We performed a comparison between Appian and Bizagi based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Process Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The process models provide self-documenting systems."
"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."
"Technical support is helpful."
"What stands out are the speed of the product, the quick, easy development, and visual diagramming."
"There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements."
"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."
"Low code development: Code can be developed pretty quickly which leads to less turnaround time for automation of business processes."
"The solution's most valuable features are the regular periodic and quarterly updates, they are very useful updates. They keep improving the solution more often, and that helps the platform or code always be up to date with the latest features."
"I like all of the features. I like that you can simulate the processes and add the time standard."
"The approval process is simple."
"Process management is easy with Bizagi; validating processes and assigning resources is straightforward."
"I like the ease of use and the fact that you can download and use their free version, which is unlimited. However, while it's unlimited use, some features aren't available."
"It can be useful as a tool to improve your communications and the control of your processes. For example, when you have to explain a process to seven or eight stakeholders who think differently as well as have different experiences in different functional departments, it is not easy. Sometimes you are using a lot of technical terms, and other times, you are dealing with management terminology. The visual representation helps you create a better alignment and understanding for different roles and stakeholders of your workforce."
"The user logic is very easy to understand, even for people who are not engineers nor developers."
"The most beneficial features of Bizagi for our business processes are its seamless connectivity between process elements and its ability to automate tasks and perform simulations."
"The ability to write our own code inside each activity is beneficial. Sometimes we need to create functionality that doesn't come out of the box, and this allows us to do that."
"Appian could improve their customer-facing initiatives."
"Appian could include other applications that we could reuse for other customers, CRM for example."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"What could be improved is more on the front end perspective, like the user interface and the mobile application aspect."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built."
"Form creation and SAIL proprietary language still basically require programming. The claim a BA type can do everything is hogwash."
"The tool is expensive and it should improve its pricing."
"Also, the tool sometimes feels not so mature when we find random deploy errors from testing to production environment."
"The on-premise software has some bugs."
"It would be useful if we can connect Bizagi to other solutions, such as a local financial solution or Power BI. It would also be good and helpful to be able to connect Bizagi to some services solutions. It should also support right-to-left languages, such as Arabic."
"Agriculture, Industry."
"For the small business, this is very bad because it is still fragmented. The licensing policy should be more flexible and small company oriented. In micro-small companies, there should only be one or two. That's not the problem. Maybe it is too flexible, there are so many pieces that you need to put together. When you have a small business, it can be a little complicated, not so easy."
"The gateway through which it connects with other vendors, specifically RPA vendors, is one aspect that could be improved."
"From a developer's point of view, an improvement in the layout would make the UI better."
Appian is ranked 3rd in Process Automation with 58 reviews while Bizagi is ranked 7th in Process Automation with 78 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Bizagi 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 Bizagi writes "A flexible, customizable solution that reduced time to market, but the UI and customer support could be better". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Oracle Application Express (APEX), whereas Bizagi is most compared with Camunda, Visio, Bonita, Microsoft Power Apps and Visual Paradigm. See our Appian vs. Bizagi report.
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