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."Another advantage of this tool is its reports and records. You can maintain dashboards, layouts. If you with a Java solution, it takes six months time. If you use this tool, you can finish in one or one and a half months' time."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The tech support is quite good."
"The initial setup was seamless. We didn't run into any hardships at all."
"The tool is very flexible."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Appian are workflow management and the ease with which you can build the UI."
"This is the most complete solution of its kind."
"We use it for automating certain processes which previously took a lot of time for agents to set up different products for customers. They would have to enter a lot of different systems. This has now mostly been automated."
"IBM's deployment box is one huge black box. We can create all the services with our own code or without a codebase, however, we have a huge amount of space with practically no limitation."
"The solution is stable."
"It is easy to take a requirement, put it in the code, and deploy it."
"One thing that I love about them is that they make it easier to integrate with other systems, especially with the use of smaller files."
"The most valuable feature for the organization is the Document Store."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"The graphical user interface could be easier to use. It should be simplified."
"It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem."
"Lacks business rules management as part of the solution."
"The ability of the interface to load automatic data is not great."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"The product’s pricing could be improved from the developers' perspective."
"While Appian is generally flexible, it's rigid in some ways. It takes longer to do something that isn't available out of the box."
"There is room for improvement in the stability."
"The stability varies because it involves a lot of other components like databases, so sometimes if something goes wrong there, it can't recover from the fatal errors."
"IBM BPM needs to have a better and modified interface."
"There are a few areas, like triggering mechanisms, externally exposed variables, and changing its values."
"I would like it more documentation during the design phase."
"We would like better performance and more visibility on each step of the tool."
"I would like to see the solution be able to interact with other customer software solutions."
"The initial setup can be tricky because IBM BPM is not based on a popular stack, and it's difficult to hire a developer for this product."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 57 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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