We performed a comparison between Appian and IBM BPM 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."It's heavy on business processing in terms of logic, process workflows, and primarily on the process design modeler. Appian is really great at that. In terms of the full stack set from a low-code platform perspective, it's definitely an eye opener since it can be deployed via mobile app and on the web as well."
"It has very flexible adaptation and the ability to save and automate processes."
"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 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."
"Process culture is making noise inside the organization because now, everybody knows that their time is being monitored."
"The agile manner that we require to create our workflows. This is probably the most critical part of our solution and the time it takes to start processing the solution."
"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."
"Rapid development with low-code makes it easier to quickly get apps implemented and the time to break-even and ROI is much faster."
"There are a lot of things that you get out-of-the-box: Timers and so on, which took a lot of effort and code before."
"The integration and design are valuable features."
"We use the solution to develop and deliver products."
"With the Process Center, I can go to one place and view what all the environments are doing."
"We are receiving good assistance from the technical support."
"Good user interface and good add option."
"It has improved my organization quite a bit. It brought awareness to what the business processes are, even to the business side, who did not necessarily know what they are."
"Previously, our company's business automation process was slow. IBM BPM's schedule and response functionalities are excellent...There are countless use cases in which IBM BPM proves to be a valuable tool for my clients."
"The performance is pretty good, but the distortions need to be optimized in order for it to work well."
"The solution could improve robotic process automation."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"We would like to see more reduced latency. We would like to make sure that the scale-out factor will be much more as workloads come in."
"The ability of the interface to load automatic data is not great."
"The solution needs more features. For example, a way to connect to our viewing database, to record, and more interface and component design."
"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."
"Performance on large scale requirements could also be improved."
"We still have a couple of issues that we are working on right now with stability. Mostly on the configuration side of the tool, and it has been about a month that we have been working to stabilize the platform."
"One of the things that we are looking at is cognitive learning. IBM has another product called IBM RPA, I think, which is doing some of that stuff. We would like to see more of that with respect to cognitive learning and AI put back into the process engine to help."
"We have had to use Mule as an alternative integration tool because it is more flexible than IBM BPM."
"I believe that if the license were cheaper, it would have a greater impact."
"IBM BPM can improve the dashboards and reports. It only has two dashboards, and reporting is very difficult to build."
"IBM BPM needs to have a better and modified interface."
"Our developers are complaining that it's too complex to maintain."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 25 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 26 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Stands out with its integration capabilities, but the backend modeling can be streamlined a little bit". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "A reasonably priced tool that is helpful for the automation of business processes ". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Bizagi, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, IBM Business Automation Workflow, Pega BPM, Apache Airflow and AWS Step Functions. See our Appian vs. IBM BPM report.
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