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IBM · 1 category · Named, not ranked

IBM Business Automation Workflow

4Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. IBM Business Automation Workflow was named 1 time in Orchestration, where Prefect led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business61 of 78

under the label threshold

Mid-market70 of 86

under the label threshold

Enterprise84 of 89

under the label threshold

In orchestration · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named IBM Business Automation Workflow for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Workflow orchestration	Data platform	0%	70 of 86	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Prefect at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IBM Business Automation Workflow yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated IBM Business Automation Workflow across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Best for legacy-heavy enterprise environments, with limited AI orchestration.” Mistral Small · Orchestration · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM Business Automation Workflow, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Business Automation Workflow was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zapier4 of 41Not in the top three

Make4 of 40Not in the top three

AWS Step Functions3 of 40Not in the top three

Apache Airflow3 of 40Not in the top three

Appian3 of 40Not in the top three

Camunda3 of 40Not in the top three

Pega3 of 40Not in the top three

Temporal3 of 40Not in the top three

n8n3 of 40Not in the top three

Dagster2 of 40Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named IBM Business Automation Workflow. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 3 of the 4 answers that named IBM Business Automation Workflow and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

devopsschool.com2

elementum.ai2

moxo.com2

reddit.com2

unmeshed.io2

wrike.com2

zapier.com2

altexsoft.com1

appian.com1

betasystems.com1

No domain is on file for IBM Business Automation Workflow, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-workflow-orchestration-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison2

elementum.ai/blog/best-workflow-orchestration-tools2

moxo.com/blog/workflow-orchestration-tools2

unmeshed.io/blog/workflow-orchestration-tools-20262

wrike.com/workflow-guide/workflow-orchestration-tools2

zapier.com/blog/workflow-orchestration-tools2

altexsoft.com/blog/apache-airflow-pros-cons1

appian.com/blog/acp/process-orchestration/enterprise-process-orchestration-mistakes1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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