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."This is the most complete solution of its kind."
"The most valuable features are the low coding and low code data."
"Appian helps you do a lot of things. It's easy to configure and build an application platform, and it offers a lot of features that you find in an RPA solution. It's flexible so you can reuse it for a variety of use cases."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"The application life cycle is very clear. I started learning it and giving some workshops to my team. Creating the users and the building is very structured. Documentation is nice and it's easy to learn."
"In terms of interface, it's very good. In terms of infrastructure, it's amazing and already using multiple tools behind the scenes. It's a low-code platform, so it's very easy to implement."
"Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"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."
"The most valuable features of ARIS BPA are its flexibility and reporting."
"ARIS is probably the most mature product in terms of modeling an enterprise architecture so that it has context."
"It is a well-featured, functional product."
"If you ever tried to draw a picture in a browser app or with a cloud service, it is normally a painful death. ARIS works perfectly on diagrams in the browser, so I was excited. I like it because there have been so many bad experiences in the past with drawing or doing something in a browser. Normally, it's always painful because it's coded badly. With ARIS, it is really well-implemented. It's simple."
"It helps to maintain a single source of truth regarding the processes followed within an organization."
"From an architectural point of view, when you're looking at the business area, you can find all the information you have to use as an architect."
"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."
"BPA, the modeling tool, is the main module used because of our need for documentation."
"The tool itself is pretty good, but the main area that we struggled with was the backend. The frontend development is really good, but the backend modeling can be streamlined a little bit. There are good integrations, but tying them through the data layer and then up into the frontend could be improved a little bit. It does read/write on the data source, and you can configure it to just write or just read, but there is a little bit of work involved."
"They should provide more flexibility so designers can create a more picture perfect device."
"There could be a scope of enhancement for capturing the variety of use cases."
"The biggest areas of improvement would be in facilitating team development, DevOps, and integration with typical tools used in enterprise development (Jenkins, Subversion, etc.)"
"Appian could include other applications that we could reuse for other customers, CRM for example."
"There are some restrictions with respect to using external components within Appian. So, for example, if we do not have a particular feature available, there's a long cycle of getting approvals and all of that. That does not offer flexibility, which definitely can be improved on."
"A point of improvement would be the SAIL forms. The built-in tool used to generate forms does not have debugging support (to view local variables as they change on live preview, and step-by-step valuation) which is a big drawback for form development. Moreover, the script language used to build SAIL forms does not support inheritance or lambda expressions (functions as arguments of other functions), which makes the code base more verbose."
"It is difficult to set up the on-premise version."
"Needs flexibility in automation of the modeling processes and real-time analysis of data, not just a static view."
"The tool needs to improve its support since they take long to respond."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"The user interface could be more intuitive and better designed."
"There is not enough documentation provided for the tool's support or administration."
"We should have the ability to download ARIS EPCs to Visio."
"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."
"ARIS BPA is not really a platform that offers you the opportunity to execute processes that you model."
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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