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."
"It's a stable product."
"The solution has a lot of strong features for the financial industry, it is very easy to use."
"There is a version coming out every six months with performance improvements."
"Form building capabilities and well thought out process modelling are key points to this product."
"The initial setup was seamless. We didn't run into any hardships at all."
"Low code development: Code can be developed pretty quickly which leads to less turnaround time for automation of business processes."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"With the Process Center, I can go to one place and view what all the environments are doing."
"It continues to keep up with the changing needs of the business. That is the strong value proposition of BPM. It's not a one-time automation."
"It's a solid product. It covers most of the pain points for clients."
"IBM BPM is both scalable and stable."
"IBM BPM is equipped with all the functionalities which are needed for building BPM enterprise-level applications."
"One of the most notable things is how you can develop use cases with the customers, internal customers, but directly within. The software process model that BPM supports is really exciting in that aspect."
"We are implementing the tool to triple our monthly transaction volume."
"IBM BPM's most valuable features are its speed in implementing and providing any changes."
"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."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"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."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"They should provide more flexibility so designers can create a more picture perfect device."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"It has it's own built-in UI components and doesn't provide much flexibility to customize or extend those components."
"When you have to integrate files for enterprise applications."
"IBM BPM lacks openness, that is, the ability to become open for new options in terms of APIs, front-end development, and ecosystem. IBM BPM has been quite closed. One of the main improvements would be to somehow embed the rules engine into IBM BPM. Merging IBM BRMS and the rules engine with IBM BPM would be helpful. If there was some simpler way to define rules without having to put IBM BRMS on top of it, it would be good. It's something that we can get out of Camunda but not out of IBM BPM."
"Better integration with other products in the automation suite."
"There needs to be better documentation for IBM BPM in a central place. There is not any standard documentation for each component available and has been a barrier for developers."
"I would say the scalability is very good but it's not perfect. It is much more scalable than it has been in the past but... it does require some work to keep it stable. So that is an area that should be improved."
"The constant switch between Eclipse and its web versions can be annoying and confusing."
"Finding errors and bugs on the system is not easy. We can't seem to use the events or logs to find them, so it makes it difficult to debug the system. They really need to work on their debugging features to make is much, much easier. It would improve the solution considerably and should be something they add in a future release."
"New users will need at least six months to get comfortable with IBM BPM, at least initially. So, there's a learning curve."
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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