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."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."
"Compared to other code tools that I've seen, Appian has a more robust rules engine"
"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."
"The most valuable features of Appian are workflow management and the ease with which you can build the UI."
"I find the BPM the most valuable feature."
"It has good integrations. We were looking for out-of-the-box integration with both on-prem and publicly accessible data sources. We needed integration with the cloud, OData, our REST API feed, and then on-prem passthrough to go to a SQL database or on-prem APIs through Azure local deployment, etc."
"It is really simple to create a new app, and I like the data-centric aspect of the BPM tool."
"Call Web Service Smart Service - Web service integrations with other systems are super simple and fast to create, supported by low code menus."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The functionality to design UI to be responsive and can run on multiple devices."
"IBM BPM is easy to deploy."
"We made the transformation to agile. Altogether with BPM, it is the total package."
"The most valuable feature of IBM BPM is the low code design, and ease of maintenance. Additionally, the integration is good and easy to do."
"With the tester coach wherein you can interact with the interface while you're designing the process."
"Compliance with the BPMN 2.0 standard."
"It provides a very robust environment to build an integration framework or workflow patterns that we have. A lot of changes or modifications have been made to this solution over the past few years. The features that they have added this time have helped developers like us to work on the developmental environment and leverage all the capabilities of the tool. This is what I like about this solution."
"Appian could improve their customer-facing initiatives."
"Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"We would like to have more granular control for interface styling."
"The UI of Appian is more internal. Recently, there has been an addition of an external user portal for the customer-facing stuff. It's still coming out."
"Appian could include other applications that we could reuse for other customers, CRM for example."
"If that had more DevOps capabilities, it would be an excellent product."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"The initial setup was complex."
"IBM BPM can improve the dashboards and reports. It only has two dashboards, and reporting is very difficult to build."
"If you want to use IBM BPM, you will have to invest a lot of money for licenses and you need to learn that there are limitations in developing applications. You cannot create anything you want."
"We would appreciate more user-friendly definitions of processes with a more user-friendly interface for documenting processes."
"Process versioning was tricky, not straightforward."
"It is not user-friendly."
"IBM BPM needs to have a better and modified interface."
"The engine itself tends to accumulate a lot of data that needs to be cleaned up, and that's the kind of thing that keeps it from, in some scenarios, scaling as much as it needs to. And then, when you're building solutions, if you're not careful to keep the screens from being associated with too much data, if you're going to just do things the way that a lot of people would just assume that they can do, without having experience of having made those mistakes before, it will accumulate a lot of data, and that will cause it to perform very badly."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 56 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Bizagi, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow, Apache Airflow and AWS Step Functions. See our Appian vs. IBM BPM report.
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