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."Process Modeling enables creation of business process workflows. You can create complex business workflows in a visual manner, and it is also easy to debug/monitor."
"Compared to other code tools that I've seen, Appian has a more robust rules engine"
"The most valuable feature is business automation."
"The most valuable features are the low coding and low code data."
"Appian's most valuable features are the quick time it takes to develop for the market. It's easy and faster than other BPM solutions."
"The tool is very flexible."
"This is the most complete solution of its kind."
"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 solution has helped us automate business processes."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features come in the bundle, the design process, creating services, creating BPDs, creating coaches, and UI/UX."
"It excels at analytics. It provides visibility across all activities of a company's processes and performance."
"This solution has always been lacking in the user interface (UI), it needed to be improved a lot. However, from the acquisition of Spark UI, the UI is much better. Overall the solution is robust and has the ability to integrate with any product for complex workflows."
"IBM BPM should become cloud-native. It should also add a cloud deployment feature."
"IBM BPM is easy to deploy."
"The Process Designer is good. We like how we can drag and drop and link the processes up, that works out great for us."
"The solution could improve robotic process automation."
"Offline capabilities and responsive capabilities could be better. The mobility features of Appian platform are still evolving."
"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."
"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."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"The performance is pretty good, but the distortions need to be optimized in order for it to work well."
"Form creation and SAIL proprietary language still basically require programming. The claim a BA type can do everything is hogwash."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"IBM BPM needs to have a better and modified interface."
"When you have to integrate files for enterprise applications."
"It's a bit technical, related to the instance of migrations. It's a tough thing to handle, in every new release, in every upgrade, that we have to do things in the applications or in the product. I think IBM is working on it but I know there are a lot of requests coming in from different organizations on this."
"There are a few areas, like triggering mechanisms, externally exposed variables, and changing its values."
"I believe that if the license were cheaper, it would have a greater impact."
"We thought there might have been a little more discussion early on about, "Hey, if you're doing this, set it up this way," or some best practices or some guidance that we didn't get."
"IBM BPM is stable, but sometimes there are issues with the server."
"Our developers are complaining that it's too complex to maintain."
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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