We performed a comparison between Appian and ARIS BPA based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Management (BPM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has very flexible adaptation and the ability to save and automate processes."
"What I found most valuable in Appian is that it lets you drill down on multiple things through the structure of the reporting and UI side. It's also low-code, yet it results in quick deliverables."
"There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements."
"This is the most complete solution of its kind."
"The most productive aspect of Appian lies in its ability to develop interfaces, particularly user interfaces. Creating user interfaces is highly productive, when these interfaces are integrated with the original database. In such cases, using record types proves to be a very efficient method of handling data. The synergy between interfaces and record types enhances productivity."
"It's heavy on business processing in terms of logic, process workflows, and primarily on the process design modeler. Appian is really great at that. In terms of the full stack set from a low-code platform perspective, it's definitely an eye opener since it can be deployed via mobile app and on the web as well."
"The most valuable feature is business automation."
"The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"Platform that it supports covers legacy and new. Caters to moving older objects into an integrated DB, relatively popular ones: SQL, Oracle, etc."
"It has the ability to scale up, as well as integrate with other systems within the organization to get real-time information from dashboards and reports."
"I am impressed with the tool's integration. It also facilitates collaboration in the organization."
"If you ever tried to draw a picture in a browser app or with a cloud service, it is normally a painful death. ARIS works perfectly on diagrams in the browser, so I was excited. I like it because there have been so many bad experiences in the past with drawing or doing something in a browser. Normally, it's always painful because it's coded badly. With ARIS, it is really well-implemented. It's simple."
"ARIS BPA provides very good visibility and control of processes because we have a concurrent license system. As a result, every person in our company and group is able to look at the published processes."
"you want to do modeling with the old notation form, ours was EPC, you can use the same object in the BPMN because the database is built in a way that you can use both things. So you only have to define it once, and if the notation form is BPMN and those kind of activities, you can use the same EPCs, so there is a connection between them."
"The solution provides integrations to ServiceNow and other systems, flexibility of connectivity, and reporting."
"The most valuable features are business process modeling and reporting."
"We have clients that want to use Office 365, Microsoft Analytics, and Power Apps. Appian just isn't the same as using something specifically designed to cater to the Microsoft Suite."
"There should be more flexibility for the developers to choose the look and feel of the UI. They should have a better ability to design their widgets and customize them with different colors, shapes, and sizes. That is a limitation that could be improved upon."
"The solution could improve robotic process automation."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"It would be useful if they could create an academy or forum in the future to help active users answer questions they have about the solution."
"It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"I could use more icons and other graphical elements."
"The workflow approval process could be represented better in the overviews."
"The usability. Others tools are easier to manage without same complexity that ARIS has."
"Integration with third-party tools should be improved (e.g. based on APIs)."
"I had a hard time with ARIS's access and licensing policy. It requires you to pay for each step you want to take forward with the solution."
"ARIS BPA is not really a platform that offers you the opportunity to execute processes that you model."
"The governance mechanism could be better, as could automation."
"With ARIS BPM, the script creation is quite cumbersome. With version ten, we needed our developers to do scripting."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews while ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while ARIS BPA is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Unqork, whereas ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and iServer. See our ARIS BPA vs. Appian report.
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