We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and IBM Blueworks Live based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Business Process Design solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There is a module designer, that one is very powerful and it creates very good reports."
"It has allowed us to model our enterprise process architecture."
"Process Modeling or Process Mapping/Documentation. This is the most comprehensive tool for capturing the process details. Any organization who wants to embark on a BPM journey, process mapping/documentation, lays the foundation for the BPM led implementation."
"Features like SAP SolMan sync, Alfabet EA integration (another Software AG product)."
"The whole ARIS BPM solution is a bit special, because from the very beginning it was targeted more to Business users and the Management."
"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."
"ARIS is probably the most mature product in terms of modeling an enterprise architecture so that it has context."
"In general, the users really like it and they can get started using it very easily."
"Business users understand it really well, which means we can then help them automate their business processes."
"It has a built-in capability to capture process owners and managers against processes along with other process governance roles."
"The business process discovery is excellent. The diagram or blueprinting functionality of the solution are very good. It's quite easy. You can link the sub-processes and get a big overview of the whole process then."
"It's very easy, very quick to create a process map. It has templates. The look and feel is very nice. What we want to achieve out of the process map, we can achieve it using Blueworks."
"It is a stable solution since there has not been any downtime. Everything loads fast."
"In terms of the collaboration features, from the point of discovery, it was useful to go to load up the policies and the rule sets that the client had. And in terms of exploring options and being able to model a variety of different processes, that was incredibly useful as well."
"The solution is stable. All the refreshes run very well."
"I like the two-tiered approach, that is, discover and then drill down to the main steps. You can right click and attach risk, policies, and much more. It is a user-friendly solution."
"The tool needs to improve its support since they take long to respond."
"Regarding stability, when there are any customized settings being done at customer end - post upgrade to newer versions - it makes the customer environment unstable for a short duration."
"There should be a more intuitive tool when creating reports."
"It would be helpful if ARIS BPA could have a simple database to get the extract of various attributes."
"We should have the ability to download ARIS EPCs to Visio."
"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."
"End-to-end visibility and real-time are areas that will need greater attention."
"There are some things in the collaboration module that could be improved a little, such as the functionality which dynamically pushes notifications to interested people when a process changes during the Release Cycle Management workflow."
"The objects that the solution creates are not unique."
"There should be an option to import from and export to Microsoft Visio. Being able to move files back and forth between Blueworks Live and Visio would be good."
"We'd also like to see it be Six Sigma or Lean compatible, a lot of people have asked about that."
"In the Blue Works Live software boxes and lines are automatically placed by the programme and can't be easily manipulated."
"I can't insert any images. For example, within the process map, if I want to put it in the box or rectangle, or circle. If I have to use one image or icon, that's not possible."
"The user interface is quite easy at first but process analysts soon run into roadblocks of limited functionality, which is disappointing."
"I would like to see integration with ERP systems. This would help us to simulate the process and see where the problems are. Though IBM Blueworks Live is a good tool for documenting, it is not good for simulating."
"Spaces are not well organized; space controls are lacking."
ARIS BPA is ranked 3rd in Business Process Design with 64 reviews while IBM Blueworks Live is ranked 12th in Business Process Design with 20 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while IBM Blueworks Live 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 IBM Blueworks Live writes "An easily scalable and affordable solution that enables users to document and digitize processes with ease". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi, whereas IBM Blueworks Live is most compared with Visio, SAP Signavio Process Manager, Lucidchart, ARIS Cloud and Bizagi. See our ARIS BPA vs. IBM Blueworks Live report.
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