We performed a comparison between Appian and AWS Step Functions 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."The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"The process models provide self-documenting systems."
"Rapid development with low-code makes it easier to quickly get apps implemented and the time to break-even and ROI is much faster."
"What stands out are the speed of the product, the quick, easy development, and visual diagramming."
"It has good integrations. We were looking for out-of-the-box integration with both on-prem and publicly accessible data sources. We needed integration with the cloud, OData, our REST API feed, and then on-prem passthrough to go to a SQL database or on-prem APIs through Azure local deployment, etc."
"Technical support is helpful."
"In terms of interface, it's very good. In terms of infrastructure, it's amazing and already using multiple tools behind the scenes. It's a low-code platform, so it's very easy to implement."
"The initial setup was seamless. We didn't run into any hardships at all."
"It is a scalable solution."
"What I like the most about Amazon Step Functions is how easy it is to use."
"The integration capability is easy, whereas building state machines is tricky."
"The number of historical events is great."
"It's a general solution that you can adapt to your own needs and is simple to use. We like that it can be integrated with everything in the AWS suite, and that the creation of the pipeline can be done using the graphical user interface."
"One can rate all the calls and that is a good feature."
"The solution is stable...The solution is easy to scale."
"It's Amazon, it's scalable."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"There is no UI customization possible."
"It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem."
"It has it's own built-in UI components and doesn't provide much flexibility to customize or extend those components."
"The solution could use some more tutorials to help brand new users figure out how to use the product effectively."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"There are some restrictions with respect to using external components within Appian. So, for example, if we do not have a particular feature available, there's a long cycle of getting approvals and all of that. That does not offer flexibility, which definitely can be improved on."
"The solution's data size limit can be improved."
"It is hard to coordinate the declaratory language."
"The interface can sometimes feel limited, as we're unable to see what AWS is running behind the scenes."
"The solution's pricing could be cheaper. It is cheaper than Airflow."
"The price and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"I would like to see more data transformation features in Amazon Step Functions like additional operators and logic."
"It wasn't easy to understand the licensing model. It's like if you use just a little, it's cheap, but it becomes more expensive as you use more. It's like a hook that ties you inside the Amazon ecosystem. So, it creates a dependency."
"Setup took about one day. We had some errors to understand in the beginning, but now everything is working good."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews while AWS Step Functions is ranked 12th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 9 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while AWS Step Functions is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AWS Step Functions writes "Simplifies complex task automation and enhances development workflows while offering user-friendly interface, seamless scalability and efficient workflow orchestration". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Pega BPM, whereas AWS Step Functions is most compared with Camunda, IBM BPM, Pega BPM, Oracle BPM and Apache Airflow. See our AWS Step Functions vs. Appian report.
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