We performed a comparison between ARIS BPA 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."The ease of use is the most valuable. I have tried a number of BPMN packages, and I find the user interface of ARIS BPM easier and more intuitive than others. If your team is knowledgeable on BPMN, it is really pretty easy to figure out on your own because it adheres to the standards extremely well. I have tried Bizagi, BizFlow, and a variety of such solutions, and I just liked ARIS BPM better."
"Also, the UML parts have been improved very much in the last two years. And it's very powerful now to combine the BPMN and UML parts in the product, because you can make a connection between them, so that you have the right interoperability between them. So if you're doing data modeling, you can use your class diagram and bind that to the BPMN part."
"ARIS is probably the most mature product in terms of modeling an enterprise architecture so that it has context."
"ARIS provides the basic foundation for any digital transformation an organization decides to take."
"If you ever tried to draw a picture in a browser app or with a cloud service, it is normally a painful death. ARIS works perfectly on diagrams in the browser, so I was excited. I like it because there have been so many bad experiences in the past with drawing or doing something in a browser. Normally, it's always painful because it's coded badly. With ARIS, it is really well-implemented. It's simple."
"Aris BPA has a lot of tools that are more professional than Bizagi."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to expose."
"There is a really powerful reporting API that allows you to create almost any kind of report you want out of your process and document repository."
"Previously, our company's business automation process was slow. IBM BPM's schedule and response functionalities are excellent...There are countless use cases in which IBM BPM proves to be a valuable tool for my clients."
"Its most valuable features are usability and integration with other IBM products."
"IBM BPM is equipped with all the functionalities which are needed for building BPM enterprise-level applications."
"It provides a very robust environment to build an integration framework or workflow patterns that we have. A lot of changes or modifications have been made to this solution over the past few years. The features that they have added this time have helped developers like us to work on the developmental environment and leverage all the capabilities of the tool. This is what I like about this solution."
"IBM BPM is stable."
"It is being able to see the process, and understanding what the process is versus having to bury it in code somewhere."
"Scalability is good. In the time that I have been there, we have added more JVMs to help with the increased workload, so it does scale."
"With the tester coach wherein you can interact with the interface while you're designing the process."
"With ARIS BPM, the script creation is quite cumbersome. With version ten, we needed our developers to do scripting."
"I could use more icons and other graphical elements."
"Its governance tool and integration with ESB and execution engine can be improved. Their partner support can also be improved."
"One of the issues is, when you are defining databases, the way they use entities and relationship diagrams, the way we can define data, like data models, there is still a part they could improve."
"One thing that could be improved is regarding the handling of the content itself. Maybe ARIS could provide a set of best practices, or best processes, so that people do not have to start from scratch."
"The interface is a little archaic."
"While the dashboarding solution for integrating all kinds of process-related information from company sources other than ARIS is getting ever better, my personal wish would be to have a module that is more targeted to an Agile implementation of some modeled processes (model–to-execute)."
"The integration between ARIS, webMethods, and project versions needs improvement."
"There is a lot of room for improvement of the dashboards."
"There are a few areas, like triggering mechanisms, externally exposed variables, and changing its values."
"IBM BPM integrated with Spark UI and the UI is now much better, but they still need to improve the UI because competitors have predefined templates and other additional features. In these competitor's solutions, you are able to use the templates, map your data, and the form is ready to use. With this solution, you need to write a lot of code to have the same quality as the competitor's templates. It would be a benefit to make this platform more towards low-code or no-code."
"I would like to see the front-end support improved because it should be fully integrated and supported."
"Could increase vulnerability and security patches to make it more robust."
"We care about technology and support because support is very important and a BPM is not easy to implement."
"It can definitely be improved in terms of performance and stability."
"The engine itself tends to accumulate a lot of data that needs to be cleaned up, and that's the kind of thing that keeps it from, in some scenarios, scaling as much as it needs to. And then, when you're building solutions, if you're not careful to keep the screens from being associated with too much data, if you're going to just do things the way that a lot of people would just assume that they can do, without having experience of having made those mistakes before, it will accumulate a lot of data, and that will cause it to perform very badly."
ARIS BPA is ranked 6th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 64 reviews while IBM BPM is ranked 5th in Business Process Management (BPM) with 105 reviews. ARIS BPA is rated 8.4, while IBM BPM is rated 7.8. 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 BPM writes "Offers good case management and its integration with process design but there's a learning curve". ARIS BPA is most compared with SAP Signavio Process Manager, ADONIS, Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, Camunda and Bizagi, whereas IBM BPM is most compared with Camunda, Appian, Pega BPM, IBM Business Automation Workflow and IBM Cloud Pak for Automation. See our ARIS BPA vs. IBM BPM report.
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