additionally, an important missing ...

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I primarily use IBM Datacap ( /products/ibm-datacap-reviews ) for data capture and scanning documents with OCR. Speci...

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What needs improvement with Kofax TotalAgility?

It's difficult to say what I'd improve in Tungsten TotalAgility because we haven't been actively marketing that parti...

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Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)

Datacap

Kofax TotalAgility, TotalAgility, Singularity IDP, Capture Enabled BPM

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Overview

Automation Anywhere offers ease of use, robust system connectivity, and GenAI-driven document automation through a cloud-native platform, significantly enhancing productivity across multiple industries with advanced AI features.

Delivering a comprehensive suite of tools designed for easy integration and rapid deployment, Automation Anywhere drives efficiency by reducing costs and automating repetitive tasks. Its cloud-native platform supports broad industry adoption, including advanced AI features like process automation and Co-Pilot, streamlining complex workflows with minimal technical skills required. Users benefit from robust integration capabilities, which facilitate seamless interaction with multiple systems. However, there is room for improvement in areas such as user-friendliness for beginners, stability, flexible licensing, and enhanced OCR functionality. Organizations in sectors such as banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare gain from the improved operational efficiency and ROI Automation Anywhere offers.

What are the important features of Automation Anywhere?

Ease of Use: Simplifies automation tasks with a user-centric interface.
Robust Connectivity: Provides seamless integration with multiple systems.
GenAI-Driven Document Automation: Leverages AI to automate document management.
Process Automation & Co-Pilot: Enhances workflow automation with advanced AI.
Cloud-Native Platform: Enables rapid deployment and integration.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Time Savings: Automation drastically reduces manual processing time.
Cost Efficiency: Decreases overall operational costs by automating tasks.
Productivity Enhancement: Streamlines workflows with AI-driven tools.
Improved Integration: Enhances ability to work with multiple systems.
Scalability: Supports growth with a flexible cloud-native architecture.

In the insurance industry, Automation Anywhere is utilized for automating processes such as enrollment management and compliance checks. Its applications extend to supply chain management, financial transactions, and business performance monitoring across sectors like banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, helping organizations to automate routine tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.

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IBM Datacap offers advanced OCR capabilities, auto-indexing, and integration with FileNet and web services to efficiently manage structured and unstructured data. It supports machine learning, low-code development, and streamlined workflows for improved operational efficiency.

IBM Datacap captures and processes different data types, providing extensibility and scalability for organizations aiming to enhance their document management processes. It integrates seamlessly with IBM FileNet and other platforms, while offering features like fingerprint recognition and image enhancement. Users benefit from reduced manual tasks and errors through its automated workflows. However, challenges include recognition accuracy improvements, faster scanning, and a shift towards cloud infrastructure. Third-party integrations and support services need enhancement, while increasing customization and support for the Arabic language remains essential. Enhancements in reporting, automation, and AI integration are priority improvement areas.

What features make IBM Datacap stand out?

OCR Capability: Robust text recognition for data extraction.
Auto-Indexing: Efficient categorization and data management.
Seamless Integration: Compatible with FileNet and web services.
Machine Learning: Supports intelligent data processing.
Low-Code Development: Simplifies adding custom features.

What benefits do users see with IBM Datacap?

Efficiency: Reduces manual tasks and errors.
Scalability: Adapts to organizational growth.
Extensibility: Easy to expand and customize features.
Streamlined Workflows: Facilitates smooth operations.

IBM Datacap supports industries such as insurance, banking, government services, and trade finance by digitizing and automating document capture processes. By integrating OCR-based data extraction and cloud services, organizations enhance efficiency and data management across various applications.

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Tungsten TotalAgility is known for its effective integration capabilities, offering diverse deployment options, automation, and a user-friendly interface. It assists in business process management across industries, providing robust security and cloud features.

Tungsten TotalAgility focuses on streamlining workflows through automation, low-code environments, and machine learning for data extraction. Its adaptability allows for transformation without extensive customization. Though effective in many areas, there's a need for improved OCR accuracy, especially with handwritten documents and Arabic text. Users seek enhancements in low-code development, better integration, and pricing adjustments. There are also calls for improved support, learning tools, and file storage integration. Despite these areas for improvement, its integration with services like IBM Content Manager and SharePoint broadens its business applications, particularly in automation of accounts payable and invoice processing workflows.

What are Tungsten TotalAgility's key features?

Automation: Simplifies workflows and processes across departments.
Integration: Connects seamlessly with other systems like IBM Content Manager.
Low-Code Environment: Enables rapid deployment and scalability.
OCR Capabilities: Manages invoice and document processing efficiently.
Machine Learning: Enhances data extraction accuracy for structured and unstructured data.
Security: Offers robust cloud and security features for data protection.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces expenses through automation of repetitive tasks.
Enhanced Productivity: Streamlines operations, allowing focus on core activities.
Scalability: Supports business growth with flexible deployment options.
Data Accuracy: Improves information quality with advanced machine learning.
Integration Advantage: Expands capabilities by connecting with existing systems.

Tungsten TotalAgility is used in industries like finance and insurance, where it automates payment processing and document management. It's employed for capturing data through PDFs and emails, proving valuable for businesses that require efficient data handling and processing in their workflows.

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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics

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