We performed a comparison between Appian and webMethods Integration Server 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."Low code development: Code can be developed pretty quickly which leads to less turnaround time for automation of business processes."
"The most valuable features are the low coding and low code data."
"Recently, we added Appian Process Mining, Appian Portals, and now Appian RPA."
"The initial setup was seamless. We didn't run into any hardships at all."
"The most valuable feature is business automation."
"What stands out are the speed of the product, the quick, easy development, and visual diagramming."
"I find the BPM the most valuable feature."
"This is the most complete solution of its kind."
"What I like best about webMethods Integration Server is its portfolio of connectors."
"It has a good integration server, designer, and a very good API portal."
"They are the building blocks of EAI in SAG products, and they offer a very good platform."
"Ease of implementation and flexibility to hold the business logic are the most valuable features."
"The solution's ease-of-use is its most valuable feature, in which complex issues may be resolved."
"The tool is very powerful and user-friendly."
"It frankly fills the gap between IT and business by having approval and policy enforcement on each state and cycle of the asset from the moment it gets created until it is retired."
"Segregation of deployment for the environments is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"I would like to see more complete university tools. For example, with UiPath, I have had a good experience related to a free course in order to provide some users some different levels of knowledge. This extra training helps users not only use the solution but to develop further within the tool."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"We have clients that want to use Office 365, Microsoft Analytics, and Power Apps. Appian just isn't the same as using something specifically designed to cater to the Microsoft Suite."
"The biggest areas of improvement would be in facilitating team development, DevOps, and integration with typical tools used in enterprise development (Jenkins, Subversion, etc.)"
"Lacks business rules management as part of the solution."
"The graphical user interface could be easier to use. It should be simplified."
"One of the areas that Appian is working on is to improve its UI capabilities and give more flexibility to the UI."
"Appian could include other applications that we could reuse for other customers, CRM for example."
"A while ago, they were hacked, and it took them a very long time to open their website again in order to download any service packs or any features. I don't know what they could do differently. I know that they were vulnerable, and there was some downtime, but because they were down, we were unable to download any potential service packs."
"We need more dashboards and reporting engines that can provide detailed information for management. In short, we need better analytics."
"Business monitoring (BAM) needs improvement because the analytics and prediction module very often has performance problems."
"On the monitoring side of things, the UI for monitoring could be improved. It's a bit cumbersome to work with."
"In terms of scale, I would give it a four out of 10."
"Other products have been using AI and cloud enhancements, but webMethods Integration Server is still lagging in that key area."
"t doesn't represent OOP very well, just a method and proprietary interface called IData."
"The patching of infrastructure is not very smooth and improved authentication should be added in the next feature."
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Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 58 reviews while webMethods Integration Server is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with 60 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while webMethods Integration Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of webMethods Integration Server writes "Event-driven with lots of helpful formats, but minimal learning resources available". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, Camunda, ServiceNow, OutSystems and Pega BPM, whereas webMethods Integration Server is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, webMethods.io Integration, Mule ESB, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Boomi iPaaS. See our Appian vs. webMethods Integration Server report.
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