We performed a comparison between Appian and Oracle 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."The most valuable features of Appian are workflow management and the ease with which you can build the UI."
"Appian also has very flexible local integration."
"This is the most complete solution of its kind."
"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."
"We appreciate the drag and drop functionality and the easy to access plug and play features."
"The process models provide self-documenting systems."
"It has created executable requirements and speeds up the SDLC process greatly."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features of Oracle BPM is the workflow itself. It is quite intuitive."
"The processor management system is quite fast and scalable. We have 10 developers using this solution and it supports 25,000 users."
"The benefit from the tool is we can develop it quickly and easily use it for middleware services. We can publish the services so other applications can consume them. This is providing us some reusability and a type of security."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle BPM is that it has a lot of out-of-the-box integrations. The solution also provides a lot of adapters which is very helpful."
"One of the most valuable features is its user-friendly API, which simplifies the implementation of workflows, such as managing inbox tasks for specific users within BPM profiles."
"We have more than 800 distinct applications in our IT landscape. We had enough scalability and okay development cycles, and it has been enough to cover our backup operations and order management systems."
"It has developmental accelerators, which allow for virtually any customization needs which you may require."
"It is easy and cheap."
"Architecture of product and scalabiility issues."
"We have clients that want to use Office 365, Microsoft Analytics, and Power Apps. Appian just isn't the same as using something specifically designed to cater to the Microsoft Suite."
"The product’s pricing could be improved from the developers' perspective."
"Lacks business rules management as part of the solution."
"Appian could be improved by making it a strict, no-code platform with free-built process packs."
"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."
"The graphical user interface could be easier to use. It should be simplified."
"It has it's own built-in UI components and doesn't provide much flexibility to customize or extend those components."
"Their Case Management set of features is severely lacking and should be a target for immediate improvement dealing with unpredictable processes inside of organizations."
"Oracle BPM is hard to configure."
"It could have easier administration. It takes time to configure and deploy."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing structure."
"It would be good if they could provide some additional connectors or an application developer environment for microservices."
"We have had some issues with version migration, from one version of processes to another. We would have to call Oracle Services but on a day to day, we didn't have any issues."
"The time it takes to get from deployment to production could be faster."
"The product must reduce its cost."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 56 reviews while Oracle BPM is ranked 14th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 22 reviews. Appian is rated 8.4, while Oracle BPM is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Appian writes "Low resource consumption, easy setup, and stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle BPM writes "Stable, has a lot of features and out-of-the-box integrations, but it's heavy, and the technical support isn't good". Appian is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, OutSystems, Camunda, ServiceNow and Pega BPM, whereas Oracle BPM is most compared with Camunda, SAP Signavio Process Manager, IBM BPM, AWS Step Functions and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms. See our Appian vs. Oracle BPM report.
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