We performed a comparison between Appian and SAP Signavio Process Manager 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's a stable product."
"Even with an on-premise implementation, the scalability is still high, so it is easy to scale up."
"Recently, we added Appian Process Mining, Appian Portals, and now Appian RPA."
"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."
"Write to Data Store Entity - Saving data in SQL databases is done easily using entities. Entities (CDTs in Appian terminology) define relationships and target schema tables via XSD files."
"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."
"Since implementing we have had a faster time to solution, with fewer resources needed."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is ease of use which has really been a good thing to put into the business. People like tools that they can just pick up and use straight-away."
"The features I find most valuable are ease of use and the Collaboration Hub."
"The solution provides data mining and AI features."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Signavio Process Manager is the ability to do business process models."
"We can use workflow manager to create forms."
"The most valuable feature is the glossary. It is really nice because all of the information is centralized, and that is a big help to the company."
"The visual representation is extremely powerful and easy to use in process modeling and analysis. I can show it to someone who doesn't know business process mapping, and they still understand because it's visually presented. It becomes easy to explain variants and what needs to change."
"Process Manager supports end-to-end transformation. Students can better understand end-to-end activity and processes as well as how they are run. For teaching, it's process discovery, then modeling, and finally optimization and simulation, partly. Typically, we showcase some simulation of the processes, and this is where we finish. That is why we validate that it's properly designed, but also what are the outcomes of modeled processes. There are also options for discussion on process optimization."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"The solution could improve robotic process automation."
"The UI of Appian is more internal. Recently, there has been an addition of an external user portal for the customer-facing stuff. It's still coming out."
"The graphical user interface could be easier to use. It should be simplified."
"Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"Appian could improve their customer-facing initiatives."
"Appian is easy to set up, but JBoss is complex. JBoss is the application server for running Appian."
"The user management functionality in Process Manager is not as user friendly as the one in the Collaboration Hub."
"It is not easy to learn the product."
"The workflow automation of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"For us, it would help a lot if this solution had floating licenses."
"The collaboration and commenting are great. However, I think it would be more useful for people to get notifications of comments straight-away so we can react even quicker to them than we already can."
"There is a lot of room for improvement. We've submitted a lot of OSS requests for special inputs we need, like glossary or dictionary entries in Quick Model. Currently, that's not functional."
"SAP Signavio Process Manager's UI is not user-friendly. Its pricing is also high."
"Signavio already offers a wonderful range of functions. If variant management and customer journeys are optimized, Signavio can definitely bask in the glory of BPM tools. We also see optimization potential in the management of licenses, e.g. no named users but rather floating licenses and integration into the company's active directory."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews while SAP Signavio Process Manager is ranked 8th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while SAP Signavio Process Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". 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". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow and OutSystems, whereas SAP Signavio Process Manager is most compared with Celonis, ARIS BPA, Camunda, Visio and ADONIS. See our Appian vs. SAP Signavio Process Manager report.
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