We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA and IBM Business Automation Workflow 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."Process Modeling or Process Mapping/Documentation. This is the most comprehensive tool for capturing the process details. Any organization who wants to embark on a BPM journey, process mapping/documentation, lays the foundation for the BPM led implementation."
"Visualizes processes which helps the business see pain points."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of the solution to fully customize the methodology according to the company's needs, and to enforce that methodology with features like filters, semantic checks, and reports."
"It has the ability to scale up, as well as integrate with other systems within the organization to get real-time information from dashboards and reports."
"Objects can be reused across different BPMNs and processes, so we can design new processes quicker and easier."
"It provides the discovery functionality, and you can have a simulation on top of it to get your design corrected to ensure that it is within the right state of parameters. It is a complete package that you can use from strategy to execution because you have the design layer, and within the design, you can also do analytics."
"ARIS provides the basic foundation for any digital transformation an organization decides to take."
"It is a well-featured, functional product."
"No matter what somebody's technical experience level is, the tool can start adding value immediately. Even if that is just an analyst who doesn't have any technical background, they can use some of these no quote accelerators to get things from ideation to deployment in a matter of minutes."
"One of the most valuable features is the way that they are adapting to the market. Initially, it was doing only workflow. Now it has started bringing all the other components like rules within the workflow and then the integration with RPA."
"The dashboards are helpful because you can display reports directly on your screen."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is stable because the different infrastructure elements, such as the OS and middleware have been used for a long time."
"This is a low-code software where you can just drag and drop on the user interface. There are also a lot of quality integrations such as TMS."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow is useful for helping us design custom user interfaces and processes we require."
"It helps develop applications very quickly. Once clients get used to it and familiar with the methodology, then they don't feel so locked in. It is able to add this element of agility to our clients' software development lifecycle. That is my favorite thing about it: You're not so locked in as you used to be when developing applications."
"IBM Business Automation Workflow provides a seamless streamlined collaboration within the organizations."
"The reporting and the information query features could do with some improvement."
"One of the biggest challenges is to realistically enable the defined structures of the processes that you have in ARIS documented, and then actually implement them in the business."
"ARIS BPA is not really a platform that offers you the opportunity to execute processes that you model."
"It needs external API and the ability to navigate back, similar to "Back" in web browser."
"The tool must provide more documents."
"User interface (UI)."
"I would like to see the reporting aspects improved."
"The model graphics can be exported in PDF, but the model is too small to read."
"Sometimes, we feel like we are not getting the full features of the content management capabilities."
"The main improvement would be to make it easier to implement and deploy so that customers can kick it off and run quickly."
"I would definitely like to see a unified interface between the BPM side of the house and the case side of the house. Something that just seems a bit more cohesive, because right now there is sort of a disconnect between the BPM and the case side of the house. That makes it a bit of a hard sell sometimes. That is definitely first and foremost on my wish list."
"The initial setup is actually a really complicated process."
"I would like to see more streamlined install and provisioning; preferably containerized IBM BPM would be helpful."
"The main areas which need improvement are specifically around reporting and analytics."
"One significant challenge is the lack of accessible forums or resources to seek help or information when problems arise."
"The setup and installation process could be made easier."
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ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews while IBM Business Automation Workflow is ranked 13th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 21 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while IBM Business Automation Workflow is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of ARIS BPA writes "I can usually find an answer to my issue on ARIS Community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Business Automation Workflow writes "Good for case management, integration capabilities but lacks stability". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Camunda, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and Bizagi, whereas IBM Business Automation Workflow is most compared with IBM BPM, Camunda, Apache Airflow, IBM Case Foundation and AWS Step Functions. See our ARIS BPA vs. IBM Business Automation Workflow report.
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