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."The Application Designer is very user friendly. There are also lot of plug-ins that you can use and, for the most part, they are free."
"The product's most valuable feature is the low code aspect of development. We can develop an end-to-end VPN solution using a single platform."
"Appian has many valuable features, the first being the ease of development—rapid development. Second, the process of learning the product and tool is faster when compared to its peers in the market. It's closer to low-code, and while it's still not very easy, it's more low-code than other products in the industry. Appian has a good user interface, a seamless model user interface, which comes without additional coding. It can also integrate with multiple systems."
"The setup is easy."
"There is no need to worry about vulnerabilities in the system, because Appian built a secure system."
"The technical support is excellent."
"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."
"It's a stable product."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the solution to fully customize the methodology according to the company's needs, and to enforce that methodology with features like filters, semantic checks, and reports."
"Good at controlling the workflow and relevant key processes."
"It has helped me get some ideas across more clearly to my colleagues."
"We also have relationships specified with our IT systems and our organizational chart. That makes it possible to analyze things from the systems point of view and regarding the organizational part of the company. It all comes together in one tool and that is what gives us the most value at the moment."
"It brings transparency and 360-degree views of end-to-end processes."
"MFT is quite attractive. A large amount of data is passed in almost no time and it is quite easy to use."
"Collaboration and governance over enterprise artifacts."
"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."
"While Appian is generally flexible, it's rigid in some ways. It takes longer to do something that isn't available out of the box."
"The performance is pretty good, but the distortions need to be optimized in order for it to work well."
"Appian could be improved by making it a strict, no-code platform with free-built process packs."
"The solution could improve robotic process automation."
"The reporting is not as good as in similar products. They could also improve the dashboards."
"The ability of the interface to load automatic data is not great."
"There could be a scope of enhancement for capturing the variety of use cases."
"Native mobile capabilities or hybrid mobile app capabilities are very limited. Things like offline sync, offline storage, access to smartphone device features, etc. are not supported by the Appian platform yet."
"One thing that could be improved is regarding the handling of the content itself. Maybe ARIS could provide a set of best practices, or best processes, so that people do not have to start from scratch."
"They should make improvements as per customer requirements."
"I believe the solutions BPM tools are not very good and need improvements."
"The tool's installation and configuration part needs to improve."
"Simulation is one area that is a bit complex."
"Since this is a design tool, seamless interface to make the process flows executable."
"User interface (UI)."
"The Risk and Compliance Management tool is rather complex and moreover, it needs to be customized if you want to use it."
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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