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."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."
"The process models provide self-documenting systems."
"Technical support is helpful."
"We appreciate the drag and drop functionality and the easy to access plug and play features."
"The initial setup is easy."
"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 low code functionality and being able to get applications faster to customers or to the market are valuable."
"The default Workspace does not meet all our needs and sometimes you need to create your own custom Workspace."
"I find the data lineage features most valuable."
"It has developmental accelerators, which allow for virtually any customization needs which you may require."
"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."
"It is easy and cheap."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Our company is based around Oracle processes. It provides a lot of flexibility in its processes."
"The tool itself is pretty good, but the main area that we struggled with was the backend. The frontend development is really good, but the backend modeling can be streamlined a little bit. There are good integrations, but tying them through the data layer and then up into the frontend could be improved a little bit. It does read/write on the data source, and you can configure it to just write or just read, but there is a little bit of work involved."
"The solution could improve robotic process automation."
"Lacks integration with other products."
"We'd like improved functionality for testing new devices."
"A point of improvement would be the SAIL forms. The built-in tool used to generate forms does not have debugging support (to view local variables as they change on live preview, and step-by-step valuation) which is a big drawback for form development. Moreover, the script language used to build SAIL forms does not support inheritance or lambda expressions (functions as arguments of other functions), which makes the code base more verbose."
"Authoring tool is slow to use resulted in limitations on how quickly solutions can be built."
"There could be a scope of enhancement for capturing the variety of use cases."
"One of the areas that Appian is working on is to improve its UI capabilities and give more flexibility to the UI."
"Every time we roll out a new version of processes, we have to migrate to a new process. The process of this migration was not very smooth. We later decided that it would be easier for us to stop all processes, deploy a new version and then restart."
"Pricing is an area that could use improvement."
"Oracle BPM could probably be improved with respect to the cost. When you are using this product, it'll be a bit costlier for the ROA. I think they should do some discounts on these products, especially for the licenses."
"Existing APIs in the product need to be fine-tuned, made more robust and flexible for adoption."
"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."
"You have to maintain it manually."
"The product must reduce its cost."
Appian is ranked 4th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 57 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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