We performed a comparison between Appian and Bonita 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 low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"We appreciate the drag and drop functionality and the easy to access plug and play features."
"The tech support is quite good."
"Form building capabilities and well thought out process modelling are key points to this product."
"The setup is easy."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"It has very flexible adaptation and the ability to save and automate processes."
"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."
"Bonita is simple and lightweight and is flexible to integrate with third-party systems. The UI is now flexible, whereas it was previously rigid. Any technology can be used as a frontend, including ReactJS, Angular, and others."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The user interface is better than all of the open-source BPMs that I have tried."
"The user interface is easy to use."
"I really enjoy using the workflow management."
"We use the tool to validate and give access to the users. It is for access management."
"The most valuable features of Bonita are the connectors, detailed documentation, and web applications. The documentation was useful because it is how I learned how to use it."
"One of the most valuable features is you can create without coding, it is a low code platform."
"Appian could be improved by making it a strict, no-code platform with free-built process packs."
"Appian is easy to set up, but JBoss is complex. JBoss is the application server for running Appian."
"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."
"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 has a few areas for improvement, which my organization raised with the Appian team. One is the Excel output which is limited to fifty columns when it should be up to two hundred or three hundred columns."
"The ability of the interface to load automatic data is not great."
"There is no UI customization possible."
"It has it's own built-in UI components and doesn't provide much flexibility to customize or extend those components."
"It would be nice to have a wizard to help walk through the development process and create a backbone."
"There could be an improvement in IoT connectivity."
"Bonita can improve by offering more flexibility. The developer does not receive the code of the application to modify it. Most of the other solutions I have used allow the developers to change or improve the code that is generated."
"Automation in vacation of a human resources replacement would be a good improvement in the product."
"Installation could be made easier."
"The community edition has limited module functionality. If they could release some of the functionality that's available in the enterprise edition that would be helpful to those learning to use the solution."
"I would like to improve the product's load balancing."
"We are struggling a bit with integrations."
Appian is ranked 3rd in Process Automation with 57 reviews while Bonita is ranked 12th in Process Automation with 27 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Bonita is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Bonita writes "A simple and lightweight college course automation system with third-party integrations". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas Bonita is most compared with Camunda, Bizagi, Apache Airflow, IBM BPM and ARIS BPA. See our Appian vs. Bonita report.
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