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."
"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."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"The tech support is quite good."
"Low code development: Code can be developed pretty quickly which leads to less turnaround time for automation of business processes."
"Appian is a very low code platform. It's very easy to learn and use."
"The Application Designer is very user friendly. There are also lot of plug-ins that you can use and, for the most part, they are free."
"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."
"It excels at analytics. It provides visibility across all activities of a company's processes and performance."
"IBM BPM is both scalable and stable."
"Automation is the most valuable feature of IBM BPM."
"I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The product's installation was easy."
"We like that it does not require a lot of hours to train our people."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to customize your rules and put them inside the tool."
"It is easy to take a requirement, put it in the code, and deploy it."
"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."
"One room for improvement is the ease of UI UX development, like in OutSystems and Mendix."
"Appian could be improved by making it a strict, no-code platform with free-built process packs."
"Form creation and SAIL proprietary language still basically require programming. The claim a BA type can do everything is hogwash."
"It is difficult to set up the on-premise version."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"If we could calculate the amount of data that will be realized, it would help us a lot."
"It needs better integration with our existing application ecosystem."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"It needs more customization. We like to customize the screens to show more things related to our company."
"It can definitely be improved in terms of performance and stability."
"Could increase vulnerability and security patches to make it more robust."
"The initial setup was complex. It is not always easy to launch a new platform and it needed better coordination with IBM."
"The integration could be improved."
"We care about technology and support because support is very important and a BPM is not easy to implement."
"This is technology, and there's always room for improvement. It would be better to have a single solution. Trying to have an overview in terms of this solution brings together the concepts of BPM processes, customer journeys, and an automation part for KPIs. All of this working together and coming up with a single solution with privacy is more commercial than anything else."
"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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