We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and SAP Signavio Process Manager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Because ARIS BPA is more expensive, has a more difficult initial setup, and is less user friendly, SAP Signavio Process Manager ultimately wins out in this comparison.
"It provides the discovery functionality, and you can have a simulation on top of it to get your design corrected to ensure that it is within the right state of parameters. It is a complete package that you can use from strategy to execution because you have the design layer, and within the design, you can also do analytics."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I am an advanced user. ARIS BPM is intuitive for me because I know the UML, BPMN, and EPC methodologies implemented in this tool. It is very easy to create processes for restructuring a company with some descriptions."
"The shared repository allows for cross-functional cooperation instead of doing things in a silo. You can operate cross-functionally and really work end-to-end, instead of dividing everything up on a functional basis."
"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I like everything about ARIS BPA. I've used it for a long time and it's a fantastic tool. There is a list of things ARIS has that other solutions do not have."
"It has allowed us to model our enterprise process architecture."
"There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the portal for spreading it over the organization, the usability, and the workflow generator in the background."
"The feature that I like the most is the collaboration hub, where every user or every employee can see the process in the overview."
"The drag-and-drop functionality in Signavio is impressive and user-friendly, allowing easy connection to other elements without the need for excessive back-and-forth."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Signavio Process Manager is the ability to do business process models."
"It is a scalable solution."
"All in all, Signavio usability is excellent. Anyone can learn to use the tool quickly. This increases acceptance as employees are not facing a high learning curve. With the offered usability it is easy to model processes also live in workshops."
"This product has helped us to work within standards for process planning."
"The most valuable feature for me is usability."
"Its governance tool and integration with ESB and execution engine can be improved. Their partner support can also be improved."
"The usability. Others tools are easier to manage without same complexity that ARIS has."
"User interface (UI)."
"The standard out-of-the-box solutions for modeling are not so good. You have to do some configuration to make it easier and more user-friendly."
"It needs external API and the ability to navigate back, similar to "Back" in web browser."
"It would be helpful if ARIS BPA could have a simple database to get the extract of various attributes."
"There is a lot of room for improvement. They need to increase the performance of the system flow. They need to support it more. ARIS Process Governance is still quite basic, and they are using an old BPM and process automation module."
"The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it."
"We sometimes experience downtime or a dropped connection, so I think that the stability can be improved for the SaaS solution."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting function. At the moment, for example, while it is possible to report on how many users you had in the last month, you can't use it to tell you how many users you had from the first week to the second week. This is really a drawback because when you have an activity to promote Signavio or BPI, it would be good to be able to measure how many people you had in the system."
"There are some small graphical bugs, but they are addressed immediately by Signavio to their product development team."
"One of the most important points in Signavio that would be a great change would be the management of variants of the process."
"We would like a better way to give users the correct permissions for processes, whether to view or design."
"Technical support has been somewhat challenging; there hasn't been much visibility on how to create a ticket or integrate with SAP."
"It could be more flexible from a customization point of view, where the user is able to display only whatever he needs."
"From what I have experienced when I worked with a process team, we would like to work with dummy process diagrams. Right now, I don't know if I would set up a process as a dummy, since it very often gets mixed up with diagrams in production. There are many process diagrams linked to the production environment. I would like to have some kind of sandbox to work with. That would be very good. I don't even know if they already have it, but I would certainly like that."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while SAP Signavio Process Manager is ranked 6th in Business Process Design with 58 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while SAP Signavio Process Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SAP Signavio Process Manager writes "Has many functionalities and is used to model processes to the former operating model". ARIS BPA is most compared with ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Bizagi and Visio, whereas SAP Signavio Process Manager is most compared with Celonis, Camunda, Visio, ADONIS and UiPath Process Mining. See our ARIS BPA vs. SAP Signavio Process Manager report.
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You can export all process model attributes (including custom attributes) to Excel. For example, we set a process maturity attribute against our processes and then extract it against process sponsors and owners.
Selection and filtering are done in Excel, not in the reporting tool. There are quite a few standard reports as well. You can import data to the repository for use in process attributes (standard or custom) - we did this with our process roles. You could do it with any other layer of your business or technical architecture.
You can create process links for both vertical drop-down and lateral links between processes which end users can navigate. Also, you can hide or show attributes and custom attributes for different user groups who browse the published architecture.
I don't understand what is meant by "...create a custom report for push..." Perhaps you mean schedule reports for automatic dissemination? If so, no you can't do that. However, I'm aware that an API can be purchased that will likely allow you to do much more in the way of integration and automation but we don't have that.
I hope this helps.