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."Recently, we added Appian Process Mining, Appian Portals, and now Appian RPA."
"Appian also has very flexible local integration."
"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 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."
"The Application Designer is very user friendly. There are also lot of plug-ins that you can use and, for the most part, they are free."
"Appian's most valuable feature is that we can create end-to-end process workflows with minimum turnaround."
"What stands out are the speed of the product, the quick, easy development, and visual diagramming."
"The most valuable features of Appian are the VPN engine, it is fast, lightweight, and easy to set up business rules. Business teams can do it by themselves. That is a very good feature."
"The capability to integrate all information of the business and to generate simulations of processes. It can analyze the model of operations quickly."
"The tool has good navigation."
"BPA, the modeling tool, is the main module used because of our need for documentation."
"You can relate different aspects of an organization to each other, and you can clearly define the rates seen in the application."
"The stability of the ARIS BPM platform is quite good. The nice thing about it is the central database, where we can use all of our data. We can even manage users."
"The BPMN notation and the share flow through users. It is nice to see all flows in a common, shared space for all the stakeholders to view the same thing and the same language."
"There is a really powerful reporting API that allows you to create almost any kind of report you want out of your process and document repository."
"It brings transparency and 360-degree views of end-to-end processes."
"The solution could improve by being more responsive when dealing with large quantities of data. Additionally, they can make the decision or rules engine better. It cannot handle too many rules or too many decisions at once."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"What could be improved is more on the front end perspective, like the user interface and the mobile application aspect."
"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."
"My only request is that they decrease the license costs."
"The solution could use some more tutorials to help brand new users figure out how to use the product effectively."
"We would like to have more granular control for interface styling."
"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 pricing of the solution can be improved and the initial setup should be made easy."
"Migration to the next release is very tricky. You can't do it without support from ARIS or from a software kit. And it takes a lot of time and a lot of money to migrate. My impression is that a lot of companies do not migrate regularly because of that issue."
"Since ARIS 9.X was released, the product has not been as robust and responsive as the previous versions."
"User interface (UI)."
"The workflow approval process could be represented better in the overviews."
"With ARIS BPM, the script creation is quite cumbersome. With version ten, we needed our developers to do scripting."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"There should be a more intuitive tool when creating reports."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 57 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, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms, whereas ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda and iServer. See our ARIS BPA vs. Appian report.
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