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."
"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."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is business automation."
"The setup is easy."
"The most valuable features of Appian are the VPN engine, it is fast, lightweight, and easy to set up business rules. Business teams can do it by themselves. That is a very good feature."
"With low-code, we don't need a lot of coding, and then from the plumbing perspective, there is a complete CI/CD pipeline that exists within Appian that can be leveraged for open deployment."
"Good workflow engines that bridge the gaps of processes."
"Enabled us to convert most of the paper-based work into an automated workflow process, and some of them were converted into straight-through processing, with no human interaction involved whatsoever."
"Good user interface and good add option."
"IBM BPM's best features include document sharing, management document creation, widget and barcode creation, and integration."
"It makes the company business processes work more efficiently."
"It is transparent to business users because it is mostly picture based modelling."
"We can scale by increasing the infrastructure which is currently running."
"The most valuable feature for the organization is the Document Store."
"It helps maintain, and in many instances, lower costs, as well as to maintain those costs, keeping them stable."
"They should provide more flexibility so designers can create a more picture perfect device."
"Sometimes, clients expect us to implement ERP using Appian, which is very complicated. In such cases, I don't believe that Appian is a good tool for that."
"Something I would like to see improved is an SQL database connection."
"Appian could be improved by making it a strict, no-code platform with free-built process packs."
"We would like to have more granular control for interface styling."
"The ability of the interface to load automatic data is not great."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"They don't have a mechanism to achieve processes, data sources, and data."
"The pricing is a little bit high. It's gone up in cost."
"The business would like to use the product with a lot less IT and equipment involvement."
"We would like better performance and more visibility on each step of the tool."
"Integration with web services, especially in the standard version of the product."
"One of the things that we are looking at is cognitive learning. IBM has another product called IBM RPA, I think, which is doing some of that stuff. We would like to see more of that with respect to cognitive learning and AI put back into the process engine to help."
"They should incorporate an API gateway functionality within it to simplify integrations."
"The configuration is not that easy, and the initial deployment took three months."
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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