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 provides us with real-time data on all connected systems in terms of how they're integrated with each other and how they are performing in a workflow manner."
"The low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"Compared to other code tools that I've seen, Appian has a more robust rules engine"
"The tech support is quite good."
"The most valuable feature is business automation."
"Appian has many valuable features, the first being the ease of development—rapid development. Second, the process of learning the product and tool is faster when compared to its peers in the market. It's closer to low-code, and while it's still not very easy, it's more low-code than other products in the industry. Appian has a good user interface, a seamless model user interface, which comes without additional coding. It can also integrate with multiple systems."
"This is the most complete solution of its kind."
"Appian helps you do a lot of things. It's easy to configure and build an application platform, and it offers a lot of features that you find in an RPA solution. It's flexible so you can reuse it for a variety of use cases."
"I liked its robustness the most. It was a very robust platform in my experience. It seemed like a very stable and powerful tool for handling lots of concurrent users and hammering at the system."
"We made the transformation to agile. Altogether with BPM, it is the total package."
"I like the APIs and the BPM coach is a good tool. But if I had to pick one, it would be the API."
"IBM BPM should become cloud-native. It should also add a cloud deployment feature."
"The solution has helped us automate business processes."
"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."
"Automating the whole workflow process to give our data steward the ability to take actions rapidly, and making sure we have all the data synced within the different platforms that we are using."
"This is one of the best tools to support the business and the way we work, and the numerous processes we need to implement."
"We would like to have more granular control for interface styling."
"The ability of the interface to load automatic data is not great."
"Form creation and SAIL proprietary language still basically require programming. The claim a BA type can do everything is hogwash."
"There could be a scope of enhancement for capturing the variety of use cases."
"Appian is easy to set up, but JBoss is complex. JBoss is the application server for running Appian."
"The solution could use some more tutorials to help brand new users figure out how to use the product effectively."
"The solution could improve robotic process automation."
"I would like to see more features for enterprises. They would also benefit from adding documentation and training on their site."
"We have had to use Mule as an alternative integration tool because it is more flexible than IBM BPM."
"They don't have a mechanism to achieve processes, data sources, and data."
"New users will need at least six months to get comfortable with IBM BPM, at least initially. So, there's a learning curve."
"IBM BPM's price could be improved."
"We had a weird problem that whenever the database would go down, even for a few seconds, it broke the connection. It would not come back up as it was supposed to. However, working with IBM, we were able to figure out a fix, then it came back up, even after an interruption of the database."
"Better integration with other products in the automation suite."
"We had hoped that the product would provide us with plug-ins like Salesforce. Its development environment needs to improve. We expect to see elastic features like containerization. We don't just need an on-prem virtual machine."
"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."
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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