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.
"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."
"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."
"MFT is quite attractive. A large amount of data is passed in almost no time and it is quite easy to use."
"Business Process Analysis: We can simulate, optimize, and analyse business processes based on various business requirements. It assures our rolling out the best processes."
"ARIS BPA is customizable as per specific business requirements."
"The ability to sort via multiple criteria to identify the relationships you need for a specific object."
"The most valuable feature in the latest versions is the connect portal, where you can do very simple modeling using the web-based portal."
"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."
"The interface is very intuitive and includes a drag-and-drop function."
"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 formatting features are quite good because you can create very complex models, but you can easily clean them up so that they look very nice."
"As a business transformation suite, Signavio offers a number of integrated helpful tools. The Process Modeler helps with the conceptual work, but is directly integrated with the components of the Workflow Accelerator (Automation) and the Process Intelligence (Mining). This makes Signavio an indispensable service package."
"The most valuable feature of SAP Signavio Process Manager is the ability to do business process models."
"I like the collaboration and the real-time aspects of it."
"It's way of handling is really an advantage. It's quite easy to use, without too much training . That's the main point for me."
"The most valuable feature for me is the collaboration point of view, where everybody has a single view, or source of truth, and everybody sees the same thing. Everyone can comment, contribute, and discuss the processes itself, which makes it easier to funnel down the most value adding comments and make the relevant changes to the processes. This leads to the next best iteration or version of your process."
"It would be helpful if ARIS BPA could have a simple database to get the extract of various attributes."
"ARIS BPA is not really a platform that offers you the opportunity to execute processes that you model."
"Since ARIS 9.X was released, the product has not been as robust and responsive as the previous versions."
"The solution is difficult and not very exciting to learn."
"We should have the ability to download ARIS EPCs to Visio."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"The tool's installation and configuration part needs to improve."
"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."
"I think the interface itself can improve a bit. I think the interface is still stuck about a decade in the past, if I may be so brutal about it. Some of the buttons are really small, so you can't even see them. I think it needs upgrading to the 21st century with apps and the way we use mobile phones."
"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."
"Moreover, the functionality to show different process variations with "views" could be improved to allow more customization of these views. I believe this would increase the user experience and administrative efforts maintaining these process variations."
"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."
"The performance metrics appearing in the collaboration hub needs to be improved."
"It could be more flexible from a customization point of view, where the user is able to display only whatever he needs."
"The workflow automation of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"For me, given I've got a lot of experience working with BPMN and other process management tools, in terms of the interface, I think there's a little bit more that can be improved to match what the conventional BPMN offers. I've been constantly trying to give this feedback to Signavio, to let them know that it needs to be more coherent with the original BPMN version of the stencil."
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.